Posts published in “Editorial Notes”

We revised Cold Spring Park pollinator garden in full bloom to make clear that this is the first pollinator garden in Newton that has plants chosen from the list cited. It is not the first pollinator garden in Newton. MaryLee Belleville’s letter to the editor was corrected to state that…

We have updated First-ever voluntary DNA collection by state planned at Newton City Hall — postponed by weather and ACLU concerns with quotes from George Annas, Tarik Lucas, and the City of Newton.

We revised the first paragraph of Dr. Regina Wu addresses major cause of health problems – food insecurity to state that the Newton Food Pantry serves 270 households each week, not 100.

We have updated Village Center Zoning Redesign, version 2.0 to provide a table summarizing Newton’s compliance with the MBTA Communities Act and a link to those state guidelines — and to make corrections in response to these points in a letter from Thomas Gagen:

In Newton celebrates Earth Day, we added a parenthetical note to indicate that Martina Jackson, one of the organizers of the Earth Day rally, is a member of the board of Fig City News. We revised Reuse! Recycle! Compost! to correctly state the name of the Sustainable Materials Management Commission…

We updated BAA CEO apologizes for not making Marathon “a great day for everyone” to include comments by Olympians Des Linden and Kara Goucher, as well as a summary of our earlier coverage.

We have updated these stories since they were originally posted: We have also updated our Editorial Policies and Submission Guidelines.

We have corrected dates in these articles:

Our article on the results of the March 14 Special Election (Debt Exclusions Pass – Operating Override Fails) originally stated that the override (Question 1) failed 48.2% to 52.8% and the Franklin School debt exclusion (Question 3) succeeded by 1054 votes. In fact, Question 1 failed 47.2% to 52.8% and…