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The Safety Net – Flavia Guerreiro

Host Susan Howards interviews Flavia Guerreiro, Executive Coach at TAB (The Alternative Board) Boston West. TAB offers advisory groups and coaching for independent business owners. Flavia talks about some tenets of her coaching, including identifying and properly dealing with “saboteurs,” coping mechanisms that may have been helpful in childhood but now get in the way of healthy emotions. Learn more about Flavia’s methods at https://www.tab-bostonwest.com/assessments

TV on TV – Bradford Kimball

In this interview (conducted before the May 2024 Town Meeting), Tommy Vitolo speaks with Bradford Kimball, the youngest person ever to be elected as a Brookline representative. Bradford details his civic background and his experience working on campaigns before becoming a Town Meeting Member. He and Tommy discuss how his youth impacts his focus on environmental as well as fiscal sustainability for Brookline. They touch on age diversity among Brookline’s representatives, and they address some of the warrant articles that were up for debate at Town Meeting.

Brookline Memorial Day 2024

On May 27th 2024, Brookline residents showed their support for veterans and those fallen in the line of duty with a ceremony taking place at the World War Monument.

BAAFN’s 9th Essay Contest Award Ceremony

On May 15 2024, BAAFN hosted an evening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre filled with celebration and recognition of outstanding essays.

00:00 – Intro (Susan Park and Giles Li)
04:55 – Haley Kim (BAAFN Award)
10:22 – Kiran Bhatia (Content Award)
14:58 – Geo Elasmar (Creativity Award)
20:50 – Melanie Ho (Creativity Award)
26:09 – Bella Wang (Resiliance Award)
32:30 – Introduction of Keynote Speaker (Sarah Talmadge Nardi)
36:02 – Mira T. Lee (Keynote Speaker)
01:00:17 – Q&A
01:02:55 – Closing Remarks

Brookline Town Meeting – May 30, 2024

Day 3. Meeting in Brookline High School Auditorium at 7 pm each night.

Town Meeting is Brookline’s Legislative arm of government. It consists of 255 elected Town Meeting members (XLS), plus the members of the Select Board, and any state representative or state senator who resides in Brookline. In addition, the Town Moderator, who presides over Town Meeting, and the Town Clerk, who acts as secretary, are voting members. The 255 are elected by precinct, with 15 members elected from each of the town’s 17 precincts. The members are elected for staggered 3-year terms so that 5 members are elected from each precinct each year in the May annual town election.