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A group within the town s Task Force to Reimagine Policing in Brookline is recommending that Walk and Talk police officers be removed or slowly phased out of the Brookline Housing Authority. (Jenna Fisher/Patch)
BROOKLINE, MA A group within the town s Task Force to Reimagine Policing in Brookline is recommending that Walk and Talk police officers be removed or slowly phased out of the Brookline Housing Authority.
The subcommittee was formed earlier this year to consider the impact of having police regularly patrolling the Brookline Housing Authority, in the wake of Black Lives Matter racial justice movement and calls to rethink the Brookline Police Department funding.
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They’ve ganged up on joggers, attacked cars and resulted in about as many police complaints as did e-scooters and the outset of recreational marijuana in Brookline.
They’re wild turkeys, and they’re coming soon to the silver screen.
And who better to direct it than a Brookline resident, local documentarian Aynsley Floyd?
Floyd’s latest project, “Turkey Town,” will tackle some of Greater Boston’s most beloved and controversial wildlife.
Massachusetts’ turkey population was once extinct, the state’s last known bird killed off in 1851, according to MassWildlife. In the 1970s, however, scientists brought in 37 wild turkeys from New York and released them in the Berkshires, where they would be fruitful and multiply.
Brookline Housing Authority receives grant
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The Brookline Housing Authority was one of six housing authorities in the state to be awarded a Self Sufficiency Program grant from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
Funds will enable 35 or more adult residents of the BHA’s state public housing developments to receive economic mobility services. As their incomes increase, participants may accrue up to $15,000 in escrow saving over the three to five year program.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to support residents who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic,” said Danielle Mendola, Resident Services program director. “It also represents a step toward building generational wealth that can transform the trajectory of entire families.”
Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors:
Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and
Gloria
Greene, a
Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Y s residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Y s A Night Under the Stars fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently working as a nanny while attending nursing school. She is the daughter of the late Frederick Greene, who served on the Y s Board of Directors and is remembered as a tireless community advocate.