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Gallery 93 opens Trachtenberg paintings exhibit Sept. 14
Gallery 93 at the Brookline Senior Center opens "Without a Map," a paintings and mixed-media exhibition by Boston artist Barbara Trachtenberg, running Monday, Sept. 14 through Nov. 30 with an artist's talk Oct. 22.
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First Parish hosts Blessing of the Animals service Aug. 30
First Parish in Brookline holds its annual Blessing of the Animals service Sunday, Aug. 30, at 10 a.m. in Lyon Chapel, with song, story, a social hour and an open invitation for leashed pets.
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Gallery 93 opens Trachtenberg paintings exhibit Sept. 14
Gallery 93 at the Brookline Senior Center opens "Without a Map," a paintings and mixed-media exhibition by Boston artist Barbara Trachtenberg, running Monday, Sept. 14 through Nov. 30 with an artist's talk Oct. 22.
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Gallery 93 opens Trachtenberg paintings exhibit Sept. 14
Gallery 93 at the Brookline Senior Center opens "Without a Map," a paintings and mixed-media exhibition by Boston artist Barbara Trachtenberg, running Monday, Sept. 14 through Nov. 30 with an artist's talk Oct. 22.
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View MoreNine-day Green Line shutdown hits all four Brookline branches starting Saturday
The MBTA will suspend Green Line service on portions of the B, C, D and E branches from Saturday, Aug. 8 through Sunday, Aug. 16 for signal upgrades in the central tunnel, with free shuttle buses and fare-free bus routes replacing train service for Brookline riders.
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View MoreBrookline police host fifth National Night Out at Lynch Recreation Center
Brookline Police Department hosts its fifth annual National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Lynch Recreation Center, featuring K-9 demos, a bike rodeo, bounce houses, food and more than a dozen local organizations.
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View MoreBrookline offers free back-to-school vaccine clinics Aug. 18 and Aug. 26
Brookline Public Health is hosting two free walk-in immunization clinics for children ages 1–18 at 11 Pierce St. on Aug. 18 and Aug. 26, offering all state-required vaccines before the school year begins.
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View MoreAt 93, former professor Pilar Rotella finds new voice in Brookline writers' group
Pilar Rotella, 93, a former literature professor who taught for more than six decades, now writes personal essays and lectures on Don Quixote at The Newbury of Brookline's Writers' Workshop on Fisher Hill.
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View MoreFor 70 years, this family kept the secret buried. Now the killer's own son is finally talking.
Investigative journalist Phyllis Karas, a first cousin of convicted killer Ronald Blumenthal, published "The Curse of the Blumenthals," a six-year project that includes the first public account from the killer's son about a murder that took place at 78 Cypress Street more than 70 years ago.
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View MoreBrookline's three library branches join region-wide scavenger hunt Aug. 3–8
All three Public Library of Brookline branches are joining the Minuteman Library Crawl, a free scavenger hunt running Aug. 3–8 where participants collect stamps and solve clues for a chance at a Grand Prize Drawing.
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View MoreBy day, she's a school dean. By night, she's staging a play about Black suffragists — and Brookline just recognized both
Brookline High School Dean of Students Summer L. Williams was recognized as a public health champion at Brookline's Public Health Awards Ceremony for her work connecting theater and storytelling to youth mental health; her world-premiere production "A New Era" runs through August 8 at the Strand Theatre.
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View MoreChamber hosts free networking event at bartaco Brookline on July 28
The Charles River Regional Chamber is hosting a free young professionals networking event at bartaco on Beacon Street on Tuesday, July 28, open to members and non-members as the regional organization continues building Brookline programming after absorbing the former Brookline Chamber in April.
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View More80-year-old Brookline activist faces felony charge over sticker at Coolidge Corner deli
Susan E-Hornfeldt, 80, is charged with defacing or damaging property after Brookline police say she placed a "Free Palestine" sticker on Michael's Deli in Coolidge Corner, the latest in roughly 40 vandalism incidents targeting the Jewish deli since 2023.
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View More108 years after his death, a soldier finally got the headstone — and the prayer — he was owed
Jesse Hefter, a Chestnut Hill resident and Brookline School Committee member, traveled to Saint-Quentin, France, on July 3 to recite Kaddish at the grave of his great-uncle Isidor Katzenstein, an 18-year-old German Jewish soldier killed in World War I whose headstone was corrected from a Latin Cross to a Star of David through the nonprofit Operation Benjamin and its German partner program, Operation Levi.
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View MoreFree arts walk in Brookline Village on August 20
ArtsBrookline's free Third Thursdays series returns to Brookline Village on Thursday, August 20, with open studios, a free pottery class, and a creative writing night at three walkable venues.
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View MoreBrookline week ahead: McBride documentary, free concerts, puppet show, yoga
Brookline's week of July 20–26 brings a documentary screening on Rep. Sarah McBride's historic campaign with a live director Q&A at Coolidge Corner Theatre, a free family concert and meals, a civic food forest tour, yoga in the park, a puppet show, and a free educator event at Brookline Booksmith.
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