Chamber News
While finishing my senior year at Newton South High School, I started an internship with the chamber in an attempt to narrow down what I might want to do in the future. I was initially interested in interning at the chamber because I would be involved with...
The British government has launched a program designed to help restaurants and everyone else struggling from a deep recession: Half price meals. ...
“Put your money where your heart is.” That’s the slogan that will be front and center in a $2 million ad campaign encouraging Massachusetts’ residents to shop, dine out and travel at local stores and destinations. Gov. Charlie Baker announced the program yesterday. It will launch...
The Boston Globe's editorial board is challenging us to follow our better angels. Will we listen? In an editorial Sunday, “Tear down this paper wall, Newton,” editors urged the Newton City Council to “correct a historic mistake” by overhauling the zoning rules that “for almost a century, have outlawed...
For nearly two decades, your chamber has been located in a small, admittedly unimpressive, two-story building on Needham Street. Folks with long memories will remember it as the Good Vibrations building (the record store, not the present-day “sex-positive retailer”). Up until very recently we told everyone looking for...
It's bad out there for most of our mom and pop retailers. I didn’t have to tell you that. But this morning I can tell you just how bad it is, thanks to the Retailers Association of Massachusetts which shared results of a statewide survey with...
There's just over two weeks left to nominate someone for our list of the 50 Most Influential Business People of Color in Boston's Greater Suburbs. Our goal is to showcase the individuals and employers who are making a positive contribution to the economic and social fabric of our west suburban businesses ...
Even with players in masks and social distancing protocols in place, the chamber’s 29th annual Children’s Charitable Golf Tournament on August 3rd at the Woodland Golf Club in Newton continued its sold out streak and was once again able to successfully support a member...
In a show of support for our local restaurants, 17 City Councilors are asking the Newton Licensing Commission to temporarily cut liquor license fees tonight. “We are concerned about the struggling Newton restaurants,” the councilors wrote in a letter to the commission. “Our villages are made vibrant...
Certainly the anxiety is high for the parents of school age kids, wondering and worrying about what’s going to happen this fall, as school systems statewide scramble to meet today’s deadline to submit reopening plans. Good morning and happy Friday! Or is it really more of a high anxiety Friday? Certainly the...
The mission of the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is to champion our communities’ economic and cultural vitality through advocacy, education and networking.
We are not affiliated with any other chamber of commerce, nationally or locally.
Newton-Needham Regional Chamber
P.O. Box 590132
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Phone: 617.244.5300
info/at/nnchamber.com
