Replacement of pedestrian bridge across Charles begins
Reconstruction of the Joseph Thompson foot bridge which provided a nice connection between Nonantum and Watertown Square was originally planned to be in place by the end of 2017. The new bridge arrived Wednesday, Watertown News reports.Newton company helps transform Charles River water into Harpoon’s latest beer
Desalitech, a Newton Corner-based water desalination company and Harpoon have collaborated to create Charles River Pale Ale. Steve Annear of the Boston Globe has the details.
The Charles River Ferry
This Sunday’s Boston Globe featured a column by Yvonne Abraham about the Lynn Ferry. It just started this past year. It’s been widely successful with the customers. It’s spurring economic development and increasing property values. Not knowing a...
Riverside Pathway – Open up 3/4 mile of Newton waterfront
The planning for the Riverside development project has been unfolding over recent years. It’s a big project combining housing, retail and office on the site of the Riverside train station. Like all big projects it has elicited a variety of concerns from the...
Where is this park?
Upper Falls has a hidden gem of a river side park that very few people know about or have ever visited. Here’s a plan for ending its isolation and connecting it to other city park land.
Is it time to finish the Charles River Pathway?
In 1975, the Newton Conservation Commission published a visionary plan called the Charles River Pathway for linking the entire Charles River water front with walking paths from Cutler Park in Needham to Watertown Square. In the intervening years, the DCR has built a...
New hole in the Charles River
A major construction project has been going on for the last month in Hemlock Gorge to rebuild the small crumbling “sluiceway dike” at the corner of Ellis St and the Rt 9 exit. This morning I was down there with Alderman Brian Yates and Bill Tedoldi, a...
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
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