Community Corner
Five Things You Need to Know: March 2
Brookline Reads wraps up, town lawyers offer training, fire chief steps down.
- Brookline Reads wraps up its series of talks and readings about journalism and the origins of news tonight with a among a panel of reporters and editors at the Brookline Library. The series has been built around Tom Rachman’s “The Imperfectionists,” a fictional story about the decline of a newspaper and the people behind it.
- If you’ve been appointed or elected to a board in commission recently, you are required by town bylaws to brush up on your knowledge of the state’s open meeting and conflict of interest laws. To help you out, the Town Council’s Office will hold a on the two open government laws this evening with guest speakers from the Attorney General’s Office and the state Ethics Commission.
- Thinking about volunteering abroad but don’t know how? Hostelling International–New England is hosting a about the ins and outs of volunteer work while traveling tonight at the REI in Landmark Center.
- The warrant for spring Town Meeting closes a week from tomorrow, so get those articles in.
- And in case you missed it, Brookline’s fire chief has announced that he from the post in the middle of next month, leaving the town to look for its fifth fire chief in a decade.
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.