Category: Needham Observer
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Light, color and clay: Needham artists open their studios this weekend
As a teenager, Gail Fischer would run off with her sister’s Minolta and photograph whatever caught her eye on the walk to high school. What began as a habit with a borrowed point-and-shoot grew into a decades-long exploration of photography…
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Residents retrace militia’s march to Arlington
Light rain sprinkled a group of 26 hardy souls who marched shoulder to shoulder from Needham’s Townsend Green toward Arlington Saturday, retracing the path that more than 200 Needham combatants took in 1775. Jackie Anderson Yee, who grew up in…
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Needham seeks its next poet laureate
A hush fell over the room as Anne Nydam, Needham’s inaugural poet laureate, recited “Home, Needham 2025” at a Select Board meeting last year. She described the poem as a tribute to the town and to Kate Fitzpatrick, the former…
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Needham Police write fewer traffic tickets than neighboring towns
Credit: Needham Observer Needham police issued fewer citations in 2025 than any of three neighboring towns, state transportation data shows. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s online citation database shows the Needham Police Department recorded 2,089 traffic violations and issued 1,706 citations…
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Digital parking meters coming to Needham
Needham’s coin parking meters are in for a change./ Credit: Needham Observer Soon, you may not have to dig for quarters to park in Needham’s premium spaces. By early summer, digital parking meters will give drivers the option to pay with a smartphone…
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North Hill seeks approval to expand
The North Hill senior living community off Central Avenue is seeking town approval to build a 44-unit expansion of its campus to help address its years-long waiting list, according to documents filed with the Planning Board. Joe Frias, CEO of…
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Leaf blowers, Quiet Zone fall off Town Meeting agenda
The sponsors of two planned May Town Meeting articles that touched on hot-button issues have decided to pull them from consideration with an eye toward bringing them forward at a later date. A group of residents has dropped its plan…