Dear Church Square Partners, In 2004, hundreds of residents from Hyde/Jackson Square worked with you to buy the Blessed Sacrament Church campus in order to preserve it for our community. We attended rallies. We signed petitions and wrote letters. We…
Month: June 2013
Letter: Parklet program a welcome innovation
Over the past few months, the Gazette has published several articles and critical editorials about Boston’s new parklet pilot project. Public outreach, the project’s budget and the use of public funds seem to be the paper’s major concerns. Parklets are…
Letter: Gazette is wrong to criticize off-leash dog-walkers
It is the season of the off-leash-dog-bashing editorials again in the JP Gazette. (“Unleash the dog-walking talk,” June 7.) I shake my head in utter amazement at the regularity (and repetitiveness) of these rants. JP is home to so much green…
Letter: The Cave was more than a drop-in center
I was disappointed in the comment made by Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez referring to the possible move of ABCD to Bromley-Heath Youth and Family Center (The Cave) that it will be “not just a drop-in center, but a place people go…
Letter: Gazette does outstanding work
The quality of the work being done by the Gazette is outstanding. The Gazette hit the MBTA hard on its proposed changes to the Route 39 bus stops, which will be fewer under the MBTA plan. Elders and handicapped people need more…
Letter: Thanks for Arborway planting help
Thank you to the 24 volunteers (plus one dog) who braved the heat to help plant trees on the Arborway Hillside on June 1. The trees were funded by a Grow Boston Greener grant and include a combination of canopy and understory trees: nine shagbark…
Letter: Thanks to JPNDC for ed partnership
As the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation celebrates its Annual Meeting this week (May 29), I would like to thank them for all of their work in Jamaica Plain. The Adult Learning Program (ALP) has partnered with the JPNDC for…
MassDOT chief meets with Casey critics
State Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Secretary Richard Davey met with Bridging Forest Hills (BFH) members Jeffrey Ferris and Kevin Moloney to listen to their advocating for a bridge replacement for the Casey Overpass last month. Davey maintained that the decision…