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🌱 Patch AM: Why Brookline remains at high risk for West Nile this week.

Make time for School of Fashion Design: Info Session & Tour with Live Demos! on the Brookline Patch calendar

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In today's newsletter:

  • Why Brookline remains at high risk for West Nile this week.
  • How Brookline childhood winters inspired a new musical in Minnesota.

Also on today's calendar: School of Fashion Design: Info Session & Tour with Live Demos! and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: A morning shower; cloudy, with a high of 67 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 69, low: 56.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny and warmer, with a high of 80 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Massachusetts West Nile Cases Climb to 11 as Boston and 10 Nearby Communities Stay at High Risk (medicaldaily.com) — Brookline is currently listed among 11 Greater Boston communities at high risk for West Nile virus, as Massachusetts officials confirm 11 human cases statewide. Residents, especially older adults, are urged to keep using EPA-registered repellents, avoid dusk-to-dawn mosquito exposure when possible, clear standing water, and watch for serious neurological symptoms until the season ends with the first hard frost.
   

• Brookline-raised playwright debuts 'Twelve Kinds of Ice' in Minnesota's Children's Theatre Company (brookline.news) — A playwright who grew up in Brookline, remembering walks to Pierce School and the Brookline Public Library with his father, is debuting his new family musical "Twelve Kinds of Ice" in Minneapolis. He says the New England feel of the story and his own Brookline winters deeply shaped the show, which explores memory, parenting, and the wonder of childhood.
   

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  • Oak St. Health posted a job opening for Eligibility Consultant in Boston. Apply here.
  • Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Expeditor (Part-Time) at Air Culinaire Worldwide, LLC in Boston, Massachusetts in Boston. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Brookline here.

🗞 Nearby News

Newton

  • Large tree crashes into Newton backyard - Boston News, Weather, Sports (whdh.com)

Cambridge

  • Bomb Threat Prompts Shelter In Place At Harvard University (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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