City Council Chairs will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 16 at 6:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Programs and Services will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Wednesday, January 17 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: City Council will meet in person (Council…
Posts published in January 2024
School Committee will meet virtually (Zoom link) in Executive Session on Tuesday, January 16 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: School Committee will hold a special virtual meeting (Zoom link) on Wednesday, January 17 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: NOTE: There will be no public comment taken…
Newton Free Library Board of Trustees Development Committee will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 16 at 6:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Board of License Commissioners will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Tuesday, January 16 at 7:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Newton Board of Assessors will meet…
The following potential projects/proposals are scheduled to meet with the Development Review Team (DRT) this week (see DRT Snapshot):
“Twilight and evening bell, / And after that the dark! / And may there be no sadness of farewell, / When I embark,” are just some of the moving lines from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem, “Crossing the Bar.” Later set to music, the song is one of many soothing and…
Newton’s four Neighborhood Area Councils — Newton Highlands, Waban, Upper Falls, and Newtonville — are beginning their 2024 season by electing officers and setting goals for their two-year cycle. Much of their focus in recent years has been the redesign of their village centers as well as a number of…
Among the Boston Globe’s Fall 2023 All-Scholastics for high-school athletes and coaches are the following honorees from Newton. Girls Volleyball Athlete of the Year — Division 1: Sasha T. Selivan, Newton North, Freshman All-Scholastics Coach of the Year — Division 1: Nile Fox, Newton North Honorable Mention — Chloe Lee,…
Since 1999, the students of Brown Middle School have organized a gift drive for the families of Brookview House in Dorchester. Each year, students collect gifts, load them onto a box truck, and send them to Brookview, where they are given to the caretakers to wrap and gift to Brookview families. King Movers…
Recent honors, appointments, and arrivals for people who live or work in Newton…
Thank you to David Mickley for his 1/9/24 Letter to the Editor, criticizing Greg Vasil’s Boston Globe editorial (Massachusetts can make housing more affordable, 12/27/23). Vasil called the Newton zoning law “watered down” and claimed that suburban voters fear that “apartment buildings and dwellers will change their neighborhood’s character and…