The high-end apartment building planned for the Home for Little Wanderers site is drawing opposition from the Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA) and Occupy JP. The influential BPA is against demolishing the existing buildings at 161 S. Huntington Ave. to make…
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DCR may manage completed Casey Arborway
FOREST HILLS—Shea Circle, along with the rest of the new Casey Arborway, will likely return to Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) oversight and maintenance after the current project’s construction is over, the Gazette has learned. “There’s a very small,…
Cemetery to get sign, lights
FOREST HILLS—The long, curving main drive for Forest Hills Cemetery soon will feature a cemetery sign for the first time, and Victorian-style streetlamps are coming by next year. The historic cemetery at 95 Forest Hills Ave. is also nearing completion…
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Hubway bike rentals could be coming to JP
Jamaica Plain residents might soon be able to rent bikes to cruise around the neighborhood. Hubway, the City’s bike-sharing program that began last summer, is looking to add 30 stations. Nicole Freedman, director of the Boston Bikes program, said officials…
JP man is mayor’s new Latino liaison
JP resident Miguel Chavez has been named as the new Latino liaison in the City’s Office of Neighborhood Services by Mayor Thomas Menino. “The Latino community has spread our wings” in recent years and has even more to do, Chavez…
T to raise fares, trim Green Line
The MBTA plans an overall 23 percent fare increase and will eliminate weekend Green Line streetcar service between Brigham Circle and Heath Street, following months of controversy about the T’s sorry financial state. The T also will kill the Route…
Church ponders fate of organ
A local church is pondering what to do with a historic organ it has had dismantled in storage for six years that it is being prodded to move. The decision could mean a huge expense, or giving up the treasure.…
Local bridge demolished
WOODBOURNE—The Tollgate Bridge, a former pedestrian walkway across train tracks near Tollgate Cemetery, was demolished March 31, according to Mayor’s Office spokesperson John Guilfoil. Guilfoil said the City was forced to remove the bridge because it was an aging structure…
Birth Notices
Parents Alexandra and Benjamin Weber of Jamaica Plain and grandparents Blaise Mazzella and Phyllis Weber welcomed the birth of Hannah Dove Weber, a girl, on Oct. 27, 2011. Parents Sarah and Robert Hydon of Jamaica Plain and grandparents JoAnn and…