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	<title>Newton Villages - A city-wide coalition to improve our village centers &#187; Waban</title>
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		<title>The Value of Local Merchants</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/11/the-value-of-local-merchants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Four Corners*]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daddy&#8217;s Junky Music officially closed its doors this past Wednesday, shutting the door on one of the last truly local chains of guitar and musical instrument stores in the region.  In talking about why this small regional chain failed, Fred Bramante (the chain&#8217;s founder) noted competition from online retailers as the prime reason.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avid geocacher creates 13 more reasons to explore Newton&#8217;s villages</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/avid-geocacher-creates-reasons-to-explore-newtons-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/avid-geocacher-creates-reasons-to-explore-newtons-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Moreira, who teaches technology courses at Johnson &#38; Wales University in Providence, has posted an article about a series of items he&#8217;s hidden around Newton as part of a &#8220;geocaching&#8221; project, a scavenger hunt that require the use of GPS technology.
He&#8217;s hidden caches in 13 different village locations &#8212; even in Thompsonville. (Given today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waban Library Center hosts fundraiser May 7</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/04/waban-library-center-hosts-fundraiser-may-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 7, 2011; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Waban Library Center will host an evening of art, jazz, food and wine onto help fund the continued operation of the center, which was reopened by volunteers in 2009 after the city closed it and other branch libraries. The suggested price of admission is a $75 gift to the center, which is tax deductible.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if&#8230; the T stopped in Upper Falls?</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/10/what-if-the-t-stopped-in-upper-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A futurist view?
File this under &#8220;wishful thinking,&#8221; but&#8230;
What if the MBTA extended a branch of the &#8216;D&#8217; line through Upper Falls all the way to Needham? This is not a new idea.
If Upper Falls got rail service back, how would reactivating the old rail line there change Needham Street? 
What if one could ride on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you like your own Village Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/09/would-you-like-your-own-village-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/09/would-you-like-your-own-village-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Corner]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret ingredient in Newton Highlands</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/06/the-secret-ingredient-in-newton-highlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/06/the-secret-ingredient-in-newton-highlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waban]]></category>
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As I hope everyone knows, Newton Highlands&#8217; Village Day is tomorrow.  To the unwitting observer, this would seem unrelated to the recent beautification work I observed a couple of weeks ago.




In fact, the two are intimately connected, and made possible through the Newton Highlands Neighborhood Area Council (NHNAC).
Newton Highlands is home to the city&#8217;s only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MA says to Newton: Why not a BID?</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/05/why-not-a-bi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/05/why-not-a-bi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newtonville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Newton Villages hosted Emmy Hahn of Massachusetts  Downtown Initiative (MDI) for a tour of city&#8217;s village centers.  Hahn has extensive and broad experience in revitalizing downtowns:  she directed the downtown revitalization program in New Bedford, and has coordinated MDI&#8211;a statewide educational and technical assistance program to improve downtowns in Massachusetts&#8211;for several years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NewtonSERVES projects target village spaces</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/03/newtonserves-projects-target-village-spaces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/03/newtonserves-projects-target-village-spaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newtonville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ April 25, 2010; ] [UPDATE 4/2/2010: Online registration is open.]

Nearly a dozen of the projects planned for the city's community service day will improve public spaces in our village centers. NewtonSERVES is coming up on April 25th -- mark your calendars.

Some of the volunteer projects in village centers include:
Auburndale: At the Auburndale Community Library, volunteers will be cleaning and [...]]]></description>
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