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There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.
Salary increases for paraprofessionals remain a sticking point in the Newton teacher strike negotiations. Among its wealthier neighboring school districts, teacher aide wages in Newton are one of the lowest.
The closure is just the latest example of a nationwide trend of newspapers shuttering their presses in recent decades.
The scaled-back plan affects Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Waban, West Newton, Newtonville, and Auburndale.
The rezoning is Newton’s effort to comply with the state’s new MBTA Communities housing law, which mandates denser multifamily housing near transit corridors in nearly 180 municipalities and has ignited controversy across the state.