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A long-time financial expert for a variety of university foundations, Shea McGrew has been named the executive director of the Ottawa County Community ....
Wicked Local The results are in: Bernard Greene will serve another term as Brookline Select Board member, joined by newcomer Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy. Aschkenasy will succeed incumbent Nancy Heller, who was not re-elected Tuesday. Aschkenasy led the pack with 3,518 votes, followed by Greene with 3,315, Heller with 3,171, Zoe Lynn with 2,731 and Donelle O Neal with 915. Brookline saw slightly higher voter turnout this year than in 2020, with 7,453 of the town s 39,790 registered voters 18.73% either heading to the polls or mailing in a ballot. Last year s turnout was 17.5%. Heller and Greene, the current Select Board chair, have both served on the board since 2015. They met with stiff competition in their campaigns for re-election, especially after the Gerald Alston discrimination case once again made headlines just a week before the election. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the town had unjustly fired Alston, a Brookline firefighter, after he reported ra ....
Wicked Local Brookline’s town election got off to a cold and wet start Tuesday amid a heavy rainstorm, with early voting and mail-in ballots contributing to quiet polling places. Through 7 p.m., the town had seen 6,937 votes cast so far in the May 4 Town Election, including early in-person votes and mail-in ballots tabulated at individual precincts, according to Jeff Nutting, a consultant in the Town Clerk’s office who has led Brookline elections during Town Clerk Pat Ward’s leave. “In person voting today so far is extremely light,” Nutting wrote in an email. “I am not sure if the weather is affecting turnout.” ....
Activists Focus On Brookline Select Board After Gerald Alston Ruling Gerald Alston speaks to his supporters outside Brookline Town Hall on May 2. Esteban Bustillos / GBH News Activists in Brookline continue to push for more action following the Supreme Judicial Court s ruling that Gerald Alston, a Black firefighter who complained of racism in the workplace in 2010, was unjustly fired after he spoke up. At a rally on Sunday sponsored by Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity and Brookline Budget Justice, around 100 of Alston s supporters focused on Select Board members Bernard Greene, Nancy Heller and John VanScoyoc, who they say appealed against Alston s case. Greene and Heller are up for re-election on Tuesday. ....