by Eric Reenstierna I have been “on the job” as President of the Newton Conservators for a full year now. I want to say how honored I am to be in

Renata von Tscharner and Karl Haglund: “Inventing the Charles River” Renata von Tscharner is president and founder of the Charles River Conservancy. A Newton resident, she is an architect and

The Community Preservation Act is under attack. And we shouldn’t necessarily be concerned about that. In a democracy, everything ought to be poked, prodded, shaken, bent, spindled, hung out to

October 2003: Neighborhood Meeting On October 23, 2003, a group of some 20 neighbors of Ordway Park and ten members of the Conservators Board of Directors met at the home

The city’s proposal to site a football stadium at Albemarle Park spurred a group of Newtonville neighbors to take a more active role in preservation and management of the neighborhood

The Conservation Commission has been working busily on four Conservation Restrictions. Two CRs, protecting portions of the Jick and Field properties abutting Hammond Pond, will conserve the wooded swamp and

Cold Spring Park is a large wooded area west of Newton Center and south of Beacon Street. It is a successful, multi-use park, with tennis courts, basketball, soccer and baseball

Thoreau wrote, “live each season as it passes.” A lovely place to enjoy at least once each season is the Newton Cemetery. After a visit to the Newton Free Library,

Martha Horn, the city’s Environmental Planner, reports that Newton has received approval from the state to proceed with design and construction of improvements to Hammond Pond. A request for bids

This month will finally witness the culmination of a long process, the acquisition of the 1.1-acre property at 76 Webster Park in West Newton, directly adjacent to the Dolan Pond

On a Sunday afternoon in late October 2003, with rain threatening, a hopeful group of 15 tree viewers gathered outside the Newton Cemetery office to take a look at some

Gene Mackles is a Newton painter and graphic designer. His paintings were exhibited in 2003 at the Newton Free Library. For more information, visit his web site. All images on