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Free yard haunt on Brookline's Gerry Road runs through Halloween
A free, family-friendly residential Halloween display at 111 Gerry Rd. in Brookline features themed scenes and runs daily through Oct. 31.
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Brookline's Beals Street vies for top trick-or-treating honor
Beals Street's annual Halloween celebration returns Oct. 31 as the Brookline block also competes for Reese's national "Trick-or-Treatiest Street in America" title, with a winner to be announced Oct. 21.
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Free yard haunt on Brookline's Gerry Road runs through Halloween
A free, family-friendly residential Halloween display at 111 Gerry Rd. in Brookline features themed scenes and runs daily through Oct. 31.
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Free yard haunt on Brookline's Gerry Road runs through Halloween
A free, family-friendly residential Halloween display at 111 Gerry Rd. in Brookline features themed scenes and runs daily through Oct. 31.
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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 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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View MoreBrookline storyteller collecting residents' memories for new digital archive
Brookline resident Beth Jones is collecting personal stories tied to places and objects in town for Entering Brookline, a multimedia digital archive sponsored by the Brookline Commission for the Arts and Mass Cultural Council, with submissions open through early November 2026.
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View MoreHall's Pond Sanctuary celebrates reopening with ribbon cutting after boardwalk renovation
The Brookline Department of Public Works and Friends of Hall's Pond celebrated the sanctuary's reopening on Wednesday, July 15, with a ribbon cutting and community gathering after months of boardwalk construction closed the North Brookline conservation area.
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View MoreA ballpoint pen, a few sheets of paper, and a thank-you note that turned into art
The Public Library of Brookline's "Art from Inside" exhibit at Hunneman Hall displays artwork created with ballpoint pens and pencils by incarcerated readers of the Prison Book Program, curated by head of reference Jessica Steytler.
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View MoreBrookline's summer calendar is heating up, with free concerts, outdoor yoga, family events and the return of Brookline Day still ahead.
Brookline's summer community calendar features an expanded free concert series with three shows still ahead, weekly yoga starting July 19, a farmers' market in its 47th year, and the Brookline Day street festival on September 27 in Coolidge Corner.
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