Category Archives: Events

Bicycle Update

Discover what has changed and what changes are coming for cyclists in Newton! The third-annual Bicycle Update will feature presentations from Transportation Director Bill Paille, Traffic Sgt. Jay Babcock, and others actively involved in improving bicycle safety in Newton.

Learn about new and planned bike lanes and other street improvements, two-wheeled events like the Tour de Newton, bikes at schools, counts and crash numbers, enforcement of the bicycle laws, and more. Give input or bring questions!

For more information, please call Lois Levin: 617- 283-5077 or email John Pelletier: john.f.pelletier@gmail.com

All are welcome.

Monday, September 15th, 6:30 pm
War Memorial, City Hall

Child Passenger Safety Week

Child Passenger Safety Week is September 14th – 20th and  September 20th is National Seat Check Saturday. In Honor of this day the Car Seat Technicians from the Newton Police Department will be performing installations and inspections for all parents, grandparents etc., who would like their child carseat inspected.

There is no fee and there will also be a handful of free carseats available for families in need. The Installations and Inspections will be performed on Saturday from 8:00 am -11:00 am at the War Memorial Drive located at Newton’s City Hall.

National Child Seat Check Saturday:
Date: Saturday September 20th
Time: 8:00 am – 11:00 am
Where: Newton City Hall, War Memorial Drive

Women’s Doubles Tennis Open

2nd Annual Forgirlsake Women’s Doubles Tennis Open : Have fun playing tennis while supporting a worthwhile cause! Saturday September 27th at the Newton North High School Tennis Courts.

Welcoming all women’s doubles players in the 3.0/3.5/4.0 play range; enter with or without a partner (organizers will match up single entrants). Register here: http://forgirlsake.org/tennis.html to benefit Forgirlsake.org, a Newton-based 501(c)3.

Runners/walkers wanted

The Get Real Campaign is heading up a team for the 16th Annual Samaritans 5K Run/Walk for Someone Else’s Life and Family Fun Festival to be held on September 27th in Brighton, MA.

The Campaign hopes to get a strong showing from Newton. There is a $25 per person registration fee but there is no fundraising minimum. It’s more of an awareness event. They have t-shirts available for the first 30 or so participants and could make more if needed. The link for the Get Real Campaign team is

http://give.samaritanshope.org/site/TR/Events/General?pg=team&fr_id=1040&team_id=2230

New Theatre Company

A brand new theater company has just been started in Newton. The Newton Nomadic Theater’s mission is to bring high quality, simply staged, reasonably priced, theater productions to unusual performance spaces in all the villages of Newton. The first production, Faith Healer by Brian Friel, will open on September 26th and 27th in Carriage House Violins in Upper Falls. The following weekend (October 43rd and 4th) the production will move to Lower Falls for two nights at Gregorian Rugs. The final weekend (October 10th and 11th) it will move to the chapel of the First Baptist Church in Newton Centre. All tickets are $20.00

For more information or to purchase tickets go to http://NewtonNomadicTheater.org. Please join them for a night of wonderful live theater … and please tell your friends.

High Holidays at Congregation Mishkan Tefila

All are welcome to family services from 10:00 -1 1:15 on Rosh Hashana: Thursday, September 25th, Friday, September 26th and Yom Kippur on October 4th. Join the services at 5:00 pm on September 25th at Hammond Pond for a musical Tashlich with free childcare available for children 21 months to 5 years old. Please call 617-332-7770 for more information and tickets.

Registration for Ma’or Enlightened Jewish Education is Open

Ma’or (illumination) is a joint program of Congregation Mishkan Tefila and Temple Emeth of Chestnut Hill, and Temple Reyim of Newton. Ma’or offers student-centered enlightened Jewish education for grades K-5 organized around five pillars of study/torches of illumination: Israel, Torah, Community Service, Spirituality, and Hebrew and other Jewish languages.

Classes meet at the JCC in Newton; grades K-5 meet on Sunday mornings and grades 2-5 meet on Tuesday afternoons. Please call 617-564-0460, email maorboston@gmail.com or visit www.maorboston.org if you have any questions.

Destination Imagination

Come to a “DI Info Night” to find out more about enrolling your child in a life changing experience.

Tuesday, September 9th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Zervas Elementary Library at 30 Beethoven Avenue

Wednesday, September 10th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Burr Elementary Cafeteria at 171 Pine Street

Monday, September 15th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Cabot Elementary Cafeteria at 229 Cabot Street

Wednesday, September 17th, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Memorial Spaulding Auditorium at 250 Brookline Street

Monday, September 22nd, from 7:00-8:00 pm
Horace Mann Elementary at 687 Watertown Street

The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts and service learning. DI students learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process.

More than 1.5 million youth have taken part in Destination Imagination problem-solving challenges in the past 30 years. Participating in DI has helped them develop critical thinking skills they can apply to their future schooling and careers to give them a competitive advantage for the rest of their lives. Last year, 80 students from nine different Newton Public Schools participated in Regional and State competitions.