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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 MoreOne student's art project has split a Brookline school community over where free expression ends and harm begins
A Jewish Brookline parent published a letter on July 14 arguing the Public Schools of Brookline's new art pre-screening policy risks censorship, the latest voice in a divided community debate over how the district responded to a May 20 Ridley School art show that included a piece depicting a pierced Israeli flag.
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View More25 years, 13,000 older adults served, and now a big award to show for it
The Brookline Senior Center received the Charles River Regional Chamber's 2026 Nonprofit of the Year award at the chamber's first Brookline Night event on June 24, recognizing 25 years of service to the town's 13,000-plus older adults.
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View MoreA sea of yellow jerseys, a packed bar, and one goal that made El Peñol erupt
Brookline bars and restaurants have been packed with World Cup fans this summer, led by El Peñol on Harvard Street, after the Select Board voted in June to extend alcohol service hours for late-night matches.
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View MoreHer office closed in 2020. She found herself stuck in a Zoom box. Here's how she found her way back to real connection.
Brookline is surveying 5,000 older residents about unmet needs in housing, transportation, and services as part of an effort to renew its age-friendly community designation within the AARP network, backed by a formal Select Board letter of support signed June 30.
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View MoreBrookline seniors find friendship and purpose through Neighbors Connect
Neighbors Connect, a nonprofit formerly called JP@Home, gives older Brookline-area adults a packed social calendar and mutual aid network through Ethos, with about 135 active members participating in walks, dinners, cruises, and more.
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View MoreBrookline hazardous waste drop-off closed early Tuesday due to heat
Brookline's Department of Public Works shortened Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off hours to 7:30–11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14, closing the outdoor facility 90 minutes early to protect workers during the town's declared heat emergency.
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View MoreThe world's Orthodox Christian community is marking a 35-year milestone right here in Brookline
The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Hellenic College Holy Cross will host a two-day colloquium at Brookline's Maliotis Cultural Center on September 14–15, 2026, marking Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's 35 years of ministry, with in-person and online registration open to the public.
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View MoreA bookstall in central Vietnam. A shopkeeper teaching herself English with "Jane Eyre." That's where this Brookline author's debut novel began.
Brookline resident and Berklee College of Music professor Marian Yee has published her debut novel "4 Janes," a reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" inspired by a 1995 trip to Vietnam, now available at Brookline Booksmith for $16.99.
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View MoreYour guide to a busy week in Brookline: Films, free events and family fun
Documentary filmmaker Ivy Meeropol visits Coolidge Corner Theatre on Monday, July 13, for a post-screening discussion of "Ask E. Jean," kicking off a week of community programming across Brookline that includes free library workshops, a golf course reopening celebration, and weekend shows for kids and film fans.
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View MoreFree jazz every Friday: inside the basement club at Brookline's American Legion
The POSTunderground, a free all-ages jazz club in the basement of Brookline American Legion Post 11, draws a multigenerational crowd every Friday night and hosts a milestone celebration on Sunday, July 26.
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View MoreBrookline Golf Course is back — and inviting beginners to try it for free
Brookline Golf Course reopened its full 18-hole layout on Saturday, July 4, after a nine-month drainage overhaul, the largest since the course was built in 1933. A free golf clinic on Friday, July 17, marks the Massachusetts debut of National Links Trust's Free Lesson Friday program.
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View MoreThis 22-year-old Brookline artist paints with the stuff you grew up gluing to glitter crafts
Brookline native Eleanor Reyelt, 22, is gaining recognition for vibrant, material-driven artwork celebrating girlhood and visual excess, with exhibitions at the Brookline Arts Center, Cambridge Art Association, and venues across Massachusetts and Georgia.
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