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With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just days away, Rabbi Susan Abramson of Temple Shalom Emeth shares some of what makes the holy days so important.

The Burlington Girl Scouts are gearing up for their spookiest event of the season: Trunk or Treat, scheduled for Sunday, October 20 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.  The event […]

The Burlington Housing Authority provides housing for low-income and disabled adults, but there’s so much more you might not know. Hear from Executive Director Paula Kinnon in this episode [...]

Francis Wyman Elementary School has been named an Apple Distinguished School, a designation from the Apple corporation that identifies “centers of leadership and educational excellence ​that [...]

The design firm working to redesign the Burlington High School has delivered at least 10 preliminary strategies to the High School Building Committee to consider for the future of the […]

Burlington’s 126-member Town Meeting will convene for its final session of 2024 on September 23, with a full docket of items to consider.  Some are, as usual, fairly routine, like […]

After years of ending the fiscal year in deficits, Burlington schools’ food service accounts were in the black in Fiscal Year ‘23, thanks to a guaranteed surplus of about $215,000 […]

The Council on Aging held an open house to celebrate Senior Center Month and the amazing artwork of the Senior Center Art Club.

Burlington Public Schools is exploring a comprehensive K-8 literacy program after a literacy review found an “urgent need” for alignment across the grade levels.  About 57 percent of all [...]

In a major coup for Burlington’s growing life sciences economy, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard opened a new high-tech facility on Blue Sky Drive. Governor Maura Healey and […]

The Burlington Select Board on Monday voted to support a Town Meeting warrant article that would seek a home rule petition to extend liquor licenses granted to the Burlington Mall […]

The Burlington Select Board has taken positions on several major warrant articles that will come before Town Meeting on September 23, including a high-stakes warrant article that would fund a [...]

Burlington will soon be getting a grant-funded pop-up art gallery housed inside a trailer, thanks to the same grant that has funded the town’s summer beer garden series and the […]

The Town Of Burlington has determined that the police department will temporarily relocate to the Vine Brook water treatment plant for about two years during the construction of a new […]

With a cluster of cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or EEE, in Massachusetts, some towns are on high alert, and at least one Bay State town has shut down its […]

The organic cafe Life Alive is one step closer to a new location in Burlington after they were approved for a special permit from the town Planning Board.  The restaurant […]

Burlington’s annual beer gardens have returned for the Thursdays in September, with local brews, local music, and a good time for kids and adults.

The results are in from Massachusetts’ state primary election, with Republican John Deaton winning a three-way race to face off against incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren in November and Democrat [...]