Month: June 2011

Route 39 work may start in spring

Harvest bus stop may stay Web Exclusive MBTA senior planner Greg Strangeways told the Gazette last night that planned changes to the MBTA’s bus Route 39—three years in the making—may not happen until next spring. The project includes the elimination…

MATCH finds a new home

PARKSIDE—The MATCH Charter Public School is creating a new elementary school in Jamaica Plain for K1 students and 2nd graders later this year. It will also move its middle school from Wachusett Street to 215 Forest Hills St. for the…

Shiatsu Japonés ya en JP

“Esto es una maravilla”, dijo doña Nelly de la Puente, al terminar su sesión con el especialista Gian Arakaki. “Siempre había escuchado de masajes y otro tipo de terapias; pero nunca los había tomado por diferentes razones”, nos comentó agregando…

‘SoMo’: A South St. nickname is born

“SoMo”—short for “south of the Monument”—is a new name for South Street’s burgeoning business district being pitched to early praise—and some ridicule—by the local McCormack & Scanlan Real Estate office. “As a lifelong JP resident, [South Street’s businesses] kind of…

Gentrification in focus at forum

WEB EXCLUSIVE Gentrification—a hot topic in Jamaica Plain because of Whole Foods—was the focus of the latest JP Forum. But panelists said to not blame Whole Foods. Panelist Steve Meacham, tenant organizing director at JP-based City Life/Vida Urbana, made the…

Connolly focuses on education

WEB EXCLUSIVE If At-Large City Councilor John Connolly had his way, Boston Public Schools would be radically different. A former middle school teacher and chair of the City Council’s Education Committee, “I would pilot the whole system,” Connolly said in…