Newton’s Department of Public Works hosted Newton’s now-annual Pumpkin Smash outside City Hall on Saturday, November 1, with many inventive and powerful ways to smash post-Halloween jack o’ lanterns. Also available were environmentally themed exhibits about composting and managing food waste, Touch-a-Truck opportunities, food trucks, and ways to donate Halloween costumes and excess candy. See this year’s gallery at https://photos.figcitynews.com/2025/2025-Newton-Pumpkin-Smash/n-PX2HjW. Photos by Jack Prior.

Newton Pumpkin Smash, 2025 (photo: Jack Prior)




