Emily Norton announces she wont be running for Council
Emily Norton posted the following message in here email newsletter this morning. Friends, I was first elected to the “Board of Aldermen” in 2013. It has truly been an honor to be your representative in local government, and to be able to respond when you needed help...
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Those Crazy High School Hours
Do you recall your old high school schedule? When did you arrive, and when did classes end? According to its blog, here is the Newton South High School schedule for this academic year: Classes start at 9 AM and end at 3:45. The shift to later hours came from...
How should our public spaces be used?
Yesterday at 5 pm, Senator Elizabeth Warren held a "meet and greet" at the Hyde Community Center Bandstand. This let to the Newton Highlands email list having a spirited argument over whether this was an appropriate use of that space. Those who objected felt is was...
Boston Globe’s Newton coverage
After reading the article in today's Boston Globe about the yoga disputes I had a look at their Newton page. A few years back, the Boston Globe made a concerted effort to up it's coverage of all things Newton and now has a Newton page in the on-line Globe and a Newton...
There’s a party in Newtonville today
Newtonville Village Day begins at noon today (Sun, Sept 26). The village will be filled with fun, music, art, entertainment and vendor booths featuring products, crafts and info from local businesses and organizations.
Yoga dispute in Newton
Today's Boston Globe featured a lengthy article about on ongoing dispute between some instructors and the owner of Down Under Yoga in Newtonville. Initially the dispute revolved around a non-compete clause that many of the teachers believed to be overreaching and...
Newtonhenge – maybe next year
Unbeknownst to most Newtonians, our fair city is home to a stone artifact that was carefully crafted by the ancients to align with the sun as our planet whirls around the sun. OK, it's really not ancient ... and OK it was created with no knowledge of astronomy or...
How does Amy win?
The primary was a week ago, and most all of the comments on V14 felt that Amy’s Sangiolo’s chances of defeating Ruthanne Fuller in November were very slim. I tend to agree with that. Fuller has money, is conducting polling, and has the advantages of incumbency. Yet...
A Sukkah for the Age of Covid
On Monday evening, September 20, the Jewish festival of Sukkot begins. Traditional observance requires that during the week of Sukkot a Jew reside in a sukkah, a hut that in ancient days served as a temporary harvest lodging in the fields. The custom suits the Middle...