Newton State Representative Ruth Balser, a longtime “choice” activist, joined Vice President Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker in a bipartisan meeting to underscore broad bi-partisan support for Massachusetts’ new “Act expanding protection for reproductive and gender affirming care,” which Governor Baker signed into law in July. The new…
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Andrew Magni was born ninety years ago in Nonantum and lived all his life within two blocks — first above his father’s bakery and then above his funeral home. His life — family, community, work, and civic activity — was deeply rooted in the village. As so many before them, Andrew’s…
This year’s St. Mary of Carmen Festival, six-year-old Quinten Mazzola, follows a long line of flying angels in his family. On Sunday, July 17, accompanied by his father Lewis, Quentin rose up in a cherry picker and threw rosebuds over the Statue of St. Mary of Carmen as she returned…
Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem has secured, as part of the $10 billion Transportation Bond Bill, $85 million to upgrade Newton’s three commuter rail stations in Auburndale, West Newton, and Newtonville. After these upgrades, the three Newton stations on the Framingham/Worcester line will be in compliance with the Americans…
The Massachusetts Legislature has extended permission for governmental bodies to hold remote and hybrid public meetings through March 31, effective immediately. According to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Open Meeting Law website, this extends the ability of public bodies to hold meetings remotely without a quorum of the public body physically…
Founded in 1935 as a mutual benefit society, St. Mary of Carmen Society has been hosting a five-day festival beginning on a Wednesday in nid-July at Pellegrini Park Hawthorne Park in Nonantum, and ending with a huge fireworks display on the following Sunday night at Our Lady Help of Christians…