Boiling Point: NTA supporters rally outside City Hall as potential strike vote nears
On Sunday, as teachers, parents and local officials sat and discussed Newton's ongoing teacher contract dispute, parents wanted to know how they could pressure Mayor [...]
Achievement Unlocked: Newton reaches Safe Harbor status
[Design for Dunstan East development. Courtesy Photo] Last Friday afternoon, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced that the city was on track to reach its Chapter 40B [...]
Mayor says Newton on track for Safe Harbor status in 2024
More than 50 years after Massachusetts set an affordable housing inventory threshold for cities and towns via Chapter 40B, Newton is almost at that goal [...]
What Newton’s newly enhanced tree ordinance means for homeowners
Ralph Waldo Emerson—author, nature enthusiast and one-time Newton resident—once wrote, “The wonder is that we can see these trees and wonder more.” Today, many in [...]
Inaugurated: Newton City Council, School Committee sworn in [Photos, Videos]
Newton started the new year off with a new City Council and a new School Committee. Both bodies of the city's government had their members [...]
Laredo, Kalis announce City Council committee lineup
City Council President-elect Marc Laredo and Vice President-elect David Kalis have picked which councilors will be on which committees for the next two years. “We [...]
Colleagues remember George Mansfield, longtime alderman and city councilor
When George E. Mansfield—one of the longest serving city councilors in Newton’s history—was celebrating the holidays with his extended family in Maryland, as he often [...]
Newton’s Village Center rezoning passed: What does it all mean?
The City Council passed the Village Center Overlay District rezoning plan last week, but not before a slew of amendments were adopted, many of which [...]
Committee mulls ethics policy following ‘unwelcome’ text from one councilor to another
The Newton Programs and Services Committee discussed potentially adding an ethics oversight process to City Council following Ward 6 Councilor Brenda Noel’s claims that she [...]
Marc Up: Laredo to be next City Council president
Marc Laredo, at-large councilor from Ward 7, will be Newton’s next City Council president. After several tie votes, a few other nominations and one councilor [...]
Newton’s winter parking ban in effect
While Newton’s City Council mulls over what to do about the city’s winter parking ban, that ban is now in effect. The Council has been [...]
City Council passes scaled-down Village Center rezoning plan
It is done. For now. Newton’s City Council approved the Village Center Overlay District proposal—or, at least, a chopped up, scaled down version of it—Monday [...]
Newton City Council Removes Six Villages From Proposed Zoning Ordinance
Newton City Council finalized more amendments to the Village Center Overlay District (VCOD), including the removal of six villages from the plan, in a special [...]
Border Street becomes a bargaining chip, is back in rezoning plan
The hope of up-zoning Border Street has risen and dissipated—much like the water that briefly engulfs it after a heavy rain—and on Wednesday night that [...]
Group gears up for referendum on village center rezoning before Council votes
Newton’s City Council hasn’t voted on the Village Center Overlay District proposal yet, but there’s already a plan for a referendum to repeal it. Right [...]