I have an idea for a small business in JP. Situated discreetly around the corner from the new Whole Foods, a small pushcart business. This would rent recycled paper bags, with eyeholes cut out of them. Shoppers could stop at this cart before going into Whole Foods and rent a paper bag to wear...
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Letter: No right to make Whole Foods demands
Although I would 10 times more like to have Hi-Lo as my neighbor than Whole Foods, I feel that the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council has no right to demand anything from Whole Foods that it did not demand from Hi-Lo. (“Whole Foods will not create fund,” Sept. 23.) I would say the same about...
Letter: In support of Occupy Boston protests
It seems that this fall many Bostonians will be walking like an Egyptian. What started out as Mohamed Bouazizi’s last stand against those who tried to stop him from making a hard-earned buck has now turned into a global movement. The Arab Spring is no longer just an Arab thing. Wall Street represents the heart of the...
Letter: Whole Foods should hire people of color
It’s Saturday, Oct. 1, and I just came home from waiting in line outside the Connolly Library for the Whole Foods hiring event. I was keeping a friend company who was planning to attend. There were dozens and dozens of people there in a long, long line, and most of them were people of...
Agenda, 10/21/11
The final, last-minute deadline for JP Agenda listings is noon, Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 issue. Send listings to news@jamaicaplaingazette.com. Listings with no end date will be run for 3 months, space permitting. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Meetings BPS walk-through & public meeting,...
Sights and Sounds, 10/21/11
The final, last-minute deadline for listings is noon, Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 issue. Send arts and entertainment listings to reporter@jamaicaplaingazette.com. Listings with no end date will be run for 3 months, space permitting. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Halloween Dog Parade and Fashion...
Invitación, 10/21/11
Fechas Elegir. La oportunidad de conocer más a los candidatos at-large al Boston City Council es el jueves Oct. 27, 6pm, John F. Kennedy School, 7 Bolster St. Los organizadores Hyde Square Task Forcey Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation indican que han comprometidola presencia de todos los postulantes. Tele. Boston Neighborhood Network ofrece talleres...
New Neighborhood Council elected
Casting close to 800 votes—more than twice as many as in the last election in 2009—Jamaica Plain residents elected a new Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council Sept. 24. Andrea Howley, who chaired the neighborhood council during its last two-year session, praised the high turnout. “I definitely think the turnout was a validation that, to many...
District 7 candidates selected
EGLESTON SQ.—Incumbent Tito Jackson and political newcomer Sheneal Parker will be the District 7 candidates for city council following their first- and second- place finishes in the district preliminary election Sept. 27. Jackson received 76 percent of the 2,467 votes cast. Parker got 11.1 percent. The other candidates, Althea Garrison and Roy Owens, won...