To help you get in touch with key Newton agencies, here is telephone contact information for them. You can download the list in PDF format (approx. 400 kb), or view it in a printer-friendly page.

Welcome! A theme of my 28 years of service on the Board of Aldermen has been to help preserve and enhance our community and to help solve problems for constituents.

I invite you to call me at home at 617-566-3848, or come see me when I hold informal office hours at Newton City Hall. During the office hours, Newton citizens are welcome to offer their ideas in person, or to seek help with a specific problem.

My next office hours are on on Wednesday, May 9 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Room 222 at City Hall.

Also, feel free to e-mail me at AldermanBaker@comcast.net.

In the meantime, I also invite you to learn more about the Board of Aldermen and how I might be helpful to you, as I have other citizens for almost three decades years as the Ward Alderman for Ward Seven. (Ward Seven is roughly the area of Newton east of Centre Street south of Church Street, east of Grant Avenue, and east of Glen Avenue).

I also want to thank you for your support for my re-election to my fifteenth term on the Board, as well as my work on the Board years so that I might be as effective as possible in continuing to serve you and other citizens.

To that end, this web site is organized to inform you more about:

• The Board of Aldermen and Newton government
• My work on the Board, including work on such issues as finance, education, public safety, and preservation of land and historic resources
• Constituent service as part of my work as an alderman
• The experience and background I bring to helping you and others
• My speeches and writings relating to my work as an alderman
• How you can help my campaign for re-election and thereafter

Again, please visit, call or e-mail me if you have any questions or suggestions, or would like to discuss a problem where I might be of help to you. Thank you.

--Alderman Lisle Baker

Lisle with his wife Sally and daughter Mary Sarah at his inauguration New Year's Day, 2010, when he began his 14th term as the Ward Alderman for Ward Seven, and was elected President Emeritus for the 2010-11 Board of Aldermen by his colleagues, and was re-elected President Emeritus again when he began his fifteenth term in 2012.

R. Lisle Baker
137 Suffolk Road
Newton, MA 02467-1217
(617) 566-3848
AldermanBaker@comcast.net