by Jerry Reilly | Apr 9, 2017 | Newton |
I was at a backyard potluck dinner tonight in Thompsonville tonight at our good friends Anne Marie Stein & Lee McDonald’s. It was their last hurrah for their house. We helped them move in there 25+ years ago and this week its going to be knocked down and... by Jerry Reilly | Apr 3, 2017 | Newton |
The full City Council will be taking a vote on the proposed Accessory Apartment ordinance at tonight’s meeting. 30 years ago the city first passed an Accessory Apartment ordinance to allow homeowners to legally reconfigure their owner-occupied houses to create...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
All the fools at Village14 wish you a very happy April Fools day. What we may lack in quality we more than make up with quantity.
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
It’s springtime and if you’re a Newton Conservator that means invasive plants pulling season. Every spring the Conservators provide a great public service to the City. They recruit a hardy team of volunteers to fight back against the relentless invasive...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
City Councilor Emily Norton’s been hearing lots of concerns over the last two years from her constituents about development projects in Newtonville. First there was Austin Street and now there’s the proposed redevelopment of the Orr Block on the table. At...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
Steven Feller president of the Newton Economic Development Commission announced that the city has just inked a twenty year contract with the Mars Candy Company. Said Feller “This is huge. For much of the 20th century the City of Newton reaped enormous branding...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
The recently completed Upper Falls Greenway walking trail has been a big hit in the neighborhood so local resident Jerry Reilly hopes to expand on the concept.with the Upper Falls Grayway Says Reilly “We’ve got more than our share of butt ugly industrial...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
The proposed changed to the City Charter, to reduce the the size of the City Council, has had a bizarre unintended consequence. As of today all 24 sitting City Councillors have announced that they are running for mayor. Further complicating matters, it appears that...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
The School Committee has been working on changing to a later start time for the Newton schools. From the start there has been some minor resistance to the idea from parents who are concerned about the impact on sports and other after-school activity, Just this week...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
The 3rd annual Newton Festival of the Arts is about to kick off again. This year its even bigger and better than ever. One of last year’s highlights was the “Artful Pianos” – beautifully painted street pianos that were distributed around the...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton |
The big news on Needham St is that the soon-to-be-vacated premises of Radio Shack in the Marshalls Plaza will soon be converted into a marijuana dispensary. Says Chamber of Commerce president, and mayoral candidate Greg Reibman “This is a game changer. ...
by Jerry Reilly | Apr 1, 2017 | Newton
The race for mayor is certainly heating up. Last night was the Thompsonville Soup Social at the Bowen School. The organizers invited both City Councilors Ruthanne Fuller and Scott Lennon to serve food and meet their local constituents. The evening started off...
