Kick off the holiday season in Newton Centre on Thursday evening December 4th, and shop, sip and stroll through the Centre, stopping at 29 small businesses, restaurants, and pop-ups with special holiday offers, tastings, giveaways, and freebies.

The Holiday Shop & Stroll starts at 5 PM with caroling on the Newton Centre Plaza. Lighted luminaries guide strollers to participating businesses along Newton Centre’s main roads and side streets. Every stop has something special in store-- a mitten pop-up shop, hot chocolate bar, cotton candy machine, free cups of soup, a pottery sale by Newton South ceramics students—and that’s just for starters…

At the Plaza strollers can help stuff a Newton Police cruiser with toys at The Village Bank Holiday Gift Drive, and there's a Touch-A-Truck for kids with the Newton Fire Department truck and EMT emergency vehicle. Welcome Home, Newton’s free home goods pantry, will be there, too, collecting new or gently used blankets.