I have an idea for a small business in JP. Situated discreetly around the corner from the new Whole Foods, a small pushcart business. This would rent recycled paper bags, with eyeholes cut out of them. Shoppers could stop at…
Month: October 2011
Letter: No right to make Whole Foods demands
Although I would 10 times more like to have Hi-Lo as my neighbor than Whole Foods, I feel that the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council has no right to demand anything from Whole Foods that it did not demand from Hi-Lo.…
Letter: In support of Occupy Boston protests
It seems that this fall many Bostonians will be walking like an Egyptian. What started out as Mohamed Bouazizi’s last stand against those who tried to stop him from making a hard-earned buck has now turned into a global movement. The Arab…
Letter: Whole Foods should hire people of color
It’s Saturday, Oct. 1, and I just came home from waiting in line outside the Connolly Library for the Whole Foods hiring event. I was keeping a friend company who was planning to attend. There were dozens and dozens of…
Honoring Latino educators
Agenda, 10/21/11
The final, last-minute deadline for JP Agenda listings is noon, Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 issue. Send listings to [email protected]. Listings with no end date will be run for 3 months, space permitting. Note: 617 should be dialed before…
Sights and Sounds, 10/21/11
The final, last-minute deadline for listings is noon, Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 issue. Send arts and entertainment listings to [email protected]. Listings with no end date will be run for 3 months, space permitting. Note: 617 should be dialed…
Invitación, 10/21/11
Fechas Elegir. La oportunidad de conocer más a los candidatos at-large al Boston City Council es el jueves Oct. 27, 6pm, John F. Kennedy School, 7 Bolster St. Los organizadores Hyde Square Task Forcey Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation indican…
New Neighborhood Council elected
Casting close to 800 votes—more than twice as many as in the last election in 2009—Jamaica Plain residents elected a new Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council Sept. 24. Andrea Howley, who chaired the neighborhood council during its last two-year session, praised…
District 7 candidates selected
EGLESTON SQ.—Incumbent Tito Jackson and political newcomer Sheneal Parker will be the District 7 candidates for city council following their first- and second- place finishes in the district preliminary election Sept. 27. Jackson received 76 percent of the 2,467 votes…