On Saturday, October 28, hundreds of Newton’s student painters gathered to decorate windows at business storefronts in six villages and also the Newton Free Library, painting Halloween-themed images for Newton’s 24th annual Halloween Window Painting event. Browse the photos taken by John and Amy Sangiolo in each of the locations:
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Newton Metrowest Travel Basketball is hosting basketball tryouts for boys and girls grades 4-8. You must register in advance for tryouts, with a $20 registration fee. (Click on a grade to see the information about it.)
The Newtonville Area Council and City Councilors Tarik Lucas, Emily Norton, and Pam Wright will host an in-person community meeting — How Will Village Center Rezoning Affect Newtonville? — on October 19, 6PM-7:30PM, at the Newton North High School cafeteria to discuss zoning changes under consideration by the City Council.
Newton Parks, Recreation & Cultural Development is again hosting Halloween Window Painting for Newton students in Grades 3-8. It will take place on October 28, 10AM at various participating merchants’ windows in Auburndale, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newtonville, Nonantum, and West Newton. Register for each village individually by October 15.
New Art Center is hosting a Dia de los Muertos Community Cultural Day with music, dance, and art-making. The event will take place on October 29, 12PM-4PM, at New Art Center (61 Washington Park, Newtonville). Entry is free, and you may reserve your spot in advance.
The weather was fine, the people were friendly, the cake was delicious. Here are some quick photos of Newtonville Village Day, 2023.
It indeed takes two days — September 29-30 — to complete All Over Newton‘s second annual Bakery Crawl, featuring almost two dozen bakeries in Newton. It’s a free, do-it-yourself event: Scan through the list of bakeries on the Bakery Crawl site to see which ones are participating on which days.…
The Newtonville Area Council has rescheduled Newtonville Village Day to be on OCTOBER 8, noon to 4PM, due to forecasts of rain on the original date (9/24). Walnut Street in downtown Newtonville will be full of family, fun, music, art, entertainment featuring local talent on two stages, and vendor booths…
Newton Community Pride will host concerts — outdoors, free, accessible, and open to all — in three Newton villages in September:
Earlier this month, Harry Sanders, President of Friends of Edmands Park, led a group of City Councilors and neighbors on a tour of the parkland’s problem areas. Among the negative issues afflicting the 33-acre property are the impact of a polyethylene liner under the former skating lake, damaged stormwater infrastructure,…