Town Meeting starts Monday night, with 40 articles to be considered. Today we have a brief preview of the topics and we will be back with more in a special edition on Monday.
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NPS pieces together AI playbook
By Kay Matipa
IPads have bumped out boxy beige computers, Google Apps have digitalized group projects, and new forms of Artificial Intelligence have made a dramatic entrance by way of ChatGPT, Gemini and […]
Local police, K-9 partners offer once-in-a-lifetime ride to school
By Kay Matipa
Flashing lights and early-morning sirens in Needham neighborhoods may just signal a school pickup — a once-in-a-lifetime carpool with local K-9 celebrity Officer Rocket. “To those who hear us coming in the […]
Chabad Center expansion faces hurdles
By Peter O’Neil
The Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Center, a Needham fixture at its 472 High Rock St. location for more than two decades, is methodically advancing plans to relocate and expand its operations […]
Local spoonmaker carves out a niche from Needham trees
By Seth Bauer
Needham spoon carver Steve Clark slid into sloyd during COVID’s months of isolation. A back-end analytics professional by day and a longtime woodworking hobbyist, Clark needed something new to occupy […]
Light, color and clay: Needham artists open their studios this weekend
By Ayesha Budhwal
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 […]
Town Meeting convenes Monday
By Peter O’Neil
When Annual Town Meeting gets underway at 7:30 p.m. May 4, it will take up spending items that range from a $267 million town budget to a $50,000 study of a […]
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