Category: News
MassDOT chief: We’ll fix Casey ‘trust issue’
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) chief Richard Davey pledged more transparency in the Casey Arborway project in an exclusive Gazette interview with him and other top officials at MassDOT headquarters last week. “We have to continue to work hard to…
Goddard House nursing home to shut down
S. HUNTINGTON—The Goddard House Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, an enormous nursing home at 201 S. Huntington Ave., will close forever in September. The shutdown leaves about 100 seniors looking for new homes and puts a question mark on the…
Iglesia se convertirá en condominios
HYDE SQ.—El antiguo Blessed Sacrament Church en 361 de la Centre St. probablemente se convertirá en condominios de lujo con precios hasta 725.000 dólares, ya que el codueño de Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) ha aceptado una oferta de…
JP gang targeted in drug raid
EGLESTON/HYDE SQ.—Jamaica Plain’s notorious Boylston Street gang, known for a murderous feud with a Mozart Street gang, was targeted by a massive drug raid on July 9 that included the arrests of two JP residents. None of the 15 people…
JPCC chair criticizes City partnership
Jamaica Plain Community Centers (JPCC) chair Kerry Costello is criticizing the relationship between Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) and the local councils that run the community centers, saying the City is attempting to garner more power over the…
Open Street
JP projects named in City’s 2013 budget
Several Jamaica Plain-based projects were approved in the City’s fiscal year 2013 capital budget. Ward’s Pond, part of the Emerald Necklace’s Olmsted Park and JP’s border with Brookline, is due for boardwalk improvements. “The original boardwalk lifted and shifted during…
JP Observer: JP needs to honor local peace hero
Not many neighborhoods can boast that a Nobel Peace Prize winner was born there—no more than 101 in the world, to be exact; that’s how many people have won the prize since it was established in 1901. Jamaica Plain can…
