Create your village’s identity

The first annual recreational TOUR DE NEWTON is being planned as part of Newton Walk/Bike week or this coming October.  The Tour de Newton will be a leisurely 20+ mile route around the city that will pass through each of the village centers.  You’ll ride the...

Upper Falls Greenway gets ConCom approval

It’s probably been a while since you’ve heard anything about the Upper Falls Greenway, the plan to build a mile long walking/jogging/bicycle trail along the old railroad line that parallel’s Needham St. In recent months the planning has been ticking...
Fabulous Feast of The Falls

Fabulous Feast of The Falls

For info about this year’s (2014) Feast of the Falls, click here. About 1 PM yesterday afternoon it was all beginning to seem like a colossal mistake.  A quarter mile of the Sudbury aqueduct in Hemlock Gorge was strewn with truck loads full of equipment and...
The Upper Falls dynamo

The Upper Falls dynamo

Upper Falls has got a lot going for it these day.  There’s all sorts of people, working on all sorts of community projects but there’s probably no more powerful human dynamo around these parts than Seana Gaherin of Dunn Gaherins Restaurant. Two weeks ago...
Newton Conservators rip up vegetation

Newton Conservators rip up vegetation

The Newton Conservators are a great volunteer group that are the protectors, watchdogs, and advocates for all of our park land.  Much of their work, as you might expect, has to do with conserving the best of our parks.  A dedicated group of Conservators also works on...
Look out!  – “Runaway truck”!

Look out! – “Runaway truck”!

 The Newton Patch report on a runaway truck careening down Comm Ave into the BC campus, has some great photos.  I don’t think you could pose a better scene of a truck delicately balanced and ready to tumble over.
The Feast of The Falls ticket auction

The Feast of The Falls ticket auction

The most exciting event in Upper Falls in years will happen in just a few weeks.  On Sunday  June 23, the longest table anyone has ever seen will be assembled for The Feast of The Falls. Two hundred and fifty guests will break bread together at a sit-down, catered...