Ordway Park’s Beginnings The Newton Conservators, a non-profit organization, has for decades worked successfully to preserve several hundred acres of open space in Newton. One of these open spaces, owned

Chandler Pond in Brighton was listed in early editions of the Conservators trail guide.  This description is from that guide. LOCATION: Brighton at Newton border   NEARBY: Newton Commonwealth Golf

Human Impacts across the Landscape Dan Perlman Conservation Biologist November 29, 2001 Think you know Cold Spring Park? Concerned about the future of planet Earth? See them in a whole

Well-known naturalist and author Peter Alden was the inaugural speaker for the new Newton Conservators lecture series on March 21, 2001. The meeting was cosponsored by the Newton Free Library

Avery Memorial Woods was acquired in 1959 from the Avery family through a negotiated eminent domain taking. According to the Newton Graphic, the land “was sold to the city at

By Doug Dickson Today marks the beginning of the 40th year in the history of this distinguished organization. This time next year, we will celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Newton

By Jean M. Husher The 20-year span from about 1960 to 1980 was a period of such widespread activism in so many social and civic areas that deep historical roots

By Matthew Call Newton may be called the Garden City, but fewer than 20 percent of its land is open space, and with development projects planned for all corners of

President’s Report – 1999 Presented by Michael J. Clarke at the Annual Meeting of the Newton Conservators, Wednesday, May 26, 1999 in Noyes Hall of the Andover-Newton Theological School The

Presented by Michael Clarke at the Annual Meeting of the Newton Conservators, Wednesday, May 27, 1998 in Noyes Hall of the Andover-Newton Theological School. The past year has a very

Presented at the Newton Conservators Annual Meeting, May 29, 1997 by Burton Elliott, President Welcome to the annual meeting of the Newton Conservators. I’m Bud Elliott, the current President, and

A temporary installation by artists Mags Harries, Ross Miller, and Marty Cain, funded by National Endowment for the Arts, was placed in various locations in Cold Spring Park during the