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Gazette Photo by John Ruch
Several friends visit a memorial April 25 on the Southwest Corridor Park basketball court where Luis Troncoso was shot to death four days earlier. More than 100 friends and family members have visited the homemade shrine, which will come down this weekend.

Youths demand more help
A 20-year-old Dorchester man was shot to death April 21 on a Southwest Corridor Park basketball court, near the Stony Brook T Station and right next to the lawn where Spontaneous Celebrations will hold the annual Wake Up the Earth Festival tomorrow.

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1-year lease deal is in the works
HYDE SQ.—Bella Luna Restaurant will move to The Brewery Complex—and the Milky Way Lounge & Lanes nightclub will close permanently—no later than about a year from now, according to co-owner Kathie Mainzer, who blamed a “gigantic rent increase.”

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Wake up. Drive to work. Drive home. Go to sleep. This familiar routine is being interrupted for an increasing number of JP residents upon learning the places they leave their cars are not driveways after all.

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JP’s Abandoned Buildings
The number of abandoned buildings in Jamaica Plain remained about the same between 2006 and 2007, while the citywide count dropped significantly, according to the city’s 11th annual abandoned properties report.

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 7:00am

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SOUTH ST.—Two workers who were fired from the Jamaica Plain store of Harvest Co-op Markets in the last six months claim they were terminated for expressing support for union organizing efforts at the nonprofit supermarket. Harvest denies their accusations.

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Connolly to close for 2 weeks
The Connolly Branch Library will close for two weeks beginning May 5 so that its perpetually leaky roof can be permanently fixed.

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 7:00am

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STONYBROOK—Local developer Peter Bourassa is still seeking to put nine condo units on the site of a century-old stable on Meehan Street.

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 7:00am

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A working timeline has been devised for the final steps of a year-and-a-half-long community planning process that will end with the MBTA opening bidding on over 6 acres of land around Forest Hills St

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 7:00am

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WASHINGTON ST.—Close to 15 years after it first proposed expansion, and after half a dozen appearances before the city zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), the Midway Café is making one more bid to expan

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 6:00am

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JP’s Tree-Climbers

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Thu, 05/01/2008 - 9:00pm

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Photo by Bruce T. Martin The American Brewery after being converted into a prize-winning residential building.

Two Jamaica Plain redevelopment projects have won historic preservation awards from the Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA). Only eight projects are being honored citywide with the 2008 Preservation Achievement Awards.
JP’s award-winners are the American Brewery Lofts condominium project at 251 Heath St. and the BNN Charles J. Beard II Media Center at 3025 Washington St.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 5:00am

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Gazette Photo by John Swan
Trucks parked on the sidewalk being unloadesd bt a Carlysle Engineering forklift block Brookside Avenue earlier this month.

Some concerned with street use as Green St. plan clears another hurdle
BROOKSIDE—Carlysle Engineering, one of the last industrial interests in Jamaica Plain’s Brookside neighborhood, has vowed to file a lawsuit and may pack up shop if a proposed mixed-use development goes up across the street.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 5:00am

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Local florist plans to set up shop, bakery plans expansion

SOUTH STREET—It was a happy accident, Petal and Leaf Florist owner Cat Thomson said, that she found a new location for her store on South Street.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 9:00am

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Manager laughs in the face of market trends
CENTRE ST.—A new music store, the Mud Dog Media Company, opened last week at the former CD Spins storefront at 668 Centre St.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 9:00am

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FOREST HILLS—A final plan for the MBTA’s Arborway Yard bus facility was chosen by a community advisory group Wednesday night just before the Gazette went to press.