WGBH reports they will seek to become members of the Workers United Labor Union, which won a unionization vote at a Buffalo Starbucks.
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By adamg - 12/11/21 - 10:41 am
An early morning fire means no more challah, bubkies and other baked items for awhile at Cheryl-Anns' Bakery, 1010 West Roxbury Parkway in South Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - 12/10/21 - 9:04 am
This goes double for you young'uns in Brookline.
WBZ reports on a new ordinance in Brookline that prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anybody born after Jan. 1, 2000.
By adamg - 12/5/21 - 1:24 pm
James Lawrence, who had a long career as an otolaryngologist in Baltimore, was born in Boston, went to Harvard and BU Medical School and, with other family members, founded Allandale Farm on the Boston/Brookline border in the 1970s. He would often spend his summer vacations there.
By adamg - 12/2/21 - 10:36 am
Mary Ellen looked up in Brookline today and saw that looking down at her was a barred owl.
By adamg - 11/25/21 - 10:39 am
Tori Bedford witnessed some serious poultry pulchritude in Brookline at the Brighton line this morning, of all mornings. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/21 - 12:03 pm
Note the "bulb out" around which the motorist had to drive to hit the pedestrian. Photo by Brookline PD.
Brookline Police report that Patricia Arellano, 63, of Keswick Street in Audubon Circle, was walking across Downing Road at Washington Street when a driver making a right turn from Washington onto Downing hit her around 11:20 a.m. last Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/21 - 10:53 am
The parents of three special-needs students are suing both their communities and the state for the harm they say was done to their children in the way schools suddenly switched to online education in March, 2020 and in the way they say their schools did nothing to help provide the special teaching and assistance the children needed to work online. Read more.
By adamg - 11/7/21 - 8:56 pm
Turlach MacDonagh went to the Brookline Rotary's Dog Day at the Brookline Avenue Playground, where one of the hounds he met was Bacon the Pig. "Truly one magical animal," he reports.
By adamg - 11/5/21 - 8:53 am
Reuters reports that Feuerstein, who became famous for continuing to pay his 1,400 workers after his Lawrence fleece factory burned down in 1995, died from complications related to a fall at his Brookline home last week.
By adamg - 10/27/21 - 1:34 pm
The aging Hitlerjugend member/Confederate cosplayer who was heiling people at Beacon Street and Dean road yesterday was back at it this afternoon after the worst of the wind and rain had passed.
Shamus Moynihan forwarded these photos from somebody who spotted him this afternoon, but apparently, he's been there for awhile: Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/21 - 10:13 am
Hugmajesty reports that this morning, a white supremacist was on Beacon Street at Dean Road harassing people - yelling "Heil Hitler" and making white-power symbols at people walking by.
She adds he was a skinny guy, maybe in his 30s, wearing a MAGA hat.
By adamg - 10/11/21 - 10:41 pm
Photography Natalia watched the first Boston Marathon since Patriots Day, 2019.
Also on hand, in Brookline, a giant chicken: Read more.
By adamg - 9/23/21 - 10:41 am
The Boston Business Journal reports that four East Boston Bank branches slated to be shut as part of its takeover by Rockland Trust will instead be sold to HarborOne, a Brockton-based bank that will hire their workers and re-open the branches as its own. The deal affects only the buildings and workers; customer accounts at the current branches will still move to Rockland.
By adamg - 9/13/21 - 9:01 am
The Daily Free Press reports the robbers asked the student for the time, then, when he got out his phone to check, one grabbed his phone while the other pointed a gun at him, around 9:45 p.m. on Friday on Naples Road near Comm. Ave.
By adamg - 8/22/21 - 6:32 pm
Turlach MacDonagh spotted a tree doctor's patient in Brookline, braced for whatever Henri might have brought.
By adamg - 8/17/21 - 11:07 pm
Mamaleh's Delicatessen, which has outlets in Cambridge and Brookline, is not at all happy that Gov. Baker is leaving it up to local towns - and individual businesses - to figure out whether to require indoor mask wearing at a time when Covid-19 cases are on the rise and increasingly angry people are taking out their aggression on restaurant workers. Read more.
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