Goldman Sackler went for a walk along Leverett Pond early yesterday afternoon and noticed this EPA Emergency Response SUV parked in the lot between the pond and the Brook House condo complex. Read more.
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By adamg - 12/11/24 - 11:00 pm
The New England Wildlife Center reports its workers captured four more birds along the oil-besotted Muddy River in need of cleaning and rehab today, bringing the total number of birds it now has under care to 43. Read more.
By adamg - 12/9/24 - 10:57 pm
Along with all the ducks and geese, a bald eagle perched up in a tree along the Muddy River today, surveying the geese paddling down below in the oil-infused water, near the pedestrian bridge over the Green Line to Carlton Street.
By adamg - 12/9/24 - 8:49 pm
The Brookline Select Board said tonight that state environmental experts have taken the lead in figuring out where the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River downstream from Leverett Pond and that the source has yet to be identified. Read more.
By adamg - 12/8/24 - 3:04 pm
Oil-covered goose near Longwood.
Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond this afternoon on reports of oil - and a heavy petroleum odor, spreading from Leverett Pond at the rear of the Brook House at 33 Pond Ave. in Brookline and at least as far north as the Longwood Green Line stop. Read more.
By adamg - 12/6/24 - 1:11 pm
Photo by Transit PD.
Transit Police report arresting a 27-year-old woman they say drove her Camry inbound on the Green Line tracks at Coolidge Corner around 2:30 a.m., then tried to book it down the tracks at "a high rate of speed," only she didn't get very far before the car went off the rails and officers were able to book her on a charge of OUI.
By adamg - 11/15/24 - 10:25 pm
A federal appeals court today agreed with a lower-court judge that the manager of the Coolidge Corner Trader Joe's had a legitimate reason to fire a 77-year-old worker, because she had been caught buying beer for her 19-year-old grandson, who also worked at the store at the time. Read more.
By adamg - 11/1/24 - 10:17 am
A federal judge this week sentenced Priya Bhambi of Brookline to 46 months in federal prison and allowed the government to seize numerous assets in a bid to recoup the more than $2.5 million she admitted embezzling from Takeda Pharmaceuticals of Lexington, where she worked as a senior technology executive Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/24 - 3:53 pm
People who vote in Brookline this year - whether at early voting locations or at their normal polls on Election Day - won't be getting those hum-drum little oval "I Voted" stickers that voters in certain neighboring communities can expect. In a statement, Town Clerk Ben Kaufman said:
These stickers were made to increase attention to elections and help drive voter engagement. Any chance we have to talk to voters and encourage them to make their voices heard in our elections is an opportunity we will take.
By adamg - 10/13/24 - 5:29 pm
A correspondent forwards this video of some Trump supporters in Brookline's Coolidge Corner today, waving, among other things, the flag Iran used until the Shah was overthrown in 1979, as the Orange One blares about how he'll ban vaccinations in schools and suppress transgender athletes, in one of the places least likely to vote for him - in 2020, Biden defeated tfg 87-11 in Brookline.
By adamg - 10/2/24 - 3:33 pm
Very conceptual, preliminary rendering of a drone's eye view above Rte. 9 eastbound by Finegold Alexander Architects.
City Realty last week unwrapped some of its ideas for the 5-acre office complex on Rte. 9 in Brookline at the Newton line it now owns: Replacing it completely with a new complex featuring a 20-story hotel/condo tower at the city line along with two shorter buildings with apartments, retail space and medical offices, all clustered around a "town square" the length of two football fields with a stream-like "water feature" that would encourage visitors to sit and enjoy themselves. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 8:12 pm
A student was "inappropriately touched by an unidentified man" as she walked between Brookline High School buildings on Tappan Street around 1 p.m., Brookline Police and school officials report. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/24 - 9:56 am
The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has ordered Sunset Cantina, 916 Commonwealth Ave., to go alcohol free between Oct. 7 and Oct. 15 because of an incident in which a swarm of state investigators found an even larger swarm of freshman-age drinkers, many with vodka concoctions, one night last October. Read more.
By adamg - 9/3/24 - 9:52 am
Brookline.News reports the South Brookline Chabad Center says its outgrown its current home on the Putterham rotary - across from Temple Emeth - and wants to build a new, larger center down Bellingham Road - but nearby residents say the proposal is just too darn big, and besides, the home it would replace are historic. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 9:43 am
Lilyan Hashim was walking around the Brookline Reservoir when she spotted a cormorant being all cormoranty and spreading its wings while perched on a rock yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/20/24 - 1:31 pm
A chain of "pregnancy resource centers" - including outlets in Revere and Brookline - that won't offer referrals for abortions for pregnant patients wants the state to leave it alone and stop warning people about them. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/24 - 9:30 am
Brookline.News reports the arrival of five fiberglass turkeys, decorated by local artists, for display on town streets.
By adamg - 7/29/24 - 5:14 pm
Riders in an inbound 60 bus were jolted when the driver of a Toyota minivan slammed into it on Rte. 9 just before Chestnut Hill Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
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