Mayor Fuller recently announced that the project to create NewCAL – a new Senior Center — will be delayed due to having received a bid from only one contractor. The Mayor said that that bid “was significantly higher than our professional cost estimates. We have since spoken with the other…
Posts published in September 2023
Assistant City Solicitor Andrew Lee requested an opportunity to provide the Conservation Commission, at its meeting on September 7, with a summary of an item docketed before the City Council regarding a “Confirmatory Order” that corrects the boundaries and area of land known as Webster Woods, which the City took…
Jewish Creative Preschool is hosting Musical Tot Shabbat & Challah Bake. It will take place every Friday, 10:30AM at Jewish Creative Preschool (349 Dedham St, Oak Hill). You must RSVP to attend.
The City of Newton and the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children have partnered to open a Bright “nook” at the Newton Police Department Headquarters. The space opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday afternoon with the goal of providing a space that is cheerful and safe for children facing crisis…
We updated Wards 2 & 6: Vote in Preliminary Election, Sept.12 to include links to the videos of the September candidate debates hosted by the four Area Councils. We updated Ward Councilor candidates raise $84,281 heading into September 12 Preliminary Election to include the latest data reported to OCPF through…
Strong Focus on Improving Data and Performance Tracking On August 31, newly hired Newton Public Schools Superintendent Anna Nolin met with Adam Bernstein (NPS parent and Fig City’s NPS writer) and Bella Ishanyan (Fig City student intern, Newton South High School senior, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the school’s Lion’s Roar newspaper).…
Only voters in Ward 2 and Ward 6 will vote in the Preliminary Election on September 12 (polls open 7AM-8PM). In each of those wards, the Preliminary Election will narrow a field of three candidates for Ward Councilor to two candidates to compete in the November 7 municipal election. Incumbents…
The six candidates competing in the September preliminary races on September 12 have reported to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) raising a total of $86,930 as of September 6. The tables below summarize funds reported raised by each candidate to OCPF along with the total number of donors and the proportion of donations coming from within their immediate local family, their ward, Newton, and elsewhere.
On September 5, Newton’s four Neighborhood Area Councils collaborated to host candidate debates for next Tuesday’s Preliminary Election for Wards 2 and 6, with these candidates for Ward Councilor participating: The Preliminary Election, open only to voters in these wards, will narrow the field in each ward from three candidates…
The League of Women Voters of Newton (LWVN) sponsored two Ward Councilor candidate forums in advance of the September 12 Preliminary Elections in Wards 2 and 6. Each race includes three candidates for seats in which the incumbents — Councilor Emily Norton in Ward 2 and Councilor Brenda Noel in…