The City’s winter overnight parking ban, which is in effect December 1 through March 31 each year, has been the subject of considerable debate, and a committee — Vote Yes to Repeal the Winter Overnight Parking Ban — has formed to seek its repeal. Since delivering fifty signatures of the…
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The following graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison this spring: The following students were named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2023 semester at Dickinson College:
From a couch in band member Zach’s dimly lit basement to the Boston Calling stage, the Greater Boston-based soul pop band, Couch, is on the rise. Last Saturday, July 22nd, Couch closed out the 8th annual Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts at Newton’s Hyde Playground. Many of the audience…
Now that the deadline has passed for candidates to file, the Newton Election Commission has reported that in Wards 1, 3, and 7, there will be no challengers to any of the current City Council and School Committee incumbents. In fact, none of the School Committee members have challengers. In…
In the past week, both the Newton Teachers Association (NTA) and the School Committee have released public statements regarding the status of negotiations for a new contract to replace the existing one, which expires on August 31. The School Committee has stated the two sides are at an impasse, and…
On July 24, the Newton/Brookline group Boston for Democracy in Israel held a rally on Newton Centre Green to protest the Israeli Knesset’s overturning of the “reasonableness” doctrine, an action that the group says will weaken the power of Israel’s Supreme Court and thus harm democracy in Israel. The group…
Decked out in neon green sports socks and a cycling outfit, accessibility activist Robert Solomon recently visited with new friend Anya Rhodes ahead of riding in her honor during the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC). The nonprofit’s mission is to raise funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where both Newton residents were…
On Thursday, July 20, approximately fifty people filed into the former Saco Pettee Mill building (c. 1896) at 156 Oak Street in Newton Upper Falls to view a range of plans, project renderings, construction updates, and project photographs for the Northland Newton Development (NND) project. Michael Medeiros, NND Associate Vice…
Newton residents were shocked and saddened by the death of Nancy Hanson in a domestic violence incident on July 15. Unfortunately, domestic violence is all too prevalent. 33.9% of Massachusetts women and 31.7% of Massachusetts men will experience physical violence, sexual violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their…
The School Committee on July 20 sent this Negotiations Update to the Newton Public Schools community regarding the status of contract negotiations with the Newton Teachers Association (NTA). Some key points: UPDATE: On July 21, Mike Zilles, president of the NTA, posted this response to the School Committee’s Negotiations Update.…