Covid Boosters Available
For those of you in an “at-risk” group (co-morbidity or over 65 years old), Covid boosters are now available if you are more than four months out from your last shot. Having had a booster last September, I enrolled online yesterday on CVS, site of all my boosters, and...
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Open Thread: Veterans Day 2021
As a rule we don't do posts for each holiday, but as Paul Green reminded us in a comment on another thread, perhaps we should for Veteran's Day in particular. Veterans Day is an opportunity to be able to explicitly acknowledge our Newton neighbors who have made...
Info session on Village Center Engagement takeaways November 15, 6 p.m. (date corrected)
How to move a house
Just outside my front door there's been a fascinating construction project unfolding over recent months. Since we moved to Newton in 2009 there's always been a derelict house right across the street from us. One half of the house was totally unhabitable. The other...
Reshaping MA-4
boston.com is reporting about a proposed re-drawing of Massachusetts' US Congressional districts, and it could have a big impact on the political fortunes of first-term Congresser Jake Auchincloss. The proposed redistricting would fold all of Fall River into what is...
Help kids get vaccinated this weekend
This from today's mayor newsletter ... We’re excited to have vaccine clinics for our 5- to 11-year-olds this weekend. The 960 appointment slots filled up in two hours. Can you volunteer this weekend so we can extend the hours? With more volunteers helping to check...
Now you really have no excuse …
... not to shop local. Village Bank is picking up the tab for all the parking meters in the city for this year's annual Small Business Saturday on Nov 27, the Saturday afternoon after Thanksgiving. Says bank president Joseph A. Devito, "As a community bank, The...
Miss Delta Township returns!
This past weekend the Newton Nomadic Theater tentatively dipped its toe in the waters to see if our audience was ready for indoor theater again after a year and 3/4 long Covid hiatus ... and wow were they ever. We announced a Fri and Sat show at the brand new Allen...
Test drive of threaded comments
Based on multiple requests from readers, we're considering re-configuring Village 14 to display comments in sub-threads. The idea is that when you add a comment, you can indicate whether the comment is related to the post itself, or is a response to a previous...