Newton Senior Center Sponsored Parkinson’s Support Group Meets the Last Monday of Every Month Live or on ZOOM.
Newton’s Senior Center Sponsored Parkinson’s (PD) Support Group was recently reconstituted by our volunteer facilitator Dan Reilly. Our group is growing and we extend a warm welcome to all who have PD, as well as their family members and friends. We currently...
Weighing the climate-change benefits of Smart Growth high density, transit-oriented development in Newton
The Overarching Question: Is high density, transit-oriented/smart-growth really an “essential strategy” for curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles? Here I discuss one study I worked on that suggested such strategies may not be very effective, but...
Searching for Historical Plant and Animal Documentation in Hemlock Gorge
The Friends of Hemlock Gorge need help in finding old family photographs and other documents detailing specific forms of wildlife and vegetation that were found in and around the Reservation as far back as 75 to 150 years ago. We hope to compare these past findings...Saint Patrick’s Day in Newton With Covid 19 and a Rediscovered Irish Harpist
Growing up Irish in Newton Highlands during the late 40s and early 50s was often a bittersweet experience. Public exposure to Irish Americans on Saint Patrick’s Day was slanted to reports of wild parties and parades in the Irish enclaves of Boston or syrupy...A Lesson in Patriotism from Miss Cogswell on Christmas Eve
Almost all my neighbors in Newton Highlands were staunch Republicans when I grew up here during the late 1940s and 50s. None more so than Dorothea Cogswell,, a descendant of the State’s first colonists and a pillar of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church on...Joe Biden Could Set a New Win Record in Newton
I’ve been working on a post election article for the Newton TAB that surveys Presidential election results in Newton since the old Newton Graphic began compiling returns in 1888. I’m focusing on three elections that I believe were small but durable...
My lasting impressions of Rena Getz
I was as close to Rena’s campaign as anyone outside her own family, so I have a few observations that I think may be of interest. If you had asked me to give an honest assessment of the campaign even three weeks ago, I would have told you that I expected Rena to...
RightSize Newton mobilizes for Tuesday’s City Council meeting on Northland project
On Tuesday, April 9th, at 7:00 PM, the City Council’s Land Use Committee will hold a public meeting to discuss critical traffic and parking impacts that would emanate from the proposed 800-unit Northland development project on Needham Street. Over the past...
Racing Raleigh 3-Speeds up Route 128 during the early 1950s
The Pleasure of Bicycling throughout Newton During the Early 1950s: In September 1952, a few of my bike-riding buddies and I were about to start 8th grade at the old Weeks Junior High School in Newton Center. It was a time much different from today. We felt safe...Yard Waste Pickup Pickle
Two weeks ago, I dragged 26 bags of leaves, branches, twigs and other debris out to the berm for the regular Tuesday yard waste pickup. The trucks never showed up that Tuesday or the following day. I wasn’t about to haul all these bags to the back of my house. I...Services for Peg Hannigan
I’m putting this on as a separate post because I only discovered the service information for Peg an hour ago. There was no mention on the on line Globe death notices. VISITING HOURS Tuesday, May 8th 4-8 PM Burke and Blackington Funeral Home 1479 Washington...
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
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