Someday you’ll hear someone ask, “Do you have any photos from that storm back in ’26?” Fig City News managed to get out and around in Newton Center to take some photos during that historic February 2026 storm. For future reference, here’s what it looked like. See these photos and…
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This month, Fig City News profiles two particularly generous members of our community – Josephine McNeil and Lionel Porter – in celebration of Black History Month. Josephine McNeil Josephine McNeil is the founder and executive director of the Citizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Organization (CAN-DO), a community-based, nonprofit…
After the recent blockbuster snow storm, City officials expect costs of snow and ice removal in Newton to surpass their $5 million budget as expenditures continue to rise. The City Council’s Finance Committee unanimously approved the recommendation to transfer an additional $1.5 million from the snow and ice reserve in…
Through a series of updates, Mayor Marc Laredo has announced that all municipal lots reopened at 6AM Tuesday, February 24, and the Snow Emergency Parking Ban ended at 5PM that day. Municipal offices and schools remained closed on Tuesday, and all municipal and school schedules (except for trash/recycling collection) will…
Rose Advanced Skin Care (d/b/a Advanced Beauty Lab) in Newtonville is one of 48 small businesses in Massachusetts to win a MassDevelopment Biz-M-Power Grant in the 2025 cycle. This award was for $50,000 toward the cost of a laser hair-removal system, which was delivered in January. MassDevelopment had intended to…
On Thursday, February 26, the Conservation Commission will review plans to relocate native fish from Bullough’s Pond to City Hall Ponds to “correct the negative impact” of an earlier project that had pumped water and fish in the other direction. In 2024, the City of Newton initiated a De-Watering for…
Tuesday afternoons at the Centre Street Food Pantry are humming with activity. The police direct traffic as a line of cars queue up at the back entrance of the Trinity Parish of Newton Centre for Senior Hour. Drivers wait patiently in line, order slips tucked neatly inside their car windshields.…
The Police Department will soon welcome its new leader after the City Council voted on February 17 to approve Braintree Police Chief Timothy V. Cohoon as Newton’s next Police Chief. “I am thrilled that Chief Cohoon will be joining the City’s police department,” Mayor Marc Laredo told Fig City News…
At two recent community listening sessions, Mayor Marc Laredo fielded concerns ranging from federal actions affecting Newton to local issues such as schools and road maintenance. Across the exchanges, he repeatedly emphasized accountability while underscoring the limits of what falls within his control. The sessions took place on February 11…
In a time of nationwide turmoil in the 1960s and 1970s, the Newton Public Schools (NPS) took a lot in stride: a homemade bomb exploding, major changes in school governance, and the beginning of significant cultural wars. On a Friday morning in November of 1968, a homemade bomb exploded in…