Office of City Councilor Bill Humphrey

12/16/2025

Last night was my last Newton City Council meeting. I appreciated this thoughtful legislative commendation offered by State Representative Amy Sangiolo "in recognition of [my] 6 years of dedicated service and commitment to the City of Newton as the Ward 5 city councilor focusing on affordable housing, protecting the environment, and advocating for our educators."

12/13/2025

Wonderful to hear from Newton South's a capella competition team tonight at this year's Upper Falls Caroling event!

12/09/2025

This effort to establish a Code of Conduct was one of my big achievements for the City Council this year. Although it did not include everything I hoped to include (nothing ever does, of course), it is a strong starting point enshrined into the permanent rules of the City Council. My goal with this and other recent reforms to the Council rules this year was to try to leave the Council in a better place going forward on process than when I began six years ago. In future, I hope the Council will add enforcement mechanisms.

In 2023, after former Ward 6 Councilor Brenda Noel received inappropriate text messages from her colleague, Ward 8 Councilor At-Large Rick Lipof, she wrote a letter to the City Council asking to, “establish a set [...]

12/08/2025

Great to attend my final Waban Tree Lighting as our neighborhood's City Councilor!

12/05/2025

Truly wonderful to be able to attend the opening of Newton's amazing new senior center this morning after so many years of community & government effort to make this happen.

11/20/2025

//City Councilor Bill Humphrey, who participated in the 150th Anniversary festivities, told Fig City News that he and the current library building were both born in 1991. He considers it the crown jewel of Newton’s municipal government. He said that people come from everywhere to use it, they are always impressed with its size and resources.//

Back in 1875, Newton residents might have had their noses buried in books like Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy or The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Luckily for them, unlike in many parts of the country at the time, Newton had its own library, giving local readers access to the world of liter

11/08/2025

Today!

This November is the 150th anniversary of the vote to transfer the Library to the City of Newton, so we're throwing an anniversary party! Throughout the day, there will be...

11/05/2025

Congratulations to Councilor-elect Julie Irish, who will be succeeding me as the new Ward Councilor for Ward 5 on the Newton City Council in January!

11/02/2025

My deepest condolences to all the family and loved ones of former Newton Mayor Setti Warren on his sudden passing and my sincere thanks to him for his many years of service in such varied ways and to those around him who helped sacrifice their time to make that service possible.