Newton’s 3rd Annual Bike Rodeo will be held May 7, 10AM-2PM, at Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Road). Volunteer instructors from Newton’s Safe Routes to Schools Task Force will teach and review bike riding skills. Along with volunteers from Bike Newton, they will provide information about road signs, hand…
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NewtonSERVES — a community-wide day of volunteering — will take place on May 7. Volunteers can sign up here for any of the 23 projects listed below — many of which are focused on cleaning and improving our parks, school grounds, open space areas, and conservation lands. Volunteers must be…
On Monday April 17 — Patriots Day — Newton will be divided, not by politics or controversy, but by the five miles of the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon that run through our city each year. With the 127th Boston Marathon come road closures that split Newton — from Lower Falls…
Mark Development, the company building the now-paused massive mixed-use project at the Riverside Station on Grove Street and I-95 in Newton Lower Falls, is exploring the possibility of repurposing the former Hotel Indigo on the site into a temporary shelter for homeless families. The hotel and restaurant were closed and…
Forty Newton residents will be running this year’s Boston Marathon to raise money for charitable causes they care deeply about, and they seek your help. Fig City News makes it easy for you to support them and their causes. Listed below are links to each runner’s personalized fundraising page. For…
Students have until 5PM on March 31 to apply for one of up to four scholarships to be awarded this year by the Charles River Regional Chamber to deserving students who either live and/or attend school in Needham, Newton, Watertown or Wellesley and who plan to attend an accredited college…
The John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton will host its EPIC Annual Gala on Saturday, April 1, 6PM-10PM. EPIC stands for the the Club’s values: Excellence, Pride, Integrity & Collaboration. The Newton business community, city leaders, and other friends and supporters of the Boys & Girls Club…
On Sunday, March 26 at 3PM, the public is invited to a Gala Jimmy Fund Benefit Concert featuring the world premieres of new music commissioned to honor the memory of Sarah Jane Boling. A long-time Newton resident, Sarah passed away March 24, 2022, after a year of battling Glioblastoma, a…
Our report on the Newton Police Department’s “Make a Senior Your Sweetheart” campaign highlighted the kindness of 11-year old Highlands resident Nate Sorrell, who runs errands for seniors and neighbors unable to do so themselves. Of course, Nate’s kindness did not escape the attention of the kindest man in Newton…
According to an email from Mayor Ruthanne Fuller, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development has contacted Mark Development about the possible use of the former Hotel Indigo as a temporary shelter for homeless families. The hotel, part of the Riverside Development Project, had been slated for demolition, with…
In parallel with its dining campaign, Charles River Regional Chamber’s Dining Collaborative is organizing a month-long clothing drive to benefit Circle of Hope, a Needham-based nonprofit that provides homeless children, women, and men in Boston and Metro West with clothing and necessities. Drop off — at any of these restaurant locations — NEW sweatshirts, sweatpants, t-shirts…
Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors is hosting a Porch Drive, March 2-7. On your next grocery run, please pick up a few extra boxes of healthy, kid-friendly, brand-name boxes of cereal and drop them on the porch of one of our collection hosts: Or click and send directly from our Amazon…