Conservators: ‘Webster Woods now belongs to the City of Newton’
The City of Newton filed legal papers at the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds on Tuesday to take ownership of 17 acres of Webster Woods, according to the Newton Conservators website. Boston College has the right to go to court to challenge the $15.2 million price...
Boston College concern trolls on Webster Woods
From a reader, we received a copy of the most recent letter from Boston College to its neighbors. The full text of the letter, below. It amounts to a factually sketchy warning that your elected representatives don’t have your best interests in mind. BC, however,...Should Newton take Webster Woods from Boston College by eminent domain?
The Globe has published columns in favor and opposed to Mayor Fuller’s plan to take Webster Webster Woods from Boston College by eminent domain.Well done, Mayor.
I didn’t want to miss this chance to say that I thought that Mayor Fuller’s current update has an exceptionally clear and complete summary of the eminent domain process for taking Webster Woods.
BC says employees, alumni will punish Fuller for efforts to take Webster Woods
Both the Globe and Newton Patch take deep dives this morning into Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s efforts to take 17 acres of Webster Woods from Boston College by eminent domain.
The Globe’s John Hilliard revisits the decision to by then Mayor Setti Warren to pass up a chance to purchase the woods when Congregation Mishkan Tefila was first looking to sell it.
“We reached out to the city, but they didn’t show any interest,” said Steven Kaitz, one of three co-presidents of the congregation.
And Patch’s Jenna Fisher quotes Boston College spokesperson Jack Dunn who says ts Fuller will
Newton Conservators: BC’s new salt shed threatens Webster Woods
Here’s a story posted this summer on the Newton Conservators website that I don’t believe has been reported anywhere else….
In November 2018, Boston College filed plans with the City of Newton to construct the salt storage facility [on the rear parking lot of the land it owns in Webster Woods.] Neither the Newton Conservation Commission nor any other city department had the authority to prevent the construction of this facility. Construction began in February 2019, and was substantially complete by June.
This facility threatens Webster Woods because of the
VIDEO: BC police chief Bill Evans tells Ken Parker why he supports Opt Out
Former Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, who is now Boston College’s executive director of public safety and chief of police, shared his concerns about recreational marijuana on the NewTV show “Common Ground with Ken Parker.”
College cops from Newton and Boston take on the #LipSyncChallenge
I didn’t know this was a thing. But here’s Newton’s own Boston College Police Department, lead by former BPD Commissioner Bill Evans, and the Boston University Police Departments undertaking law enforcement’s #LipSyncChallenge
Battle of Comm Ave Lip Sync | BC vs BU Police from Boston College on Vimeo.
Markey hosting Town Meeting Sunday at BC
Sen. Ed Markey will be at Boston College for a town hall event on Sunday. Markey will be speaking on relevant political issues and taking questions directly from the audience. This event is free and open to the public WHEN: Sunday, 3/25. [Doors at 3:00, Event from...Howie Carr: This is what happens in a ‘Welcoming City’ for illegal immigrants
The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr turns his trademark outrage on Newton District Court Judge Mary Beth Heffernan and Newton’s Welcoming city policy in his latest column.
Here’s an earlier Herald story and stories about the
BC completes purchase of Webster Woods site
Boston College now officially owns 24 acres of largely undeveloped land in Chestnut Hill that previously belonged to Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Jonathan Dame of the Newton TAB reports.
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