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Brookline’s Turkeys: Friends or foes?
Jackson Machesky / brookline@wickedlocal.com
When Brookline resident Irena Tsvetkova left her home on an early-morning walk April 11, she was expecting a couple of hours of meditation and relaxation. Instead, she found herself screaming for help, a pursuer hot on her trail.
“In the morning, when you meditate, you’re in an alpha state, and when you’re stressed, you’re in a beta state,” explained Tsvetkova, who works as an associate for international economics consultant firm Analysis Group. “I was certainly in a beta state. This was not the relaxing morning I was going for.”
As pandemic lockdowns went into effect in March 2020 and millions of Americans began working from home rather than commuting to offices, heavy traffic in
OPINION: April 29 letters to the editor of the Brookline TAB
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Remembering Frank Caro, walkers’ advocate
Brookline’s Frank Caro, who died suddenly six months ago, was a strong, dogged advocate for safe and pleasant city walking. After his retirement as a professor of gerontology, UMass-Boston, he turned his attention to making Brookline a better place for senior living; he was instrumental in making Brookline the first Age-Friendly City in New England and he co-founded the Brookline Community Aging Network.
He convinced the town to install benches along Beacon Street, and at other locations, to assist seniors in their desire to be walkers (These attractive benches are used by people of all ages.).
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IMAGE: Boston University biologists Richard Primack and Carina Terry are pictured here collecting noise samples at Hall s Pond Sanctuary in Brookline, Massachusetts. view more
Credit: Photo courtesy of Richard Primack
As pandemic lockdowns went into effect in March 2020 and millions of Americans began working from home rather than commuting to offices, heavy traffic in America s most congested urban centers like Boston suddenly ceased to exist. Soon afterwards, the air was noticeably cleaner. But that wasn t the only effect. A team of Boston University biologists who study how human-related sounds impact natural environments seized the opportunity to learn how the reduced movement of people would impact local ecosystems. They found surprisingly that sound levels increased in some nature conservation areas, a result of cars driving faster on roads no longer choked by traffic.