The Full City Council voted to approve two projects that had been chartered by Ward 4 Councilor Lenny Gentile at the last City Council meeting in December 2022 (see Fig City News article). Councilor Gentile started by stating that he opposes both of the projects because of their size and…
Posts published in January 2023
Fig City News launched on June 27, 2022 with the premiere issues of both Fig City Local Government Meetings & Reports (covering City Hall) and Fig City News (offering local news and community announcements). In the half-year since, these were our most-viewed news stories:
On Thursday morning, a truck heading eastbound on the Massachusetts Turnpike hit the Auburn Street bridge in Auburndale. The truck’s pneumatic lift had suddenly released and became wedged in a steel beam on the overpass. According to former Ward 4 City Councilor Jay Harney, a longtime Auburndale resident who came…
On January 11 at 7PM, the Climate Crisis subcommittee of the Newton Democratic City Committee will present Housing and Climate Change, a public online forum on how increasing interest in decarbonizing housing is occurring against a backdrop of preexisting challenges to equitable and affordable housing. Register here. Joe Curtatone, former mayor of…
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller has proposed a tax override and two debt exclusions, each of which, if approved by voters, will increase Newton’s property taxes to fund the purposes associated with each. (The Mayor also proposed exemptions to mitigate the effects of these tax increases on economically vulnerable taxpayers.) Newton voters…
Newton Teachers Association leaders discussed several topics related to Newton Public Schools, as well as their support for teacher strikes in other Massachusetts districts, in the latest NTA President’s Blog post published on January 2, 2023. UPDATE: The School Committee provided an update on collective bargaining in its meeting on…
Carefully sorting through colorful, donated children’s clothing, Christie Webber and more than a dozen of her colleagues from Norwood’s HMI Performance Incentives happily returned to volunteer at Cradles to Crayons after a two-year absence due to the Covid pandemic. The nonprofit, located at 281 Newtonville Avenue, recently marked 20 years…
On Monday, the Newton Public Schools district, in consultation with the City’s Health and Human Services Department, announced its strong recommendation that all NPS staff and students wear face coverings for the first two weeks of school following the December break. With “a rise of absences of both students and…
This week’s road construction schedule can be found here.
International watercolor artist Soon Y Warren — known for her spectacular renderings of everyday objects — will demonstrate the process of painting crystal, showing how she applies colors to create a finished painting. The demonstration will be online on January 12, 7PM-9PM at this Zoom link. Her work has been featured…