Personal chef Jen Rogers wants you to have dinner with your family, even if she has to be the one to cook it. “I had been listening to families who struggled every day to sit down to dinner together,” the JP resident…
JP chef cooks at (your) home
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T restores Green Line runs, but more cuts loom
By Rebeca Oliveira and John Ruch The MBTA has quietly restored some of the Green Line streetcar’s runs to Heath Street, which had been eliminated last year as part of controversial budget-related service cuts. But the MBTA’s budget crisis hasn’t…
Lynch may be in, Capuano out for Senate run
With John Kerry, the senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts, expected to be confirmed soon as the next U.S. secretary of state, elected officials are gearing up for another special election. U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (5th District) has declared his intention…
Former JPNC chair backs lawsuit
Kevin Moloney, a former chair of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC), has been “consulting” with the JPNC in support of its controversial lawsuit against the 161 S. Huntington Ave. housing development, he told the Gazette. He defended the JPNC’s…
BRA ‘still listening’ on S. Huntington plan
The community again asked the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for height and materials restrictions for new projects in the S. Huntington Avenue area, along with more local retail space and integrated affordable housing, during the second community meeting Jan. 9…
Match Day School may move
The Match Community Day School, currently at 86 Wachusett St., may have found its new home in Mattapan. While a purchase and sale agreement has been signed, Match Chief Operating Officer Mike Larsson said, it does not mean the move…
State shuts down hair salon; reopening planned
CENTRAL JP—State regulators yesterday shut down the Amp Hair Studio salon at 482 Centre St. for operating without a license. Owner Aura Peguero told the Gazette that she applied for the license today and expects to be back in business…
Community center rates an issue again
A local youth basketball tournament almost did not happen because of an unexpected fee at the Hennigan Community Center (HCC), but the chair of the organization that oversees HCC says the rules were followed. Rob Lewis, who runs the tournament,…
JP History: Jamaicaway Tower built in familiar controversy
Fifty years ago, in the early 1960s, the Jamaicaway was caught in a familiar struggle. Would a proposed housing development permanently change the face of the neighborhood? Just like today’s S. Huntington area debate, the proposed Jamaicaway Tower and Townhouses…
JP History: This Week in JP History
The Gazette’s top headlines from this week in JP history: 5 Years Ago: 2008 “St. Andrew’s sold to local church” Bethel AME Church buys the former St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church complex in Forest Hills after much local concern…