Category: News
Centre/South Main Streets regains nonprofit status, hires interim director
Jamaica Plain’s Centre/South Main Streets (CSMS), a business promotion organization, has regained its status as a nonprofit corporation and has hired an interim executive director, according to a CSMS board member. CSMS has also reacquired its former office space over…
Equality Event
Ideas floated for Casey parkland
Community members stated a preference for better Emerald Necklace connections and a dog park in the new acre to be added to Southwest Corridor Park (SWCP) as a side effect of the Casey Arborway project. As a result of demolishing…
Nonprofit educates women about buying, storing guns
Citizens for Safety (CFS), a nonprofit located at 31 Heath St., is looking for more than a cosmetic solution to gun violence with a program called LIPSTICK. “LIPSTICK,” or “Ladies Involved in Putting a Stop to Inner-City Killing,” is a…
Shared-use kitchen expanding to Grove Hall
CropCircle Kitchen (CCK), a nonprofit, shared-use industrial kitchen at the Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain, is expanding operations to a facility in Grove Hall, according Jen Faigel, a development consultant and board chair of CCK. The facility at 196 Quincy…
JP woman footballer: ‘It’s not flag football’
When Jamaica Plain resident Nelli Ruotsalainen tells people she plays football, they assume it’s not of the tackle variety. Ruotsalainen, who is a running back for the New England Intensity professional women’s football team, wants to change that. “I want…
Bank robber charged with rapes
EGLESTON SQ.—A convicted bank robber who just got out of prison last year was arrested Feb. 5 and charged with two sexual assaults days before on the Roxbury side of Egleston Square. Tikee Jaun Beverly, 37, of Roxbury is facing…
Egleston farmers market a hit, expands to summer
The Egleston Square Farmers Market, originally intended as a winter-only market, is such a hit that it will now run every season except the spring. The winter farmers market, which takes place indoors at Our Lady of Lourdes Church Parish…
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu studio opens in Hyde Sq.
HYDE SQ.— Mass Bay Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a new martial arts studio, focusing on Brazilian-style Jiu Jitsu and self-defense, opened on the Blessed Sacrament campus last month. Brazilian-style Jiu Jitsu differs from its more well-known Japanese cousin in that, according…