No gym, no problem! Childhood friends Jai Patel– a junior at Framingham High School – and Benjamin Gershenovich – a junior at Newton North High School – have invented RapidRoutines AI to make fitness more accessible. RapidRoutines AI, released to the public on April 21, is an app that aims…
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In 1844, the first state school for teachers and its instructor, Unitarian Reverend Cyrus Pierce, moved to West Newton after Lexington “welched on its financial agreement” to house the school. A wealthy supporter of Horace Mann purchased the Fuller house for the school. Teaching schools were an experiment that the…
Judy Gordon is preparing to retire after 48 years of teaching and research at Boston College, where she has served as professor, chair of the Management and Organization Department, and associate dean of teaching and learning in BC’s Carroll School of Management. Dr. Anna Berik, the founder of Newton Dental…
In her budget address to the City, Mayor Fuller outlined nine levers the City can pull to address our budget challenges, especially those related to funding schools. Of her nine points, only two were truly long-term solutions aimed at increasing revenue: a tax increase for everyone in the form of…
On April 22, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and Chief Financial Officer Maureen Lemieux presented a $623 million City budget for FY2026 to the City Council. In her address, Mayor Fuller spoke about several hot-button issues related to the budgeting process, including funding for the Newton Public Schools (NPS) and government retiree…
Sean McIntyre, a 2014 graduate of Newton North High School, etched his name into the history books on Monday after setting a new Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run as a Leprechaun. McIntyre, 28, crossed the finish line with a remarkable time of 2 hours, 47 minutes, and…
The LigerBots, Newton’s dual-high-school FIRST Robotics team, traveled to Houston to compete in the FIRST World Championship on April 16-19. During the world championship, the LigerBots won the division Autonomous Award and were a Championship Division Winner in the Hopper Division. For the first time in its 17-year history, the…
Because so much of the Boston Marathon route goes through Newton, the Mayor’s Office receives running bibs to award to people willing to raise funds for Newton charities. This year, 44 runners ran to raise funds for 26 Newton charities. Full details on their campaigns are here. As of the…
On April 21, Emily Craven (NNHS ’22) ran the 129th Boston Marathon to raise funds for the Fig City News summer internship program, now in its third year. By the day before, Emily had raised a total of $7530, exceeding her long-ago-set goal of $7,500. Many, many thanks to Emily — and to…
On Patriots’ Day, a group of current and former Newtonville Area Council (NAC) members and Newton City Councilors, along with family and friends, gathered on Walnut Street in Newtonville to dedicate a bench to the memory of Susan Reisler, a longtime community leader and NAC member. The plaque on the…