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🌱 Patch AM: Plan your perfect route for Newton’s 24-stop Bakery Crawl this weekend.

Also, don't miss Wellesley Weston Lifetime Learning Fall Classes started AND there are NINE weeks remaining! on the Newton Patch calendar

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In today's newsletter:

  • Plan your perfect route for Newton's 24-stop Bakery Crawl this weekend.
  • Why an ICE arrest at Newton District Court just triggered big changes
  • How Newton beat Somerville and Cambridge in safety and wealth rankings

Also on today's calendar: Wellesley Weston Lifetime Learning Fall Classes started AND there are NINE weeks remaining! and 15 more events.

Today's riddle: Do you know what the two sides of a circle are? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Periods of sun, with a high of 64 and low of 49 degrees.
  • Friday: Windy with periods of rain, temps: high: 65, low: 54.
  • Saturday: Rain; becoming windier, cool, with a high of 61 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Efficient routes for the Bakery Crawl, Sept. 25-26 (figcitynews.com) — Newton residents can use these suggested walking routes and transit connections to hit every participating bakery in this year's Sept. 25–26 Bakery Crawl, from Chestnut Hill to Newton Centre and beyond. The guide lays out start times, walking distances, and MBTA options so you can plan a relaxed, pastry-filled weekend close to home.
   

• Judge orders release of man taken by ICE outside Newton courthouse (newtonbeacon.org) — A man arrested by ICE outside Newton District Court earlier this month has been ordered released by a Rhode Island judge, with instructions for a bond hearing and return of his property. The arrest sparked citywide concern, including a Newton North student walkout and a unanimous School Committee vote to adopt the state's PROTECT Act limiting ICE activity in local civic spaces.
   

• Newton, Somerville, Cambridge Top List of Six Safest, Wealthiest Mid-Size Cities (wror.com) — Newton residents can take pride in a new national ranking that names the city the safest and wealthiest mid-size community in the country, with very low crime and high home values. The analysis compares Newton favorably to Somerville and Cambridge, highlighting strong livability scores and economic strength across these nearby cities.
   

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  • German Centre Home Earns Deficiency-Free State Survey for Second Consecutive Year —Debbie Weisberg Read on Patch
  • Our family is looking for part time housekeeping help 3 hours per day M-F, can be flexible if you can only work 4 days and when you come to do the work.
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    thermostat is calling for heat, pilot is lit furnace not firing . (Nextdoor Newton Centre Station)
  • Crate and Barrel posted a job opening for Furniture Assembler in Newton. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Watertown

  • Watertown Man Received Congressional Citation as He Became a U.S. Citizen (watertownmanews.com)
  • South African Playwright to Perform Play About Apartheid in Watertown (watertownmanews.com)
  • Watertown Burger And Ice Cream Business Closing After 22 Years (patch.com)

Waltham

Cambridge

  • Poodle Mix Found Severely Injured, Wandering In Cambridge: MSPCA (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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