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Category: All About Newton
News, events, children’s activities in Newton, MA.
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Fun Free Fridays 2016
The Highland Street Foundation Free Fun Fridays program.
For the 8th year in a row, Highland Street Foundation has partnered with 80 different cultural institutions across Massachusetts to offer free admission to varying museums, zoos, and gardens every Friday starting June 24, 2016 and ending August 26, 2016.
June 24
Tanglewood
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Clark Art Institute
MASS MoCA
Worcester Art Museum
Children’s Museum at Holyoke
International Volleyball Hall of Fame
The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home
July 1
Boston Children’s Museum
The Sports Museum
Heritage Museums & Gardens
Falmouth Museums on the Green
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Amelia Park Children’s Museum
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Wenham Museum
July 8
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Plimoth Plantation
Peabody Essex Museum
Cape Ann Museum
Buttonwood Park Zoo
Children’s Museum in Easton
The Hall at Patriot Place
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
July 15
Edward M. Kennedy Institute
Boston Athenӕum
Larz Anderson Museum
Cape Cod Children’s Museum
Edward Gorey House
Danforth Art Museum\School
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History
Fitchburg Art Museum
July 22
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Pilgrim Hall Museum
The Eric Carle Museum
Fruitlands Museum
Museum of Russian Icons
July 29
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Commonwealth Museum
Battleship Cove
Marine Museum at Fall River
Sandwich Glass Museum
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
August 5
Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Old State House
The Greenway Carousel
Springfield Museums
Historic Deerfield
Hancock Shaker Village
The Old Manse, The Trustees
Worcester Historical Museum
August 12
MIT Museum
The Museum of the NCAAA
Concord Museum
Garden in the Woods
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Naumkeag, The Trustees
Emily Dickinson Museum
Waterworks Museum
August 19
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
USS Constitution Museum
The Discovery Museums
EcoTarium
The Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Fuller Craft Museum
Griffin Photography Museum
August 26
Franklin Park Zoo
Old Sturbridge Village
Freedom Trail Foundation
Museum of African American History
Norman Rockwell Museum
Berkshire Museum
Ventfort Hall
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
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Juice Press Opens in Chestnut Hill’s The Street
Juice Press Opens in Chestnut Hill’s The Street. Here’s footage from the blogger event.
At Juice Press, we are committed to providing a premium plant-based product that tastes great and is free of all processed ingredients. Throughout the food and beverage industry descriptions including “healthy,” “low fat,” and “low sugar,” are overused and misused to confuse people about what the correct decisions are about food consumption.
But in fact, there is not much to be confused about. At Juice Press, we believe the foundation of every diet should be based on leaving out processed foods. JP never uses preservatives, refined sugars, nor salts and only uses the highest quality organic produce. Customers have become hooked to our products because a diet made of real foods, makes them feel good!
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Newton #13 Happiest Place in MA
Newton ranks #13 on this list compiled by career expert site Zippia. It measures happiness by income, education, employment, commute, cost of living, family, home ownership and poverty rate.
Top 20 Happiest Places:
- Longmeadow
- Winchester
- Needham
- Lynnfied
- Reading
- Sharon
- Wellesley
- Northborough
- Wilmington
- Marblehead
- Bliss Corner
- Hingham
- Newton
- Lexington
- Swampscott
- Walpole
- Melrose
- Pinehurst
- Cochituate
- Belmont
Read the survey and get the rankings here.
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Valeo FC Partners with NE Revolution
Valeo Futbol Club Announces New U12 Academy Alliance Partnership
with the New England Revolution
Valeo FC is excited to announce a new partnership with the New England Revolution Academy that will create enhanced opportunities for elite player development and provide worthy players with a defined pathway to professional soccer.
The U12 Academy Alliance is a new collaboration between the Revolution Academy, Valeo FC and two other U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. It will provide a high-level age-appropriate development platform for the region’s top young male players.
“Gaining access for some of our players to compete at the highest level of youth soccer is a tremendous enhancement to our club,” says Valeo FC Director Emelio Williams. “Our mission is to develop a collaborative program to assist in identifying and developing elite-level soccer players within the New England region.”
The Alliance will begin training players during the 2016-17 season and includes two other U.S. Soccer Development Academy clubs.
The alliance clubs will work together on player development methods, best practices and other integrated MLS Youth Development inititives throughout the year. Players from any of the three U12 alliance teams will have a clear pathway into the New England Revolution Academy, starting at the new U13 age group.
“We will have the opportunity to reach some of the region’s most talented youth players,” said Garry Hall, head coach of the Revolution Academy’s Under-14 team and the director of the new alliance. “The alliance offers young players an important number of training and competition opportunities at a critical age and allows us to identify and influence more players at a younger age level than a stand-alone team. We look forward to helping prepare these young players to compete and continue their careers at the highest levels.”
Once within the club partnership structure, the top players will be closely monitored and may be selected to transition to New England Revolution Academy’s new U13 Development Alliance team.
Valeo Futbol Club’s mission is to provide the very best environment for soccer and personal development for committed players who are passionate about the game. Valeo coaches work closely with each player individually to instill the virtues of teamwork, discipline, respect, commitment, leadership and a strong work ethic.
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STEM for Kids at Newton Free Library
Minecraft Club: Come play Minecraft with your friends on the library’s server. We’ll have different challenges each session. Don’t have an account? No problem, use one of the library’s. The club meets the first Thursday of every month. Minecraft Club is brought to you with federal funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Grades 6-12. Register online. Thursday, June 2, 4:00 pm, second floor Computer Center.
Teen Tinker Club: Learn how to code LEGO WeDos using Scratch! Tinker Club is brought to you with federal funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Grades 6-12. Space is limited, please register online (registration begins April 28) . Thursday, May 19, 4:00 pm, second floor Computer Center. -
Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast
Dear Resident,
You are cordially invited to join me for the 42nd annual Theodore D. Mann Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast.
Each year, the Prayer Breakfast is an opportunity for residents, businesses, non-profits, clergy and staff to come together and celebrate the strength and diversity of our community.
This year, I am pleased to welcome as our keynote speaker MassChallenge CEO and Founder John Harthorne.
MassChallenge is a leading global startup accelerator, driving growth and innovation throughout the world. Last year we welcomed MassChallenge to Newton as they opened a site at 124 Vernon Street in Newton Corner.
The breakfast will be held on Wednesday, May 25th 7:30am-9:00am
at the McElroy Commons building at Boston College.In addition to remarks from Mr. Harthorne, the breakfast will also feature readings from an interfaith representation of clergy, musical performances from Newton Public Schools students, and the presentation of awards, including the annual Community Service Award some very dedicated residents of Newton.
Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available now. This year, we are partnering with the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce to make tickets available for purchase online. To purchase tickets today, please click here and then click on the “Register Now” button.
Tickets can also be purchased by contacting Tony Bibbo at Tony Bibbo at 617-969-5906 x305, or ajbibbo@aol.com.
Proceeds from the event will go toward the Foundation for Racial, Ethnic and Religious Harmony, a terrific local non-profit which provides grants for worthy organizations in Newton and beyond.
Thank you so much, and I look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Setti D. Warren
Mayor
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Openings at Weekday Nursery School
Weekday Nursery School has openings for our summer camp program and limited openings for the fall program.
Weekday Nursery School provides care for children between the ages of 2.9 and 5 in Newton Highlands.
A preschool designed to meet the needs and interests of young children and their families since 1971.
We currently have limited openings in our three and four year old programs for school year 2016/2017 .
We believe that “play” is children’s work. Through play, children learn to build foundational skills such as cooperation, respect for others, problem solving, self regulation, and build a strong sense of self. Our environment promotes and encourages a natural sense of curiosity and nurtures each child to be able to explore , ask questions, and make connections about the world he/she lives in.
Weekday Nursery School offers classes for ages 2.9 – 5 year old children with 3, 4 or 5 day options.
Hours : 9:00 – 12:00 with optional early drop off and extended day.
For more info or to schedule a tour , please contact Director, Faye
Tonkonogy at 617-527- 8895 or email: Weekdaynursey@gmail.com
54 Lincoln St.
Newton Highlands MA 02461
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Massachusetts 5th Best State for Working Moms
Massachusetts Is the 5th Best State for Working Moms
Solo moms with young children constituting nearly three-quarters of all working women, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best & Worst States for Working Moms.
In order to help ease the burden on an underappreciated segment of the population, WalletHub’s analysts compared the attractiveness of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia to a working mother. We did so using 13 key metrics such as median women’s salary, female unemployment rate and day-care quality.
Life as a Working Mom in Massachusetts (1=Best; 25=Avg.)
- 17th – Day-Care Quality
- 4th – Access to Pediatric Services
- 15th – Gender Pay Gap (Women’s Earnings as % of Men’s)
- 21st – Ratio of Female Executives to Male Executives
- 21st – Female Unemployment Rate
- 16th – Parental Leave Policy
- 7th – Length of Average Woman’s Workday
- 11th – % of Single-Mom Families in Poverty
For the full report, please visit here.
