Over the last five months of meetings about the future of the Casey Overpass site, I have come to recognize this project’s enormous potential to transform the area for the better, and I have become increasingly convinced that a street-level solution would be the best outcome for the entire community. As a member of...
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Letter: Thanks for a great JPNC election
Thanks to everyone in JP who took time out to vote on Saturday in the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council election. The turnout was by far more than the last vote. The JPNC will work for you and hopefully make voting even easier two years from now. Thanks to all the volunteers who gave up...
Letter: Wine store plan could go wrong
I am a resident and parent of young children. I am very upset to find out that a new wine and beer store is being proposed across the street from the Curley School where I in fact attended middle school. Jamaica Plain has numerous places to purchase wine, beer and alcohol. To allow a...
JP Observer: Cast a ballot, see art this weekend
Jamaica Plain—known for its art and its activism—will be the site of two significant community-wide events this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25. One is the 18th Annual Jamaica Plain Open Studios, featuring the work of more than 220 local artists, sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Arts Council. The other, taking place only on Sept....
Editorial: Vote Sept. 27, too
Egleston Square-area citizens should seize their chance to vote in the Sept. 27 preliminary election for the District 7 Boston City Council race. Turnout in preliminaries is usually terrible. The vote only narrows the field; deciding the winner comes in the Nov. 8 final election. And the District 7 race has been quiet in...
Editorial: Vote Sept. 24
How great is this neighborhood? Well, we have our own mini city council that the government actually listens to on quality-of-life issues that affects us all sooner or later. A lot of places would kill to have something like the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council. If you like democracy, you know how lucky we are...
Letter: Today’s JPNC a far cry from the first
Oh, how the times have changed! Various members of the original Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council accomplished many great things that have made JP a greater place to live. They include: Establishing the Jamaica Plain World’s Fair; conducting the rezoning of Jamaica Plain; creating the Franklin Park Coalition; serving as executive director of The Tree...
IdeAZ: Un pequeño ejercicio
Los activistas dicen que hacerse ciudadano es fácil; pero la gente que no lo puede pasar tiene experiencias que contar y entre las dificultades mencionan que es un proceso largo, porque se necesita mucha paciencia; caro porque se necesita mucho dinero para los trámites y, a veces, desilusiónante, porque pueden saltar asuntos que no...
IdeAZ: Para el recuerdo
Tal vez el nombre Yoel Camayd-Freixas no le diga mucho. Pero ¿qué tal si se lo pregunta a los muchachos o muchachas del Hyde Square Task Force, o al presidente del directorio del HSTF Nelson Arroyo o al director ejecutivo Claudio Martínez, o las decenas de trabajadores que puede encontrar en los ambientes de...
Editorial: Ten Years After
Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, JP residents went about their business under the same clear blue sky that, just a few miles away, held passenger planes hijacked by madmen. Within hours, jet fighters were buzzing JP. The neighborhood was wracked with horror at the atrocities unfolding at the World Trade Center...