Newton's annual celebration of Italian heritage begins Wednesday amid a heated debate over street lines, with some members of the community repainting the traditional tricolors over the city's fresh ...

On June 26, late at night under cover of darkness and without warning, Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller ordered city workers to paint the road lines on Adams Street yellow. Wouldn’t be a big deal except ...

Newton isn’t the only place in Massachusetts that has — or had — decorative street lines. Instead of the same parallel yellow lines found on nearly every two-way street in America, there are red-white ...

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 communicating” about the decision to remove the red, white, and green ...

REACTION AND THE MAYOR’S EXPLANATION. THE RED, WHITE AND GREEN OF THE ITALIAN FLAG. IT IS EVERYWHERE AROUND THE NONANTUM VILLAGE. NEWTON RESIDENTS OUTRAGED. IT’S GONE NOW FROM THE ADAMS STREET LINE.

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 communicating” about the decision to remove the red, white, and green ...