Highlands Village Day beamed this year, basking in beautiful weather — not too hot, no rain, and no strong winds to disrupt vendors’ booths and wares. If you missed it, here’s what it looked like up and down Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands on Sunday.
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As reported in last week’s Fig City News, the Programs and Services Committee held a public hearing on a petition filed by Peter Harrington and more than fifty Newton residents, asking to place a non-binding question on the November ballot dealing with several aspects of Newton’s Village Center Zoning Redesign…
The City’s Sustainability Team recently issued an update on the status of Newton’s Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) in preparation for an upcoming Zoning and Planning Committee meeting. Newton’s Climate Action Plan shows that 66% of the city’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) come from buildings. The Newton Citizens…
Newton Community Farm (NCF) suffered a significant and disturbing theft between 7:30PM last Thursday night and 7AM Friday morning. Many plants were uprooted from the fields, and about ten trays of seedlings were taken from the greenhouse. NCF Executive Director Sue Bottino estimates that the theft involved multiple people with…
A Committee, headed by former Ward 3 Councilor Jim Cote and Newton Highlands Area Council President Jeremy Freudberg, filed papers with Newton City Hall to put an initiative on this November’s ballot to repeal Newton’s seasonal parking ban. The overnight winter parking ban goes into effect on December 1 and…
The Programs and Services Committee will hold a virtual (Zoom link) public hearing Thursday at 7PM (see Agenda) regarding a petition filed by Peter Harrington and other residents calling on the City Council to place a non-binding question on the November 7, 2023 municipal ballot. The proposed ballot question is…
The City Council’s Zoning and Planning Committee will hold a public hearing on June 14 regarding a proposed ordinance requiring electrification of all new construction and substantial renovation. Last August, Governor Baker signed into law legislation (H.5060) granting Newton and nine other ten communities (Acton, Aquinnah, Arlington, Brookline, Cambridge, Concord,…
Ending months of sometimes tense negotiations with the Mayor, the City Council voted to approve the Mayor’s FY24 budget of $499,710,209 General Fund allocations with an additional $70, 306,117 for Community Preservation, Water, Sewer, and Stormwater funds, for a total of $570,016,326. (See FY2024 Budget, FY2024-2028 CIP, and FY2024-2028 Supplemental CIP).…
Prior to the City Council’s full budget review and approval, the City Council met to consider a resolution proposed by Ward 4 Councilor, Lenny Gentile, to use $10,000,000 of Free Cash designated for the Lincoln Eliot Elementary School project, as part of an unrestricted reserve fund comprised of: Councilor Gentile’s…
Strapped to an orange board while playing an unconscious drowning victim, Joseph Manna could only lie immobile while his fellow lifeguards-in-training “saved” him. The Newton South sophomore and other students aiming to be American Red Cross-certified lifeguards have been learning essential techniques at the West Suburban YMCA’s training program. Those…