Will the Upper Falls Greenway reach Needham some day?
The initial vision of the Bay Colony Rail Trail was for a continuous bicycle/pedestrian path along a (mostly) unused railroad right-of-way from National Lumber in Newton, through Needham and Dover and on to Medfield. As plans began to be floated, the town of Needham...
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Norton: Here’s what I did
City Councilor Emily Norton has sent an email about the leafletting she did last weekend in support of Councilor Julia Malakie in the contested Ward 2 Ward Councilor race, in which she called Councilor Malakie's opponent, former Councilor Jim Cote, "an...
Norton: That’s me
City Councilor Emily Norton admitted to Boston Globe columnist Marcela García that she (Councilor Norton) is the person seen in doorbell-cam footage leaving an anonymous anti-Jim Cote flyer. Councilor Norton says she had nothing to do with the Ward 3 GOP e-mail....
What did it all mean?
Newton man’s hotel room loaded with illegal weapons
A rather strange story appeared in the Boston Globe on Thursday. Thomas K Morse, a Newton resident checked into the W hotel in Boston carrying big bags and a guitar case and requested a room on an upper floor. A member of the hotel staff spotted something that led...
Dirty tricks, a cemetery, a Nest video, and a City Councilor
Political campaigns can and often are rough and tumble affairs. Even for relatively low stakes elections, campaigns, candidates, and their supporters can seemingly lose their minds as election day approaches. In the immediate run-up to yesterday's Newton election, in...
Incumbent sweep!
This is the first Newton election since at least 2001 in which there were no council/alderfolk upsets; incumbents who ran won. (I can't find the 1999 results, so can't tell who was an incumbent in 2001.) And, slightly less rare, all 24 incumbents ran. (Two of the...
Results — all contested races
Ward 7 School Committee — Kathy Shields
According to the city unofficial results page, incumbent School Committee Member Kathy Shields, has defeated challenger Valerie Pontiff 7,629 to 5,034 votes.