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Brookline and its school district have agreed to pay $3 million to the alleged victim of sexual abuse by former teacher ...
01/02/2026

Brookline and its school district have agreed to pay $3 million to the alleged victim of sexual abuse by former teacher Larry Chen.

Criminal charges against Chen were dropped earlier this year when the alleged victim told prosecutors she did not want to testify.

Criminal charges against Chen were dropped earlier this year because the alleged victim told prosecutors she did not want to testify.

The town has signed a new 10-year agreement with Comcast, which lets the company continue to operate its cable services ...
12/30/2025

The town has signed a new 10-year agreement with Comcast, which lets the company continue to operate its cable services in Brookline for a fee.

The agreement comes as Comcast continues to lose cable customers, meaning less revenue coming into the town budget and to Brookline Interactive Group, Brookline's cable access station and community media center.

The new 10-year agreement allows Comcast to keep operating cable in Brookline, and maintains some of the same fees as before, but funding to the town and its cable access station is dropping overall.

A resident's tax dilemma. A musician's quest to find history in Brookline. A high-profile crime. The end of one of Brook...
12/28/2025

A resident's tax dilemma. A musician's quest to find history in Brookline. A high-profile crime. The end of one of Brookline's flagship academic programs. And how Trump's cuts hurt one local federal worker.

Read more about what was behind these stories, and why readers were drawn to them.

It’s been a great year at Brookline.News, and we’ve got some stats to illustrate it.  Our site received more than 2 million page views, from nearly 900,000 users. On average, you stayed on our site for just over a minute and 30 seconds – in the era of TikTok and Twitter, that’s an eternity....

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is on track for record attendance this year, and "romantasy" stayed hot for local library pa...
12/26/2025

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is on track for record attendance this year, and "romantasy" stayed hot for local library patrons.

Here were some of the most popular books and movies in Brookline in 2025:

Here's what Brookline was reading and watching in 2025.

Here are 10 things to do in and around Brookline on this holiday week:
12/23/2025

Here are 10 things to do in and around Brookline on this holiday week:

10 things to do this week in Brookline, including Christmas festivities

Brookline professor Karen Jacobsen's new book explores what happens to cities when they receive large influxes of refuge...
12/22/2025

Brookline professor Karen Jacobsen's new book explores what happens to cities when they receive large influxes of refugees.

Karen Jacobsen's new book published in November explores what happens to cities that receive large influxes of refugees.

Plans to rezone a key site on Route 9 for a major commercial redevelopment are coming to a head this spring. City Realty...
12/21/2025

Plans to rezone a key site on Route 9 for a major commercial redevelopment are coming to a head this spring.

City Realty's latest proposal includes three buildings at 7, 12 and 14 stories which would house a hotel, apartments and condominiums, medical offices and retail space. Town officials estimate it would eventually bring in more than $5 million a year in net tax revenue.

The zoning will need a 2/3 vote from Town Meeting in May for the project to move forward. Some neighbors still say the project is too tall for the area.

The City Realty proposal for 1280-1330 Boylston Street, consisting of a hotel, apartments, condominiums, medical offices and retail space, needs new zoning to be approved by Town Meeting.

A ceremony to raise a final beam celebrated the completion of the framework of the new Pierce School last week.
12/21/2025

A ceremony to raise a final beam celebrated the completion of the framework of the new Pierce School last week.

The Pierce School reconstruction project marked a milestone on Thursday, when the building’s framework was finalized in front of an audience of construction workers and Pierce community members, including the school’s penguin mascot. “This is the final beam that is being set. It marks that the...

An online fundraiser for the family of Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor killed in Brookline on Monday, has raised more t...
12/19/2025

An online fundraiser for the family of Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor killed in Brookline on Monday, has raised more than $100,000.

An online fundraiser on the site GoFundMe has raised more than $100,000 for the family of Nuno Loureiro, an MIT professor and Brookline father of three who was killed by a gunman on Monday night. “With heavy hearts, we share this page on behalf of the Loureiro family—most especially for Nuno’s...

Breaking news: Authorities in Rhode Island say Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in shootings in Brookline on Monday an...
12/19/2025

Breaking news: Authorities in Rhode Island say Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in shootings in Brookline on Monday and Brown University on Saturday, is dead.

This is a developing story, and we will update our article as new information is made available.

The person who allegedly shot and killed an MIT professor in Brookline on Monday and carried out a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday has died, law enforcement officials said Thursday night. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and Brown student, was responsible for killing MI...

The proportion of vacant storefronts in Brookline is up slightly from last year but remains well below pandemic vacancy ...
12/18/2025

The proportion of vacant storefronts in Brookline is up slightly from last year but remains well below pandemic vacancy rates, according to an annual report from Town Hall.

The proportion of vacant storefronts in Brookline is up slightly from last year but remains well below pandemic vacancy rates, according to an annual report from Town Hall. In 2025, about 9.4% of storefronts in Brookline were vacant, up from 9.06% last year but down from 9.7% in 2023, according to t...

The Recreation Department is planning to increase the prices for some its lessons, sports and camps. Read about why:
12/17/2025

The Recreation Department is planning to increase the prices for some its lessons, sports and camps.

Read about why:

After an annual review of pricing, the Brookline Recreation Department will increase rates for some popular flagship programs and update its financial aid policy to ensure sustainability. Brookline’s self-run programs, such as swimming lessons, recreational sports and summer camps, are funded thro...

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