Row, row, row your boathouse

On Sept. 25, Community Rowing dedicated a new dock that will allow people with disabilities to have easier access to boats on the Charles River.

The dock, one of three installed in front of the new Harry Parker Boathouse, was funded with a $100,000 grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

According to Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, life doesn’t have to be one big headache all the time. For more than a decade, the Newton Highlands resident has been studying migraines as a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School and staff neurologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she founded the Women’s Headache Center in 2006.

Board of Aldermen President and Ward 7 Alderman Lisle Baker will hold informal office hours at Newton City Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 14, from 6:15-7:15 p.m., in Room 222. During the office hours, Newton citizens are welcome to offer their ideas in person, or to seek help with a specific problem.

After a small amount of marijuana was found in his city-owned vehicle in August, Fire Chief Joseph LaCroix voluntarily took a drug test to prove to skeptics that he isn’t a user.