On the weekend of August 3-4, there will be 197 Newton residents riding in this year’s Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) to raise funds for the world-class cancer research and patient care of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Each rider’s fundraising will help the PMC raise $75 million this year — bringing the PMC’s total lifetime fundraising…
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Jason Garb, a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, will be the keyboardist for FifteenØeight at Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL on August 2, as part of the Berklee Popular Music Institute, an innovative, year-long class that brings students and Berklee-affiliated acts to major U.S. music festivals. Emily Rachel Ochlis has…
Since she was little, high schooler Giuliana Forte has attended Nonantum’s annual Festa Italiana, often sitting beside her father in the car he drove to carry the bell rung in the festival’s processions; she eventually assumed the responsibility of pulling the bell’s rope. Yet the personal importance of Festa lies…
Two years ago, Upper Falls resident Max Gelbert was home from Syracuse University for the winter break when Deb, a lifelong family friend, came by for a visit and showed him a stack of handmade playing cards. She was playing around with a new concept for a word game. Max’s first reaction…
For much of its nearly ninety-year existence, the faces of the St. Mary of Carmen Society have been male — men in blue short-sleeve shirts with red, white, and green sashes and black trousers — organizing the local Children’s Christmas Party, the Memorial Day Parade and most notably, the annual…
Newton residents are key to the presentation of Origami Night – a performance of poetry and dance – at the Boston Center for the Arts from July 25 to August 4. The event is the creation of designer Christopher (Chris) Annas-Lee, who ran the Newton North High School Theatre Program in…
Newton Theatre Company (NTC) has announced that Paige Perkinson will join the company as Director of Development, a new position for the company. An actor affiliated with NTC since 2016, Perkinson is known for her roles in NTC’s productions of We’re Gonna Die and St. Joan. When Paige Perkinson taught…
Benjamin Harris Reider graduated in May from Oberlin College and Conservatory with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics. Jonah Wade Henderson, a rising senior majoring in psychology and neuroscience at Dickinson College, has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester The following students have received Dean’s…
Michael Jellinek, M.D. has been appointed to the Board of Trustees at William James College. He was Chief of Child Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-developer of the widely used Pediatric Symptom Checklist for emotional problems, President of Newton Wellesley Hospital, Chief Clinical Officer of Partners HealthCare (now MGB) responsible…
On June 29, the first official day of summer vacation for Newton Public Schools (NPS) students, Superintendent Anna Nolin sent a lengthy email to families in which she thanked educators, parents, and City officials for their partnership with NPS. The email contained links to the reports discussed at the June…