by Jerry Reilly | May 28, 2021 | Newton |
This very poignant reminiscence and message appeared in today’s Newton Chamber of Commerce email newsletter. I thought it well worth sharing. ————- I first shared this photo last April. It appeared in one of the earliest editions of what... by Jerry Reilly | May 26, 2021 | Newton |
The City Council met last week to debate changing the city’s zoning to restrict the locations where gun shops would be allowed in Newton. The plan put on the table at the meeting had a series of rules that would have limited possible sites to just two places... by Jerry Reilly | May 20, 2021 | Newton |
Here’s a great story about a local businesswomen who has been going above and beyond to help her neighbors in Newton ….
by Jerry Reilly | May 19, 2021 | Newton |
My wife came home yesterday and asked me “What’s the Fig Newton Festival?” She had just seen a big sign for it. I had no idea. She did a quick Google search and came up empty handed This afternoon she dug back into it. She had seen the sign...
by Jerry Reilly | May 19, 2021 | Newton |
Marian Knapp has been a longtime activist for a wide variety of senior related issues in Newton as well as writing a regular column for the Newton Tab. She’s just published a new book called Prohibition Wine telling the true story of her grandmother, a widow...
by Jerry Reilly | May 19, 2021 | Newton |
Every so often we like to gather the Village14 readers, commenters, contributors, trolls, and spammers together in the real world to meet face-to-face. Thanks to Covid we’re long overdue for one of these gatherings. You’re invited to join us on...
by Jerry Reilly | May 18, 2021 | Newton |
Newton’s commuter rail service has been reduced and station accessibility improvements for Auburndale, Newtonville, and West Newton have been removed from the State’s draft 2022-26 Transit Improvement Plan. Without strong, reliable mass transit, housing developments...
by Jerry Reilly | May 15, 2021 | Newton |
This past week has been rather remarkable. It has felt like that fateful week last March in reverse. Each day this week the Covid situation seemed to change for the better to the point that we can now see down the road to the far end of that Covid cloud off in the... by Jerry Reilly | May 6, 2021 | Newton |
The Newton Tab reports that this morning at 8 AM, a 10 foot concrete wall at a new home construction site on Winchester St collapsed. The collapse trapped a worker under the debris. When the Newton Fire Dept arrived they determined that the worker had been killed by...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 28, 2021 | Newton |
Thinking of adding your name to the November ballot or helping on a campaign? The League of Women Voters of Newton invites candidates, potential candidates, campaign managers, campaign treasurers, and all interested citizens to a virtual workshop on running for...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 27, 2021 | Newton |
A recent Village 14 post reported that the Nathaniel Allen House had just won Preservation Massahusett’s Tsongas Award for the beautiful reconstruction that the newton Cultural Alliance did on this history-filled building. Now the Allen House has also been...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 23, 2021 | Newton |
Here’s some great news – just in from John Rice … We all missed music, movies and plays at Hyde Playground last summer and we hope the spring and summer of 2021 will bring back community programming to the Hyde Bandstand. We are following the...
