Broad opposition to the closure of a 15-bed detox unit at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital continues to be voiced following a public hearing Feb. 15. Those who spoke at the hearing in opposition to the closure included a representative…
Month: March 2013
Senior Life: Eliot School a home for senior artists, crafters
Senior Life: Organization becomes seniors’ ‘best friend’
Senior Life: Retirement home helps seniors downsize
Drive around Boston on Sept. 1 and you’ll witness plenty of misery on the faces of college students moving. And moving only gets harder once you start cashing Social Security checks. But the Springhouse Retirement Community is attempting to ease…
Senior Life: Ethos wins major award for West Roxbury program
The Jamaica Plain-based elder services agency Ethos recently won a major award—including $10,000 in cash and $100,000 in capacity-building help—for its AgeWell West Roxbury program from the nonprofit consulting organization Root Cause. “This is an amazing opportunity for Ethos AgeWell…
Pop-up gallery fills empty storefront
HYDE SQ.—OGO Gallery, a temporary “pop-up” art exhibition space, is debuting today in a vacant storefront at 405 Centre St. The gallery is the brainchild of real estate agent and artist Eileen Taylor, who saw a chance to highlight artists…
New sheriff aims to keep people out of system
Indie business groups chart different paths
Jamaica Plain’s two new associations for local, independent businesses are committed to working together and even possibly even joining into one group in the future, their leaders said in a joint interview at the Gazette office. The two also joked…
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Editorial: Doctor’s orders at Martha Eliot
The opaque, top-down decision-making at Martha Eliot Health Center that is kicking out 5,000 adult patients and putting future service details up in the air has left the neighborhood speculating about what is really going on. The Gazette was among…