Category: Brookline.News
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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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A Catholic seminary on Route 9 is getting a $5.5 million upgrade and a new chapel
Redemptoris Mater Seminary is undergoing a $5.5 million renovation to provide more space for the 20 men who live, study and work there. The construction of a new chapel and basement space in the Catholic seminary at 774 Boylston St.…
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Cat tour draws hundreds of ‘CATabridgians’ to Cambridgeport
The walk brought together Cambridge’s community of feline fanatics. Hundreds of people and their cats filled the streets of Cambridgeport Saturday afternoon for the first annual Cambridge Cat Tour, a city-backed event that drew far more attendees than organizers expected.…
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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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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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A safety pin on Webster Street recalls a time when diapers were big business in Brookline
A safety pin on the street marks the site of the former Dy-Dee Diaper Service. Photo by Samantha Mandala A foot-long metal safety pin enshrined in cement on Webster Street appears to be a simple remnant of a once-thriving cloth…
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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…