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Tensions between city officials and the Italian-American community in the Nonantum neighborhood took a defiant turn after a ...
To residents of Nonantum, painting over the green, white, and red traffic lines felt like an erasure of identity.
The Newton LineGate fight has escalated into a rebellion as residents are taking back the road, trying to restore what they ...
Anger is continuing to brew in the Nonantum neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, after the city removed the Italian flag from the lane lines of a street. Residents on Adams Street woke up recently ...
Italian heritage festival begins amid a heated debate over street markings, as residents repaint traditional tricolors over new yellow lines.
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller of Newton said the decision to repaint the line was a thoughtful consideration made over “many months.” ...
Secretary of State Bill Galvin hasn’t officially said whether he’ll seek another term, but multiple #mapoli observers we ...
Newton mayor defends decision for yellow lines ahead of Italian festival: ‘We missed the mark in communicating’ ...
For more than 90 years, Adams Street in the Nonantum section of the city has been lined with green, white, and red stripes representing the Italian flag. Two weeks ago, residents woke up to find those ...
For the historically Italian enclave, the removal of the tri-colored stripes — representing the flag of Italy — has been a ...
The Nonantum community in Newton, Massachusetts is seeing red because for 90 years, the red, white, and green lines painted on Adams Street have been a symbol of Italian heritage. But now they say ...
For 90 years, every July, the St. Mary of Carmen Festival parades along a green, white and red line in the middle of Adams Street. Friday morning, the stretch of the street only had a yellow line, ...