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By AUBREY HAWKE Waltham Times Contributing Writer A city committee voted to support giving $6 million to the Waltham Boys & Girls Club for building restoration and $1.3 million to remove contamination and renovate structures at 240 Beaver St, where the Waltham Fields Community Farm has been located for 30 years.  The Long Term Debt… Read more: City supports $7.3 million in grants to restoration and abatement of historical properties

By EVAN EDMONDS Waltham Times Contributing Writer  The City of Waltham has until the end of the calendar year to submit a proposal for 3,982 multifamily housing units near its transit center or face repercussions from the state for noncompliance with the MBTA Communities Law. As a “Commuter Rail Community” Waltham must draft an application… Read more: City officials confident in meeting MBTA community compliance deadline despite time crunch, application setback

By DAVID ROSEN Waltham Times Contributing Writer A mural created by two members of the Waltham High School art club soon will be displayed at the Charles River Collaboratory inside the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation at 154 Moody St. Seniors Ada Slaeker and Elizabeth Judd said they worked one day a week… Read more: Waltham High School students’ mural will grace the Charles River Collaboratory

By AUBREY HAWKE Waltham Times Contributing Writer Dozens of Waltham High School students wearing their matching blue National Honor Society T-shirts filled the seats of last week’s School Committee meeting.  They were there to be recognized for their work leading city residents on tours of the brand new Waltham High School building.  “I am pleased… Read more: National Honor Society members recognized for their service

Road crews will be busy this week. Here are street paving projects listed on the city’s engineering department page:  Please note that all construction schedules are tentative and subject to change. They are especially weather dependent. For questions, call at (781) 314-3830 or e-mail ewong@city.waltham.ma.us.

By AUBREY HAWKE Waltham Times Contributing Writer School administrators in the English language arts department updated the School Committee on their programs at the committee’s meeting last Wednesday. Anne Curry, the district’s director of reading and English language arts for kindergarten through fifth grade, presented a report on her department’s recent successes and challenges.  She… Read more: School Committee action in brief

By AUBREY HAWKE Waltham Times Contributing Writer Waltham High students and parents are pushing back against the restructuring of a weekly scheduled free period called Hawk Block. The change to Hawk Block was first announced last Wednesday. “Yesterday we met with staff to inform them that we would be halting the use of our Hawk… Read more: Waltham students push back on changes to Hawk Block

By William HolderWaltham Times Contributing Writer  The bust of a Maidenform display mannequin named the Laden Maiden peers out from a glass case in the Waltham Museum’s Military Room, and she has quite a war story to tell on this Veterans Day. The maiden originally sat on a countertop in the lingerie section of the… Read more: Prodigal maiden kept returning to this Waltham veteran

By DAVID ROSEN Waltham Times Contributing Writer Veteran journalist Ellen Clegg told a Waltham gathering on Saturday that cities and towns must strengthen community ties and civic engagement and support legitimate news sources to fill a news void caused by massive newspaper closures across the country. Clegg, a former opinion and editorial pages editor at… Read more: Waltham Times hosts forum on future of local news

Learn the fundamentals of journalism by attending our Journalism 101 class, taught by Anne Donohue, an award-winning journalist, a public radio producer and a retired associate professor of journalism at Boston University. This program, designed to be engaging and interactive, will take place at the Waltham Public Library lecture hall on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1… Read more: Take our Journalism 101 class