Grab a friend and join Well Within on Sunday, September 22nd from 1-4 pm as we celebrate the autumnal equinox with an open house at Well Within.
Drop in anytime during the open house to sample delicious paleo friendly hors d’oeuvres that highlight the foods of fall and experience equinox themed mini-treatments including acupuncture, massage, reiki and more.
Click HERE to learn more!
Date: Saturday, September 21st
Many thanks from the NNHS Hockey Team!
Chef Paul Turano newest venture “Cook” opens Saturday, September 14th.
The new 80-seat restaurant in Newton, MA is a true neighborhood restaurant concept. There is something for everyone:
– lighthearted “snacks” (house made pretzel ($3), caramel-bacon popcorn ($5) and sweet and spicy peanuts ($5)
– starters (a bag of clams with ramp tartar, salt and corn chow chow ($13), Vietnamese glazed pork ribs with pickled carrots ($12) and Udon noodles with peanuts and ponzu ($10)
– mains such as bacon wrapped trout with a lobster & cornbread stuffing with toasted almonds ($23) and braised eggplant with house-made cavatelli, fresh ricotta, basil and tomato ($18)
The restaurant has a wood-fired stove with nine bar seats where guests can sit and order items directly from the chef, including various flatbreads and wood-roasted bites, while watching them be made.
The 15-seat bar will host a from-scratch cocktail program, five rotating beers on tap, over 25 canned and bottled beers, and an extensive wine list featuring by the glass and bottle options as well as two draft wines.
Cook will open Saturday, September 14th, 2013 at 4:30PM for its first dinner service and will serve dinner 4:30PM – Close (when there are no more customers), seven days a week.
Cook will launch its first brunch Saturday, September 21st, 2013 and will be open for brunch on both Saturday and Sundays moving forward from10:30AM – 2:30PM.
Lunch service will launch October 1st, 2013 and will be served Monday – Friday from 11:30AM 3:30PM.
For more information on Cook please visit: www.cooknewton.com
Watch as Owner/Chef Paul Turano creates his second restaurant “Cook” from start to finish. Cook is located on 825 Washington Street, Newtonville, MA 02460.
On Saturday, September 21 5pm-8pm, come to a mocktail party hosted by Whole Foods Market (Beacon and Walnut Streets) to benefit the Waban Library Center. In keeping with Whole Food Market’s Core Value to serve and support their local and global communities, they will generously provide hors d’oeuvres, beverages, a chocolate fountain and both live and silent auction items.
Saturday, September 21
5 pm – 8 pm
Whole Foods off Walnut Street
The auction led by professional auctioneer, Stephen Dean, includes Whole Foods Market products and books in themed gift baskets, Thanksgiving dinner packages, and health and beauty gifts.
Think Italy, Date Night and more!
This party celebrates the fourth anniversary of the all volunteer-run WLC and the 25 neighborhood. WFM has supported the WLC since 2009, now it’s our turn to give back and join in the celebration.
at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street
Wellesley
Representative Kay and Nasir Khan, School Committee Member Diana Fisher Gomberg, Carol and Ken Krems, Joan McGrath, and former Mayor Thomas B. Concannon invite you for Coffee, Snacks & Conversation with Alderman Deb Crossley, Candidate for Re-Election for Alderman-at-Large
Sunday, September 15, 2013
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
at the home of
Kay and Nasir Khan
18 St. Mary’s Street
Newton, MA 02462
RSVP requested but not required Kay Khan at 617-527-1451 or kaykhan7@gmail.com
at Wellesley Books
82 Central Street, Wellesley, MA
Join a terrific trio of local authors — Erin Dionne, A.J. Paquette, and Ellen Booraem — as they discuss the craft elements writing suspenseful scenes. Come prepared to write at the edge of your seat! Please RSVP to kidevents@wellesleybooks.com to help us plan!
If Massachusetts were a country, its eighth graders would rank second in the world in science, behind only Singapore, according to Timss — the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which surveys knowledge and skills of fourth and eighth graders around the world. (The most recent version, in 2011, tested more than 600,000 students in 63 nations.)
Massachusetts eighth graders also did well in mathematics, coming in sixth, behind Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. The United States as a whole came in 10th in science and 9th in math, with scores that were above the international average.
Ambitious Goals
“Ed reform” was the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, passed by a Democratic Legislature and signed by a Republican governor, William F. Weld.
The three core components were more money (mostly to the urban schools), ambitious academic standards and a high-stakes test that students had to pass before collecting their high school diplomas. All students were expected to learn algebra before high school.
Also noteworthy was what the reforms did not include. Parents were not offered vouchers for private schools. The state did not close poorly performing schools, eliminate tenure for teachers or add merit pay. The reforms did allow for some charter schools, but not many.
Then the state, by and large, stayed the course.
Two decades after Massachusetts passed its education reform, there is still much disagreement over what were the crucial components to its success.
Some think it was the added money; others note that successful countries operate schools at much lower costs.
from the New York Times
p.s. Here’s an interesting report from Harvard: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective
The Newton 9/11 Memorial Committee
Our goal is to create a 9/11 memorial for Newton. Not just to memorialize the eight people from Newton who died that day, but to commemorate the heroism of the police, the firefighters, and the everyday citizens who reached out to help each other.
To remember with sadness the lives cut short and with admiration the bravery displayed by the first responders who selflessly ran into the Towers and the Pentagon to try to rescue others, and the passengers of Flight 93, who rose up together to stop one leg of the attack. It seems that in every generation there is a moment…where there is a “before” and an “after”. Where you can ask anyone, and they will remember what they were doing and where they were on that day, at that hour. 9/11 is ours.
We hope you will join us in creating a memorial.
Please send donations to:
Jan Huffman Treasurer
Newton 9-11 Memorial Committee
27 Indiana Terrace
Newton, MA 02464-1314
p.s. Leanna at All Done Monkey has wonderful post to teach kids lessons from 9/11.