Author: Mary Goetz
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Local contractor finds good workers by teaching Brookline youth the trades
Paul Ham couldn’t find good handymen on his own, so he decided to train them himself. Three years later, home improvement contracting company Brookline Proven employs six current and recent Brookline High School students and teaches them how to launch…
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After flood of interest, town scraps search for cemetery caretaker
Brookline canceled its request for proposals seeking a caretaker for Walnut Hills Cemetery. The town has been looking for a Walnut Hills caretaker since August. One full bid cycle passed without the town receiving a single proposal, and almost an…
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Walnut Hills Cemetery needs a new caretaker. No one is dying to have the job.
Walnut Hills Cemetery needs a new caretaker — but no one wants the job. The town has been advertising the position since August and hasn’t received a single application. At an open house for the South Brookline property Wednesday, only…
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What do you want the old Newbury College campus to be? The town wants to hear from you.
Pool, community center, new housing — residents on Monday can pitch ideas for what they want at the former Newbury College west campus on Fisher Hill. Brookline purchased the western half of Newbury College, now called Fisher Hill West, in…
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Brookline-raised playwright debuts ‘Twelve Kinds of Ice’ at Minnesota’s Children’s Theatre Company
As a child, Ben Steinfeld would trudge through a snowy Washington Street to the Pierce School alongside his father, who was walking to work at the Brookline Public Library. Now 47, and a father himself, Steinfeld said he has begun…
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Nyna Polumbaum, a Brookline ‘activist, artist and fighter,’ dies at 102
Nyna Polumbaum, pictured here with her first ever painting, died on Sept. 10. Photo by Maddie Bockus Brookline artist Nyna Brael Polumbaum died last week at 102 years old. Her daughter Judy Polumbaum, who was with Nyna in her Brookline…
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Larceny arrests on rise in Natick as shoplifting groups target retailers
Groups of thieves are working in teams to rob Natick Mall retailers, police say. Some travel from Queens, the Bronx, Hartford and other locales to loot stores, according to police records. Sometimes donning masks and equipped with aluminum-lined “boost bags,”…