Columbia Health expanded its annual flu fair this year, adding a second vaccination location and an extra day. Eligible affiliates have one day left of the four-day fair to stop by and get vaccinated.

The expansion comes after the number of vaccines given at the fair fell for three straight years. Columbia Health administered 5,952 vaccines in 2025, about 80 percent of them to students, Columbia Health Communications Specialist Kirsten McCann wrote in a statement to Spectator. That is down more than a third from the 9,165 given in 2022, according to Columbia Health’s annual report. The department hopes to give out more this year.

Members of the Newton Teachers Association (NTA) gathered on the front steps of City Hall this afternoon, initiating a strike following lengthy and unsuccessful contract negotiations with the Newton School Committee.