Additional female city councilors confirm concerns about ‘bullying’ from male colleagues
A story by Julie Cohen in today’s TAB quotes six female city councilors confirming concerns about a “disrespectful work environment” as well as that anonymous Open Meeting Law complaint.Did someone remove bike lane markings from Winchester Street?
Jenna Fisher writes on Patch.. First it was the thumbtacks in the bike lane on Winchester Street. Then a street sweeper was seen on the street frequented by both cars and cyclists and now the bike lane disappeared. Saturday afternoon several cyclists reported the lane...
Our mayor becomes a grandmother!
Mazel tov to Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and her husband Joe who just welcomed their first grandchild, Henry Joseph Resolved Fuller, to the world this morning in Chicago. We understand parents Roey and David Fuller and the entire family couldn’t be happier.
Norton named head of Charles River Watershed Association
Congratulations to Newton City Councilor Emily Norton who has been named Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association, succeeding longtime CRWA Executive Director Bob Zimmerman. Norton is currently director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra...Law Dept: ‘Open Meeting Law was not violated’ by female city councilors
City Council President Marc Laredo released this memo today regarding an anonymous complaint filed following a May 20 gathering of 11 female Newton City Councilors who say they met to discuss the speak about “the appropriateness of the way women were being treated” by their colleagues.
At my request, the Law Department looked into the anonymous complaint the City Clerk received on Thursday, June 7, 2018 alleging that
Jerk(s) scatter thumbtacks along Winchester Street bike lanes
Cyclist have found thumbtacks faceup in the bike lane on Winchester Street, the Globe reports.
“Do bikes riding in a bike lane on a nice wide street really bother you that much? . . . Someone took a lot of time and care to place them. I just don’t understand.”
Levy: Newton Power Choice impact overstated
Paul Levy writes in this week’s Newton TAB…
While I appreciate Andrea Downs’ sentiment with regard to the Newton Power Choice program, I fear she has overstated the likely impact of the program by calling it the “climate opportunity of a generation.” If people choose to buy the more expensive “higher percentage of renewables” in their electric bill, they will actually not receive electricity that is more based on renewables than anybody else.
The grid that serves us is a regional grid with the same mix of fossil fuels and renewables across six states. The extra charge for
The ‘teardown truce’?
City officials have tried to curb the demolition of historic homes by imposing delays on knockdowns — partly to preserve some of Newton’s stately Victorian and Italianate homes, partly to stave off the rise of new homes filling out local neighborhoods.
But officials are cutting developers and property owners some slack under the delay rule by
Get thee to ‘Hello Washington Street’
No matter if you want Washington Street to stay exactly as it is today, support a canyon of 30 story skyscrapers, or something in-between, you really owe it to yourself to stop by the Hello Washington Street workspace at 1239 Washington Street (across the...
Here’s Mark Development’s statement of interest in the Newton Police Station land swap
Here’s a link to the statement of interest from Mark Development for a land swap involving the Newton Police Department. And here’s Mayor Fuller’s public response to the proposal and details about the...
Newton is finally getting an Indian restaurant
Thanks to alert reader John Sisson for sharing this photo taken today at New Sapporo’s space at 81R Union Street. Amazing but in a city where one out of every five residents are foreign born, Newton does not currently have a place to get vindaloo. (Does anyone...