On June 29, Newton Community Pride and Newton Cultural Development hosted Chalkfest as a way to conclude this year’s Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts. Professional artist Jill Strait led the event, and within the hour, Chalky the Sidewalk Snake was fully colored in! The event was held alongside the…
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Trying to beat the heat, on Wednesday, June 24, I took my four-year-old grandson to the newly opened Upper Falls Greenway Water Park. The air temperature was well into the 90s and we were ready to play. I was surprised to see that the part of the park that is a…
On Thursday, June 26, the West Newton Cinema held a screening of two films by award-winning Japanese American filmmaker Eimi Imanishi: Battalion to My Beat, a short film released in 2017, and an excerpt from Imanishi’s upcoming feature, Nomad Shadow (earlier title, DOHA: The Rising Sun). The event was part…
Author/activist Emily Ladau hopes that after her Disability Pride Month talk on July 9, attendees will be ready to “question the assumptions [they] are making about people with disabilities” — especially about what they can and cannot do — and be willing to continue having open dialogue on the issue…
For two hours a day, six days a week, sabre fencer Anya Suvorova trains under Dynamo Fencing Head Coach Alex Kushkov. Ariel Eybelmen does the same, four or five days a week. Coach Krushov, a Ukrainian national, founded Dynamo in 2013, with the goal of bringing his beloved sport to…
On June 25, members of the board of the West Newton Cinema (WNC) Foundation presented their major renovation plans and fundraising goals during a community event held at the Cinema. Board President Elizabeth Heilig began by sharing the impressive news that in the first six months since the WNC Foundation…
Caleb Gannon appeared in Newton District Court on June 26 for a hearing on an assault charge related to an attack on Scott Hayes last September. He had been charged with attacking Mr. Hayes, a Framingham resident, who was part of a pro-Israel rally at the corner of Harvard and…
This past school year saw extensive, and at times heated, political debate and discussion over Newton Public Schools (NPS) budgetary priorities. How do these numbers and spending categories shape what students and educators do every day? Fig City News interviewed Principal Kim Lysaght of Brown Middle School, who discussed how…
During the heat advisory (Monday-Wednesday, June 23-25), both Crystal Lake and Gath Pool will be open for swimming 1:30PM to Dusk.
Music, food, dancing, and community– Newton’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration brought together a melting pot of generations, cultures, and emotions on the lawn outside of the Hyde Community Center on the sunny afternoon of June 19. Juneteeth, celebrated on June 19th, recognizes the day that enslaved African Americans were informed…