Welcome to the forty-fifth annual meeting of the Newton Conservators! I want to thank all of you members and friends who are attending tonight’s dinner. Special thanks to Aldermen Vern

Smith, Wolff Tell Conservators: Greenway Healing City Twenty five years is a long time to pursue a vision. The vision for the Rose Kennedy Greenway has always been to replace

The Unusual Rock… is a Snapping Turtle Close-up of its head More information on snapping turtles The turtle was spotted in the pond at Houghton Garden

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As part of our planning for the aqueducts in Newton, we cannot omit Echo Bridge. This distinctive viaduct carried water for decades across the Charles River in Newton Upper Falls

Conservators Seek to Acquire Angino Farm March 2004 When it rains, it pours-and fortunately, the availability of Community Preservation funds makes the Newton Conservators, working in close coordination with city

Awtrey Dell is a hollow that occupies several acres in Newton Corner. The Hyde Brook starts there at a spring and heads downstream through the hollow. A few hundred years

The Kesseler Woods Story An Inside Look at How this Minor Miracle Came to Pass September 2003 Remarkably, the City of Newton has prevailed in its effort to acquire the

The 2005 Christmas Bird Count in Newton was held on December 18th. Ten determined birders were out from 4:00 AM to 6:30AM looking for owls, and spotted seven Eastern Screech

The first edition of the Conservators Walking Guide incorrectly stated that the land now constituting the Helen Heyn Riverway was once owned by Col. Robert Gould Shaw, a famed Civil

Dinora Felske Justice’s award-winning landscape paintings reflect her deeply felt love of nature and concern for preservation. Her choice of exploring the natural environment exclusive of human occupation stems from