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Former City Councilor Greg Schwartz announces his candidacy for 12th Middlesex House seat

Leading with the slogan, “Let’s Put a Doctor in the House,” Dr. Greg Schwartz announced that he is running for the Democratic nomination to succeed Ruth Balser, the current representative for the 12th Middlesex District, who has announced that she plans to retire at the end of this year. Dr.…

Former City Councilor Amy Sangiolo announces her candidacy for 11th Middlesex House seat

On February 29, two days after Kay Khan said she would not seek reelection as State Representative for the 11th Middlesex District, Amy Sangiolo announced her candidacy for the seat. Sangiolo, a veteran Newton politician, served twenty years on the Board of Alderman and City Council, from 1998 to 2017,…

Digging into Oak Hill Park history

Garden State Utopia, a 2001 Newton North High School junior thesis project by Julia Werb, provides an in-depth history of the creation of Oak Hill Park – Newton’s post-war planned community for returning WWII veterans. There are striking parallels between that history and today’s contentious political fights over today’s development…

Gordon: Honoring Marian F. Davidson Mandell Jacobson on her 90th birthday

On February 24, Marian F. Davidson Mandell Jacobson celebrated her 90th birthday. Like the hub of an ornately carved wheel, Marian connected many friends with each other for years, always inclusive and welcoming to her culturally active life. She grew up in West Roxbury and Brookline, settling in Newton in…

After 24 years and historic performance of Dame Ethel Smith’s Mass in D on March 3, Cappella Clausura’s Amelia LeClair will pass the baton

It is fitting that Newton native Amelia LeClair brings her celebrated tenure as founder and Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Clausura to a close by conducting the New England premiere of her orchestral edition of Dame Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on March 3 at 4pm at the…

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