Beloved Italian Flag Line Returns to Center of Newton Street

Newton's Italian flag-themed street center stripe is finally back

Adams Street's red, white and green center stripe has been restored, 11 months after it was painted over by then-Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller.

Beloved Italian flag line returns to center of Newton street

Newton will repaint a white center line flanked by green and red on Adams Street in Nonantum, restoring the Italian flag design after last summer's controversy.

Mayor Laredo restores the “Italian stripe” on Adams Street

As promised, Mayor Marc Laredo ordered the controversial double-yellow lines on Adams Street removed and replaced with the traditional green-white-red stripe of the Italian flag. Residents of Adams Street were notified that the work would begin at 9PM on Monday, May 4 and would cease by 5AM. If the work could not be completed on that night, workers would return at 9PM on Tuesday, but by morning, to general public approval, the central strip of A…

Goodbye, Yellow-striped Road: Crews return the Italian flag lines to Adams Street - Newton Beacon

Once again, crews showed up late at night in Nonantum to sand the lines off the middle of the street. But before this feels like deja vu and the ripping open of an old wound, [...]