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Explore Our New Website
After 16 years of incremental changes, the NewtonConservators.org website has received a complete make-over. Scott Lewis of Trailwebsites.com has modernized the appearance of our site,
March 1, 2019
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Annual Dinner Meeting May 8th
Online registration is now open for the 58th annual Conservators dinner meeting on Wednesday, May 8th.
March 1, 2019
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Road Salt Storage in Webster Woods
In February 2019, Boston College began fencing off the rear parking lot on the land it owns in Webster Woods, apparently in anticipation of the start of construction of a road salt storage facility.
February 24, 2019
History
Website Design History
The Conservators website has had several different looks over the years.
The earliest home page image we can find dates to 2001. Mike Clarke was the website manager.
February 5, 2019
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Newton Community Farm Summer Internship Program
Newton Community Farm is now accepting applications for its high school intern programs:
Summer internships are unpaid opportunities for high school age youth to learn about organic and community farming in a fun,
February 4, 2019
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Boston Globe GRANT program
If you subscribe to the Boston Globe, you can help the Conservators by designating us as the recipient of your GRANT voucher. If enough subscribers choose us,
February 1, 2019
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New Trail Marking in Newton Conservation Areas
The Newton Conservation Commission, with some assistance from the Newton Conservators, has begun a project to greatly improve the mapping and marking of conservation areas in Newton.
January 21, 2019
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Sudbury Aqueduct Petition
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority owns the Sudbury Aqueduct, which still serves as a backup link in the water supply system for metropolitan Boston.
December 6, 2018
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Blue Heron Trail: Current and Future Links
The DCR Blue Heron Trail will someday extend from the Charles River Reservation at Watertown Square to Millennium Park in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood.
November 30, 2018
Artist Page
Kenneth Mallory
Kenneth Mallory, the editor of the Conservators Newsletter since 2017, is the former Editor-in-chief of Publishing Programs at the New England Aquarium, where he helped produce over twenty books and wrote nine non-fiction books for children ten years and older.
October 23, 2018
History
Map from Primack’s Flora of Hammond Woods
This map is reprinted, with permission, from the pamphlet, Primack’s Flora of Hammond Woods. Primack is Professor of Biology at Boston University, and a member of the Newton Conservators Board of Advisors.
October 22, 2018
History
The Charles River in the 1970s
Conservators website manager Dan Brody has been taking pictures of the Charles River for quite a few years. While the Charles hasn’t yet attained the Environmental Protection Agency’s goal of a fishable,
October 15, 2018