by Gail Spector | Apr 12, 2016 | Newton, Schools |
The AJC (American Jewish Committee) Boston and JCRC (Jewish Community Relations Council) released the following statement regarding the behavior of Jewish activists at Thursday night’s community forum: Here’s an excerpt: “To our dismay, a group of...
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by Jerry Reilly | Apr 11, 2016 | Newton |
The Tour de Newton is back for the 4th year on Fathers Day June 19. This annual 20 mile bike ride starts simultaneously in all 13 villages. Your ride with your own neighbors and tour through the other 12 villages on a relaxed leisurely ride with stops at each...
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by Jerry Reilly | Apr 10, 2016 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater’s next production, A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher opens this coming weekend. A Picasso is a cat-and-mouse suspense drama exploring the role of art, the artist and the beholder in a world gone mad during the Nazi occupation of Paris in...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 9, 2016 | Newton |
The regional director of the Anti-Defamation League is criticizing the group of protesters who disrupted Thursday’s forum at Newton City Hall about prejudice and discrimination. “It is not a competition to determine which type of hatred is the...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 8, 2016 | Newton |
Newton North students, rapper Marchaina Roscoe and producer Everett Gilpin and fellow students and faculty, take a stand against bigotry in this video posted yesterday. (story from WCVB here.)
by Greg Reibman | Apr 8, 2016 | Newton
This is from the mayor’s office… Newton – Following a community meeting last night aimed at bringing our community together, and ensuring that Newton is the most welcoming and inclusive City that it can be, Mayor Warren today announced a series of next...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 8, 2016 | Newton |
Newton South student Elise Miller has a message on the Denebola for the grown-ups who booed, hissed and intimidated others from speaking at Thursday’s forum at the Newton War Memorial. Please make the time to read it. When you fight this hatred with more...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 7, 2016 | Newton |
Here’s a quote the TAB attributes to City Councilor Lenny Gentile speaking prior to voting against installing solar panels at the Newton Free Library… “We’re doing our fair share,” Gentile said during debate March 21. “And I don’t think that the sky is...
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by Greg Reibman | Apr 7, 2016 | Newton |
Mayor Warren’s community forum on Thursday at the Newton War Memorial to addresses issues of prejudice and discrimination was uncomfortable, troubling, sometimes inspiring, sometimes infuriating, not as well organized as it might have been, embarrassing, ugly...
by Gail Spector | Apr 7, 2016 | Charter Commission, Newton, School Committee |
In a straw (nonbinding) vote last night, the Charter Commission voted to extend School Committee term limits from four two-year terms to six. I’m surprised (probably because I haven’t paid close enough attention) because I would have thought they’d...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 7, 2016 | Newton |
From Commonwealth Magazine… A bill approved earlier this month by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Housing would … require that every city and town plan for multifamily housing and designate areas where it is allowed as-of-right. It would also require...
by Greg Reibman | Apr 6, 2016 | Newton |
51 Lincoln has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Boston.com is reporting. The filing comes a week after Fournier closed his other restaurant Waban Kitchen. [Chef-owner, Jeff Fournier] cited an explosion of new restaurants in the Boston area and an influx of...
