Highlights this Week: City Council Public Safety & Transportation Committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss parking on-street and in municipal lots. Topics include permits, time limits, street sweeping, odd/even parking days, removing parking, overnight parking bans, costs of parking tickets, and comparisons with neighboring communities. Schools There are no School…
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“Couldn’t be more different than last summer” — Superintendent Anna Nolin Superintendent Anna Nolin and all nine members of the School Committee, including Mayor Ruthanne Fuller, met for approximately three hours starting at 4:30PM on July 24 for a summer session to begin to plan the Newton Public Schools (NPS)…
On the weekend of August 3-4, there will be 197 Newton residents riding in this year’s Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) to raise funds for the world-class cancer research and patient care of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Each rider’s fundraising will help the PMC raise $75 million this year — bringing the PMC’s total lifetime fundraising…
Jason Garb, a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, will be the keyboardist for FifteenØeight at Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL on August 2, as part of the Berklee Popular Music Institute, an innovative, year-long class that brings students and Berklee-affiliated acts to major U.S. music festivals. Emily Rachel Ochlis has…
Unlike the characters in Disney’s “Pinocchio” — who were swallowed whole by Monstro, an evil whale — on Thursday lots of Newton kids eagerly crawled inside a massive inflatable Humpback as part of an educational program at the Newton Free Library. The Whalemobile, which is used as a teaching tool…
Since she was little, high schooler Giuliana Forte has attended Nonantum’s annual Festa Italiana, often sitting beside her father in the car he drove to carry the bell rung in the festival’s processions; she eventually assumed the responsibility of pulling the bell’s rope. Yet the personal importance of Festa lies…
Two years ago, Upper Falls resident Max Gelbert was home from Syracuse University for the winter break when Deb, a lifelong family friend, came by for a visit and showed him a stack of handmade playing cards. She was playing around with a new concept for a word game. Max’s first reaction…
Highlights this Week: City Council There are no meetings scheduled this week for the City Council or its committees. School Committee There are no School Committee meetings scheduled for this week. Board and Commission Meetings Newton Commonwealth Foundation Board’s RFP Subcommittee, which operates the municipal golf course, will meet on Tuesday to review the…
This summer in the Newton Summer Science Program, several Newton South High School students are teaching Newton middle-school students courses in science and mathematics. These week-long courses cover fascinating topics, including neuroscience, astronomy, and cryptography. The Newton Summer Science Program was founded by the Newton South Science Team in the…
Red, white, and green flags; porch lights and median strips; flagpole posters with pictures of local business owners and departed members of the St. Mary of Carmen Society — and temporary electronic police signs warning drivers to expect delays July 17-21 from 4PM to 11PM — announce Nonantum’s annual Italian-American…