The West Suburban YMCA, announced that enrollment is now open for preschool and Out-of-School programs for the 2023-2024 school year. Childcare programs at the West Suburban YMCA have had extensive wait lists for the last couple of years. While many preschool programs across the region have faced staffing shortages, the…
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The Newton Art Association (NAA) will hold an awards ceremony virtually on May 8 at 7PM (Zoom link) to honor three recipients of named scholarships ($800 each) and four recipients of Honorable Mention awards ($150 each). The recipients are: Named Scholarships Honorable Mention Awards For over 35 years, the NAA…
Tiziana Dearing, host of WBUR’s Radio Boston, will be the keynote speaker at Newton Inspires, this Thursday, May 4 at 6:00PM at Newton South High School. Newton Inspires, a fundraiser for the Newton Schools Foundation, features these other notable Newtonians describing their inspirations and sharing stories and insights: Participants may…
An immersive multimedia Holocaust exhibit — The Cattle Car: Stepping In and Out of Darkness — was available at City Hall for the public to experience over this last weekend and for Newton high-school students to experience on Monday and Tuesday. It consists of a replica of a cattle car…
People talked and champagne flowed last Saturday night at the Wilson chapel, where the Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF) held its annual fundraising dinner. This was the first GELF dinner since 2019, and excited parents, teachers, and council-members could all be seen gathered in the big main hall…
To begin the April 27 School Committee meeting, two Bigelow Middle School educators were among the public comment speakers to advocate for staff restoration to address the middle school team sizes. Superintendent Kathy Smith followed the public comment period by giving her scheduled update, during which she congratulated the central…
On April 22, returning from a clean-up of the Newton Centre Playground, Newton South High School’s Green Student Movement, Key Club, and UNICEF chapters attended the Newton Democratic City Committee Earth Day rally on the Newton Centre Green. Although their appearance was unplanned, club leaders and participants said that attending…
Want to hear beautiful string music tomorrow played by 100+ Newton students protesting the cutting of Elementary Strings from the Newton school budget? On Monday, April 24 at 6PM, over 100 Newton Orchestra and Strings students of all ages from across the district will gather for Stringfest, a concert outside…
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.
The first news article released about Friday’s drag show at Newton North High School came out about a week ago. And in those seven days of suspense, quite a few different narratives about the event emerged – near total support from students and local activists, to anticipation from parents of…