The Albemarle Neighborways Project

The Albemarle Neighborways Project

The Albermarle Neighborways project has been a long time coming and is long overdue. In the words of the city website, it “will help address longstanding safety concerns on a busy stretch of Albemarle Road.”  Its stated goals are the following: Improve...
Covid Boosters Available

Covid Boosters Available

For those of you in an “at-risk” group (co-morbidity or over 65 years old), Covid boosters are now available if you are more than four months out from your last shot. Having had a booster last September, I enrolled online yesterday on CVS, site of all my boosters, and...
Rest in peace, Van Seasholes

Rest in peace, Van Seasholes

Ernest Van Seasholes, beloved former principal of Newton South High School, passed away a few days ago (here’s a link to an obituary: https://www.wickedlocal.com/obituaries/pneo0448822). Though sad at his passing, I am grateful that I spent the first half of my...

If you build it…

Over the course of many years of debate over development, some residents, particular those in the business community, have advanced a basic precept, which I have dubbed the Reibman Principle: If you build it, they will fall. In other words, if lots of new houses and...

Interesting Op-Ed on Development in Newton

For a while I have been reading, with pleasure, the Fig City News. Its coverage of local news has been impressive even when the particular topic has little interest to me. Now Fig City News has added op-eds to its offerings, and Peter Bruce has posted a fascinating...
How not to fill the world with garbage

How not to fill the world with garbage

    Pete Seeger’s song “Garbage,”  written by Bill Steele, has a famous refrain that carries the following message: Garbage (garbage, garbage, garbage) Garbage! We’re filling up the world with garbage (garbage…) What will we do when...
Cold Spring Update

Cold Spring Update

This time of year,  the flora and fauna of the Garden City’s green spaces are preparing to survive the winter as best they can. We residents should follow suit by dressing warmly and keeping our feet moving when hiking the trails of places like Nahantan and Cold...

Confessions of a Former Idealist

Today’s  New York Times featured an article that succinctly summarizes the daunting new challenges facing young people of modest means as they seek to enter the housing market. Here are some excerpts: American home buyers are older, whiter and wealthier than at...