by Bruce Henderson | Aug 3, 2020 | Village 14 |
Sometime between 10PM and midnight tonight, the servers that run Villiage 14 will be shut down for maintenance for 30 to 45 minutes. Plan your commenting or lurking accordingly.
by Bruce Henderson | Jul 31, 2020 | Department of Public Works, Newton |
So far in the Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt, the most elusive photo to be identified has been #9 No Trespassing. It turns out it’s one of several warning signs (“Trespassers Will Be Met With Armed Response”) on the innermost of two layers of barbed-wire security fencing...
by Bruce Henderson | Jul 28, 2020 | Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt |
For Week #4 of the Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt, here are five more photos of objects in Newton that are odd or charming — and rather unique, rather permanent, and visible from public property. Can you identify them? The first person to write in the comments below the...
by Bruce Henderson | Jul 20, 2020 | Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt |
For Week #3 of the Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt, here are five more photos of objects in Newton that are odd or charming — and rather unique, rather permanent, and visible from public property. Can you identify them? The first person to write in the comments below the...
by Bruce Henderson | Jul 13, 2020 | Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt |
For Week #2 of the Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt, here are five more photos of objects in Newton that are odd or charming — and rather unique, rather permanent, and visible from public property. Can you identify them? The first person to write in the comments...
by Bruce Henderson | Jul 6, 2020 | Newton Photo Scavenger Hunt |
How well do you know your way around the dozens of unique — odd or charming — objects to be found here and there in Newton? For each of the next several weeks, we’ll show you photos of five objects in Newton that are rather unique, rather permanent,... by Bruce Henderson | Jun 17, 2020 | Congress, Elections, Environment, politics |
Nine candidates in the September 1st primary election for the 4th Congressional District seat participated in a forum about energy and the environment hosted by the Environmental League of Massachusetts. The forum took place online in three one-hour sessions. You can...
by Bruce Henderson | May 29, 2020 | Crime, Public safety |
Newton North HS student Andrew Riebe wrote and presented this poem about the tragic death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman. “Don’t Let This Go Unnoticed.”
by Bruce Henderson | May 13, 2020 | Covid-19 |
In a recent open-thread comment, data wrangler Jack Prior announced that he has added Newton data to his remarkable COVID-19 forecasting model of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. But in his comment he neglected to include key findings from his analysis, some of...
by Bruce Henderson | Mar 30, 2020 | Covid-19 |
[UPDATED with new charts Jack provided in comments] Jack Prior has been analyzing data on confirmed COVID-19 cases for Newton (as well as for the U.S., China, and the world). He’s plotting the data on a logarithmic scale to show how closely it tracks with...
by Bruce Henderson | Mar 18, 2020 | Newton |
There’s a new Facebook group, Newton Neighbors Helping Newton Neighbors, and an associated Google Form through which those who “live, work, pray, play and/or learn in Newton” can sign up to offer help to — or to request help from — others...
by Bruce Henderson | Feb 23, 2020 | Upper Falls |
Back around 2008, lovers began attaching ‘love locks’ — marked with their initials — to the wire railings on the Pont des Arts footbridge over the Seine in Paris. By 2014, there were so many locks attached to the bridge that one panel of the...
