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Newton Pan Asian Culture festival goes virtual
COURTESY OF THE NEWTON PAN ASIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The Newton Pan Asian Culture Festival was recently held virtually to celebrate the month of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage, Asian organizations in the local communities worked to create an excellent program, including the Chinese American Association of Newton, the Newton Education Support Network, the Greater Boston Chinese Culture Association, the Newton Chinese Language School and Newton Community Pride.
The online program introduced rich and diversified Asian displays of Asian culture, including those of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indian peoples. The evening delivered spectacles of cooking, handcrafts, folk dances, singing, painting, instrument performances and introductions to traditional Asian holidays. It provided an opportunity to let people know more about Asian Americans, and the Asian American organizers wished to show that they love the community and are
UpdatedWed, May 12, 2021 at 7:51 pm ET
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Newton Ruthanne Fuller presented the FY22 budget to the city council Wednesday night. (NewTV)
NEWTON, MA Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller delivered the Fiscal Year 2022 budget speech to the city council Wednesday evening. It was the second budget speech presented during the pandemic.
The city plan calls for a $462.7 million operating budget. The Water, Sewer and Stormwater and Community Preservation Funds budgets will be $60.5 million and $4.8 million respectively.
This year s proposed budget is larger than last year s by $26.2 million or 5.2 percent. This is in addition to federal American Rescue Plan Act funds the city is expected to get.
Timed to perfection: With restoration, Newton City Hallâs 89-year-old clocks are ticking together again
By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 2:27 p.m.
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Philip D Avanza installed the newly repaired gold-leafed clock hands on the cupola at Newton City Hall late last month.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
In a way, Philip DâAvanza is a time traveler. He repairs clocks â concentrating on the enormous timepieces nestled high up in places of worship and public buildings like Newtonâs City Hall, where many have marked the passage of time for decades.
Plying his trade means DâAvanza, of Goffstown, N.H., often will climb high up into buildings in order to examine the workings of a historic tower clock, like the 1809 timepiece he worked on at the Old Groton Meeting House in 2019.
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