Strong Focus on Improving Data and Performance Tracking On August 31, newly hired Newton Public Schools Superintendent Anna Nolin met with Adam Bernstein (NPS parent and Fig City’s NPS writer) and Bella Ishanyan (Fig City student intern, Newton South High School senior, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the school’s Lion’s Roar newspaper).…
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Notice from the Newton Public Schools: The Newton Public Schools will be participating in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. As part of this program, all Newton schools will offer healthy meals every school day. The Massachusetts legislature has provided funding to make meals available at no…
Enrollment is open for the fall term of the bilingual Huaxin Chinese school at the Greater Boston Chinese School (GBCCA). The term starts on Sunday, September 10, classes begin at 9AM. The school is located at 437 Cherry Street (West Newton) and welcomes students from pre-K to adults who are interested…
Summer Eats is providing free, healthy meals to anyone under the age of 18 every weekday (Mondays through Fridays) through September 1, 11:30AM-1:30PM for lunches and 2:30PM-3:30PM for snacks, at the West Suburban YMCA (276 Church Street, Newton Corner). For more information, contact Keri Wood at keriw@wsymca.org.
The Newton Bluefish swim team completed its summer season with a perfect 10-0 record in the Summer Suburban League and topped that off by winning the league championship on August 12 in Dedham. The 197 team members all hail from Newton, with ages ranging from 6 to 18. Mary and…
Baseball’s a tough sport – but Newton North High School 2023 graduate Miles Oo seems to have it figured out. On August 21, Oo was presented with the 54th Annual Hamill Award, given to the best baseball player in Newton, in a ceremony on Albemarle Field. Said Hamill award committee…
“It’s pretty incredible.” Noah Farb, a Newton high school senior, created a website (Ukraine Family Connection) with help from Rabbi Mendy Uminer of Chabad of Chestnut Hill, and has raised over $50,000 for the victims of the war in Ukraine. The donations have come from four states and three countries.…
Avi Fidler of Newton Upper Falls graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a BFA in Acting and a concentration in stage combat. A 2019 graduate of Newton South, Fidler is currently a resident of Philadelphia. Fidler performed a monologue in The Newton Theatre Company’s The…
The following graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison this spring: The following students were named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2023 semester at Dickinson College:
In the beginning, Joy Gong never wanted to start fencing. At the age of just seven, she was scared of the coach, and the daunting threat of being poked by a blade made it all the more nerve racking. Her father Ron explained the long negotiation process of getting his…