2021 – It was the end of a year of Covid.  High school students were finally scheduled to return to classrooms in the coming weeks.

 

2020 – The Covid19 lockdown had just begun and people were kind of cranky.  All of our stories this year has a pandemic bent.   We got more than the usual share of “that’s not funny, you shouldn’t be making jokes” comments

 

2019 – Big news this year was that the PawSox would be building a new stadium on the Northland site in Upper Falls.  The nice graphics from Bruce Henderson lent a dose of credibility to the story.

 

2018 – A very quiet year with a single story intended to rattle the youth of the city

 

2017 This year a mayoral campaign was just beginning so we took the opportunity on April Fools Day to announce that Greg Reibman was running for mayor and slapped together a semi-credible campaign web site for him.

 

2016 – This year once again was a non-stop Foolorama.  The day began with a story that stirred up an outpouring of outrage about John Rice being fired from his position at the Hyde Center.  Said John “after I got over the initial shock, it was like being at my own funeral and hearing people say so many nice things about me”.  Once the cat was out of the bag about John Rice’s firing being a prank we opened up a fire hose of April Fool stories for the rest of the day.

 

2015 – This year turned into an absolute April Fools extravaganza.  The day began with a string of early morning stories about an upcoming big press conference.  A post purporting to be live from City Hall reported that Mayor Setti Warren had just resigned.  People all over the city were taken in by this story.  Once people figured out it was a scam then it was announced that Village14 had just been sold to The Onion.   The masthead changed to the Newton Onion and for the rest of the day Village 14 became an endless stream of goofy April Fools/Onion style stories.

 

2014 – This story was frankly a bit boring but it definitely stirred things up at City Hall that day

 

2013 – This first Village14 April Fools story snookered quite a few people including the Director of Public Relations at the MWRA … and kicked off a Village 14 tradition