Some Roslindale residents are saying the year-long closing of the Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Flaherty Pool for renovations is too long, that some portions of the project are unnecessary and that the City’s community process was inadequate.…
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Roslindale Neighbors: JP’s Eliot School brings art to Rozzie students
By Abigail Norman, Special to the Gazette For the first time in recent memory, all Boston Public School students in Roslindale will have art classes this year. This milestone comes, in part, through the hard work of Jamaica Plain’s Eliot…
Roslindale Neighbors: Rozzie water store offers fresh alternative
Since the 1980s, The Ice Box, located on the border of Jamaica Plain at 3892 Washington St. in Roslindale, has been bringing spring water to locals. At first, the water came from a spring in Vermont until the business switched…
Roslindale Neighbors: Homeowners go green to save money
Homeowners in Roslindale and Jamaica Plain are renovating their home for the good of the planet and their wallets. Joseph LaRusso, owner of 9 Beryl St. in Roslindale, added solar panels to his roof after it sprung a leak. Edith…
Roslindale Neighbors: Rozzie real estate market warming up
The Roslindale real estate market is on its way up, real estate agents told the Gazette. “It’s going good, going up. People are buying,” said Dru Akins, a real estate agent with Olde Bostonian Realty on Washington Street. “It’s not…
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JP doctor moonlights as singer
Liz Mitchell is able to have her cake and eat it, too. The Jamaica Plain resident is an emergency room doctor and musician, two passions in her life. “It’s the best of both worlds,” said Mitchell, a singer-songwriter who recently…
Homeless care project wins appeal
PARKSIDE—A proposed care and housing facility for the homeless on Walnut Avenue has won an appeal of a lawsuit that would have stopped the project. The plaintiffs have until Nov. 1 to file a last possible appeal to the state’s…
Latvian Church may become condos
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) Zoning Committee voted to support the redevelopment of the Jamaica Plain Latvian Lutheran Church at 98 Rockview St. at its Oct. 11 meeting. The committee supported the project in large part because owner Dennis…
1 wounded in Bromley-Heath shooting
JACKSON SQ.—A man was shot in the leg in a burst of gunfire that also hit six vehicles in the Bromley-Heath housing development on the night of Oct. 11, according to a Boston Police Department (BPD) report. Police officers patrolling…