Do we really need to wait three more weeks to lift the ‘winter’ parking ban?
While Newton’s Winter Parking ban is scheduled to continue through Marathon Monday Watertown’s police chief just announced the early end of the overnight-parking ban there, Watertown News reports.
Governor appoints Hills to state ed board
Gov. Charlie Baker today appointed former Newton School Committee chair Matthew Hills to a seat on the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Wicked Local reports.Honk if you ❤️ Crystal Lake!
Found on Next Door Newton Highlands… Looking for horn and wind players to call across Crystal Lake to each other for a dance performance celebrating Global Water Dances and to celebrate the opening of Crystal Lake swim season on June 15th, 2019. Trumpets, tubas,...MBTA D Line track and signal overnight work in Newton starting April 8
The MBTA’s contractors are scheduled to begin overnight work on Mondays through Fridays (from 8:30 PM to 5 AM) in Newton from Monday, April 8 to Friday, July 5 (estimated). The contractors will work in up to three locations each night between Riverside and Newton...
What should be Newton’s transportation priorities?
Back in 2014 Mexico City’s mayor announced a new mobility law that dramatically revamped its transportation priorities and, in turn, future policies. The law — illustrated by the diagram here — established a mobility hierarchy that shaped the...Look Ma, an actual article about zoning and development in Newton!
Thank goodness for the Globe’s John Hilliard. John has just done something no other reporter has done in a long time: Write one article that provides updates about all the major pending development developments in Newton, including zoning reform, Riverside, Northland, the Washington Street Corridor.
Got pot holes?
The TAB interviewed Shane L. Mark, Newton’s Department of Public Works’ director of streets, to talk about pot holes. And here’s a video we’ve shared before on Village 14 that explains just how pot holes are formed.
Another source of local news threatened
In this era of dangerously diminished local news coverage, NewTV‘s streaming of municipal and school meetings, candidate forums and Jenn Adam’s long running weekly Newton News program have been the only constant, consistent, source of local reporting.
But that could all change pending a possible rule change before the FCC that could dramatically reduce the cable fees NewTV and cable access stations nationwide depend on for the majority of their budgets, the Globe reports.
Globe reporter Andy Rosen actually singles out NewTV as a station that has been
VIDEO: Joe Kennedy at Newton’s St. Patrick’s Political Breakfast
From Newton Patch, here’s Congressman Joe Kennedy at the Third Annual Saint Paddy’s Day Political Roast on Friday at Dunn-Gaherins. Thanks to Jenna Fisher for posting. More of Jenna’s photos here. Also: Newton TAB photos here.
I am running for Newton Ward 5 City Councilor
I am excited to announce that I am running for Newton Ward 5 City Councilor. I am running because I believe I can be a strong representative of the ward. I have always been deeply involved in my community, and currently serve as President of the Waban Area Council,...Addressing Newton’s after school transportation problem
Currently, Newton’s school transportation program does not accept alternate drop-off requests from families to out-of-school-time programs. With Sheprd gone, no transportation contractors in the city will accept individual requests for school transportation directly from families. Organizations are limited in the
