My name is Chloe and I’m 9 years old, and I live in a house across from the Blessed Sacrament Church campus. I have heard and read that the current plan is to turn the church building into expensive condos.…
Month: August 2012
Letter: People, not dogs, are the problem
I live in JP, have for many years, and have lived with dogs for many years. I am writing in response to being referred to as one of “these people.” (“Editorial: Dogs as vandalism,” July 20.) I agree that people…
Letter: Red Sox striking out with fans
Just as the U.S. House of Representatives seems hell-bent on rejecting any bills put forth by the Obama administration, no matter how much good they might do to further help this country out of the economic decline spawned by the…
Letter: JPNDC was already untrustworthy
A collective “Et tu, Brute?” must have arisen over at the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation when they read these remarks by Richard Heath in the Aug. 3 Gazette: “The community got left out… [we] who went to rallies and…
Letter: Thanks for Regan League success
On behalf of the players, coaches and families of the Jamaica Plain Regan Youth League, I would like to thank everyone who helped make our 43rd season such a success. First, thanks to the local organizations and businesses who, despite…
Letter: Warren the best choice for mortgage crisis fix
Every Tuesday evening, they come to Jamaica Plain to help others, and to find help themselves. Some are frightened, and some are defiant. Some spend their first meeting embarrassed to be there at all. But all members of City Life/Vida Urbana share a…
Letter: Warren is the education candidate
With the Congress finally having approved a measure to freeze federal student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent for the next year, students must now demand what the next step will be in making college more affordable and accessible to…
Winter farmers market coming
BROOKSIDE—Jamaica Plain’s first wintertime, indoor farmers market is slated to debut in November at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Hall on Brookside Avenue. The Egleston Farmers Market will feature about a dozen vendors and run on select dates in November…
Church tower work to finish
MONUMENT SQ.—Two years of repair work on one of Jamaica Plain’s great landmarks, the stone tower of First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist at 6 Eliot St., is slated to wrap up by the end of next week. The…