6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (289+ words) Running shoes. Google Commons August seems to have come and gone like a thief in the night, as Monday starts a new month and meteorological fall. But don’t break out the scarves and apple cider yet. It’s going to be…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (879+ words) I wrote my first ever column for Newton North’s The Newtonite about my love for the Boston Red Sox. I now find it only fitting that I write this column, my last before leaving for college, about the same team....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (259+ words) In a memo to city councilors on Aug. 13, Mayor Marc Laredo announced that his administration is restructuring the DPW leadership to address the need for a single agency to oversee sustainability efforts, and that includes integrating the Office of Sustainability…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (198+ words) Newton is facing the same housing shortage crushing communities across Massachusetts. For too many families, homeownership is a distant impossibility, and rents are rising at astronomical rates. Senator Ed Markey stood with Senator Elizabeth Warren to pass the bipartisan 21st Century…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (980+ words) Summer 2026 is almost over. Meteorological fall starts next week, and the autumnal equinox will be here shortly after that. But as the aroma of pumpkin spice takes hold, there is a great lineup of fall events throughout Newton, both indoors…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (227+ words) Few residents know that our 24 city councilors and eight School Committee members receive taxpayer-funded compensation plus benefits, indexed to the mayor’s salary. Even fewer realize that they are looking into giving themselves raises. President Oliver is appointing a commission to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (828+ words) Over a typical summer, more than 300 Newton teenagers and college students work for the Parks and Recreation Department as staff in camps and at swimming locations across the city. They provide valuable services to the public, especially Newton’s children, in…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (199+ words) Since February, community members nationwide have organized to demand elected leaders return campaign donations from Palantir, the data and surveillance company whose software powers ICE’s mass deportation agenda. So far, 14 officials in Colorado, California, Illinois and Minnesota have agreed to…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1362+ words) When Jason Poulos launched his congressional bid last winter, he was an unknown candidate facing an unknown political landscape. He’s since amassed a small campaign army, and he says they’ve knocked on more than 15,000 doors across the Massachusetts 4th Congressional District…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (261+ words) If the Tuesday Farmers’ Market at Cold Spring Park looked more crowded than usual, it’s because there was a visit from a congressman who wants to be your new senator. U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, running in a Democratic primary…...