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AS CHILD CARE CENTERS STRUGGLE TO HIRE STAFF, SOME NEWTON PARENTS FACE LONG WAITLISTS
As child care centers in Newton face staffing shortages, parents are facing long waitlists and a lack of certainty around early childhood education.
NEWTON SOUTH STUDENTS, PARENTS RALLY TO SAVE SCHOOL’S JAZZ COMBO
Parents and students from the Newton South High School community demonstrated outside Newton City Hall May 27 to advocate for keeping the school’s Jazz Combo. With a large sign saying “Save South Music,” the parents said they were counting on their kids having the opportunity to continue the award-winning program.
NEWTON KICKS OFF PRIDE MONTH, MARKS 30TH YEAR OF NEWTON SOUTH’S GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
To celebrate Pride Month and honor the 30th anniversary of the Newton South High School Gay Straight Alliance, the city of Newton raised the Unity flag June 1. Community members gathered inside City Hall to hear city officials and activists speak about the importance of supporting the city’s LGBTQ community.
NEWTON HIGHLANDS VILLAGE DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE ‘HIGHLANDS AND LIFE’
After missing two years due to the pandemic, more than a thousand visitors celebrated the 45th annual Newton Highlands Village Day street festival and 5K road race June 12. The event featured more than 70 local restaurants, artists, businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits.
NEWTON CEMETERY SEEKS EXEMPTION FROM CITY’S TREE ORDINANCE TO EXPAND BURIAL SPACE
The Newton Cemetery and Arboretum is again facing a balancing act between its role in the community as an arboretum and a place to bury loved ones. With an estimated four more years of burial space and 10 more years of urn space, the cemetery has applied for an exemption from a city ordinance in order to remove 219 trees to make way for new burial plots.
‘A TOPIC THAT RESONATES’: DOCUMENTARY ON LONELINESS BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER AT WEST NEWTON CINEMA
More than 130 people gathered together in the West Newton Cinema on June 15 to watch “All the Lonely People,” a documentary on loneliness and social isolation before and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
