Brookline News

Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.

Claude Leonidas continues to make his weekday trek from Mattapan to South Station on the MBTA, undeterred by a critical report last week highlighting a huge backlog -- $500 million worth -- of maintenance projects needed to keep the system safe.

Robyn Ochs is a long-time activist and the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide and the new anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World .

Cafe Eilat began serving sushi several weeks ago, and I've had the opportunity to try it twice.

Several hundred homes and businesses were left in the dark today due to a power outage in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline.

The Big Dig inspired a lot of colorful language, none of which you'd share in polite company.

Officials are stepping up security at the Lawrence School in Brookline after two 4th grade girls reported seeing an unidentified man coming out of a girl's bathroom during school hours Tuesday.

"I think they're lying,'' said Cathy Woodman, with her husband, Jeffrey , and lawyer Howard Friedman.

In his most recent work, "Eating Animals,'' novelist Jonathan Safran Foer takes on the issue that's been nagging at him for most of his 32 years: meat.

City Real Estate Development Corp. has purchased 23 apartments within The Winthrop House complex at 16 Addington Road in Brookline.

John Krasinski chatted up Boston.com visitors yesterday on a visit to the Globe.

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett find strange, outrageous, hilarious, and stupid videotapes at garage sales, thrift stores, and dumpsters, and rescue these gems from the obscurity to which they probably belong.

From the T web page: Green E Line is being diverted at Brigham Circle due to a road paving project on Washington St.

After Robert Rines founded Franklin Pierce Law Center, he became a father figure to his students, mentoring those studying intellectual property.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 5:01 pm US/Eastern Reporting Dawn Hasbrouck BROOKLINE Brookline has a new leaf blower bylaw on the books and residents there have mixed opinions about it.

The best part of Halloween is Truth Serum's annual Halloween Bike Ride. Starting from the Green Street T station in JP, the ride winds through Boston, Brookline, Allston, and Cambridge before winding back up at JP Licks.

Good morning and, since it's Saturday, pour yourself another cup of pumpkin spice coffee.

A REMINDER: Abortion is still legal in the United States. And yet, 36 years after Roe v. Wade, a safe, legal abortion is harder and harder to obtain.

Hamilton Co., a Boston real estate company, said it has purchased Dexter Park, a Brookline apartment complex, for $129.5 million.