On a sunny, sparkling November 15th, about 100 residents joined city officials along the Lake Avenue shore of Crystal Lake for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the long-awaited completion of the Levingston Cove Improvements project. According to the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department, Levingston Cove’s redesign will make the park…
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Bake your cake (and win an award?) …and eat it, too! Registration is open now until November 26 for Newton Cultural Development’s first Gingerbread House Exhibit and Contest. Inspired by the Portsmouth (NH) Historical Society’s well known, annual Gingerbread House contest, Newton Cultural Development Program Manager Lisa Rucinski decided to bring…
In the November 7 municipal election, 16,425 voters (unofficial count) cast ballots for City Council and School Committee, electing six new Council members and defeating three incumbents. Among the contested City Council seats, candidates were generally aligned in two groups based on their views on zoning: Five of the six…
West Newton Cinema Foundation aims to save the theatre The West Newton Cinema, 75-year-old movie theatre – and Newton’s last neighborhood theatre – was sold to Mark Development in 2022. David Bramante, who owned and managed the cinema, was forced to sell because of Covid’s negative impact on movie attendance.…
David Micley, a fourth-generation Newton resident, handily won the Ward 2 seat currently held by Emily Norton, who is retiring from the City Council. Having run and lost in a Ward 2 At-Large race in 2021, Mr. Micley came in second in the three-way September 12 preliminary, defeating Peter Bruce,…
On October 16, Ward 1 City Councilors Alison Leary and Maria Scibeli Greenberg, and Zoning and Planning (ZAP) Committee Chair Councilor Deb Crossley, docketed an item for the October 26 ZAP meeting to allow the current Nonantum VCOD plan to be removed from consideration. Instead, the plan would be referred…
Stephen Farrell is running to be Ward Councilor from Ward 8, a seat elected by the voters of that ward. He spoke recently with Fig City News. Mr. Farrell has lived in his home abutting the Newton South High School playing field for a quarter of a century. “I love…
The Newton League of Women Voters and Newton’s Area Councils have always presented themselves as reliable, impartial sponsors of local candidate debates. In the past, their debates have been in front of live audiences moderated by neutral parties — non-Newton League members for the League, and the distinguished journalist Marjorie…
On a radiant October Sunday afternoon, Rep. Jake Auchincloss met with approximately forty constituents to launch his campaign for a second Congressional term. For the most part, the gathering was focused on the War in the Middle East and the chaos in Congress. A staunch supporter of Israel and Ukraine,…
Over the past three years, the Newtonville Area Council (NAC) has focused much of its attention on proposed village center zoning redesign (the Village Center Overlay Design, or VCOD) because Newtonville has seen significant new development. TRIO – a large retail and apartment complex on the corner of Washington and…