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…
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I had an experience this morning (Tuesday July 24th) at roughly 9:30AM that left me DEEPLY grateful to an unknown woman. I had just escorted my friend to help her retrieve critical documents and her transponder from her car, which had been totaled by someone running a stop sign and ramming into it. We…
This month Newton Neighbors, in collaboration with The Village Bank and The Street Chestnut Hill, has been collecting school supplies for children in Newton and neighboring towns. Their School Supply Drive is in its final week and is open through July 28. What to donate (no monograms or company-specific logos, please): How…
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…
As of July 24th, at least 202 Newton cyclists are slated to ride in the 44th Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) on the weekend of August 5-6 to raise funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In this event, the PMC hopes to raise a record-breaking $70 million for cancer research and patient…
FamilyAid — a Boston-based nonprofit focused on reducing homelessness and increasing housing stability — is partnering with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) to create a “Family Navigation Center” in Newton on the site of the former Chetwynde nursing home (1650 Washington Street, next door to…
Josephine McNeil, Co-Founder and Executive Director of CAN-DO has received a 2023 Community Advocacy Award and award grant from the Eastern Bank Foundation for CAN-DO’s role in helping low and very low income residents of Newton access affordable housing and get access to the services they need to achieve more financial security and housing…
At age 16, Erik Weihenmayer came to the Carroll Center for the Blind on Centre Street to learn to adapt to the total loss of sight he had recently experienced due to a rare disease. In that program, he had his first exposure to rock climbing on a trip to North Conway, NH. Seventeen years later, he would become the first blind person to summit Everest.
There is an urgent need for blood donations, and the Mass General Bloodmobile will be in Newton this Sunday, July 9 from 8AM to 1:30PM at the Masonic Lodge (460 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Sign up here to donate whole blood. For more information, contact Bill Asadorian at 617-620-4128 or Bill@wpaphotography.net.
On Wednesday, June 28, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan, and Newton Police Superintendent George McMains led a community meeting to discuss the June 25th homicides of Lucia Arpino, 97, her daughter Gilda (Jill) D’Amore, 73 and her son-in-law, Bruno D’Amore, 74. The three were murdered in…