Category — Upper Falls

Want to voice your thoughts about the future of Needham Street? If so, then mark your calendar for a community meeting at 7pm on Thursday, April 14, in the War Memorial in City Hall.

The city’s Planning and Development Department is moving forward with its efforts to develop a “master plan” for the commercial corridor. These conversations will build on work done last fall by graduate urban planning students at MIT whose semester-long project envisioned some redevelopment options and recommended some implementation strategies to shaping future development along the commercial corridor.

The April 14 meeting, which is open to the public, will provide “a summary of the development ideas to date, and will invite participants to share their thoughts about what’s good and not so good about the existing conditions” on Needham Street. The planning department encourages property owners, business owners, and all interested Newton residents to attend this and subsequent meetings.

For more information, please contact Candace Havens, 617-796-1137, chavens@newtonma.gov.

Earlier posts on this topic:

• Needham Street 2.0
• Envisioning Needham Street

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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Volunteers forming the Newton Upper Falls Area Council (Facebook page and NewtonPatch story) are invited interested residents to attend tonight’s meeting of the city’s only existing area council to learn more about the organization and how it can benefit their village.

The Newton Highlands Area Council meets tonight at 8pm in City Hall Room 222. Some Upper Falls residents will be there to confirm the planned boundaries of the Upper Falls Area Council. Those interested in running for the Upper Falls Area Council can also see how an Area Council operates.

To learn more, please contact Anil Adyanthaya at adyanthaya@aol.com. Also, see earlier posts about Newton’s neighborhood area councils.

Newton residents and others are invited to a book launch party celebrating the print publication of local author Ken Newcomb’s history of Newton Upper Falls, The Makers of the Mold: A History of Newton Upper Falls.

Sponsored by the Friends of Hemlock Gorge, the party will be held 7-9pm on Friday, February 4, at Echo Bridge Office Park, 383 Elliot Street, in the old Mills Falls Restaurant premises. [Read more →]

In Chowhound’s Boston-area digest today, Upper Falls merchant Baza gets major props as “the Russian market to beat.” The supermarket offers produce, meat, and packaged and prepared foods — but focuses on Russian and Eastern European products.

Click to visit Baza's website. Get something good to eat and brush up on the Cyrillic Alphabet.

A futurist view?

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