We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 8/17/2025 and Board and Commission Meetings – Week of 8/17/2025 to include the Upper Falls Area Council meeting.
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We corrected Court invalidates deed restrictions on Webster Woods: Major implications for valuation to note that the 17.4 acres to be taken by eminent domain were reduced to 14.7 acres, excluding land that was already protected by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).
We updated Candidates for municipal election to reflect the decision by Cyrus Dahmubed in Ward 4 to run for Councilor-at-Large, not Ward Councilor — and to include links to candidates’ campaign websites. We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 7/27/2025 to include the Rep. Jake Auchincloss Congressional Update and…
We updated As the 90th annual Festa begins… to include a letter from the City Council to the Mayor and a police report of “defacing of public property” on Adams Street. We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 7/13/2025 and Board and Commission Meetings – Week of 7/13/2025…
We have updated New state budget: Over $1.7M in earmarks for Newton to include Newton-related earmarks in Rep. John Lawn’s district, bringing the total of earmarks for Newton to $1,773,000. We later updated this article to include information about the Governor putting earmarks on hold until the fall.
In Nonantum objects to newly painted double-yellow lines on Adams Street, we corrected our quoting of Federal Highway Administration standards in Commissioner Shawna Sullivan’s response to Fran Yerardi’s inquiry, and we removed a broken link from her response.
We updated Community grieves the loss of the Goldstein Family to include a link to Newton Theatre Company’s video of the event, published June 19.
We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 6/15/2025 and Board and Commission Meetings – Week of 6/15/2025 to include the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting.
We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 6/8/2025 and Board and Commission Meetings – Week of 6/8/2025 to include the Waban Area Council meeting, which was posted after initial publication.
We updated Mayor and City Council stand up to Trump administration “sanctuary jurisdictions” designation [UPDATED] to include the statement signed by all City Councilors.