Thumbs up for the soccer leagues
I want to offer a shout-out to the folks at Newton Girls Soccer and Newton Youth Soccer and their umbrella organizations, Boston Area Youth Soccer (BAYS) and the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association, for their success in offering kids the opportunity to practice and...Caring for the Caregiver–A webinar
This is not Newton specific, but I believe it might be of interest to businesses in our city. The Massachusetts Caregiver Coalition was established about a year ago to assess and address the needs of unpaid family caregivers across the Commonwealth. The hope was to...
An unsatisfactory response
Cognizant of Mayor Fuller’s request for people to be careful about Covid social distancing violations, I just called the dispatcher at the Newton Police to report a gathering of some 40 college-age men practicing football with no masks on Weeks Field. (The photo...
Play Streets for Halloween?
Councilor Alicia Bowman and some of her colleagues have been pushing the idea of Play Streets as a partial answer to some of the play and socialization issues in the Covid world. The concept originated in Seattle and has spread to other cities. You can see a slide...When it comes to gender equity in athletics, Newton needs to “get on the field”
Since the 1980’s, the landscape in athletics throughout Newton has changed dramatically. In the past, most women played two “field” sports, field hockey and softball. With soccer and lacrosse increasing in popularity among female athletes, Newton now has over 1,500...
New goalkeeper found
This juvenile red-tailed hawk was carefully monitoring activity near a Weeks Field soccer goal this morning.
Physical Storytelling & Nonverbal Videos for Kiddos
Hi neighbors! Becky Baumwoll here, born and raised in Newton and currently back to spend family time while the world is upside down. Over the past 10 years, I’ve been living in NYC and leading an arts and education nonprofit called Broken Box Mime Theater...
A winner in the Fourth: Jake Auchincloss
Following a long day and night of counting previously uncounted ballots in Wellesley, Newton, and Franklin, AP has declared Jake Auchincloss the winner of the Democratic primary for the Fourth Congressional District. The final count for the top three in the race is:...Child care support for teachers?
Based on the number of teachers who’ve said they can’t go back to work because of child care issues and listening to the School Committee meetings, I get the impression that one of the issues that will be negotiated as part of the NPS-NTA Memorandum of...Please own this, Mayor Fuller
One of things I really appreciate about our Mayor, even when I might disagree with a policy she’s chosen, is her level of commitment and passion to the things that move her. Just look at her advocacy for Newton Power Choice, the Webster Woods acquisition,...Here’s one endorsement that went awry
When I received a “Dear Friends” email last night from an at-large City Councilor endorsing Jake for Congress, I had a similar reaction to my friend (undecided before the email), but he put it in writing back to that Councilor: I appreciate that as a City...
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
drivers man be like