Let’s start with 4 values propositions on which I hope most agree: Unfortunately, it seems that some people either do not share the 4th value in this list or are readily willing to sacrifice it with the massive village centers upzoning proposal that the Zoning & Planning Committee (ZAP) is…
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Closing her eyes, Lilou Petrucci reached into a bag, grabbed a mystery object and tried to identify it using all her senses except for sight. Smiling, the Cabot Elementary School student figured out the cube with telltale circular bumps was a large Lego. However, other items were more of a…
Ty Gupta, owner and developer of the historic Gershom Hyde House at 29 Greenwood Road has filed suit this week in Middlesex County Court against the City of Newton as well as individual City staff members, Historic Commission members, and the Mayor over their handling of the project. The developer bought…
Tamika Olszewski grew up in upstate New York, in Farmington, “the gateway to the Finger Lakes,” not far from Rochester. Like Newton, Farmington is suburban, with a sizable upper-middle-class population. In a predominantly white high school, she said that “everyone looked the same except me. I had to go to…
Gas is not safe, not clean, not green. With our own eyes we see how the climate crisis is increasing the social and financial costs of increasingly extreme weather. The answer is to stop burning fossil fuels while transitioning to a rapid, equitable transition to carbon-free energy sources. On March…
Pon de Joy opened in Newton Centre at 212 Sumner Street, next to B.Y.O.D, on February 12. The new store specializes in mochi donuts and is the second to be opened by Heather Kim, a former realtor in the area. Heather discovered the mochi donut craze after relocating to the…
On Friday, the School Committee voted unanimously to select Dr. Anna Nolin as Newton’s next Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Nolin is currently superintendent of the Natick Public Schools, where she has served for almost 20 years in the roles of assistant principal, principal, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, and…
Three recent high-magnitude earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria have caused people to lose their lives as building after building fell. Many others have been seriously injured and in need of medical care. Some few have been rescued, not for want of trying. The death toll is now over 45,000 people.…
Dr. Oneeka Williams has been named a trustee of William James College. She serves as director of female urology at Emerson Hospital and assistant clinical professor of urology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a member of the board of advisors at Boston’s Museum of Science and served…
“My illustrious lordship, I will show you what a woman can do,” Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi once said, asserting her right to compete in a field then dominated by men. Modern art historians have come to recognize her artistic excellence and innovation, while biographers have focused on her struggles as…