50th MLK Celebration Monday in Newton Centre

The 50th Annual City of Newton Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration will be held on Monday morning, Jan. 15, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon St., Newton Centre. The public is invited to attend this citywide celebration...

South’s Veronica Burton breaks 32-year-old b’ball record

Congratulations to Newton South senior point guard Veronica Burton on breaking South’s scoring record previously held — in a nice twist — by her former coach Katrina Antonellis. The TAB’s Scott Sousa explains.

“I kind of had an inkling in middle school that she was maybe going to be the one,” [Antonellis] remembers thinking. “There have been a couple of others. But when she came through, I would dream of this moment that it was really her.”

Look ma, no thumbs down!

Look ma, no thumbs down!

I’ll start by saying that I really liked the functionality that allowed Village 14 readers the ability to give a quick thumbs ups or thumbs down on comments. The thumbs, I believed, gave visitors here — especially those who only lurk and never, or rarely,...