Description: Brookline takes state to court in battle for local aid. Cherry sheets. Brookline police car and fire engine. Harold Raynolds, education commissioner.
Description: Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation races against deadline to save moviehouse from developer. Clips from "It's a Wonderful Life" and "High Noon."
Description: Staff cuts announced at Brookline Mental Health Center; therapists weep. Philip Johnston distressed over reduced human services funds. Michael Dukakis, Edward Lashman.
Description: Four colleagues of Michael Dukakis from his early political career discuss his hometown roots. Brookline environs. Young Dukakis visuals from early campaigns. '65 legislature photos Dukakis and Bulger.
Description: Memorial stamp issued for Francis Ouimet, first "common man" and American to win US Open golf tournament. Tip O'Neill. Aerials of The Country Club in Brookline. Open space, lush greenery.
Description: Gas explosion caused fire on Beaconsfield Street in Brookline. Thought to have been caused by laying of Cablevision underground lines. Destroyed apartment building with rubble, blown out windows.