by Jerry Reilly | Oct 7, 2019 | Newton |
The Emily Norton campaign forwarded this press release The Campaign to Re-Elect Emily Norton announced today that over 550 voters in Ward 2 have endorsed Emily in her bid to continue representing Ward 2 on the Newton City Council. See the entire list at...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 6, 2019 | Newton
It’s never been done anywhere else ever … but now it’s a Newton election year tradition. On Wed Oct 30, seventeen candidates running for contested City Council seats in the upcoming Newton election will take a night off from the campaign. ... by Jerry Reilly | Oct 5, 2019 | Newton |
At the end of 2018, the City Council voted on zoning for recreational cannabis stores in only one meeting because the moratorium was expiring at the end of the year and they needed to have something in place before the expiration. There were many concerns expressed by...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 5, 2019 | Newton |
Currently the Newton Tree Conservancy operates a very beneficial and successful Community Tree Planting program entailing that groups of at least five homeowners request under a group leader the planting of a cluster of eight or more trees — sort of on an...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 5, 2019 | Newton |
In 2012 Greg Reibman and Sean Roche decided to start a Newton blog to discuss all things Newton. Over the last seven years, it has steadily grown in readership, and its place in the community has steadily grown in large part due to the withering of the Newton Tab. In...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 4, 2019 | Newton |
What is the deal with city labor contracts? The teachers went back to school this year without a signed contract. A number of other city unions contracts have also expired. I’m not a labor lawyer or a union member and don’t really know much about how...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 2, 2019 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater is kicking off a five week run of it’s new history course – The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson. Four badass women lose their heads in this hilarious and poignant comedy set during the French Revolution. You’ll laugh,...
by Jerry Reilly | Oct 2, 2019 | Newton |
Today’s Newton Report (free sign up here) from the Boston Globe has a story about a new city sponsored public art project. The wonderfully titled Make Poetry Concrete project is casting ten poems into concrete sidewalks around the city. The first few are...
by Jerry Reilly | Sep 25, 2019 | Newton |
Today, like many other days, I just had a close call with another driver at a very strange intersection a few blocks from my house. It’s actually a pair of interlocking intersections. Chestnut Street passes under Route 9 and on each side of the underpass...
by Jerry Reilly | Sep 21, 2019 | Newton |
A very big development project at the Northland site in Upper Falls is on the table and hinges on the City Council issuing a Special Permit in the coming months. The nearby neighbors are understandably concerned about the size and scale of the project and it’s... by Jerry Reilly | Sep 21, 2019 | Newton |
A card arrived in yesterday’s mail at my Upper Falls home. It begins “Lies About Traffic Continue for the Proposed Development on Needham St” It urges the reader to call the following City Councilors and “let them know how you feel”...
by Jerry Reilly | Sep 16, 2019 | Newton |
As the Boston Globe ramps up their Newton coverage they’ve also created a Newton specific email newsletter. See the sample below and and sign up for it here.