Mayor Martin Walsh cut the ribbon on six recent and brand-new businesses and nonprofits in the former Blessed Sacrament Church site in a March 29 event. The event marked the full occupancy of a 7,500-square-foot retail space at Centre and…
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Sights and Sounds, April 11, 2014
The deadline for listings is noon, Tues., April 22 for the April 25 issue. Send listings to [email protected]. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Special Events Easter Egg-stravaganza, crafts, basket-making, egg hunt,…
Historic Eliot School undergoes renovation
By Bonnie McBride/Special to the Gazette PONDSIDE—Working in a maze of scaffolding high above Jamaica Plain’s Eliot Street, two women from North Bennet Street School’s (NBSS) Preservation Carpentry program are restoring the cupola on the historic 1831 schoolhouse of the…
JP Agenda, April 11, 2014
The deadline for listings is noon, Tues., April 22 for the April 25 issue. Send listings to [email protected]. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Meetings Stonybrook Neighborhood Association, Mon., April 14, 7-9pm,…
Editorial: Our Boston Marathon
“Explosions injure dozens at Boston Marathon; many JPers in race.” So read the headline that Gazette reporters, still in shock, wrote atop a breaking news story on the afternoon of April 15, 2013. For nearly four days, the news only…
Editorial: Organizing Forest Hills
Rumblings about a special Forest Hills committee for the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council and a new neighborhood association forming around Wachusett Street are different expressions of a similar truth. The Forest Hills/Woodbourne area is JP’s hot new epicenter of development…
DA gives funds to JP group
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley last month delivered thousands of dollars seized from drug traffickers to a Jamaica Plain organization dedicated to reducing gun violence in Boston. As part of his annual Asset Forfeiture Community Reinvestment Program, Conley…
Invitación, April 11, 2014
La entrega para la lista de Invitación es al mediodía, el 22 de abril para la publicación del 25 de abril. Manda a [email protected]. Atención: Marca el 617 antes de los números que salen abajo. Reuniones Stonybrook Neighborhood Association, lunes,…