At a special meeting on March 28, the Newton School Committee heard hours of testimony in a public hearing, after which all nine members of the Committee voted to reject a petition to establish an Academic Principles Advisory Committee. Two-hundred-fifty people had signed up to address the Committee in-person and…
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According to a press release from the Newton Public Schools (NPS), the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Education has notified NPS that OCR has closed its investigation of allegations of discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin regarding the staging of Lost and…
Waban resident Chris Pitts will present the 7th annual Newton Piano Summit next month: Eight concerts spanning two weekends — May 6 & 7 and May 13 & 14 — at the Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton). All of the concerts are free — through the…
Presented last Wednesday, the proposed budget for FY2024 has created – among many other things – a new topic for conversation. While the verdict of the override was released March 14, it’s the proposed new budget that, when implemented, will determine where and how funding is allocated as well as…
Newton resident Erica Muhl began making history at Berklee College of Music twenty months ago, when she became its first woman president. Since then, the distinguished conductor-composer has continued to expand musical horizons for Berklee students and graduates. Her inauguration ceremony, long delated by Covid, took place on Tuesday morning…
Walnut Grille, a vegan and vegetarian restaurant located at 1203 Walnut Street in Newton Highlands, conducted its last day of business last Friday and will reopen in a few weeks under a new name, Shiva’s Kitchen, serving Indian cuisine. The exact date is yet to be determined. The Board of…
On April 5, the eve of Passover, the Walnut Street Minyan — an independent, traditional, egalitarian community of 109 households — will move into its newly renovated home at 858 Walnut Street, near Newton Four Corners. The community will hold its initial services in this new location on three consecutive…
Setti Warren, former Mayor of Newton, has been named Executive Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He had been serving in that role on an interim basis. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.…
Two weeks after the general override proposal failed, Mayor Fuller announced her plan to help fill the expected budget gaps. The plan consists of the use of FY2022 Free Cash in a “financially responsible way,” changing the pension funding plan (via a request made yesterday to the Retirement Board) and…
250 people sign up to make public comment On March 28, the School Committee convened for a special meeting, as mandated by the City Charter, to conduct a public hearing regarding the petition for an Academic Principles Advisory Committee (APAC), as described in this article by Fig City News. The…