Four Newton-based FLL teams compete in Eastern Mass. Championship The LigerBots, Newton’s competitive high school robotics team, will run a STEAM activity expo for children and a robot zoo alongside the Massachusetts East State Championship FIRST LEGO League (FLL) tournament at Newton North High School on December 16. The tournament and the…
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West Newton’s Bay Colony Brass will present a free concert of Christmas classics at the Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton) on Saturday, December 16, at 7:30PM. The family-friendly program includes an array of Christmas chestnuts ranging from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to modern favorites. The concert concludes…
The Nonantum Children’s Christmas Parade will take place on Sunday, December 17 at 12 noon. The parade will take Santa and friends all over Nonantum to bring holiday cheer to children and families. Santa and friends will end the parade with a 45-minute visit at Coletti-Magni Park for photos. The…
Bake your cake (and win an award?) …and eat it, too! Registration is open now until November 26 for Newton Cultural Development’s first Gingerbread House Exhibit and Contest. Inspired by the Portsmouth (NH) Historical Society’s well known, annual Gingerbread House contest, Newton Cultural Development Program Manager Lisa Rucinski decided to bring…
The Ward After-School Older Kids Club and the Newton Senior Center invite the public of all ages to a “Better Together” party in the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium on November 15, 1:30PM-3:30PM. There will be conversation, crafts, board games, card games, and light refreshments with 4th and 5th graders…
The Friends of Wellington Park are excited to invite the public to a ribbon-cutting grand opening of a new play structure — “The Sensory Dome” — at Wellington Park on Kilburn Road in West Newton on Sunday, November 19. Refreshments at 2:30PM, with ribbon cutting at 3PM. Made possible through…
Newton’s Department of Public Works will host the City’s 4th Annual Pumpkin Smash on November 4, 1PM-4PM. Bring your Halloween pumpkins to City Hall’s War Memorial Circle, where they will be flung, tossed, and smashed in various ways, including with machines made by the Newton Ligerbots, Newton’s high school robotics team.…
On Saturday, October 28, hundreds of Newton’s student painters gathered to decorate windows at business storefronts in six villages and also the Newton Free Library, painting Halloween-themed images for Newton’s 24th annual Halloween Window Painting event. Browse the photos taken by John and Amy Sangiolo in each of the locations:
Story Starters is a nonprofit that uses children’s literature to give families the tools and support to talk about race and racism and to engage in family-centered social justice conversations and actions. It helps families develop active family identities around racial equity and community change, and research reveals that its program…
Newton Metrowest Travel Basketball is hosting basketball tryouts for boys and girls grades 4-8. You must register in advance for tryouts, with a $20 registration fee. (Click on a grade to see the information about it.)