The Arborway Committee, a transit advocacy group, recently released a report advocating for the extension of Green Line streetcar service to Hyde Square. The report includes various alternatives, including one routing the streetcar through the Hyde Square rotary. The Gazette…
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Ex-Mayor Flynn backs JPNC lawsuit
Former Mayor Raymond Flynn supports the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council’s (JPNC) right to sue the City in its controversial lawsuit, he told the Gazette in a phone interview March 8. Flynn created the JPNC and other neighborhood councils around the…
Health center to hold meeting on care change
JACKSON SQ.—Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) will hold a community meeting on ending adult service at the Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC), while some people remain perplexed about the decision to do so. A member of the MEHC community advisory board…
Peace Garden to get redesign
EGLESTON SQ.—The Ecumenical Social Action Committee, Inc. (ESAC) is hosting two “re-imagining” sessions for a redesign of the Egleston Square Peace Garden at the corner of Washington and School streets. The two sessions, one planned for March 13, after the…
Preservation group eyes Goddard future
With announcement that the former Goddard House nursing home at 201 S. Huntington Ave. is for sale, a preservation group is hoping that the new owners will maintain the building’s historic value. The sale of the building moves to the…
Goddard House is for sale
S. HUNTINGTON—The former Goddard House nursing home at 201 S. Huntington Ave. is for sale, according to a “confidential investment offering” ad flyer obtained by the Gazette. The property hit the market on March 4 and the sale is being…
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Armed man robs 2 at Eliot School
PONDSIDE—Police are seeking a suspect in two gunpoint robberies that happened two weeks ago at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts at 24 Eliot St.—one inside the adult-education school and the other outdoors behind the building. The suspect…
2 bids placed for former church
HYDE SQ.—At least two bids were submitted late last month for the former Blessed Sacrament Church building at 360 Centre St. Local developers Jason Hutchinson and Andre White made a $1.4 million bid with plans for a small business/nonprofit complex,…
JPNC aims to improve ‘racial equity’
An ad hoc committee of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) is seeking to address racial equity in the JPNC’s decisions. Tom Kieffer, executive director of the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, and fellow Ad Hoc Racial Justice Committee members…