The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has ordered Sunset Cantina, 916 Commonwealth Ave., to go alcohol free between Oct. 7 and Oct. 15 because of an incident in which a swarm of state investigators found an even larger swarm of freshman-age drinkers, many with vodka concoctions, one night last October. Read more.

Lilyan Hashim was walking around the Brookline Reservoir when she spotted a cormorant being all cormoranty and spreading its wings while perched on a rock yesterday. Read more.

A chain of "pregnancy resource centers" - including outlets in Revere and Brookline - that won't offer referrals for abortions for pregnant patients wants the state to leave it alone and stop warning people about them. Read more.

Riders in an inbound 60 bus were jolted when the driver of a Toyota minivan slammed into it on Rte. 9 just before Chestnut Hill Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Read more.

The MBTA reports workers have fixed whatever was so wrong with the tracks at Cleveland Circle that it had to run buses along Beacon Street instead of trolleys.

The Brookline Department of Public Health today urged parents to ensure their kids have been vaccinated against pertussis - and adults to get a shot if it's been more than ten years since their last one - after 15 cases of the illness, also known as whooping cough, were diagnosed this month, mainly in students at Brookline High School but also in one student at the Runkle School. Read more.

Brookline.News reports town officials are thinking they'll keep clay courts at Amory Park clay for tennis players rather than paving them over so pickleball players could use them as well. Clay courts allow tennis play in the rain and are more forgiving on aging player's joints than paved surfaces, tennis players said in their apparently winning volley. Plus, more tennis players wrote in support of clay than pickleball players wrote to back a hard surface.

Brookline.News reports on efforts by a group to get enough signatures for a ballot question on converting the town into a city. Read more.

Caroline Barnes, who sells posters celebrating the angry turkeys of Brookline, reports that the town and the Brookline Art Makes Community are in receipt of their first shipment of oversized fiberglass turkeys, which local artists will paint and place around the town.

The MBTA was forced to rustle up some buses to get Riverside Line riders between Fenway and Reservoir due to an issue with the overhead wires near Brookline Hills.