by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 6, 2014 | Newton |
Today’s Boston Globe reports that the State Dept of Environmental Protection has approved a scaled back plan to build a floating boardwalk on Hammond Pond. In 2010, a local family originally pledge a $1,000,000 donation to build the 1372 foot long boardwalk as...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 4, 2014 | Newton |
Bob Rooney, the City of Newton’s Chief Operating Officer’s, last day on the job is this Friday. Mr Rooney has served as COO for the last five years and before that he was Commissioner of Public Works for eight years. Over all those years he’s been...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 2, 2014 | Newton |
My April Fool’s story – “Big shakeup at City Hall” was a bit closer to the truth than I realized. In a letter to the Board of Aldermen this morning, the mayor announced the imminent departure of Bob Rooney the city’s Chief Operating...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 1, 2014 | Newton
I was scammed this morning. I went into my office, powered up my PC and the normal login screen came up ….. upside down. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what had gone wrong, and how to make it right. After a few frustrating minutes I called my wife...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 1, 2014 | Newton |
The mayor’s office announced today that in effort “to run leaner and work smarter” the city has just combined the Dept of Parks & Recreation and the Dept of Public Works into a new combined “Department of Public Parks, Recreation and...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 30, 2014 | Newton |
An article in this month’s Atlantic Magazine described a playground in Wales called “The Land”. The description of “The Land” will set your head spinning and would give municipal lawyers nightmares – kids lighting fires in metal...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 27, 2014 | Newton |
Here’s the latest biography of Newton’s civil war veterans compiled by Katy Holmes of Newton’s Planning Department. He is one of the soldiers commemorated on the recently refurbished Civil War Soldier’s Monument in Newton Cementary. George...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 26, 2014 | Newton
Tickets are limited but still available for Saturday night’s 2nd annual Latin America Fiesta – A Dinner/Dance Journey Through Latin America. Eat delicious food catered by Merengue Boston and dance to lively Latin music performed by Veronica Robles, a...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 24, 2014 | Newton
The Newton Civil War Soldier’s Monument stands near the entry to the Newton Cemetery. It was built in 1864 to commemorate the Newton men that died in that war. It had fallen into disrepair over recent decades but was restored last fall, thanks to a Community...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 22, 2014 | Newton |
Alicia Bowman sent this photo of Mill St in Newtonville and says “this creates a very dangerous walking route in the street for students going to Newton North High School. This sidewalk has been under snow and ice for 3 ½ months, more than a 1/3 of the school...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 21, 2014 | Newton |
Sign up today! Sunday’s going to be a beautiful day for it and it should be a great event. Seana Gaherin from Dunn Gaherin’s Pub & Restaurant in Upper Falls is at it again. She’s put together another big, crazy, fun event that will help raise...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 20, 2014 | Newton
A few years ago (2010) there was a failure of a massive MWRA water main in Weston that sent hundreds of millions of gallons gushing into the Charles River and resulted in an emergency boil-your-water order for residents. Apparently that wasn’t the first time...
