FOREST HILLS—The design team for the Casey Overpass replacement project started evaluating alternatives for at-grade traffic patterns, the first of many options to be explored in the redesign of the area. At-grade, or street-level, traffic patterns will dictate what the…
Month: June 2011
Fighting Hunger
No gold-buying for check-casher
JACKSON SQ.—Because of crime concerns, All Checks Cashed will not be allowed to start buying gold at its 282 Centre St. location following a city zoning Board of Appeal rejection May 24. The rejection was supported by Mayor Thomas Menino’s…
JPNC sets election date
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) set Sept. 24 as the date for its 2011 election at its May 31 meeting at the First Baptist Church at 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. The election will be held on Sept.…
Courageous
New police captain takes charge
Boston Police Capt. Paul Russell took over as commander of Jamaica Plain’s E-13 police district June 2, after Capt. John Greland was reassigned to another district in mid-May. “I am looking forward to getting back into a district,” Russell said…
Psychic: Hyde Sq. future can’t be seen
Will Whole Foods turn Hyde Square into a gentrified wasteland of loft condos and plate-armored baby strollers? Or will it turn Hyde Square residents into organic-powered Popeyes fueled with nutritional, and quite possibly Latino, food? Will members of Whose Foods?…
Peace Planting
Mayoral Visit
JPNC report is late; members resign
At least two members of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council’s Ad Hoc Whole Foods Committee resigned this week, following the committee’s failure to meet a May 31 deadline to produce a report on the impact of Whole Foods’ planned move…