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Newton Free Library’s Spring Fling

The Board of Newton Free Library Trustees held its annual Spring Fling Fundraising Gala at the library on May 4. Former Boston television news anchor Christa Delcamp interviewed the gala’s two guest authors, Drew Faust and George Mumford.  Faust, noted historian and former president of Harvard University, spoke about her 2023…

Three-alarm fire, in vacant Victorian in Newtonville, likely caused by “oily rags”

On the morning of Wednesday, April 24, a fire broke out in a vacant, 10-room Victorian home undergoing renovation at 8 Central Avenue in Newtonville. The Newton Fire Department responded around 11:30AM to reports of heavy smoke from the 2½ story, wood-framed structure. On arrival, firefighters found heavy fire in…

TrailblazHers Run Co files discrimination lawsuit against BAA, City of Newton, and Newton Police Chief

Lawyers for Civil Rights Boston filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Thursday on behalf of TrailblazHers Run Co. The lawsuit is directed against “the BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, CITY OF NEWTON, and JOHN F. CARMICHAEL JR., Chief of Police of the…

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