Above are the words “Liberty and Union,” and an outer ring displays the years of Newton’s founding, incorporation as a town, and its incorporation as a city. Newton’s city seal. – Photo ...

The words on the seal are “liberty” and “unity.” Dady said that they have not found records of why those words were chosen. Since this seal was designed during the Civil War, Dady said that unity was ...

Newton’s mayor wants to rethink the city’s long-standing official seal because of its depiction of a white man standing over Indigenous people.