VIDEO: School enrollment/class size report projects decreases
Newton Public Schools presented its Enrollment Planning and Class Size Report to the School Committee on Monday. The presentation begins at the 10:00 mark,
Highlights of the presentation, according to the most recent School Committee update, included
The day Kobe Bryant audited a class at Boston College
From The Heights, the Boston College newspaper. “I started off [class] by what I thought would be a compelling example of international marketing, and I used the NBA as an example,” [Nick] Nugent said in a phone interview. “I asked the class who they thought was the...
Beloved Newton Highland’s merchant Moe Khalaj sells Walnut Market
Moe Khalaj, proprietor of the Walnut Market (more here from the TAB) sent this email today… Walnut Market Friends and Customers, I put “Friends” before “Customers” because that’s how I have come to think of many of you. For the 16 years I have run...Gracie Gold’s comeback should inspire us all
Newton native Gracie Gold received a standing ovation from the crowd inside the Greensboro Coliseum after her free skate Friday night. It was her first nationals performance in three years after time away from the sport to treat depression, anxiety and an eating disorder, NBC Sports reports.
Riverside Station back on the agenda
Now that it’s zoning is in place, the Riverside Station project is going back before the City Council’s Land Use committee on Tuesday Jan, 28. For your weekend reading pleasure, the Planning Department memo is here.Memorial-Spaulding crossing guard OK after being hit by car
A crossing guard suffered minor injuries when she was struck by a vehicle on Jan. 23, outside of Memorial-Spaulding Elementary School, Police Chief David MacDonald said in a phone interview, the Newton TAB reports.
Want to fix transportation in Newton? Here’s three old-school technologies that can help.
An article in Slate talks about three old school technologies that can go a long way towards solving our transportation challenges.
VIDEO: Watch Newton’s MLK event, including the ‘Let’s make room’ speech
Here’s the latest on the NewCAL search
The Globe’s John Hilliard explores the various options currently on the table for the proposed Newton Center for Active Living, or NewCAL,
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again
After unsuccessfully failing to use a parliamentary procedure to suppress voter participation in a referendum over the Northland project, Right Size Newton is trying again; this time alleging that the Newton City Council bypassed “the open meeting law thereby...New Newton restaurants make Globe’s best of the year list
Chef Ronsky’s at the Street and, one of my family’s favorites, The Landing — L’Approdo Pizza & Kitchen in Nonantum made the Globe’s “29 best new restaurants in Boston and the suburbs” list and two others — Pho Viet’s II and Buttonwood...