By State Representative Liz Malia and State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz The 70th anniversary of the law that enabled the state to treat chronically ill individuals at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital seems like an apt time to consider how our understanding of…
Month: June 2019
Letters
Maintain Our Open Spaces Dear Editor, I am responding to recent media articles about future uses for the Shattuck Hospital site at Franklin Park. There have been calls to restore the land to Franklin Park, and use the state owned…
Op-Ed: Criminal Justice Reform
By Nika Elugardo State Rep. for the 15th Suffolk District In our district, many agree that structural inequities abound in our public institutions. One stark example: the criminal justice system. The belief that we must not only expose, but also…
Turtle Swamp Brewery Anchors Washington Street District
In what was for decades a heating oil depot, and then an alleged auto chop shop, an anchor for the Washington Street area near Egleston Square has begun to brew up on the back of great, local beer. A…
E-13 Police Share May’s Crime Statistics
On Thursday, June 6, Curtis Hall in Jamaica Plain hosted the monthly police and community relations meeting organized by District E-13 of the Boston Police Department (BPD). Every month, Officer William Jones from the Community Service Office and…
La Policia Del E-13 Comparte Las Estadísticas De Delincuencia De Mayo
El jueves 6 de junio, Curtis Hall fue el sitio de la reuniónmensual de policía y relacionescomunitariasorganizada por el Distrito E-13 del Departamento de Policía de Boston (BPD). Cadames, representantes del Distrito E-13 usanestareunión para informar a la comunidadsobre…
Kicking off the Summer Season Local First Fair to Showcase Local Services and Art
Special to the Gazette Nearly 40 independent, locally-owned businesses and nonprofits will exhibit at the Jamaica Plain “Local First Fair” on Thursday, June 20, 3:30 p.m.-dusk at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, JP. (The rain date is Thursday,…
Jamaica Plain Celebrates 6th Annual Porchfest!
Special to the Gazette Jamaica Plain will explode with talent and crackle with excitement on July 13 from 12-6PM, (rain date July 14) at the sixth annual Jamaica Plain Porchfest, a music and arts festival taking place on porches…
Essaibi-George Talks Homelessness, Education at JPNC Meeting
By Lauren Bennett The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council met for their monthly meeting on May 28, where they heard from City Councilor At-Large AnnissaEssaibi-George as well as regular updates from council committees. Essaibi-George spoke about the work she…
Q&A with Local Author: Laura McCune-Poplin
“Fourteen-year-olds exist, and they deserve to have their stories told,” said Laura McCune-Poplin, author and fifteen-year resident of Jamaica Plain. She is speaking about her latest work, Fatechanger, which was recently published by Black Rose Writing. A fiction…