On Saturday, November 12, 80 students — from Oak Hill, Brown, F.A. Day, Bigelow, Bowen, Zervas, Memorial-Spaulding, and some private schools — gathered at Newton South High School for M Snake, a new, friendly mathematics competition created and run by NSHS students. For most participants, this was their first experience with math…
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The Lion’s Roar — Newton South High School’s award-winning newspaper — has its November issue out with these lead articles:
The day before Thanksgiving, The Rotary Club of Newton (motto: “Service Above Self”) delivered over 100 freshly baked pies to Newton Police Headquarters, every Newton Fire Department station, and families associated with the West Suburban YMCA and the Newton Boys and Girls Club. The pies were provided by Marie Presti,…
“Music is such a central part of my life,” said Lisa Wong, violinist, pediatrician, and long-time Newton resident. “For me, balancing music and medicine is not a choice, but a necessity.” She began playing the piano at age three and violin at eight, and also learned guitar and ukulele. Lisa…
Allison-Yoshie Eldredge is a world-renowned cellist, founder and director of the new Cherry Street Players, and the first Artist in Residence at the Allen Center, on Webster Street in West Newton. In 1854, Nathaniel Topliff Allen, a disciple of Horace Mann, Massachusetts Secretary of Education, opened the West Newton English…
The FY2023 Tax Classification hearing was held by the Finance Committee on Monday evening to establish the proportion of the tax levy raised by the residential and commercial classes of property in the City. The Council voted (21 – 2 with 2 absent) to increase the tax levy limit with…
Newton’s Winter Overnight Parking Ban is scheduled to start on December 1, banning parking for longer than one hour on city streets 2AM-6AM. The fine for each violation is $25. In recent years, during the state’s Covid emergency, the Mayor was able to lift the ban and did so (except…
On Saturday, over one hundred friends and family of 12-year-old Eytani Ganot gathered at his West Newton home to celebrate the surprise granting of his wish — to go on the new, one-of-a-kind Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World Resort. In 2012, Eytani was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare muscle disorder,…
The sound of the MC announcing the matches over the background music, a sea of colorful custom T-Shirts, and LEGOs scattered throughout the school: This was the scene of the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Newton Qualifier last Saturday at Newton North High School. The FLL Qualifier, run by Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team,…
Last week, Fig City News reported that State Representative Ruth Balser’s nearly quarter-of-a-century effort to protect public lands came to fruition when the Legislature voted in favor of her Public Lands Preservation Act. Governor Charlie Baker has signed the bill and made it the law of the Commonwealth. Under the…