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Month: December 2017
Q. and A. with JP resident, entrepreneur Jamie Cholaki
Jamaica Plain resident and entrepreneur Jamie Cholaki has been in the hair styling business for more than a decade and a half and recently launched a hair product that uses the amethyst gemstone. She is using a crowdfunding platform that…
Mayor signs bag ordinance
Mayor Martin Walsh on Dec. 15 signed the “bag” ordinance, though with some reservations about how the measure will be funded. The City Council during a hearing on Nov. 29 unanimously approved the ordinance, which levies at least a five-cent…
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL
Still no progress on DCR’s dog park
Over six months after state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) nixed the Anson Street dog park proposal, there are still no additional proposals or concrete plans moving forward from the state agency. In response to a growing demand for…
Eliot School chooses renovation team
The Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts has selected designLAB architects to plan the renovation and expansion of the school, according to a press release. The 341-year-old Boston-based art center occupies the original brick schoolhouse on Eliot Street built…
MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN
Hyde Square Task Force celebrated their “Annual Making Change Happen Breakfast” in Boston on Dec. 7.
INTERACTIVE LIGHTS
City Council Briefs
By Beth Treffeisen Special to the Gazette The City Council held its final hearing of the year on Dec.13. It was the last hearing for both Councilors Tito Jackson and Sal LaMattina who said their farewells after the hearing. Mayor…
Letters:
The bag debate We the taxpayers of Boston actually pay our City Councilors $99,500 per year to sit around debating the merits of paper vs plastic. Yep, you read that right. And soon we will be charged for putting our purchased…