Envision Needham Looks to Engage Business Community
April 23, 2025 • Since forming last August, the working group has yet to fill seats open to local business owners. The Select Board voted...
Help Envision a Better Center
2/5/25: Please note, the date of the Thursday Walking Tour mentioned in the following story has changed due to expected bad weather. The new dates...
Needham History: The Busy Corner Store
“A corner that has been – literally – at the center of Needham for nearly 170 years.” [caption id="attachment_133049" align="alignleft" width="800"] The 1887 birds-eye map...
A ‘People-first Design’ for Great Plain Avenue
March 15, 2024 • A fourth and final engineering firm presented its preliminary conceptual plans for the Great Plain Avenue redesign project to the Select...
A New Day for GPA?
March 1, 2024 • Great Plain Avenue is one of the most prominent roads in downtown Needham. The Select Board is now looking for a...
Needham History: The Old Cellar Hole
A vacant, weed-clogged lot - for twenty-nine years! The corner of Great Plain Avenue and Chapel Street around 1910, with the weedy Cellar Hole in...