MassDOT will hold a Public Information Meeting online on March 23 at 6PM to discuss progress and future plans for the Needham-Newton Corridor Project. Pre-registration is required. The project aims to improve traffic safety and operations and multimodal accommodations (transit, bicycle, and pedestrian) extending from the intersection of Highland Avenue…
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The UU Plant-Based Eating Club, housed at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN), will host two discussions of the book The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health, by Rip Esselstyn. It’s about how a group of firefighters in Texas tried plant-based eating…
The choirs of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton and the UU Society of Wellesley Hills will be combining to sing for two Music Sunday services featuring the beautiful Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen. “The five movements of Lux Aeterna are based on various references to light from sacred…
The Racial Justice Ministry of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton invites the public to Reckoning with Our Racist Past — a presentation by Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition and the Faneuil Hall Race + Reconciliation Project. Please join us on Sunday, March 26, 11:45AM-1PM in…
Music Mondays is excited to present Thoreau Duo: Susan Jensen (violin) and Rebecca Thornblade (cello) on Monday March 27, 2PM-3PM at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Nordic Hall (206 Waltham Road, Newton). Please join us live or by Zoom Thoreau Duo consists of two terrific musicians who are also Newton residents.…
Green Newton will present a free webinar, Electric Vehicles 101, on January 31, noon to 1PM. Register here.
The Cabot Park Black History Lecture series will celebrate Black History Month with a talk by Danielle Allen on January 4 at 3PM in the Community Room at Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Ave.). This lecture is free and open to the public. Covid protocols: Masks are required. Danielle Allen is the James…
The Mothers Out Front statewide Clean Heat Clean Air Campaign is planning to deliver its letter to Governor Maura Healy at the State House on January 25 (2PM-4PM), to inform Governor Healey and her newly appointed climate chief, Melissa Hoffer, that the campaign looks forward to working together to make Massachusetts a leader…
The City will host a Virtual Town Hall Meeting to answer questions about the proposed tax override on January 26 at 7PM. Attend via this Zoom link. Or call +1 646 558 8656 and enter Meeting ID: 816 5377 6128. More information is at newtonma.gov/override.
On January 26 at 7PM, Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library will host a talk by Barry Wagner, author of a book about longtime Newton resident Arnold Hiatt, the president and chief executive officer of The Stride Rite Corporation. Hiatt launched the nation’s first corporate on-site child care center,…