Community Corner
The Week's Top Stories: New Modulars; Drug Ring Bust; Newton Editor Says Goodbye
Miss a few headlines this week? Catch up on your Newton news.
- After the Newton School Committee gave the OK for four modular classrooms at Mason-Rice Elementary, the full Board of Aldermen approved funding for a total of 10 modular classrooms that will be added to elementary schools across the district.
- A Yogurtland and Greater Boston Running Company are coming to Newton Centre.
- The fiscal 2014 water/sewer rates were presented this week. See how they will affect your bill.
- The Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Spring Seasonings event this week.
- Charles River Canoe and Kayak lost its bid to operate at the Newton boathouse.
- Newton celebrated the grand opening of the new Veterans Service Center.
- Newton Patch Local Editor Melanie Graham left Patch this week. Her last day was Friday, May 10. Read her goodbye column here.
- Aly Raisman has made it to the Dancing with the Stars semifinals.
- Mayor Setti Warren recently made an appearance in Times Square.
- We updated who has pulled papers for the Newton municipal election.
- News surfaced this week that Newton family friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev urged him to turn himself in.
- Two Newton men were arrested in a major drug ring bust.
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