“At Lochtree, we make it easy to find great eco-friendly & zero-waste products.” If you’ve been to Newton’s Tuesday Farmers Market, you may have noticed the Lochtree booth and Lochtree’s founder, Henry Palmer. Lochtree is an online marketer selling an eclectic range of environment-friendly sustainable products and applying some of…
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This fall is the soft-opening for Newton’s first zero-waste store and refill station, Fulfilled Goods LLC (612 Washington Street). You’ll find bulk hand and dish soap, laundry detergent, shampoo and conditioner, lotion, and more available for purchase using your own containers from home or donated and sanitized containers available at the store.…
Bettina’s Bakery, celebrating its first year as the new shop on the block — 295 Elliot Street at the top of Oak Street, in the Upper Falls Historic District — offers a unique mix of German and Honduran baked goods (from scratch) and locally sourced roast coffee. Replacing a sub…
On Tuesday, the Newton Rotary Club honored Greg Reibman, President of the Charles River Regional Chamber, with its Paul Harris Award — Rotary’s highest honor, recognizing outstanding contributions to the community. Reibman was honored for helping to conceive of the Nourishing Newton project, which has worked to address food insecurity…
The nonprofit Newton News Foundation is planning to launch a digital news site, the Newton Beacon, next year. This week it announced its application to the City of Newton for ARPA funding: The Newton News Foundation, Inc. has applied to the City of Newton for start-up ARPA funding for The Newton Beacon in…
As part of its Take a Trip Up the Charles campaign, the Charles River Regional Chamber has created an online travel guide to Newton describing “a dream day in Newton” and listing 130 restaurants, 84 retail shops, and 7 hotels — as well as a link to TripAdvisor’s 15 Best…
The Charles River Food Co-op has launched its inaugural membership drive, aiming to create a retail grocery in the Newton-Watertown-Waltham area to at least partially fill the void left by the closing of Russo’s. The Co-op will be a hybrid, owned half by consumers and half by workers. A consumer…
According to Mayor Fuller, they are bouncing back. In her weekly newsletter, Mayor Fuller, drawing on the final quarter of FY2022 meals taxes states, “Newton’s restaurants are on the rebound after a devastating drop in customers in FY2021.” Citing revenues during the past fiscal year, she reports that they “are very nearly…
Family-run West Newton Cinema has announced that it has reached agreement to sell to Mark Development the property where the theatre is located and is seeking new owners for the theatre’s business. After more than 40 years in West Newton, the Bramante family will continue to operate the theatre in…
The Newton Farmers Market at Cold Spring Park (1200 Beacon Street) is now open on Tuesdays, 1:30PM-6PM, until October 18. This week’s vendors (photo): And Soaps Boston Sword and Tuna Bridges Nepali Cuisine Copicut Farms Del Sur Dick’s Garden Market Ginger Gems Grateful Tastes Heavens Harvest Lochtree Mei Mei Dumplings Nicewicz…