This year, NewtonSERVES — the City’s annual day of community service projects — drew fewer volunteers that usual but nevertheless accomplished an amazing amount of beautification and habitat restoration across the city. NewtonSERVES ran 36 projects last Sunday and is running ten more during this month. Most of the projects…
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Last Saturday, the community came together to celebrate Taiwan Day in Newton Highlands. The ceremony — organized by OCAC in Boston, the Newton Hyde Community Center, and various Taiwanese organizations — began with the raising of the U.S. and Taiwanese flags, followed by a parade down Lincoln Street led by…
The Programs & Services Committee convened last Wednesday night in a discussion of four departmental budgets: City Clerk, Newton History Museum, Newton Free Library, and the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department. With respect to the City Clerk’s budget, the committee learned there was a fifty percent decrease in staff at…
During a Celtics game on January 20, seniors at Newton South High School Sam Klein and Vassili Syssoev received honors through the Boston Celtics’ Heroes Among Us program for their work in community service. Co-founders of Student Landscape, a student-led landscaping company in the Greater Boston Area, Klein and Syssoev…
At 4:30 PM on Wednesday night, Newton resident Nathan Phillips — who has been raising the alarm over what he considers an unsafe degree of leaks from National Grid gas piping in the area — measured an explosive level of methane (6%) in an Eversource electrical manhole on Homer Street…
The Newton Art Association (NAA) will hold an awards ceremony virtually on May 8 at 7PM (Zoom link) to honor three recipients of named scholarships ($800 each) and four recipients of Honorable Mention awards ($150 each). The recipients are: Named Scholarships Honorable Mention Awards For over 35 years, the NAA…
In a speech to Newton residents and the City Council on Monday evening (text, NewTV’s video), Mayor Ruthanne Fuller presented a proposed FY2024 budget of just over half-billion dollars, an increase of $19.7 million (+3.94%) over last year, aiming to balance the City budget in the face of the failure…
On the rainy final day of April, the League of Women Voters of Newton (LWVN) held its second Civics Challenge. The first was in March, 2020, and then the pandemic struck, delaying a sequel until last Sunday’s match in the Cabot Elementary School cafeteria. Four “teams” — a total of…
Tiziana Dearing, host of WBUR’s Radio Boston, will be the keynote speaker at Newton Inspires, this Thursday, May 4 at 6:00PM at Newton South High School. Newton Inspires, a fundraiser for the Newton Schools Foundation, features these other notable Newtonians describing their inspirations and sharing stories and insights: Participants may…
An immersive multimedia Holocaust exhibit — The Cattle Car: Stepping In and Out of Darkness — was available at City Hall for the public to experience over this last weekend and for Newton high-school students to experience on Monday and Tuesday. It consists of a replica of a cattle car…
Franklin School Building Committee will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, May 4 at 6PM and discuss the updated draft space plan (see agenda). The Negotiations Subcommittee of the Newton School Committee will meet in person (Education Center, Room 304) on Thursday, Mary 4 at 3PM in Executive Session to…
People talked and champagne flowed last Saturday night at the Wilson chapel, where the Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF) held its annual fundraising dinner. This was the first GELF dinner since 2019, and excited parents, teachers, and council-members could all be seen gathered in the big main hall…