by Chuck Tanowitz | Sep 17, 2013 | Newton |
With all precincts reporting for mayor, the FINAL TOTALS are: Mayor Jaqueline Sequira .. 128 (2%) Thomas Sheff ……… 359 (6%) Setti Warren ……….. 4265 (70%) Ted Hess Mahan….. 1371 (22%) Total...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Sep 15, 2013 | Newton |
The first annual Tour de Newton will be held on Sunday, October 6. and it promises to be a great event for everyone – kids, adults, experienced bicyclists and casual riders. The Tour will be a 20 mile bicycle ride that will start simultaneously in all 13...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Sep 15, 2013 | Newton |
The Upper Falls Greenway is a plan to convert the abandoned railroad line behind Needham Street into a mile long walking/jogging/bicycle trail – aka a linear park. The plan has been in the works for the last two years but its all coming together with...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Aug 22, 2013 | Newton |
Imagine that you and your spouse had a baby. You raised the little girl from an infant, to a toddler, to a little kid. She learned to walk and to talk and her smart, feisty, funny personality emerged … and then one day she suddenly disappeared without a...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Aug 21, 2013 | Newton |
In recent weeks, Joshua Norman wrote a guest column in the Newton Tab about the city’s mounting pension deficit. Like many municipalities across the country, the gap between the money flowing into the city’s pension fund vs the money promised to future...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Aug 2, 2013 | Newton |
Evan Westrate, a neighbor of mine, just forwarded this somewhat unusual report – “I saw a Newton police cruiser pull over a bicyclist yesterday! I was driving behind the officer on Cabot St. in Newtonville, about to turn left onto Walnut St. by Newton...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Aug 2, 2013 | Newton |
Jan Huffman of Indiana Terrace was recently named the 2013 Newton Republican of the Year by the Newton Republican City Committee. In addition to various volunteer efforts throughout the year, Jan served as office manager for congressional candidate Sean Bielat’s...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Jul 29, 2013 | Newton |
It took a while to get started, but Dunn Gaherin’s bicycle delivery service is now up and running for anyone within a 3 mile radius of the restaurant. As is her way, by the time the lunch deliveries began, Seana Gaherin was already three steps beyond with an...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Jul 10, 2013 | Newton |
The Newton Tab reported on this Saturday’s annual “community swim event” in the Charles River at the Esplanade. While swimming is generally prohibited in the Charles, it is allowed for these special annual events. By all accounts, the water in the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Jul 8, 2013 | Newton |
The Boston Globe ran a story today about the severe lack of parking spots for bicycles in certain parts of Boston and Cambridge. There in the middle of the article was Village 14’s own Chuck Tanowitz weighing in with his bicycle/parking experience. “In...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Jul 5, 2013 | Newton |
The first annual “Tour de Newton” is coming on Oct 6 as part of Newton Bike-Walk Week. The Tour will be an approx 25 mile ride through the 14 villages of Newton (13 + Village 14). The ride will start simultaneously in all 13 villages and proceed in a one...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Jul 1, 2013 | Newton |
David Spier from the Newton Taxpayers Association responded today in the Newton Patch to Geoff Epstein’s recent Newton Tab guest column about technology spending in the schools.
