The Lion’s Roar — Newton South High School’s award-winning newspaper — has its September issue out: Volume 40-2, Putting the Pieces Together, with these lead articles: Bella Ishanyan is a senior at Newton South High School, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Lion’s Roar, and a Fig City News student reporter.
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On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe’s special reporting unit for investigative and accountability journalism, Spotlight, published the first of two articles. The series began with the story of Father John Geoghan, a Catholic priest in the Greater Boston Area who was accused of sexually abusing over 130 boys and…
Last week, we introduced the first two of our four Fig City News high-school summer interns. We are now pleased to introduce our other two interns, who are starting this week. They both have a lot to offer Fig City News and the Newton community, and we look forward to their help.
We are very pleased to announce that the first two of the four Fig City News high-school summer interns started with us last week. Bella Ishanyan and Emma Zhang are rising seniors at Newton South High School and co-Editors-in-Chief of the school’s award-winning paper, the Lion’s Roar. They have a lot to offer Fig…
The battle-torn blog, Village14.com, has provided such great information, opinion, connection, entertainment, and mystery over the years, but it will soon be shutting down. Village Chieftain Jerry Reilly has called a gathering to bid the blog goodbye. All are invited to gather on July 13, 6:30PM-9PM, upstairs at Paddy’s (95…
The Alliance for Community Media Hometown Media has honored NewTV with an award for Best Voter Education Piece by an Access Center, Professional. NewTV won this award for its Newton News interview with Mayor Ruthanne Fuller regarding the override ballot questions in March. NewTV credits Streaming Media Specialist Eugene Foygelman and Newton…
The Lion’s Roar — Newton South High School’s award-winning newspaper — has its June issue out, Volume 40-2, The Programmed Brain, with these lead articles: And here is the Lion’s Roar Graduation Issue.
Which Newton village has the most Japanese restaurants? A month after its launch, the Fig City News app now offers a database of 139 places to eat in Newton. You can filter the list by village, by type of cuisine, and by your tagged favorites. And you can search by…
The Fig City News Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruce Henderson as the Editor of Fig City News, a free, online community news hub for Newton, Massachusetts. Founded and managed by resident volunteers, Fig City News aims to serve as a knowledgeable, fair, and trusted…
The Lion’s Roar — Newton South High School’s award-winning newspaper — has its April issue out, Volume XXXX Issue 1, with these lead articles: Bella Ishanyan, a junior at Newton South High School, is Editor-in-Chief of the Lion’s Roar.