Newton Community Pride is running a selfie station design competition for Picture Us!, an upcoming public art initiative providing lively, inviting locations for residents to take selfies and candid photos that will be shared via Newton Community Pride’s online community photo album with the hashtag #PictureUs!Newton. NCP is currently seeking creative…
Posts published in March 2024
Haiku Newton, a project sponsored by Newton Community Pride (NCP), is accepting poetry for its spring 2024 public art initiative — bringing poems on lawn-style signs to various locations throughout Newton. Go to poetrynewton.com for more information and to submit your work by March 20. Now in its third year,…
Newton Neighbors, Newton’s mutual aid network, is asking residents to help send students to Summer Camp. The campaign is now 82% toward its goal of $10,000 to fill the gap between the camp scholarships awarded to students and the donation their families must pay in order to attend. Many Newton school…
Spring is just around the corner and we are getting ready for Newton PorchFest 2024! PorchFest is an afternoon of free music performed outside of people’s homes. We welcome you to a community event to share the joy of playing and listening to music. Newton PorchFest 2024 is scheduled for Saturday,…
The Rotary Club of Newton is seeking nominations for high school sophomores to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) this summer, June 21-23. Once a sophomore is nominated, the club will send them an application. The club will cover the cost of attending the conference for 5 students who are selected…
The Highland Glee Club, one of the longest running men’s singing groups in the country, will be singing the most beautiful melodies of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales — on March 16 at 3PM in the War Memorial Auditorium of Newton City Hall (1000 Commonwealth Avenue). Special guest will be Daniel…
Bay Colony Brass will present a free concert, Respighi and Friends: An Italian Affair, on March 16 at 7:30PM at Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton). Music director Philip Sanborn leads Newton’s 20-member Bay Colony Brass in a free concert of Italian music arranged for brass including works…
The First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN) will present its annual Music Sunday service on March 17, 10:15AM. This service presents music about transformation and change, both personal, healing transformation and being a force for change in the world. There will be a wide variety of songs, including The Times They…
Leading with the slogan, “Let’s Put a Doctor in the House,” Dr. Greg Schwartz announced that he is running for the Democratic nomination to succeed Ruth Balser, the current representative for the 12th Middlesex District, who has announced that she plans to retire at the end of this year. Dr.…
On February 29, two days after Kay Khan said she would not seek reelection as State Representative for the 11th Middlesex District, Amy Sangiolo announced her candidacy for the seat. Sangiolo, a veteran Newton politician, served twenty years on the Board of Alderman and City Council, from 1998 to 2017,…