Big update on how Brookline is planning to spend its first round of Community Preservation Act funds

In our age of rapidly shrinking local news coverage, the passing of reporters like Fred Hanson of the Patriot Ledger, who died this week, are also a loss for the communities they served. I wrote about Fred's decades-long career covering the South Shore bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/bus…

The complaint alleges that Ippei placed about 19,000 bets between December 2021 and January 2024, all with Ohtani's money. The complaint says Ippei won $142,256,769.74 and lost $182,935,206.68, with a total net loss of $40,678,436.94.

A little skeptical about the Sherwood News biz model, but also a big fan of basically every project Walter Hickey has been involved with, so very curious to see where it goes.

Love the site's visual design, and fun mix of stories for day one

Brookline sinkhole alert

New: A 29-year-old Brookline woman has been charged with vandalism by MBTA Transit Police for allegedly spray-painting anti-Zionist messages at Longwood and Kenmore stations last week

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Brookline.News is growing! Meet our new chief of staff Michael Manning and reporter Vivi Smilgius

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Photographer Andrew Burke-Stevenson captures the scenes as eclipse watchers gather at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline.

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Which of the 17 town government meetings in Brookline shall I cover tomorrow?

Looking forward to celebrating the eclipse by looking out my window and going 'huh, that's cool' then turning back to the computer

News out of Somerville, where Greentown Labs — the biggest climate incubator in North America — announced significant layoffs today. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/05/sci…

In 2011, an earthquake in the DC area rippled up here and some buildings were evacuated, including 111 Devonshire St., because it was leaning on the building next to it - only it turned out it had always done that, just nobody had noticed before. universalhub.com/2011/leaning-t…

Local TV stations across the east coast cracking their knuckles to deliver you footage of a lawn chair tipped over and a broken plate

the body keeps the score ….

Ok how many miles a week does she drive?

Not feeling the earthquake that everyone is talking about is already my greatest regret of 2024

The thread below:
- summarizes a magazine feature that probably took months to report
- screenshots huge swaths of the text
- never even links to it

Our dominant information platforms not only tolerate this kind of theft, they incentivize it. No wonder the media are struggling.

We’re back at the bargaining table today. $876,000 and $603,000 are numbers that will stick with me for a long, long time.

A family-owned hardware store which has been open in Brookline's Washington Square for 72 years is now closed, another victim of e-commerce and the pandemic.

Owner Brendan Connelly says his revenue recently has been 40% of what it was five years ago.

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