What’s on your lawn?
It’s lawn sign day in Newton, with campaign signs for the Nov. 5 city council and school committee contests, popping up across all eight wards. What’s on your lawn? Which candidates are you passionate enough about that you’re willing to risk...
RightSize criticizes saving woods, while fighting to save parking lot
RightSize Riverside — the Auburndale group that has been fighting to stop redeveloping the Riverside MBTA parking lot — issued this statement on Twitter regarding efforts to preserve undeveloped forest at Webster Woods. Anyone catch the Mayor’s...Newton middle schools end tackle football
The city’s four middle schools have discontinued their tackle football squads, replacing them with co-ed flag football, Scott Souza reports for the Globe.BC: ‘We are disappointed that Mayor Fuller has made this unfortunate decision’
The Globe’s John Hilliard is reporting that Boston College opposes Mayor Ruthanne Fuller plan for Newton to acquire approximately 17 acres of Webster Woods through eminent domain
“We are disappointed that Mayor Fuller has made this unfortunate decision, which we intend to oppose to the fullest extent possible using all legal avenues,” BC spokesman Jack Dunn said.
Fuller: ‘I am now taking action to save Webster Woods’
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller writes in her latest newsletter I am now taking action to permanently save Webster Woods. I have engaged in multiple conversations with Boston College over the past year and a half about reaching an agreement allowing Newton to purchase these...Globe: Joe Kennedy to run for U.S. Senate
The Boston Globe is reporting that Newton Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III plans to formally announce Saturday that he is launching a primary challenge to Senator Edward J. Markey,Globe: ‘Newton grapples with an identity crisis — and the most hotly contested local elections in a generation’
John Hilliard explores affordable housing and development as a campaign issue this fall in a new Boston Globe article
Newton is facing nothing less than an identity crisis as a wave of development proposals stand to reshape the cityscape, spurring the most hotly contested City Council elections in 16 years. In all, 35 people,
Newton Conservators: BC’s new salt shed threatens Webster Woods
Here’s a story posted this summer on the Newton Conservators website that I don’t believe has been reported anywhere else….
In November 2018, Boston College filed plans with the City of Newton to construct the salt storage facility [on the rear parking lot of the land it owns in Webster Woods.] Neither the Newton Conservation Commission nor any other city department had the authority to prevent the construction of this facility. Construction began in February 2019, and was substantially complete by June.
This facility threatens Webster Woods because of the
School Committee member blasts NewCal, calls for tax hike
There’s a lot to unpack in this Facebook comment from School Committee member Matthew Miller but is he really saying that without an override Newton School kids will soon be dying?
Opt-Out Newton mobilizing in city council contests
Opt-Out Newton, the committee behind last year’s unsuccessful campaign to ban recreational marijuana shops in Newton recently sent this email to its supporters… Dear Opt Out Supporter, As you know, the current city council leans in favor of the expansion...Fall elections: Which contests are you following the closest?
With the Labor Day weekend upon us, we’re entering the time when most folks first begin to focus on our fall elections, including seven contested citywide races for City Council and School Committee and five of the contested ward council races. (And it all...