Jamaica Plain’s Mount Pleasant Home was among the first residential care homes in the state to vaccinate its residents and staff at a clinic on January 13. The facility was founded in 1901 as “an independent nonprofit residential care home…
Month: January 2021
Council President Janey Starting Transition to Acting Mayor
Council President Kim Janey appears to be about ready to make history in becoming Acting Mayor of the city – thus also becoming the first African American mayor of Boston. Janey, who represents neighboring Roxbury and parts of the South…
Mount Pleasant Home, Goddard House Reciben Vacunas
Mount Pleasant Home en Jamaica Plain fue una de las primeras residencias de ancianos en el estado en vacunar a sus residentes y personal el 13 de enero. La residencia atiende a personas mayores de 62 años y alberga 60…
JP Would Lose 16 Seats Under the New Exam School Admissions Formula
The Exam School Admissions Criteria Working Group has released the most accurate simulation of available seats per neighborhood under the new, one-year admissions policy – a simulation shows that while some neighborhoods would gain many seats, JP would lose approximately…
BPS Announces Tentative Schedule for Reopening Additional School Buildings
As Boston Public Schools (BPS) Supt. Brenda Cassellius and Boston Teachers Union (BTU) President Jessica Tang announced on Monday, Jan. 11, an update to the timeline for re-opening school buildings to students, a prominent grass-roots parent organization, that formed in…
JP Observer: Impartial Investigation Needed for Family, Community into Police Shooting of JP Native
Special to the Gazette Everything went wrong and in public for 41-year old Jamaica Plain native Juston Root almost a year ago, and it cost him his life. The mentally ill man died in a hail of daylight gunfire from…
E13 Police Share 2020 Crime Statistics
On Thursday, Jan. 7, District E13 of the Boston Police Department (BPD) hosted its first virtual police and community relations meeting of 2021. The monthly meeting, which is carried out virtually over Zoom, is an opportunity for members of the…
La Policía De E13 Comparte Estadísticas De Delitos De 2020
El jueves 7 de enero, el Distrito E13 del Departamento de Policía de Boston (BPD) tuvo su primera reunión de relaciones policiales y comunitarias de 2021. La reunión mensual, que se lleva a cabo virtualmente en Zoom, es una oportunidad…
School Committee Affirms Focus on Equity and Antiracism
The Boston School Committee re-elected both Alexandra Oliver-Dávila to Chairperson and Michael O’Neill to Vice Chairperson in unanimous votes during its Annual Organizational Meeting on January 4. “I am proud to formally welcome Alexandra Oliver-Dávila to her new role as…
SNA Hears Doyle’s Proposal; Opposes 97-99 Williams St.
The Stonybrook Neighborhood Association (SNA) met virtually on January 11, where neighbors heard the most recent proposal for the Doyle’s development, as well as voted to oppose the development proposed for 97-99 Williams St. Doyle’s Developer Lee Goodman of Watermark…