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Brookline Gathers to Honor, Grieve, and Reflect After the Boston Marathon Bombings

The audience at Thursday night's Brookline Together Memorial was as diverse as the town's population. A sixtyish woman wearing an etched yarmulke sat in front of me, while to my right side were a couple of teenage boys. In the front rows were men and women in uniform, representing the Brookline Police and Fire Departments, and directly behind them, the sporty young Marathon runners of Team Brookline—identifiable by their white t-shirts emblazoned with the logo. A rabbi, a priest, and a minister of a Unitarian Church shared words of hope and healing.

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From the Publisher

It Doesn't Matter Why They Did It

There is little doubt the brothers Tsarnaev and their possible accomplices had their reasons, but those reasons are inconsequential. Whoever they thought they were attacking or defending, they picked the wrong enemy and the methods of their actions cannot be tolerated. Tamerian and Dzhokar may have thought they were fighting for a principal, defeating an enemy, attacking a nation, defending a religion, protesting a government’s policy, or making any number of statements.

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Feed Brookline Drive

What I Saw At The Feed Brookline Dinner

Our annual Feed Brookline Drive to benefit the Brookline Emergency Food Pantry concludes with a dinner at the Fireplace. Remarkable generosity and compassion was alive and well even before the dinner started.

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Announcements

Brookline to Host Follow-up Forum on Senior Housing Development Models

On Wednesday evening, June 19, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm, members of the public are invited to the Town Hall in Brookline, MA to participate in further discussion of Senior Housing Development models that might be appropriate in Brookline. The event is a follow-up to a very successful April 7 forum that attracted over 130 people and generated enthusiasm and good ideas.

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Brookline Hub Youth Awards

BrooklineHub.com Youth of the Year Ben Hoff : Our Next Ambassador From Brookline

On May 9th, Ben Hoff became the 3rd BrooklineHub.com Youth of the Year, and the event's first unanimous choice. At the age of 18, Ben has already achieved a range of accomplishments which would be the envy of someone decades his senior.

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Opinion

Brookline Talks About Guns : An Open Letter From BHS Teacher Elon Fischer

Every year at about this time, my students--seniors at BHS--start work on their senior papers, a long-standing tradition and a requirement for graduation. Over the years I've taught European Literature, British Literature, and now Public Speaking and Public Writing, so the topics for students' papers have varied, but the assignment has always called for students to demonstrate the same sets of skills: independent reading and research; analytical and argumentative writing; and personal responsibility for academic success.

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Booked

Booked: Ruha Benjamin

On Saturday, June 1st at 7PM, Boston University Professor Ruha Benjamin discussed her new book, People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier at the Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street.

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Brookline Events

Brookline’s Best Saturday Of The Year, 35 Years Running : Art, Food, Community Spirit And Shops

From a logistical and aesthetic standpoint, Coolidge Corner is one of the best commercial areas in the nation. Eclectic shops and a diversity of restaurants line two walkable main streets. There is also the state's only independent, non-profit movie theater right in the heart of it all. Next to one of the Corner's landmark restaurants, Zaftigs, is the Devotion, a wonderful neighborhood elementary school.

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Community Profile

Old-Fashioned Fix-It Shop Focuses on Refurbishing, Not Replacing

Walking into Village Green Renewal on 6 Davis Avenue in Brookline Village is like stepping into your grandfather's (or perhaps even your great-grandfather's) workshop, with all the old tools mounted on the walls and the many boxes and drawers overflowing with antique door knobs, brass hardware, and skeleton keys that might unlock the door of an old Victorian house, like the kind you see all over Brookline.

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