Thanks @brooklinenews.bsky.social for highlighting some of the excellent programming work by our library staff! The library is for everyone - all ages, all backgrounds - and on hot days like today it’s a great place to cool down 😎 brookline.news/millennial-b...

I am still absolutely stunned, in the best possible way, by the election results 🥹 Thank you, Brookline, for trusting me and @amynewell.bsky.social w/our library & showing up for our schools Thank you, P6, for re-electing me to TM So much love today ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🩷🩵 brookline.news/vanscoyoc-ou...

I won my election tonight so I am soon to be a library trustee. thanks @librariesftp.bsky.social and @vogt4brookline.bsky.social specifically for the inspiration and help making it happen and congrats Marissa on your reelection!

Happy Election Day, Brookline! Come on out and vote YES for Brookline, elect Amanda and Anthony to the Select Board, elect Faiza, Suzanne, and Laura for School Committee, and vote Marissa, Amy and Chris for Library Trustee!

Walk, bike & roll to school day is this Wednesday! 🚴🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽🏃‍♂️

Just ONE WEEK LEFT for you to stream THE LIBRARIANS for free on the PBS app and YouTube channel! Already seen the film? Be sure to let your friends and family know to watch it before May 9th while it's still FREE to stream! Watch and share now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...

Proud to sign the Rainbow ally statement (drive.google.com/file/d/1xiIY...) in solidarity with my 🌈 LGBTQ+ TMM colleagues and community members - especially PSB students and educators. LGBTQ+ rights -- including trans rights -- are human rights. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ brookline.news/school-commi...

"Brookline Firefighters IAFF Local 950 understands that no one takes an override vote lightly. But we also know what is at stake when it comes to public safety... We are proud to protect Brookline, and we ask for your support. Vote YES!" Read the full letter here: brookline.news/re-campaign-...

Honored to have been endorsed by Progressive Brookline, the new local chapter of @progressivemass.bsky.social, for re-election as a Library Trustee & P6 Town Meeting Member! Election day is May 5, please come support the Progressive Brookline-endorsed candidates & @yesforbrookline.bsky.social!

Most of Brookline’s library funding comes from the town, but we still use state resources like database access that are supported by federal funding. Cutting IMLS funding will most negatively impact rural communities & smaller systems who rely on this funding to provide basic library services 😢

The Board of Library Trustees just voted unanimously to support the override and encourages everyone to vote yes! If the override fails the library could lose funding for a part-time library assistant. Vote yes and support your library, schools, and other town services.

Save the date! Yes for Brookline's campaign kickoff event is this Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Brookline Teen Center! RSVPs welcome but not required at yesbrookline.com/rsvp

Meanwhile, Cambridge built new bike lanes that increased cycling & got bikes off the sidewalks (benefits pedestrians too!): mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/10/c...

Hugely disappointed in the Transportation Board for cowing to opposition from some neighborhood residents & postponing pedestrian and cyclist safety improvements for all. Our "process" blocks progress on housing affordability, sustainability, new growth to support school funding, safety, & more 👎

Did you know you can access the @bostonglobe.com from home for free with your Brookline library card? So excited for this new partnership between the Globe and the Minuteman Library Network (of which Brookline is a member): www.bostonglobemedia.com/globe-partne...

Using a sticker rather than a transponder makes it harder (impossible?) to bring your E-Z Pass with you in a rental car, meaning you’ll incur rental car company fees 👎 It is deeply frustrating that this cashless system penalizes folks who don’t own a car & can’t get an E-Z pass for occasional use

All Brookline library locations will remain closed tomorrow, Tuesday Feb. 24 ⛄️ but you can still access some electronic resources like ebooks, audiobooks, and movies from your home: www.brooklinelibrary.org/elibrary/all/

Watch now for free on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel! tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...

. @wbur.org families can also check out the offerings from their local library — look at all the fun, free activities happening in Brookline! www.brooklinelibrary.org/2026/02/09/k...

It is unacceptable that we're forcing more school budget cuts even as the Select Board weighs whether and how big of an override to present to voters. We should be incorporating these positions into the override ask and give voters an option to fund these positions.

Proud of my dad, a retired NHDOT engineer, for working on this effort to force NHDOT and the Federal Highway Administration to build the tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists! 🚶🏿‍♀️🚴‍♂️👨‍🦼‍➡️

I hope to see libraries included in the list of “sensitive spaces”. Like other places in that list, libraries serve as a critical educational, civic, and cultural community resource and should be a safe place for every individual.

Mark your calendars! 📆 The 2026 Brookline town election will be Tuesday, May 5 and nomination papers will be available starting next week for anyone interested in running for #BrooklineTownMeeting Member or townwide office. Screenshot from the Town Administrator's monthly newsletter (1/4)

New list of municipalities that need to build more housing just dropped. #mapoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhC7...

Absolutely love these new & much-needed RRFBs (Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons) at Harvard & Linden Street! ❤️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶‍♂️🧑🏾‍🦼‍➡️ I’ve personally witnessed multiple near-misses between pedestrians and cars at this intersection, which is highly used by pedestrians going to the Town Hall, library, and Pierce school

Looking forward to a wonderful new year as we welcome Jill as our new Library Director! 📕📚 www.brooklinema.gov//CivicAlerts... I would be remiss if I didn’t also give a *huge* thank you to Danielle and Ryan for doing a fantastic job as our interim director & interim assistant director! ❤️

What we lose by being afraid of change: * 400,000 sq ft of senior housing (making it harder for hundreds of grandparents to move closer to their grandkids) * ~15 affordable units (from a net loss of >100 housing units) * 50,000 sq ft of retail … all while increasing the # of parking spots per sq ft

Brookline’s board of library trustees voted Thursday night to enter contract negotiations with Jill Mercurio, currently the director of the Newton Free Library, for the role of library director in Brookline. brookline.news/newton-libra...

Brookline will soon have a new library director, as the Board of Trustees interviewed two finalists for the job this week. It's been over a year since the previous director resigned following staff complaints. Read about the candidates to take over the top spot: brookline.news/library-boar...

Looking forward to meeting (today) and interviewing (tomorrow) the two finalists to serve as our new Library Director! You can learn more about our two great candidates here: brooklinema.portal.civicclerk.com/event/14563/...

Only a few weeks left! Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime. Nominations close December 15! Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C

Night 2 (and maybe final? 🤞) of the fall #BrooklineTownMeeting is underway. Here's my guide to all the articles in the fall Town Meeting: bit.ly/fall2025brooklineTM

#BrooklineTownMeeting has begun! Our first vote authorized having a hybrid Town Meeting. We're rearranging the schedule a bit to accommodate meeting participants' schedules - hearing WA 10, 13, and 17 first thing tomorrow.

#BrooklineTownMeeting begins tomorrow night! I've written a guide to all the items on the agenda: bit.ly/fall2025brooklineTM Always happy to see @brooklinenews.bsky.social's coverage, too -- though some of the information in the linked article is already out of date as TMMs file last-minute changes

We had a great time hearing author Mary Copp read her book “Yoshi’s Big Swim” at the grand opening! 📚🐢

Every hour at the library feels golden, but this one actually was 🌅

The fall #BrooklineTownMeeting "combined reports", which includes the most recent versions of each article and analysis from various town boards, have been posted at www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCent...

It is also worth keeping in mind that @brooklinenews.bsky.social’s reporting likely only happened because the proposed data sharing between CHR / Flock & Brookline Police came up at a public meeting. We need our local and state laws to catch up with technology & provide better privacy protections.

Light up the night - school visibility table for kids leaving after school programs in the New England "standard time" darkness - stickers, lights, LEDs and more free safety fun for riders, rollers and walkers! #bikebus #bikesafety #saferoutes #masrts #srts

A huge thank you to all the families who joined our Pierce bike bus! It was a beautiful morning and everyone arrived at school safely. 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ Thanks also to folks from the Safe Routes to School task force, the Transportation Board, Biking Brookline, & Brookline Police - your help was indispensable!

Beyond frustrating that we (voters) approved the funding *3 years ago*, yet work still hasn’t begun on most of the fire stations, including the one with a higher cancer rate, where treadmills are inside the garage so firefighters “inhale residue contaminants while running”.

I love the community building aspect and creativity of these grassroots efforts - we’re leading a bike bus at my kids’ school soon and I can’t wait! But in a country where we are spending $1 trillion on defense it shouldn’t be so hard to get kids safely to and from school.

I’m fascinated by the photo editorial choices here — the sign to the right of “resistance is patriotic” is cropped *just enough* to leave the first word of the sign to your imagination but also it definitely says “fuck”.

Thanks to the members of the Friends of the Brookline Library, Library Foundation, Advisory Committee, and most of all interim director Danielle Savin for our behind-the-scenes tour of the Brookline Village library this morning! I especially loved seeing the old materials in the vault and stacks.

Happy #BannedBooksWeek! Check out these adorable displays in the children’s and teen rooms at the Brookline Village library 📚

I ❤️ you, @museumofscience.bsky.social, but your new membership plans are a real downgrade for families who make the effort to take the T or another sustainable transit mode. Membership costs for a family of 4 is increasing by 33% and the only major new "benefit" is the 3 hours of **free parking**.

The Friends of the Brookline Library are hosting their annual book sale this weekend, which began today and continues tomorrow 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. in Hunneman Hall (Brookline Village). Lots of books, games, CDs & vinyl, movies, signed books, and more! Proceeds support library programs!

This is amazing and I love it and I want one but also I cannot get over the fact that this view of the red line makes no sense in real life. Would a Longfellow Bridge / Back Bay skyline really not have worked?!

A bit late to the party but here's your reminder that the articles coming up at the fall #BrooklineTownMeeting have been posted at www.brooklinema.gov/3599/Current... and you can track individual articles' public hearings at www.brookline.info thanks to AC (finance committee) chair Dennis Doughty

The MBTA is making much-needed and long overdue safety and accessibility upgrades to the C line! 👍 Unfortunately there is limited space for the expanded platforms and they’re choosing to prioritize space for cars (preserving left turn lanes and parking) rather than saving mature trees. 👎