The City last month launched Seniors Save, a program that will help financially eligible seniors replace failing or inefficient heating systems before winter begins, according to a press release. Replacing an aging heating system with a new energy efficient system…
Author: Emily Resnevic
Local police raid leads to drugs, money
The Boston Police Department (BPD) recently conducted a search warrant at 90 South St. that led to the seizure of drugs and money, according to the bpdnews.com. BPD officers assigned to the drug units conducted a search warrant at 90…
Report: Boston 2024 underestimated cost of Olympics
While the Boston 2024 Olympic bid has been withdrawn, a recently completed analysis of the proposal suggests cost estimates for hosting the Olympics were almost $1 billion short of a more realistic prediction. State leaders had commissioned the Brattle Group…
JP Music Festival arrives Sept. 12
The 5th annual JP Music Festival will be on Sept. 12, with 22 acts, 2 stages and 7 hours of non-stop local Jamaica Plain music, according to a press release. The free festival will be held at Pinebank Field at…
Hundreds turn out for City’s arts master plan
An overflow crowd of more than 300 packed the debut meeting of the City’s new arts and culture master plan on June 2 at English High School in Jamaica Plain. Financial support for the arts in the past has been…
JP workshop offers artists space, classes
BROOKSIDE—The Stonybrook Fine Arts (SFA) workshop is a resource to learn and develop skills in metalwork, sculpting and jewelry-making. The small workshop tucked next to the Samuel Adams brewery at 24 Porter St. in Jamaica Plain provides classes, workshops, commissions…
Shattuck Partners aims to raise $50K for local hospital
A friends group aims to raise $50,000 to improve patients’ experience at the local Lemuel Shattuck Hospital with a Nov. 14 fundraiser. Shattuck Partners is a volunteer-run nonprofit that provides service the state hospital’s budget does not, ranging from art…
JPNC votes to settle S. Huntington lawsuit
By Emily Resnevic and John Ruch/Gazette Staff The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) voted to settle its controversial lawsuit against the 161 S. Huntington Ave. redevelopment at its Oct. 29 meeting. The vote, conducted privately in an executive session, was…
JP authors write Orange Line history book
The MBTA’s Orange Line, one of Jamaica Plain’s defining features and the product of its early political activism, is the subject of a new book by JP residents Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder. Their “Images of Rail: Boston’s Orange Line”…
JPNC seeks to fill vacant seats
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council is seeking new members to fill the eight seats still vacant following the council’s Oct. 19 election. The 20-seat JPNC, a neighborhood group that advises the City about various issues, only had 12 candidates for…