by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 18, 2014 | Newton |
Historic Newton is co-presenting two free nights of Newton history this week. Both look interesting to me. Wed, 7PM – Housing Discrimination in Newton in the 1960s – at the Myrtle Baptist Church Thurs, 7PM – Workers’ Housing and Mill...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 17, 2014 | Newton |
One of the nicest things about Newton is that there’s a huge amount of time and energy expended by an army of volunteers, in various ways, to help make the city a better place. If you take a look at the number of city organizations whose names begin with...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 16, 2014 | Newton |
My favorite Newton tradition is coming around again on Sunday April 27 – NewtonSERVES. NewtonSERVES is an annual day of volunteer service where 1000+ volunteers fan out across the city to help out with dozens and dozens of neighborhood projects. All the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 16, 2014 | Newton |
In the last few years, I’ve read lots of hand-wringing columns in magazines and newspapers worrying about whether the Internet/Facebook/email, etc is leading to increased physical isolation between people. Is all this electronic communication coming at the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 16, 2014 | Newton
The Boston Globe ran a story today about towns around Boston wrestling with the never ending struggle between meeting the towns’ needs and keeping a lid on rising property taxes. The story featured a table of Boston’s 52 western suburbs that showed how...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 13, 2014 | Newton |
The school Superintendents Proposed Budget for 2015 has been posted on-line in preparation for tonight School Committee meeting. Way down on page 208 there’s a note that says – “There is a proposed change to the FY15 fee policy to eliminate the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 8, 2014 | Newton |
In a different post this week I was telling my personal tale of woe about our house plumbing. Part of that story involved Bob Sullivan, an employee from Newton’s Water and Sewer Dept coming out to my house and checking out the situation. There was one...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 7, 2014 | Newton |
Newton Alderman David Kalis has an absolutely amazing story to tell and he’s about to tell it to everyone. I first heard about this a year ago. I bumped into Alderman Kalis at Newton North High School where we were both working with students who were helping us...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 4, 2014 | Newton |
On a different thread, V14 regular Hoss raised the question of “Nasal Narcan” in Newton. In much of Eastern Mass there has been a huge uptick in recent years of heroin use. Nasal Narcan can be administered by EMT’s and police on the scene of an...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 4, 2014 | Newton |
The Boston Globe reported today that the Animal Control Officer in Ipswich is trying to convince the town selectmen to set up a DNA database of all registered dogs in the town. The idea is that when the powers-that-be discover an uncleaned up dog poop, a sample will...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 4, 2014 | Newton |
These photos were taken a few days ago on Walnut St heading north towards Newtonville. It was quite a while before that since we had the last real snow. In my neighborhood I was slipping and sliding this morning over ice on a long stretch of sidewalk on Chestnut St...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Mar 3, 2014 | Newton |
Sometime between waking up and showering and mid morning, the water in our house turned off today. I called a neighbor and their water was fine. I filed a 311 report via the city’s web site and then waited, After about an hour I decided that I need to talk to...
