Brookline Green Energy

Did you know that whether you are a renter or a home owner in Brookline (we’re split about even, 50:50), you can still take part in the Brookline Green Electricity program? You can sign up for 100% renewable electricity just by using your Eversource bill information and the Enrollment Form on the Town of Brookline website. Thanks to the Town, all Brookline residents can take part in a program that is good for consumers and the environment.

Tommy Vitolo interviews Elenore Parker

Elenore Parker was State Representative Tommy Vitolo's guest on his weekly TV show.
Watch here.

Vaccine companion warning.

On February 11 Massachusetts began allowing people who accompany residents 75 years and older to mass vaccination sites to get their own shots as well. Now some younger people are offering free rides to strangers. Council on Aging Director Ruthann Dobek and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Swannie Jett strongly advise seniors to only accept rides from family members or people they know well. News release.

Boston’s Older Population: Increasing in Racial Diversity, but Quality of Life is Shaped by Racism, Discrimination

A new report from UMass Boston identifies aging equity among Boston residents.

Pedestrian Safety

Brookline’s DPW & Commission on Disability Share Resources to Help Ensure Pedestrian Safety

More information.
Public Rights-of-Way Fact Sheet

Eviction Diversion Initiative

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health wants to reach households early – before an eviction takes place – to provide funding and mediation tools to work with landlords. We’ve launched a new website that connects residents to their local Housing Consumer Education Center, answers frequently asked questions, and more at www.mass.gov/CovidHousingHelp.

Living With COVID-19 Survey

BrooklineCAN and the Brookline Senior Center will be conducting a survey in the weeks ahead to discover how seniors are adapting to a world with COVID-19.

Understanding that everyone has to assess their own level of risk, we can be a wonderful resource for one another during these difficult days. Sharing what we are doing and how we are doing it, as well as what we are not doing, can help us to better understand the needs of our senior community.

An online copy of the survey is available here.

If you would like a hard copy of the survey mailed to you, please call us at 617-730-2777.

$$$ for Senior Homeowners & Renters!

You may qualify for cash or credit from the state if you pay rent or property taxes. Click for details.

Assisting People With Vision Loss During The Pandemic.

Town of Brookline Releases Instructional Video Guide. The Town of Brookline, Massachusetts has just released a new instructional video telling and showing via demonstration clips how to guide a person with vision loss in a variety of everyday situations. This video is free to all and may be used by any agencies, organizations, groups, or individuals who find it useful.

Complete news release.
Link to Video.

Brookline's Age-friendly Cities TV team helped produce this video.

BIG and Brookline Community

Brookline Interactive Group continues our service in meeting Brookline's communications needs, helping our community to share their stories, and keeping our democracy transparent.

This week's coverage of the Fourth District Congressional race is comprehensive- partnering with the League of Women Voters and Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity (BRJE), our colleagues at seven other community media centers from north to south, to support two candidate's forums for this important race. Our ongoing collaboration with State Representative, Tommy Vitolo, produces a thirty-minute weekly show to highlight each candidate in more detail.

Stay tuned and read more about our online classes, new community content, youth media programs, and to participate by creating your own scene in our 2020 Crowdsourced Boston production of Cast Away!

Full details here.

Phone-friendly BrooklineCAN website

When we created this web site in 2011, we designed it for wide-screen desktop systems. Now many people use smaller phones and tablets. Our site could always use those devices, but the pages didn’t really fit. Now we automatically rearrange content so it displays comfortably on all devices. As screens get narrower so do paragraphs; two columns become one; the menu disappears but can be recalled by pressing a button. You can see these changes on your desktop or laptop computer by narrowing the browser window. We hope this will make our site more useable on all screens.