Among the Boston Globe’s Fall 2023 All-Scholastics for high-school athletes and coaches are the following honorees from Newton. Girls Volleyball Athlete of the Year — Division 1: Sasha T. Selivan, Newton North, Freshman All-Scholastics Coach of the Year — Division 1: Nile Fox, Newton North Honorable Mention — Chloe Lee,…
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Since 1999, the students of Brown Middle School have organized a gift drive for the families of Brookview House in Dorchester. Each year, students collect gifts, load them onto a box truck, and send them to Brookview, where they are given to the caretakers to wrap and gift to Brookview families. King Movers…
Recent honors, appointments, and arrivals for people who live or work in Newton…
The Lion’s Roar — Newton South High School’s award-winning newspaper — has its September issue out: Volume 40-5, Israel Palestine, with these lead articles: Bella Ishanyan is a senior at Newton South High School and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Lion’s Roar. Last summer, she was a Fig City News student intern.
Fig City News board member Tamirirashe Gambiza will run the 128th Boston Marathon to raise funds for Fig City News. He aims to raise $5,000 to expand our payments to local reporters and student interns. You can donate here and then join Fig City fans along the route cheering Tami…
This week, the City of Newton achieved Safe Harbor status with regard to a state housing law, Chapter 40B — over 50 years after the law was enacted in 1969. In communities where Safe Harbor status has not been achieved, developers may bypass some local zoning requirements for projects that…
As shopper after shopper visited Auburndale gift store Just Next Door this week, they greeted owner Amy Shih with praise, gratitude, and wistful regret that she will soon be shuttering the beloved business. When customer Jenny Rosenthal — a Newton resident who has been buying presents there for 10 years…
Unresolved NTA Contract Overhangs Meeting Agenda. The School Committee meeting on January 8, consistent with prior meetings for the past few months, began with several public commenters advocating for higher City budget allocations to Newton Public Schools (NPS) in order to settle the outstanding negotiation with the Newton Teachers Association…
“The reason grief can be so hard is because it can feel so isolating,” Julia Ong reflected while discussing the 2021 death of her younger child, Avery. Even before their daughter died, the Newton resident and her husband, Jordan Bray, experienced the crushing weight of grief upon learning the baby’s…
Recent honors, appointments, and arrivals for people who live or work in Newton…