Category: Events

  • Newton Take back medication day on October 26

    The Newton Police along with Newton Health and Human Services and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are announcing that there will be a Medication Take Back Day on Saturday October 26, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  This event will be held behind the Newton Police Department, (Support Services Bureau), which is located…

  • Reminder: CHA Fall Annual Meeting is this Thursday

    The fall meeting of the Chestnut Hill Association is coming up on Thursday, October 17, at the Longyear Museum, 1125 Boylston Street. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the meeting will begin at 7:00pm. We will hear from special guest, William Cronin, Jr., Senior VP New England Development, on “Chestnut Hill Square Update & Openings.”

  • Newton Gardeners Planting Daffodils along Marathon Route this Sunday, October 20

    Chestnut Hill Association members, along with several local volunteer gardeners, will be planting 1000 daffodil bulbs along the Boston marathon route, including historic Heartbreak Hill on Sunday October 20th at 9:00 AM.  The Newton effort is part of the larger “Boston Strong Marathon Daffodil” project along the 26.2 marathon route. The goal is that by this…

  • CHA Annual Meeting

    Save the Date! Chestnut Hill Association Fall Annual Meeting Thursday October 17, 2013 Longyear Museum 1125 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill Doors Open at 6:30 PM Meeting 7:00 PM

  • Tour de Newton needs volunteer greeters in Chestnut Hill

    The first annual Tour de Newton will be held on Sunday morning, Oct 6.  It’s a 20 mile bicycle fun ride on a loop through all 13 villages in Newton, sponsored by the city of Newton and Bike Newton.  The ride will start simultaneously in all 13 villages, so every 10 to 15 mins a new group of…

  • Tour de Newton on October 6

    The first annual “Tour de Newton” is coming on Sunday October 6 and it promises to be a great event. It’s a 20 mile bike ride on a circular route that will go through all 13 village centers.  Rather than one massive crowd of bikes, the riders will assemble in all 13 villages and at 9:30 AM they will all…

  • Special Invitation: New film about Chestnut Hill Waterworks

    September 11, 2013 7:00 pm.   YOU ARE INVITED.  The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum will screen “Big Buildings, Big Machines, Big Stories,” a new ​12-minute ​film that celebrates the architects and engineers who built Boston’s first public water system and the grassroots group who preserved its legacy. Tour the Museum​ and​ meet the filmmakers, NewTV colleagues Ellie Goldberg and Laura McCarthy Johnson​. Light refreshments will…

  • Historic Newton Walk in Chestnut Hill

    Sunday, August 25th 2:00pm HISTORIC NEWTON WALKS: Four Centuries on Chestnut Hill Originally settled by the Hammond family in 1655, the Newton portion of Chestnut Hill has flourished over four centuries. With the introduction of railways nearby in the 1850s, what had been a remote and undeveloped area grew rapidly, due in part to the formation…

  • Houghton Garden Clean Up

    Please help and volunteer on Sunday May 19, 2013 to clean up the area around Houghton Garden bordering T tracks and Webster Woods. 9:00 AM – Noon Meet opposite 210 Suffolk Road Sponsored by Newton Conservators. 

  • CHA annual membership drive continues.

    With our annual “members only” cocktail party coming up, now is the time to become a dues paying member of the CHA! Pay your $40 annual dues now, and join the community for an evening of cocktails and comeraderie at a historic Chestnut Hill home on Thursday, May 23rd. Click here for membership information and…