Author: Eli Pekelny
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A plan for 18 small apartments in a vacant office building turned into four big luxury condos. Housing advocates aren’t happy.
A vacant office building at 1093 Beacon St. is set to be turned into luxury apartments Photo by Eli Pekelny. A plan to convert a vacant Brookline office building into four luxury condominiums has raised concerns among local housing advocates…
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Art sale supporting immigrants’ rights comes to Brookline
Art For All , a “pick-your-price” art sale where all proceeds support an organization that provides civic education to Boston’s immigrant community, will come to Brookline for the first time this weekend. The fundraising event will take place Saturday from…
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Heat assistance remains delayed for Waltham residents despite government reopening
Federal funding for heat assistance has been restored after a 43-day government shutdown, but money won’t arrive in Massachusetts for another four to six weeks, leaving many Waltham residents wondering how they’ll heat their homes in the meantime. Massachusetts received…
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Waltham Philharmonic’s season opens Sunday with works by Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák
The Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday with a concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s birth. This event marks the orchestra’s first concert since May. The concert’s repertoire will include two Coleridge-Taylor pieces, “Idyll”…
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‘Echoes of Home’ inspired Brandeis junior’s Waltham Family School mural
Brandeis University junior Alanis Gonzalez comes from a family of creatives. Not only is Gonzalez’s mother an artist, but her grandmother is as well. In Gonzalez’s youth, her grandmother collected discarded items from the streets of the Dominican Republic —…
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Annual Metz Day celebrates Waltham’s automotive past
Ten-year-old River Bernstein owns a car. It’s a classic 1906 Orient Buckboard – manufactured by the Waltham Manufacturing Company under the leadership of Charles Herman Metz – and a recent gift from his grandparents, Frank and Linda Bernstein. But the…