Author: Camille Bugayong
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‘One for the ages’: National worries and ballot questions bring Brookline voters to the polls
With warm weather and clear skies, Brookline voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes on Election Day. As of Friday, more than 10,000 Brookline voters had already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterms, according to Town…
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A charge from 18 haunts a Brookline green card holder
Jonathan Mande was 11 when he arrived in Brookline from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002, one of 10 children in a family scattered by war. He spent his first stretch in town in a Coolidge Corner family…
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Brookline celebrates some of its oldest residents with the ‘Party of a Century’
Francis DiMento, who is 99½, came to Monday’s celebration of Brookline’s oldest residents with one goal. “I’d like to meet some people who are older than me,” said DiMento, a Brighton native and Navy veteran of World War II who…
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Brookline’s new renters handbook tries to inform tenants facing eviction about their rights and resources
The Brookline Housing Authority’s Trustman apartment building. Photo by Brennan Kauffman When a Brookline tenant gets an eviction notice, town officials want a guide to their options to arrive alongside it. That is the idea behind the Town of Brookline…
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MIT Future Fest opens Wednesday
Events will take place across Kendall Square and the MIT campus. MIT is opening its labs, theaters and a newly renovated warehouse to the public this week for MIT Future Fest, a five-day festival of science, technology, art and design.…
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‘Operation Sparrow’ uncovers a Brookline native’s role in D-Day
Brookline native Florimond Duke at the German POW camp Oflag. Photo courtesy Jason Bell and Harper Collins. A Brookline High School athlete who went on to become an OSS intelligence chief, and volunteered for a strange and dangerous mission during…
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Bringing her new film to the Coolidge, Olivia Wilde wants you to have the scary conversation
Actress and filmmaker Olivia Wilde speaks about her new film “The Invite” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on April 29, 2026. Photo by Camille Bugayong The Independent Film Festival Boston concluded its annual run at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on…