The ice skating rink adjacent to the Hyde Center in Newton Highlands officially opens today at 3 p.m. and, thanks to the lights Alderman John Rice will be putting up today, will remain open until 8 p.m.
If anyone knows of other rinks that are open please tell us about in in comments.
Thank you to all for putting this together each year!
Special thanks need to go to Paul Gilbert and his team for the rink construction. He has been gracious to not balk each time John Rice says “It’s got to be bigger!”.
Thanks Paul
While not quite in Newton, the Daly Rink on Nonantum Road has long served the Newton Corner community. Now operated under contract from Mass DCR by Newton Country Day School, there is still public access:
Daly Memorial Rink
Nonantum Rd
Brighton, MA
(617)527-1741
October- March 31, 2012
Public Skating Hours
Monday-Thursday 9am.-10:45am
Saturday 2pm – 4pm
7pm – 9pm
Sunday 2pm -5pm
@Max: that is a nice rink and they rent skates too.
Of course, the Highlands rink is free! Then you can use the money you saved and invest in some excellent hot coco from either Lincoln Street Coffee or Bread and Chocolate.
Newtonville one still working on getting the funding to build again this year… fingers crossed
Emily, where are you trying to build it in Newtonville?
Is the Newton Centre one open?
I was born and grew up in the Highlands. The folks from the past here would be astonished and a bit envious to come back and see this rink. It’s a real tribute to Paul Gilbert, John Rice and all the other people that helped put it together. BTW. The Lincoln Street Coffee adds a lot of super whipped cream to their Hot Chocolate.
I’m channeling all emotional energy towards a sustained deep freeze so the Cove Playground on the Charles in Auburndale will open this year. Last year was a bust, but two years ago we had more skating in one season than we’d had over the whole prior decade. (The city is fantastic about opening and staffing it when the sun, moon, and stars align just right…we need cold for a couple of weeks and no snow and then we should be golden–fingers crossed!)
@Fig: Last year it was on softball field at Albemarle… this year city told us to put it behind the basketball courts. Funding not looking good though so we may have to take a year off. If we can get a Newtonville Area Council established, the city will cover the insurance and that would save close to $1K… anyone willing to help collect signatures for this worthy effort, let me know: http://www.greatnewtonschools.org/contact-us.html