Upcoming Events

Learn how to deal with a lifetime of possessions, and how to prepare & price your home. Hear about local Real Estate Market trends & pricing. Leave with a Free Downsizing Guide and practical tips. Our speakers are Emily Beal & David Dowd, Licensed Real Estate Agents with LAER Realty Partners and Authorized Senior Specialists with Sell Mom's House. Please register at 617-730-2770.

Now is your chance to try pickleball at the Senior Center! We'll be hosting two beginner courses, each consisting of two sessions (January 15 & 22 and February 12 & 19) at 3:00pm, coached by Fran Perler. The first session will focus on various Pickleball strokes and the second session will focus on playing the game. Please sign up for both sessions in each course, but only 1 course.

COST: $3 per session for residents and $5 per session for non-residents.

Sign up beginning January 6 via the Recreation Department website (https://www.register.brooklinerec.com) or by phone (617-730-2069). If you don't already have a Recreation Department account, you should sign up to qualify for senior Recreation Department programs and to receive the $2 per session residential discount. Equipment will be provided.

Please wear athletic shoes. Limited to 16 participants per session.

Winter is a great time to see a wide variety of resident and migratory birds in the Emerald Necklace parks. Neil Gore will lead a BGSA bird walk around Leverett Pond and Ward's Pond. Meet at the Daisy Field parking lot on Willow Pond Road in Olmsted Park. Please sign up in advance: info@brooklinegreenspace.org

Founded in 1980, the primary purpose of the Brookline Community Development Corporation (BCDC), formerly the Brookline Improvement Coalition (BIC) is to develop, own and maintain decent, safe and sanitary affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households in Brookline, Massachusetts.

The Gala is BCDC's signature annual event and a critical opportunity to bring together community members, partners, and supporters to celebrate our work, and to ensure we can continue providing and preserving affordable housing and housing stability services in Brookline.

For tickets click here. To learn more about BCDC click here.

The March 9 meeting of BrooklineCAN's Livable Community Advocacy Committee will feature Select Board Candidate John VanScoyoc.

The 40-minute period for questions and discussion with the candidate is scheduled to start at 3:00 pm. This is the second of a special series of LCAC conversations with each of the candidates running for the two Select Board seats up for Town-wide election on May 5, 2026.

The second half of this meeting will feature Part 2 of "A Conversation with Sam Mintz," the founding and current editor of Brookline.News. At our November LCAC meeting we asked Sam questions about his work as editor of Brookline.News. At our March 9 meeting, he will be turning the tables on us to ask us questions about the joys and challenges of aging in Brookline. This Q and A session is scheduled to start at about 3:45 pm.

If you are a Brookline senior not currently on the LCAC's mailing list and wish to attend the February 9 meeting, please , Chair of the LCAC, by March 8. Anyone who asked for a link to February's meeting will automatically be sent a link to this meeting.