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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.
It wasn’t a full “mi scusi” from Newton’s mayor in the wake of LineGate, but she did admit that the city “missed the mark in ...
The mayor said the tricolor center line was repainted yellow for traffic safety, but festival volunteers can paint it a foot ...
For the historically Italian enclave, the removal of the tri-colored stripes — representing the flag of Italy — has been a ...
On June 26, late at night under cover of darkness and without warning, Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller ordered city workers to ...
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, ...