Waban to have contested Area Council election
The newly formed Waban Area Council will have it’s first election this November with 13 candidates running for the 9 council positions.Waban will be the forth Area Council in the city joining Newtonville, Newton Upper Falls and Newton Highlands. Residents can...Area Councils to sponsor Newton Candidates Forum on Oct 30th.
The three Neighborhood Area Councils of Ward 5 will be hosting a candidates forum the week before the election. The forum will be held at the Emerson Center, One Pettee Street, Upper Falls. Candidates for Ward 5 Alderman at Large, Candidates for Ward 2 School...League of Women Voters asks Warren to ‘reinstate’ the Engine 6 proposal
In an op-ed in today’s TAB, the League of Women Voters of Newton is asking Mayor Setti Warren to “reconsider [his] decision by reinstating the Engine 6 proposal and permitting the process to proceed with an extended period for public comment.”...Globe columnist blasts Setti Warren for not coming clean about Engine 6
Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker has some harsh things to say about Newton Mayor Setti Warren’s handling to the Engine 6 project in Waban. Read the whole thing, but here’s two excepts… Setti Warren, the mayor of Newton, is a diehard defender of...The Waban Area Council is born!
No more need to say “proto”, “nascent” or “ad hoc” to describe the Waban neighborhood organization that now completes Ward 5 coverage by ultra-local community government. On July 8, on First Call of the Board of Aldermen, during an oppressively steamy summer evening,...Hess-Mahan calls on Newton Mayor Warren to reconsider afford housing project
This press release was issued by candidate for mayor Ted Hess-Mahan over the weekend… NEWTON, MA – June 27, 2013. Alderman-at-Large and Mayoral candidate Ted Hess-Mahan today called on Mayor Setti D. Warren to reconsider his decision to block funding for a...Was Warren right to withhold support of the Engine 6 project in Waban?
Newton Mayor Setti Warren has decided to withhold support of federal funds for Enigne 6, an affordable housing project for chronically homeless people in Waban, saying he felt more time was needed to consider the issue. His move led to the cancellation of a public...Fear and/or compassion in Waban
The Globe’s Evan Allen has a story today about the proposal to turn the former fire station near the corner Beacon and Washington Streets in Waban into studio apartments for ten chronically homeless individuals. (Feisty TAB Blog discussion here.) Allen...Four Newton villages down…nine to go!!!!!!
Under the Newton City Charter, neighborhood area councils have been approved as citizen-instigated elected grass-roots advisory organizations for several decades. But, for many years, only one neighborhood took advantage of this most local of all loci of our city’s...It only looks like a quiet, unassuming library in Waban Square
Found this on Facebook today, shot at the Waban Library…We’re looking for a few good Newton businesses (and people, too!)
We all have our favorite local stores and restaurants – that favorite place to grab a cup of coffee, the place with the unusual kids toys, or the place with the artisan jewelry. We also know the business that make a difference by donating to our kids’ schools or...
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