Positive changes are on the horizon for anyone parking a car in Brookline.  Town Administrator, Mel Kleckner, is recommending the conversion of multi-space Smart Meters located in town lots to a “pay by space” system.

In a memo released on February 10, Town Administrator Mel Kleckner released the findings of the study conducted by the Collins Center of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The memo also announced the gist of the Planning & Community Development FY 2013 Budget.

Sunday, the Brookline Rotary hosted their second Chocolate Extravaganza to benefit the Brookline Emergency Food Pantry and the Brookline Co-op. No cause is more critical right now, and anything that benefits feeding our neighbors is my cup of tea.

Students often use February vacation as a time to step away from their textbooks, but (as usual) a group of Brookline High Schoolers is bucking that trend. This year, eleven BHS students and one teacher will open their history books, flip to the chapter on the Civil Rights Movement, and jump straight in. Guided by the award-winning “Sojourn to the Past” program, the group will travel through five states, visiting historic landmarks, meeting pioneering figures, and visualizing for themselves events that are seared into the nation’s memory.

The construction work currently underway in Brookline’s St. Mary’s neighborhood on Beacon Street is at once an endeavor important to the community—as well as to Greater Boston—and yet already a bane to local businesses, commuters and residents.

Brookline High School Peer Leadership Program Awarded $2,500 from The 84 Movement

On September 19th, the Brookline business community organized a celebration to express their well-wishes towards Marge Amster as she stepped down from her post as Brookline's Commercial Areas Coordinator. As previously covered in this publication, Ms. Amster chose to relinquish her post following turmoil in the town Advisory Committee regarding her position and alleged personal threats against her made by a board member.

Just when the heck will the Teen Center open? Some people out there must think they have been hearing about this forever. Creating a Teen Center for a town as large as Brookline is a monumental task. Several individuals and small companies have worked diligently for over 5 years to make it happen. All these combined efforts have brought the BTC to the precipice of reality.

It seemed like all of Brookline came to 40 Aspinwall Avenue on Sunday, October 30th to see the latest stage in Paul Epstein’s marathon vision to bring our community a much needed Teen Center. My trained eye estimated that close to 1,000 people attended.

In the wake of recent announcements – such as the state’s grant-winning turn in the Race to the Top competition, or its bid to opt out of No Child Left Behind – Massachusetts residents might feel compelled to learn something about how their capital city’s public school system went from a morass of institutionalized corruption and segregation to where it is today. Brookline residents will have a great opportunity to do just that on November 3rd, when author Dr. Joseph Cronin leads a panel discussion at the Brookline Booksmith. One thing attendees will certainly learn: the state as a whole could take lessons from Brookline, a key player in the history of Boston school reform.