Seasonal & Holidays
What's Open, Closed In Newton: Labor Day 2022
The last weekend of summer is here. Find out what's open and closed nearby.
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NEWTON, MA — Summer is over, at least unofficially. The fall equinox isn't until Sept. 22, and it's still pretty hot out, but Labor Day signals the start of the new school year and the end of summer leisure.
As state residents head out on final summer vacations and host barbecues, it's important to know what will be open and closed in Newton on Labor Day.
- Retail stores: Typically open
- Liquor stores: Allowed to open in Massachusetts
- Supermarkets: Open
- Convenience stores: Open
- Restaurants, bars: Open
- Banks: Closed
- Libraries: Closed
- Stock market: Closed
- Municipal, state, federal offices: Closed
- Mail: Post offices closed; express delivery only
- MBTA: Subways and buses on Sunday schedule; commuter rail on weekend schedule
- Trash and Recycling: Typically delayed one day
- Orange Line: Still closed!
A quick history of Labor Day
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The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated in 1882, with a parade in New York City, but the question of who first proposed the idea of a holiday to honor workers is in dispute more than a century later.
Congress didn't recognize the holiday until what History.com calls a "watershed moment" in American labor history: the 1894 Pullman Palace Car Company strike in Chicago. The strike led to sending federal troops into the city to quell rioters. Just days later, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making Labor Day, the first Monday of September, a national holiday.
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