by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 26, 2024 | Newton Beacon
City Councilor Rick Lipof kicked off his campaign for the 12th Middlesex House state representative seat on Thursday evening with a crowd of supporters at fellow City Councilor Vicki Danberg’s house in Newton Centre. “To all of you wonderful people here today, I...
by Sarah Schwartz | Apr 26, 2024 | Newton Beacon
With an up-and-down start to the season, the Newton South boys’ baseball team looks to keep swinging hard and moving forward. Behind the leadership of head coach Paul Williams, the young group is learning from its 3-3 beginning and with some adjustments, eyes a spot...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 25, 2024 | Newton Beacon
“The purpose of art is washing the daily dust off our soul.” — Pablo Picasso If you’ve been looking to get out and need to dust off your soul, stay in town for the next couple of days, because the arts will be sprucing up Newton’s soul all weekend. With Newton Open...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 25, 2024 | Newton Beacon
If you’re doing some spring cleaning and wondering what to do with clothes you don’t want anymore, you may want to head over to Our Lady Help of Christians Church on Sunday. From 9 a.m. to noon and again from 4 to 6 p.m., the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a charity...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 25, 2024 | Newton Beacon
The School Committee held a public hearing on whether or not Newton should join the state’s Inter-district School Choice program, with the committee set to cast its vote on May 6. Community members who showed up and commented were not supportive of the idea to join,...
by Genevieve Morrison | Apr 24, 2024 | Newton Beacon
PHOTO: Jeff and Maria DeBonee own and operate Sandwich Works in Newton Centre. Photo by Genevieve Morrison / Heights Editor Mara and Jeff DeBonee’s love story started as student coworkers in Stuart Dining Hall on Boston College’s Newton Campus. It blossomed into a...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 22, 2024 | Newton Beacon
Newton held its third annual Earth Day Festival on Sunday at Newton North High School. There were games, climate change informational displays, a petting zoo, electric vehicles, a duo dressed as a chicken and a cow—the event certainly didn’t lack for variety—all...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 22, 2024 | Newton Beacon
This Wednesday, the Newton School Committee will hold a public hearing about the state’s Inter-district School Choice program and whether Newton should join it. “This is an important decision for the School Committee and for our community,” Mayor Ruthanne Fuller wrote...
by Bryan McGonigle | Apr 22, 2024 | Newton Beacon
In a year with a teachers’ strike, a new contract and an inflation crisis complicating it all, Newton is relying on a new stabilization account and something called “carry-forward” to keep its school budget growing while other communities make staffing cuts. What is...
by Richard Primack | Apr 22, 2024 | Newton Beacon
On April 14, the 21st Connie Spear Birnbaum Memorial Lecture featured a program entitled, “Navigating Uncharted Waters: War, Antisemitism, and the American Campus.” The topic was timely due to the reported rise in antisemitic incidents at many colleges and across the...
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