Two coaches of Newton South High School’s freshman football team have been placed on leave pending a police and school district investigation into an alleged incident on the team’s school bus Thursday evening, the TAB’s Jonathan Dame reports. (And he posts the Concord Police dispatch calls.)
And here’s a report from Fox 25…
Boston College has indicated it is open to working with the city to preserve the undeveloped portion of land the university purchased from Congregation Mishkan Tefila earlier this year, Mayor Setti Warren tells the TAB’s Jonathan Dame.
Just days after GateHouse Media, owners of the Newton TAB and hundreds of other newspapers and affiliated sites, announced big changes that would have removed editor Andy Levin from directly overseeing Newton’s editorial direction, I received this excellent news from Levin via email.
Sixty-six of our Newton neighbors have donated money to Republican president nominee Donald Trump, with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton raised $1.075 million in Newton from 1,035 individual donors, the TAB’s Jonathan Dame reports.
A story in the Newton North student newspaper the Newtonite reports on what seems to be an overcrowding problem at the school’s library.
Students are expressing confusion and annoyance towards a rule in the Library Learning Commons (LLC) that enables librarians to kick students out if they are not doing work. Despite frustrations, librarians will continue to enforce it.
According to librarian Erin Dalbec, the LLC policy is to ask any students who are not working to leave when other students who plan to do work need space. Students who talk with friends, play games, or watch Netflix in the LLC can be kicked out, she said.
But the article continues…
The TAB’s Jonathan Dame shared news via Twitter of this item docketed by Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss. Do you agree with Auchincloss’ position? And is this the kind of resolution that should be debated by Newton’s City Council?
TAB editor Andy Levin posted a comment on this thread in response to this announcement from GateHouse media’s Lisa Strattan about changes at the company. I believe Andy’s comments are important enough that I’m starting a new thread here:
I don’t want to keep any of the TAB/Wicked Local Newton readers guessing as to what is coming next week and going forward.
Being the editor of the Newton TAB these past couple years has been a great pleasure, a tremendous honor and the job of my life. I love this city and I loved, truly loved being editor of its paper of record. I have never felt that way about any job.
Beginning next week, though, I will no longer be the editor of the Newton TAB. Indeed, all of our roles at Wicked Local will be changing….
Whether you heart Newton’s current zoning, hate it, or take a more nuanced view, you may want to attend the kickoff meeting for the city’s zoning redesign project, this Wednesday Oct. 6 Oct. 5, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Second Church, 60 Highland St., West Newton.
Newton’s current zoning was last changed in 1987. The Kickoff meeting will include a discussion of the goals and scope of the project including Newton’s pattern book and how you can get involved. Full details available here.
