Swastika found at Day Middle School…again
A student found a swastika and “threatening language” drawn on a desk at F.A. Day Middle School, the Globe reports....Take the Newton Community Arts & Culture survey!
Do you enjoy concerts in the Highlands or Newton Centre on a hot summer night, or a lovely Sunday afternoon listening to the New Philharmonic Orchestra at the First Baptist Church? Or maybe your kids look forward to the Halloween Window Painting Contest every October? Or how about the unexpected whimsy of seeing poetry on the sidewalks of your local village center or a fantastical outdoor sculpture along the Upper Falls Greenway? Well, the City of Newton “Community Design for Arts & Culture Committee” was formed a few months ago to assist Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and the City of Newton with a seven-month planning process to create a comprehensive arts & cultural plan for the City. Will you help us? We would love to hear from you in this Newton Community Arts & Culture Survey.
This community survey will help us develop our strategic plan of short & long term goals for the city. The plan, entitled Create Newton, will identify all of our
Newton’s first recreational marijuana shop can open this weekend
Garden Remedies, which has been a medical marijuana dispensary at 697 Washington Street since 2016, can start selling recreational marijuana this week. The Grand Opening for recreational marijuana sales could be as early as Saturday, Newton Patch reports. Garden...
Zoning: How big is too big?
This is a guest blog post submitted by Newton resident Richard Rasala, a retired Professor and Associate Dean in the Khoury College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern. Issues with the Washington Street Vision and Zoning Code Part 1: Scale of...Mayor says ‘no thank you’ to City Council’s Charter Amendments
Mayor Fuller sent this memo to the City Council today, informing them of her decision to “not forward the City Council’s request to submit a home rule petition to the General Court with the amendments to the City Charter as voted by the Council on May 6, 2019 in Docket #7 6-19. Most of these amendments were originally proposed by
Fuller outlines plan to buy armory for affordable housing
Mayor Fuller released this statement today… This morning I sent a request to the City Council to authorize the purchase of the West Newton Armory Building and land at 1135 Washington Street just outside West Newton Square. The City of Newton is being...
Get your Garden City garden in gear this weekend!
The Newton Community Farm’s annual Seedling Sale — happening this weekend, May 18 and 19, noon to 3 p.m .– is a great opportunity to launch your vegetable, herb and flower gardens while supporting one of Newton’s unique nonprofits. And...May 31: Who’s who of Newton civic and political life to break bread
The annual Newton Mayor’s Community Breakfast has a new location (it’s moved from Boston College to the Marriott) and a revised name (“prayer” has been replaced with “community”) but it’s still likely to be the place to see...Newton sculptor unveils her latest creation
Newton’s Nancy Schön unveiled a bronze version of ‘Myrtle The Turtle’ this week on Beacon Hill, WBUR reports....About Village 14 and anonymous comments
This comment came by email from a reader named Scott Wolf today…
Hi there, I wanted to know if you have thought about requiring posters to have real names (or let posters see who is really posting).
I’ve actually thought about it a lot. And so have many of the other Village 14 bloggers and readers. And I was thinking about it yesterday when I read
Ten year’s ago today: Lenny Gentile’s ‘SOMERVILLE!!?’ rant
It was exactly years ago today — May 19, 2009 — that Newton Alderman (now City Councilor) Lenny Gentile delivered his most notorious City Hall floor speech…
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