EGLESTON SQ.—Police are seeking suspects in two recent, similar sexual assaults where a man lured a woman to an abandoned property on the Roxbury side of Egleston Square. The assaults happened on Feb. 2 and 3 in the 2900 block…
Month: February 2013
Police warn about business break-ins
The following notice was issued by the Boston Police Department: District E-13 detectives are investigating an increase in commercial break-ins and acts of vandalism in the Jamaica Plain and Roxbury neighborhoods. Most of these incidents are occurring during the night…
Policía advierte sobre robos
Una notificación del Departamento de Policía de Boston: Los detectives del Distrito E-13 han lanzado una investigación con relación a un aumento en robos a los negocios y actos de vandalismo en los vecindarios de Jamaica Plain y Roxbury. La…
Park addition design options to be presented
State Department of Transportation consultants will present “several options” for the near-acre of land to be added to the Southwest Corridor Park as a result of the Casey Arborway project to the park’s Parkland Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) next week,…
Centre/South Main Streets regains nonprofit status, hires interim director
Jamaica Plain’s Centre/South Main Streets (CSMS), a business promotion organization, has regained its status as a nonprofit corporation and has hired an interim executive director, according to a CSMS board member. CSMS has also reacquired its former office space over…
Health center ends care for 5K adults
By Peter Shanley and John Ruch, Gazette Staff JACKSON SQ.—The Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) at 75 Bickford St., which is run by Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), will no longer care for adult patients, it was announced Jan. 29 in…
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Nonprofit puts student art on T-shirts, funds schools
Uninspired by the corporate world, two young Jamaica Plain residents have started Rightside Shirts, a nonprofit that raises money for art programs in public schools. Rightside goes to a school and has all the students draw any design they want.…
JP indie business group forms
JP Local First, a new nonprofit association for local, independent businesses, is being formed by the owners of City Feed and Supply and Red Sun Press. It will hold its first monthly meeting on Feb. 14. The idea is to…
Cadena latina se retira del proyecto en 225 Centre
La cadena latina controvertida que consideraba ocupar el 225 Centre St. se ha retirado de las discusiones. El portavoz del desarrollo Dave Traggorth anunció la decisión en la reunión del mes pasado de Jackson Square Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC). CAC…