Recommendation: Head on over to Coolidge Corner for the Brookline Day celebration. The fun continues until 3 p.m. While there, stop at the Town Administrator and Select Board's table and say hello to Chas and Tyler.

#EveryBrooklineMeeting brooklinema.gov MONDAY 6 PM Chestnut Hill Commercial Area Study Com. 6 PM Advisory Council of Public Health 6 PM CDEICR - Immigrant Advancement Com. 6 PM Library Functions Com. 7 PM Comprehensive Plan Steering Com. 7 PM Adv. Com. Schools Subcom.

Brookline gets first glimpse of latest version of City Realty's development proposal for Chestnut Hill West, with hotel, residential, office and retail complexes at heights of 7, 14 and 14 stories. (Holyhood Cemetery borders to the south, with Newton's "The Street" to the north.)

Mass Housing Finance Agency, after reviewing the Select Board's preference for keeping development within the scope of the Town's 4-story Harvard Street zoning, has nonetheless issued a go-ahead to a six-story residential complex at 429 Harvard St.-- with conditions (screenshot).

#EveryBrooklineMeeting brooklinema.gov TUESDAY 11:30 PM Library Trustees - Exec. Com. 1 PM Bd. of Assessors 5:30 PM Select Bd.

A worthy manifesto for these times. "I’m going to keep trying to have actual conversations. This country is worth the effort... Maybe if we can figure out how to disagree without losing our humanity here (on X), there's hope for the rest of America too."

The truth hurts. (Promises and good intentions aren't getting MA to the climate change goal line.) mass.streetsblog.org/2025/09/15/mas…

What advocates say you should do if you’re stopped by ICE boston25news.com/news/local/wha…

HMS Milfoil returns for annual Chestnut Hill Reservoir cruise.

Auchincloss rules out Markey challenge in 2026 election bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/nat… via The Boston Globe #mapoli

The new North Washington Street Bridge, connecting Charlestown and the North End, was officially renamed to the William Felton “Bill” Russell Bridge. 💚

#EveryBrooklineMeeting brooklinema.gov WEDNESDAY 10 AM Select Bd. Licensing 4 PM MLK Celebration Com. 5 PM School Finance/Capital Subcom. 5 PM Zero Emissions Adv. Bd. 5:30 PM Comm. on Disability 6 PM Naming Com. 6:30 PM Transportation Bd. 7 PM Bicycle Advisory Com.

It's the season of checking these standings every morning. (And praying at night.) mlb.com/standings/wild…

All those interested in following the progress of this development proposal can do so via the project page on the Town website: brooklinema.gov/3799/429-HARVA…

And was named for this guy: nps.gov/people/dr-jose…

Made famous by this guy:

Update on HMS Milfoil. The era of paddle wheelers lives on.

Parking on a Boston street that, at the end of the block, warns of the once monthly street sweeping day (2 hours free otherwise), via a barely visible sign among a bunch of other signs, can cost you upwards of $200 (tow + "storage" + ticket. Can you guess how I know this?

One of those days when every headline is a clickbait headline.

#EveryBrooklineMeeting brooklinema.gov THURSDAY 11 AM Art Makes Community Steering Com. 12 PM Expenditures/Revenues Study Com. 4 PM Pierce Building Com. 6 PM School Com. 6 PM Centre Street Lots Com. 6:30 PM DEI/ Community Relations Comm. 7:30 PM Planning Bd. Chapt. 40A