The Brookline Recreation Department announced this week that all grass athletic fields in town are closed because of wet field conditions, an alert posted to its website without a specified reopening date. The closure could affect youth and community groups that use town grass fields fo…
Four Brookline-connected obituaries were published this week: Kear, Alan D.; Shaked, Varda; Shandalov, Felix; and Snell, Bradley Allen. Snell's notice, posted through the Boston Globe, identifies him as a grandson of Stanley Blinstrub, former owner of Blinstrub's Village in South Boston…
Brookline opens an affordable housing lottery for one unit at 24 Juniper Street. Also in today's brief (9 items): Affordable housing lottery opens for Juniper Street unit; Brookline schools closed Monday for Yom Kippur; Library hosts edible bird feeder program today; Why Driscoll's roof…
Brookline is remembering retired Judge Julian T. Houston, a longtime resident who died September 10 at 82. The Boston Globe reports Houston was a retired Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Brookline Public Schools will close September 21 for Yom Kippur, and the Brook…
Brookline School Committee opened its new year by approving the FY28 capital improvements program and a revolving fund for an EMT certification partnership with Mass Bay Community College.
Brookline commits $4 million to rescue expiring-affordability senior housing. The Select Board voted to pledge $4 million from its Affordable Housing Trust toward a 99-year affordability extension at the 117-unit 99 Kent Street complex, part of a $73 million rehabilitation by Wynn Companies.
Brookline Youth Hockey's website has posted a detailed fall schedule covering every level of its program, from Mite through Midget and Bantam teams to its Girls 8U through 18U squads. The listings show games against opponents including South Boston, Needham, Dorchester, Newton, Westwood…
This week's Brookline obituary notices column carries one entry: Wong, Agnes Sin-Han Tse, age 75, whose notice was posted Monday, September 7, by Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home in Brookline and also appeared on Legacy.com and Echovita. She died Saturday, August 29, and is survived by her husba…