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Winter in the northeast is always a bit of a question-mark: Some years we get walloped with feet of snow, and other years we barely get a few dustings. But […]

Robert Fahey, the creator of burlingtonretro.com, brings us another look back in time to Burlington’s oldest history book, “Ye Olde Meeting House 1732” about the building that [...]

Co-founders Java and Hetal Joshi gave BNEWS a brief history of the Burlington non-profit, Academy of Creative Arts. Providing class rooms, galleries, dance studios, a performance space and a [...]

The Select Board on Monday night approved  a comprehensive study of the town’s form of government with the goal of producing a new charter. The move comes after the town was […]

The Burlington Select Board voted unanimously on Monday to raise the rates for a trip in a Burlington Fire Department ambulance to bring the town’s rates in line with those […]

The Select Board voted unanimously in support of a mixed use zoning proposal Monday, with members offering full-throated support for a plan years in the making that drew much harsher […]

The national defense software firm Scientific Systems has cut the ribbon on its new Burlington headquarters, which was formerly located in Woburn. U.S. Senator Ed Markey, who attended the ribbon [...]

Thanks to a grant from the Burlington Cultural Commission, local artist Raksha Soni brought together a group of artists of all ages to illustrate what diversity and unity meant to […]

A multi-year effort to revamp K-8 literacy in Burlington schools is nearing a key milestone as a literacy task force has narrowed its list of potential curricula down to two […]

Thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Burlington Educational Foundation, Burlington elementary schools will be receiving new, up-to-date robotics kits to revive a robotics program.  “I think we [...]

The Burlington School Committee on Tuesday voted to accept a donation of exercise equipment from a Planet Fitness franchise that is moving out of its spot at 40 Ray Ave […]

Temple Shalom Emeth in Burlington is gearing up for Hanukkah with a family worship service on Friday, December 13 followed by a community-wide Hanukkah party on Sunday, December 15 from […]

The Mill Pond Water Treatment Facility is the highest energy user of all of Burlington’s buildings, after its schools, and thanks to a series of grants and incentives, a 66.6-kilowatt […]

The Planning Board voted 3-4 against a proposed mixed use development district in the Mall Road area, a non-binding recommendation that Town Meeting will take into consideration when it votes [...]

Kyle Singer has been volunteering with BCAT for a long time, so it wasn’t surprising when he said he wanted to start a podcast, New England Sports Talk. The concept […]

Larry Warfield has a unique window into Burlington politics. The husband of Town Clerk Amy Warfield, he’s been on hand and volunteering at most, if not all, elections going back […]

The Stoneham-based Ahern Family Charitable Foundation will hold its 21st Annual Army-Navy Football Luncheon fundraiser on Saturday, December 14th, 2024 at the Scoreboard Sports Bar & Grill in [...]

This week’s featured photo comes from Mary Leach, who says she found a hint of fall still hanging on in Mary Cummings Park. Thanks, Mary!   if you have a […]