Posts published in “Editorial Notes”

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.

We updated Who (so far) is running for City Council or School Committee? to include candidates for Ward 7 School Committee and to correct the names of K. Garrett Miller and Benjamin Schlesinger. We updated Newton Theatre Company’s Monologue Project will honor memories of Goldstein family on May 31 to…

We have updated Over the line? to include a message from Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and a WBUR podcast based on the incident.