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Consider donating either diapers or cash to Newton Neighbors diaper drive. Here's the info: Newton Neighbors City-Wide Diaper Drive Did you know that 1 in 3 families struggle to afford diapers? Diapers are expensive, and having to buy them can take away from a...
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Laredo inadvertently explains why we have new state zoning law
Wells Park has new owner
Annie Sandoli of the Newton Patch reports that Wells Park, a 378,000 sq foot set of three office buildings on Wells Ave has just been sold to Taurus Invesrtment Holdings for $92 million
Raymond McNamara, Newton hero, died on Tuesday
Former Newton firefighter Raymond McNamara, age 79, died peacefully at home on January 11. In 1993 an absolutely horrific series of events unfolded at a fire at the manufacturing plant of H.C. Starck, in a building off Needham St. The plant used pure metallic sodium...
Newtonville today ?
Millions of bits and gallons of ink were spilled debating the virtues and vices of the Austin Street and Trio mixed use developments in Newtonville, back when those projects were on the planning table. Both projects have been completed for a while now .... so what do...
NewMo limits rides to two passengers
Newton's NewMo (Newton in Motion), the city sponsored rideshare system, announced that they are limiting rides to two passengers (rather than three) due to Covid concerns. Offsetting that reduction, the city also announced it is adding a 7th vehicle to its fleet. The...
Newton Porchfest 2022
Here's a bit of good news. Newton Porchfest just announced that they will be back this year on Saturday June 4
Choose your Covid testing site carefully
Channel 25 reports that a local Covid testing site across the river in Needham called the "Center For Covid Control" has been generating a raft of complaints from customers. The town of Needham has gotten so many complaints that they reached out to the Massachusetts...
What’s after Omicron?
I don't know my Greek so I have no idea what comes after omicron in the Greek alphabet. I do think though that in the coming weeks the Omicron variant may/should begin to force a re-reckoning of how we deal with Covid and all its variants. My non-expert, totally...