By Janice Williams, Special to the Gazette Roslindale Open Studios, coming on Sat., Nov. 3 and Sun., Nov. 4, offers not only more than 100 artists at over 40 locations. It also features music, film, special events at local businesses and more. This free, family-oriented event will have artists showing and selling paintings, sculpture,...
Roslindale resident Allison Nevitt is one of 30 people still fighting her charges from her arrest last year at Occupy Boston. Nevitt is a member of JP’s Hope Central Church, which was heavily involved in the Occupy movement. She still doesn’t know when her court date on a trespassing charge will be. “I want...
Some Roslindale residents are saying the year-long closing of the Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Flaherty Pool for renovations is too long, that some portions of the project are unnecessary and that the City’s community process was inadequate. The City countered that the renovation is needed, the community outreach was “sufficient” and...
By Abigail Norman, Special to the Gazette For the first time in recent memory, all Boston Public School students in Roslindale will have art classes this year. This milestone comes, in part, through the hard work of Jamaica Plain’s Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, which is spearheading the efforts of principals, art...
Since the 1980s, The Ice Box, located on the border of Jamaica Plain at 3892 Washington St. in Roslindale, has been bringing spring water to locals. At first, the water came from a spring in Vermont until the business switched to Triple Springs in Connecticut, according to Luis Morales, a Roslindale resident and 12-year...
Homeowners in Roslindale and Jamaica Plain are renovating their home for the good of the planet and their wallets. Joseph LaRusso, owner of 9 Beryl St. in Roslindale, added solar panels to his roof after it sprung a leak. Edith Buhs and Peter Thomson, owners of 61 Hampstead Road in JP, completely renovated the...
The Roslindale real estate market is on its way up, real estate agents told the Gazette. “It’s going good, going up. People are buying,” said Dru Akins, a real estate agent with Olde Bostonian Realty on Washington Street. “It’s not as good as some other areas.” Akins estimates that the current market is performing...
Liz Mitchell is able to have her cake and eat it, too. The Jamaica Plain resident is an emergency room doctor and musician, two passions in her life. “It’s the best of both worlds,” said Mitchell, a singer-songwriter who recently released her second album, “Pretty House.” She added, “They both are hard jobs. I...
PARKSIDE—A proposed care and housing facility for the homeless on Walnut Avenue has won an appeal of a lawsuit that would have stopped the project. The plaintiffs have until Nov. 1 to file a last possible appeal to the state’s highest court. The developers, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) and Boston Health Care...
