Crystal Lake encomium
I didn’t want the end of summer to pass by without expressing thanks and appreciation to Parks and Rec’s Carol Stapleton and her crew of lifeguards and other student staff members at Crystal Lake. As a regular user of the lake, I’ve seen those kids...
The big fat Big Belly contract
Now that the Boston Globe is making a commitment to suburban news coverage, and particularly in Newton, maybe they can focus some of their efforts on abuses of mayoral power that have skirted state law. An example was the roll-out of the Big Belly trash collection...The cart is speeding off without the horse
Mayor Fuller is clearly feeling the heat for the opaque process used to choose a site for the Newton Center for Active Living, or NewCAL, (styled by her as “the community center focused on seniors.”) So in this week’s email to us all, she announces a...Welcome back to school
Coming back from a late August vacation, I caught up on emails and was struck by Mayor Fuller’s August 28 update, which focused on the current school department contract negotiations, providing the equivalent of an open letter to the Newton Teachers Association....
United we stand
I’m guessing that if we drew a Venn diagram of those people in Newton who want to preserve the City’s parks and other open spaces and those who want to provide enhanced services in a new senior center, it would look something like this. So, if so,...
Here’s what 2.5 acres looks like (corrected on Aug 7)
While we await the architects’ rendering of the space use of NewCAL on city parkland, I thought I’d offer my own schematic as to the land taking that would result on one candidate site, Weeks Park (not Weeks Playground, as the Mayor called it.) A soccer...
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
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