• Fire Safety Seminar

    Come meet the Newton Fire Department at the Hyde Community Center, 90 Lincoln Street, and learn all about fire safety, including: how to use and maintain smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, how to use [...]

  • Senior Needs Assessment Survey – Seniors, Have Your Say

    As the Department of Senior Services plans for the construction of the Newton Center for Active Living (NewCAL) project at 345 Walnut Street in Newtonville, which will open in 2025, the City of Newton has [...]

  • Book Talk: Sixty Blades of Grass

    Hyde Community Center 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, MA

    Sixty Blades of Grass, by Elizabeth Millane, is an intriguing and dramatic, yet personal, story about the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. Inspired by the author’s own family history, this is a riveting, [...]

  • Book Talk: Sixty Blades of Grass

    Hyde Community Center 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, MA

    Sixty Blades of Grass, by Elizabeth Millane, is an intriguing and dramatic, yet personal, story about the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. Inspired by the author’s own family history, this is a riveting, [...]

  • Coping with Ambiguous Loss

    Hyde Community Center 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, MA

    When someone dies, we have rituals to mourn their passing and accept that they are gone. We do not have the same rituals for losses in which the person may be physically absent but still [...]

  • The Before & After of Estate Planning & Asset Protection

    Hyde Community Center 90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands, MA

    Elder Law Attorney Wendy Guthro will discuss the essential legal documents you should have to prepare for whatever life throws your way. The discussion will include the difference between a will and a revocable or [...]

  • Walk to End Alzheimer’s (right here in Newton)

    The Newton Senior Center will participate in the Walk to End Alzheimer's once again in Newton Highlands. Wear purple and join us at Brigham House, 20 Hartford Street. We will walk to Beacon Street and [...]

  • Community Document Shredding and Medication Take-Back Day

    Newton Resource Recovery Center 115 Rumford Avenue, Auburndale, MA

    Open to all Newton residents. Shredding service is for RESIDENTIAL materials only (no business materials). Staples and paper clips may be left in documents. Already shredded paper is also accepted since it’s not allowed in [...]

  • UMass Boston Presents: Aging in Newton: A Community Needs Assessment

    Newton Free Library - Druker Auditorium 330 Homer Street, Newton, MA, United States

    The public is invited to the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium on January 7 at 7 p.m. to learn about the 109-page report — Aging in Newton: A Community Needs Assessment — commissioned by the [...]