by Jerry Reilly | Apr 16, 2021 | Newton |
Fran Yerardi from Save Nonantum has requested that we publish this letter of apology from the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce. I told him that I’d be happy to. In the lead up to the recent special election for Newton City Council, a Political Action...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 16, 2021 | Newton
Saturday May 15, 8:15 PM, SPY KIDS comes to the big screen in the former Acquinas College parking lot in Nonantum. Tickets are $25 per carload and can be purchased here. Better yet, how about dinner and a show. You can order from Better Life Food’s special...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 15, 2021 | Newton |
This tweet from City Councilor Tarik Lucas went out this evening. For those who haven’t heard yet, there are serious plans for a gun store to open on Washington Street in Newtonville. This is absolutely unacceptable! A gun store does not fit Newton’s values. #NewtonMA...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 15, 2021 | Newton |
John F Carmichael Jr will come to Newton after spending the last five years as Chief of the Walpole Police Department. From the major’s newsletter … Over the past six months, I have been grateful for the help of so many as we undertook a wide search, a...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 15, 2021 | Newton
Ann Berwick is Newton’s Co-Director of Sustainability and Liora Silkes is Newton’s Energy Coach Green Newton and the City of Newton are kicking off Earth Week with a poster-making event so that residents can show how we are All in for Climate Action! ...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 11, 2021 | Newton |
NewtonSERVES, the annual day of volunteer community service, will be on Sunday May 2 this year. Volunteers should sign up here by April 19, for one of this year’s 30 projects. Due to the pandemic, last year was the first time in 20 years that NewtonServes was...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 10, 2021 | Newton |
I chair the Newton Fair Housing Committee, and April is Fair Housing month. This past week, I participated in a seminar sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement & Next Gen Voices at NNHS this past week, which focused on the history of zoning and the creation...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 9, 2021 | Newton |
This story in today’s Boston Globe was just too weirdly bizarre to pass up. In 1901 a woman in Chelsea gave three baby alligators to the City of Boston because she became scared of them as they grew. William Doogue, the city’s superintendent of Common and...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 7, 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 7, 2021 | Newton |
Guest post by Andrea Kelley, City Councilor At-Large from Ward 3 This past year, thanks to Zoom meetings, more people have been attending City Council and committee meetings. For many of these new-to-the-council-meeting folks, they often ask questions about what...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 5, 2021 | Newton |
Village14 is an all-volunteer community run operation. There is no staff, there is no office. While all the posts, comments, moderation, and April Fools foolishness are all donated, it does take some cash to keep the site running – primarily for hosting...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 3, 2021 | Newton |
I wrote a post recently called Stitching Walking Trails Together.That post was about stairs that will soon be built to connect the Upper Falls Greenway to the Charles River Pathway. It was also about how each connection between existing trails makes all the trails...
