Category: News

Affordable housing campaign launches

An “educational campaign” about the benefits of affordable housing was slated to be launched this week in Jamaica Plain by the Boston Tenant Coalition (BTC) and the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC). “The Faces and Places of Affordable Housing”…

School art programs get boost

Eight Boston schools—including JP’s English High and John F. Kennedy Elementary—will add art and music programs next year thanks to $81,500 in grants through the BPS Arts Expansion Initiative. The grants, announced on June 15, also will allow JP’s Eliot…

Congratulations!

The following Jamaica Plain residents, businesses and organizations have received recognition in education: Tremana White was graduated from Connecticut College. Welbis Ortiz graduated from the Noble and Greenough School. William Matczynski graduated cum laude from Macalester College in Minnesota. Fernando…

House demo put on hold

GLENVALE PARK—The Boston Landmarks Commission last week slapped a 90-day delay on the demolition of a 130-year-old vacant Chestnut Avenue house in the hopes that the developer and the neighborhood could agree on an alternative plan. But Pat McKenna, who…