Jenna Fisher
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Faced with decades-long decline in state aid, communities confront need for additional revenue
It’s budget season.No matter how you feel about how money management is handled in your hometown, municipal budgets are the backbone of a community. → Read More
Brookline doesn't have to approve 40Bs any more this year
But that doesn't mean it should stop working to ensure the town has affordable housing, said a town official. → Read More
Finagle a Bagel donates $10 million new home for Brookline Early Education Program
Brookline Early Education Program, or BEEP, could have a new home in the next couple of years thanks to a significant donation project by the owner of → Read More
Body found in Brookline hoarder's home highlights delicate issue
Hoarding disorder in Brookline is a present, delicate issue, say experts. → Read More
Decomposed body found in upscale Brookline home
Sister lived with body for more than a year in home that showed signs of hoarding disorder. → Read More
Decomposed body found in upscale Brookline home
Sister lived with body for more than a year in home that showed signs of hoarding disorder. → Read More
Mikah Meyer stops in Brookline on his National Park world record attempt
Friday morning, Mikah Meyer walked around Frederick Law Olmsted’s old house, taking in the tour and walking the grounds of the country's first full- → Read More
Report: No hostile racial climate, culture of racism in Brookline police department
A little more than five months after two African-American police officers publically accused officers within the Brookline Police Department of racial → Read More
Brookline man commits to run 4 of the world’s most extreme deserts in a year
David Souza had just scrambled up the side of a sand dune to reach the thin ridgeline in the middle of day five of his seven-day run across 25 miles of → Read More
Brookline institution Wulf's Fish Market moving out of town
When Wulf’s Fish Market on Harvard Street in Coolidge Corner announced it was moving operations to the pier in the Seaport District, there were a → Read More
Union Square Donuts to open shop in Brookline
> Brookline’s doughnut game is about to step up a notch. > Union Square Donuts, famous for the lines out the door in Somerville and around the corner at farmers markets is bringing its artisanal, hand-rolled, yeasted sweets to the Coolidge Corner area. > The JFK Crossing neighborhood to be exact. > The doughnut shop is slated to take over 409 Harvard Ave., the spot Wulf's Fish Market has… → Read More
Brookline Police: Third suspect in custody in connection with last week’s shooting, stabbing
A man, wanted in connection with the 198 St Paul St shooting and stabbing incidents last week, walked into the Brookline District Court House and turned → Read More
Starbucks barista helps save Dunkin’ Donuts employee in Washington Square
A Starbucks barista helped save the life of a Dunkin’ Donuts worker who had collapsed in Washington Square early Wednesday, Dec. 16.At around 4 a.m. → Read More
Brookline Selectmen hold off vote on fiscal 2016 tax classification
Chief Assessor Gary McCabe presented information to help selectmen in determining the fiscal 2016 tax rates and residential exemption amount.Property tax → Read More
Brookline to start charging Fallon Ambulance rent
The new contract the town negotiated with its ambulance service includes new revenue from space the company uses at Brookline’s fire stations.When → Read More
Brookline’s top new school sites run into hiccups
The town’s top two site choices for a proposed ninth K-8 school have already met legal hurdles and public opposition, and two of the town boards → Read More
Opposition revs up over proposed Audi of Brookline expansion
Audi of Brookline wants a makeover, and neighbors aren’t so happy about it.The dealership, situated at the corner on Route 9 and Cypress Street, → Read More
Brookline gets seven new firefighters
Seven new recruits for the Brookline Fire Department began working on Monday, Nov. 23.“They all did a good job in their training and they went → Read More
Brookline Reservoir trees could be in jeopardy
Brookline Reservoir hasn’t always been ringed with trees, but for the past few decades, the cherries and oaks that surround it have gone largely → Read More
Brookline firefighter wins Medal of Valor
The Brookline firefighter who pulled an 84-year-old woman from her smoke-filled Davis Avenue home on New Year’s morning won a medal of valor for → Read More