The Nonantum Neighborhood Association organizes an annual bus trip to raise funds for three $1000 scholarships for high-school seniors. This year’s trip, on November 5, will go to Woodbury Common Outlets for luxury goods and Mohegan Sun for gambling and a large Christmas Festival. Buses will depart 110 Linwood Avenue…
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Newton Community Pride’s Fall Concert Series will feature a free concert of Italian songs and opera classics sung by soprano Olga Lisovskaya and tenor Giovanni Formisano, accompanied by Max Lubrasky on piano. It will be held at the Ciociaro Social Club (144 Bridge Street, Nonantum) on October 2 at 1PM.
State Representative John Lawn secured a $200,000 line-item appropriation for lighting and other improvements to the hundred-year-old Coletti-Magni Memorial Park in the heart of Nonantum. In addition, The Village Bank has pledged a multi-year contribution. This Watertown Street green space is best know for it brightly lit Christmas display, dominated…
Newton’s Parks, Recreation, and Culture Department hosted an online community webinar on Monday, August 29 to discuss updates to the community garden planning for a quarter-acre site located at the corner of Washington Street and Walnut Park in Nonantum. A neighborhood “friends” group has been working with Councilors in Ward…
At 3PM each day, August 8-12, Louise Ting, a rising 2nd grader in Newton, will play a short concert of music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky at one of the Artful Pianos installed in various parks in Newton. Louise has just returned from a competition in Europe, and you can hear…
Andrew Magni was born ninety years ago in Nonantum and lived all his life within two blocks — first above his father’s bakery and then above his funeral home. His life — family, community, work, and civic activity — was deeply rooted in the village. As so many before them, Andrew’s…
This year’s St. Mary of Carmen Festival, six-year-old Quinten Mazzola, follows a long line of flying angels in his family. On Sunday, July 17, accompanied by his father Lewis, Quentin rose up in a cherry picker and threw rosebuds over the Statue of St. Mary of Carmen as she returned…
Founded in 1935 as a mutual benefit society, St. Mary of Carmen Society has been hosting a five-day festival beginning on a Wednesday in nid-July at Pellegrini Park Hawthorne Park in Nonantum, and ending with a huge fireworks display on the following Sunday night at Our Lady Help of Christians…
Nine pianos have been donated, decorated, and installed in village centers for everyone’s enjoyment from now until Labor Day. Each piano is a centerpiece of music, art, and community, providing opportunities for residents to connect with their creativity and with each other through planned events and impromptu concerts. The pianos…
Thursday, May 5, 7:00 p.m. Take a closer look at Newton’s own “Lake Talk,” a sub-dialect named after Silver Lake that developed in the village of Nonantum. Learn the lingo of the Lake, spoken by generations of localsincluding actor Matt LeBlanc, and explore how the uncertain origins of this way of…