by Jill Coull | Jun 26, 2025 | Donor
When Laura McTaggart’s children were young, birthday parties came with a twist: Guests were routinely told not to bring presents. Instead, they were asked to give nonperishable foods to be donated to local pantries. It was a simple way to teach generosity — and one...
by Jill Coull | Jun 25, 2025 | Client
For David, the path to the Newton Food Pantry started in Nonantum. The 60-year-old Newton resident first discovered the Newton Food Pantry through our community freedge, a 24/7 publicly accessible refrigerator and dry pantry located in the parking lot of Central...
by Jill Coull | Mar 6, 2025 | Volunteer
For more than 40 years, the Newton Food Pantry has provided supplemental food assistance to Newton. Today, more than 4,000 Newton residents live at or below the federal poverty level and they routinely struggle to manage high housing expenses and rising grocery costs....
by Jill Coull | Mar 6, 2025 | Client
It was almost three years ago when F.B. moved from the United Kingdom to join her two daughters and three grandsons in Newton. “It is a special time of life, being a part of their lives here in the United States,” she says, “but I do not wish to be a financial burden...
by Jill Coull | Nov 26, 2024 | Donor, Featured
“Don’t stop remembering.” These were among the last words Norman Salsitz heard from his mother, Ester, in their home country of Poland. Remember their family, remember their stories, remember their values. Ester and her husband, Isak, were murdered in 1942 during the...
