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Tobin: JP branches likely targets
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Hundreds of people—including many Jamaica Plain residents, and others ranging from a 4-year-old boy to a former bank robber—protested possible branch library closures at a dramatic March 9 Boston Public Library (BPL) trustees meeting.
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Mayor Thomas Menino announced yesterday that some branch libraries need to be shut down, despite a Boston Public Library (BPL) budget review and a master planning process that are supposedly still under way.
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JPNC opposes closures
Fearing that Jamaica Plain’s branch libraries are on the chopping block, local friends groups are mobilizing a rescue plan—including a petition—in advance of a March 9 meeting that should clarify the fate of the city’s 26 branch libraries.
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BPS seeking big changes for English learners
A little-noticed amendment put forward by Jamaica Plain state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez in a recent state education reform package could exempt some schools from the effects of the 2002 Unz Initiative, the Gazette has learned.
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Allen supports Payne for seat
FOREST HILLS/WOODBOURNE—The field of potential candidates for the Sixth Suffolk District state House seat grew to five people last month, shortly after state Rep. Willie Mae Allen reportedly announced her retirement.
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Jamaica Plain activist Jeffrey Herman is considering a run against state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez this fall, the Gazette has learned.
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US Rep. Stephen Lynch, who has represented southern Jamaica Plain in Congress for eight years, is facing three challengers who are all running as political outsiders.
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PONDSIDE—After months of uncertainty for building tenants—including the non-profits the Union of Minority Neighborhoods (UMN) and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy (ENC)—the office building at 891 Centre St. was got a new owner in December, Dedham-based Salvatore Capital Partners.
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Web site is up
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Presentations on the potential branch library closures, advocacy for new bike lanes and a proposed Forest Hills development project made for a jam-packed and high-spirited Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) monthly meeting Feb. 23.
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S. HUNTINGTON AVE.—A small fire in a storage room at the headquarters of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) broke out late on the night of Feb. 19 and damaged some old documents.
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A Dorchester teen was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail last week for sneaking into English High School with a loaded handgun in 2008.
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Image Courtesy Urban Edge/PCA Architecture A rendering of the proposed Jackson Commons building at 1542 Columbus Ave.
JACKSON SQ.—Around 20 people who turned out Feb. 25 for a public review of non-profit developer Urban Edge’s planned development of a mixed-use residential building with ground-floor community and commercial space largely supported the project.
Urban Edge is proposing to construct a large addition to its Webb building at 1542 Columbus Ave., converting it into a mixed-use building with commercial and community space on the ground-floor, and 38 mixed-income rental units on three upper floors.
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‘Brother Tony’ in prison for JP crimes
“I’m a 38-year-old person, and my life has been riddled with drug abuse and crime directly related to what happened to me as a kid,” said Scott Kimball in his Southie accent, talking on the phone from his new home in New Hampshire. “It seems like my past somehow always becomes my future.”
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Local state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez is “blocking” a State House bill that would legalize medical use of marijuana because of his “lack of compassion,” according to advocates who delivered more than 1,000 pro-legalization postcards from Jamaica Plain-area voters to the representative’s office this week.
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Gov. announces additional $1 million for rink
ROXBURY—Less than 48 hours after plans were presented for $450,000 in improvements to Roxbury’s Melnea Cass Rink, Gov. Deval Patrick on Feb. 19 announced an additional $1 million to turn the open-air rink into a year-round, multi-use recreation facility.