Category — Auburndale

The John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton and more than a dozen village businesses are working together this week to raise money for the youth center.

The club provides after-school programs, school vacation camp, summer camp, and many other services for children ages 6 to 18.

The hundreds of children attending the Boys & Girls club come from 15 Newton elementary schools and other area schools. To defray tuition costs, the club is able to offer full or partial scholarships to more than 200 children.

Merchants participating include:

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Restaurant Week Boston starts today, and Chef Michael Leviton’s restaurant Lumiere in West Newton is offering diners special special menus March 6-11 and March 13-18 (subject to change).

Lumiere is the only village center restaurant participating. Other Newton restaurants offering Restaurant Week specials include the Riverbend Bar and Grill in Auburndale; Aquitaine, The Capital Grille, and the Metropolitan Club, all in Chestnut Hill; and Bokx 109 American Prime in Lower Falls.

Newton Centre’s Deluxe Station Diner received a nice write-up in Chowhound’s Greater Boston digest this week. Get it, digest?

Now we simply need to point chowhounds to all of the other excellent nosh in town. I’m partial to Jeff’s veggie burger at Sandwich Works (with pickles and peppers, of course). With all the snow on the ground, don’t New Englanders trend to eat more ice cream? Our first grader loves the cake batter ice cream at Wally’s Wicked Good Ice Cream & Treats in Auburndale.

What are your favorites?

In this age of 3-D films and TiVo, it may be easy to overlook the good old-fashioned performance spaces in our village centers. But, perhaps this holiday season, we can take time to enjoy them.

Newton Villages welcomes efforts of the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA) to create collaborations between the city’s arts organizations and our local merchants.

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A futurist view?

File this under “wishful thinking,” but… [Read more →]

With help of the Newton Highlands Neighborhood Area Council, the Waban Improvement Society and Alderman John Rice, we are proud to announce the publication of our Guide to Planning a Village Day. (Also, we want to say a big thanks to volunteers Sean Pears for writing the booklet and Betsy Blazar for designing it!)

The Guide outlines all of the moving pieces that have to come together to make a street fair work in Newton.  Although many of our villages have a Village Day or the equivalent, some still do not.  We’re talking to you: Newtonville, West Newton, Auburndale…. What are you waiting for? And as you ponder the possibilities in your own village, don’t forget to check out Upper Falls’ Heritage Day this Sunday.