The registration deadline to ride in this Sunday’s Tour de Newton has been extended until Wednesday. So if you want to ride, sign up today.
It’s a 20 mile, 13 village relaxed ride, perfect for families and casual bike riders. It starts simultaneously in all 13 villages with stops and snacks and buttons in each village along the way.
For faster more experienced rides, sign up for the Contra Ride – same route but backwards and faster. Little ones can sign up for the Petite Tour – 3 miles, 3 villages.
Most of the street pianos are now gone but the ones in Upper Falls and Newton Centre are going to stay till further notice (or until they become unplayable).
That’s fortuitous since the Upper Falls piano is at the Upper Falls Tour de Newton stop. So we’re hoping for a bit of music for/from the the Tour de Newton riders on Sunday morning.
What can you say about Thompsonville? I’ll be the Tour de Newton Greeter at Thompsonville on Sunday for the third time. The first time I told the true life story of Murder in Thompsonville. The 2nd time I told the true life story of Sonia Payne, the 86 year old woman working in her T’ville antique store. When a customer tried to hold her up, she took out a baseball bat, and beat him senseless. When the police came, it turned out that the perp was wanted for robberies up and down the Easy Coast.
This year I have no new T’ville tabloid stories so instead I’ll be displaying this unique historic Newton bicycle artifact.
The card reads ….
Historic Newton Artifact
This bicycle wheel was one of the controllers for King Pong. King Pong was the world’s biggest version of the video game Pong.
King Pong was unveiled 7 years ago on Echo Bridge in Newton and projected a 100 foot high version of Pong onto the woods of Hemlock Gorge.