Nogee: Facts about Newton’s energy choices and trees
In energy, as elsewhere, it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Where should we get our energy? The Solar phase 3 proposal would require moving or replacing 28 trees—a little more than 0.1% of our street trees—to generate 4.3 million kWh per year, increasing the...MLK Celebration this Monday
The 51st Annual Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration takes place this Monday, Jan. 21, at 9:30 a.m at the First Baptist Church in Newton Centre (848 Beacon Street) The event will include musical performances by: the Jubilee Singers; the Monologue...
Jake A. goes wonk on induced demand
If you received (and read) the most recent edition of Councilor Jake Auchincloss’s newsletter, you got a treat: an informative (and fun!) discussion of the economics of traffic. Go ahead and read it. We’ll wait. As Jake explains, traffic is as much...Revised solar panel program prunes back the number of impacted trees
There will be a public hearing Wednesday on the revised plan to install solar panels on city owned properties, including roofs of buildings and parking lots. From Jenna Fisher at Newton Patch… The revised plan reduces the number of trees that need to be cut or...
Newton is Beginning Visioning Plan for Riverside Area
Photo courtesy of the Tab shows current lot and golf course to the left Since we last heard about the Riverside project in September, Mayor Fuller and Mark Development have decided on a visioning process for the area. On January 11, Liz...New restaurant headed to the Street
The husband-and-wife duo behind O Ya and Hojoko in Boston and several restaurants in New York City are taking over the former location of the Cottage at Chestnut Hill, Eater Boston reports....
Get thee to a Zoning Reform Meeting
Arguably, the upcoming changes to the zoning ordinance — the rules and the map — is the most consequential change to Newton in a generation. (Charter change would have been a contender, had it succeeded.) For that reason, I strongly encourage anyone who...Newton Police Chief MacDonald wants to hear from you
Mary jane at Mary Ann’s and manufacturing zones
The prospect of the bar Mary Ann’s — located just over the Newton line at Cleveland Circle — become a recreational marijuana shop is worrying some abutters and Boston College Police Chief William Evans.
Meanwhile here in Newton Ward 6 Councilor Greg Schwartz sent the email below yesterday to the Newton Highlands list serve in response to objections about his proposal to add some manufacturing zoning districts to the allowable locations for recreational
Israeli American group apologizes for saying there’s an ‘anti-Israel atmosphere at Newton High Schools’
One week after telling its members that there was an “anti-Israel atmosphere at Newton High Schools,” the Newton-based Israeli American Council-Boston , a group representing Israeli-Americans in the region, issued an apology acknowledging “we believe that most of our...Fuller reworks proposals for solar panels on city properties
This is from Mayor Fuller’s email newsletter… We have been considering 20 locations across Newton for new solar panels on City owned properties, including roofs of buildings and parking lots. After a listening tour, reading comments, and more analysis,...Search V14
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