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Posts published in June 2024
In what looks increasingly like it will achieve a “Hollywood ending,” the nonprofit West Newton Cinema Foundation announced it has raised sufficient funds to purchase and save the West Newton Cinema, in preparation for its restoration as “a hub of enjoyment and community, where mainstream, classic, independent, and otherwise unconventional…
On June 25, Acting Chief George McMains and the Newton Police Department (NPD) announced their upcoming summer community policing initiative called Operation Safe Sidewalks: an increase in foot and bicycle patrols in village squares, neighborhoods, and parks. “It’s officers out, walking through neighborhoods, parks, village squares, just out, walking through…
On Thursday, June 27, the Zoning and Planning Committee met with Newton’s Planning Board to discuss changes to the Zoning Code. The Committee unanimously approved changes proposed by the Planning Department to remove both the rarely used Fast Food Establishments language from the Zoning Code and the requirement for restaurants…
Tess DeJesus, a graduate of Newton North High School, has been selected by the Charles River Regional Chamber to receive one of four scholarships awarded this year to students in the Chamber’s four communities who are continuing their education in accredited programs. DeJesus was selected in part for her skill…
Except for Thursday night on Albemarle Field, it will be a quiet week. The highlights: Other This week’s road construction schedule.
No reports of City Council committee meetings were published last week. But we do have Lucia Dolan’s news article on the June 27 Zoning and Planning meeting. Earlier reports are available by clicking Meeting Reports under Government menu tab on FigCityNews.com.
Summer Services are in full swing at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton. Please join in person (1326 Washington Street, West Newton, in the Parish Hall) or online, any or every Sunday morning at 10:15AM. See the summer worship schedule for topics and Zoom links.
In Climate groups host forum for State Representative candidates, we corrected the first sentence of Rick Lipof’s answer to the second question.
Two years ago, on June 27, 2022, we published the first issue of Fig City News, reporting on — (this will sound familiar) — BERDO, West Newton Armory housing, the Commonwealth Avenue Carriageway Project, Village Center Zoning, a project on Crafts Street, the first meeting of the Newton Affordable Housing…