After an overwhelming vote of 142 to 53 at Town Meeting this fall, the use of certain plastic bags by many businesses will be banned in Brookline, effective December of this year.

The Brookline Chamber of Commerce wants to give everyone the opportunity to develop into a leader. You can develop your skills by expanding your contacts in the Brookline business community.

In recent years, business networking has made its way to the top shelf of communications tools, providing potential customers and vendors one more touch-point with your business, becoming one more way to bolster word of mouth in a casual way. And there’s no better time to network than the month of

When people hear Chamber of Commerce, they often think of a behemoth organization, advocating for big business, holding mega-events and charging outrageous dues to be a member of the Club.

Only 1 Brookline, Massachusetts, 3 Libraries, 6.8 square miles, over 58,000 residents of which 4,584 students are in one of eight Pre K-8 public schools and 1,732 are in high school (76 nations represented and speak 57 languages); 30% of the students are from homes where English is not the primary l

As owner-managed businesses, we are in perpetual search of successful marketing techniques to help us take our businesses where we want them to go. Browse through Brookline Booksmith’s stack of business books or peruse the internet and you’ll find the same advice appears over and over: it’s al