Carefully sorting through colorful, donated children’s clothing, Christie Webber and more than a dozen of her colleagues from Norwood’s HMI Performance Incentives happily returned to volunteer at Cradles to Crayons after a two-year absence due to the Covid pandemic. The nonprofit, located at 281 Newtonville Avenue, recently marked 20 years…
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On Monday, the Newton Public Schools district, in consultation with the City’s Health and Human Services Department, announced its strong recommendation that all NPS staff and students wear face coverings for the first two weeks of school following the December break. With “a rise of absences of both students and…
This week’s road construction schedule can be found here.
Two items chartered from last year’s December Council meeting — Rezoning and Special Permit Request for 1314 Washington Street and Special Permit Request for a 9-unit development at 106 River Street — are on the Full City Council‘s agenda for its meeting on Tuesday, January 3 at 7:45PM (previously reported…
On December 22, Dr. Nathan Phillips, a Newton resident and climate activist, confronted the damage being done by the Merrimack Station coal-fired energy plant in Bow, New Hampshire, by chaining himself, along with another activist, to a train track, delaying the arrival of about 100 cars filled with coal to…
For Ryan Gott, owner of The Cork and Board at 1207 Centre Street in Newton Centre, shopkeeping is a second career and the realization of a dream. The longtime family and probate lawyer decided during the pandemic to open a specialty foods store with a local New England focus, and…
The last scheduled School Committee meeting of 2022 contained a packed agenda, and it began with a lively public comment period. An NPS parent and immigrant to the United States began the session by strongly criticizing what he perceived as the District’s over focus on racial identity at the expense…
Executive Director, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Managing Director, Newton Cultural Alliance Adrienne Hartzell Knudsen has been promoting and managing the performing arts scene in Newton since 1995, when she became Executive Director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra. But her active involvement really began in the mid 1980s when her husband,…
City of Newton Energy Coach, Liora Silkes, appeared before the Newton Citizens Commission on Energy last week and presented a summary of this year’s accomplishments with Newton’s 4OurFuture campaign. The 4OurFuture campaign is a City initiative designed to encourage Newton residents to take 4 energy actions — Weatherize, Heat and…
There are no City Council meetings scheduled for this week. Both the Finance Committee and the Zoning and Planning Committee’s regularly scheduled meetings have been canceled (see Meeting Cancellation Notice). The Retirement Board is scheduled to meet in person (Room 211) on Tuesday, December 27 at 9AM (see agenda). There…