David Sellers, Sr.,72, the former Executive Director of the John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club, who died at home on August 26, was the ultimate community man. He was born in Newton, and most of his life centered on the Newton Boys & Girls Club – called the Boys…
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On a gray, rainy late August Monday afternoon, the newly renovated, reopened first floor Children’s Room at the Newton Library is filled with light, and children (from toddlers to “tweens”) and their parents and grandparents listening to stories, reading stories, and playing computer games or with the colorful array of…
On August 11, Governor Baker signed a comprehensive climate bill into law that will hasten Massachusetts’ transition to energy free of fossil fuels, including a pilot program allowing ten municipalities, including Newton, to ban fossil fuels in new multi-family buildings. Climate activists and legislators had expressed some concern that the Governor…
Last Sunday, the Love Dogs rock band was the final act in Newton’s series of six summer concerts on Sunday evenings in Newton Centre. An enthusiastic audience of 300 — the largest audience in the series — attended this concert. Paula Gannon, Director of Newton Cultural Affairs, noted that the first four…
State Representative Kay Khan began her quest to ban child marriages (i.e., marriages of people under the age of eighteen) nearly six years ago when she learned that children — 89.9% girls, some as young as fourteen — could be married in Massachusetts with only the consent of their parents…
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…
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…