Category: News
For Trainees, Community Servings Teaching Kitchen Provides More Than Just Cooking Skills
The Teaching Kitchen at Community Servings is back in full swing, with a number of changes from previous years to benefit the program participants. Community Servings, a JP-based nonprofit that provides medically tailored meals to people with chronic and critical…
Green Line E Branch August Closures Discussed at Public Meeting
The MBTA Green Line Transformation (GLT) team held a public meeting on July 14 to discuss upcoming track work between Brigham Circle and South Huntington Ave. stations. Angel Pena, Chief of the GLT, said that a year’s worth of work…
EBT/SNAP Benefits Expanded to Online Purchases
During the height of the pandemic most Jamaica Plain residents were staying home and doing their food shopping from the comfort of their home. While the online grocery delivery service industry exploded because many were not comfortable venturing into crowded…
School Police Quietly Phased Out From All BPS Schools Without Arrest Powers, They Will Be Known as Office of Safety Services
Though very few know, the long-standing Boston School Police have been phased out this month, losing their arrest powers and most other powers on July 1 due to the state Police Reform Act – and they will now be known…
Jamaica Plain’s Annual Porch Festival Returns as a Two-Day Festival Aug. 21-22
Jamaica Plain’s Annual Porchfest will return this year, with some changes from past years. In an effort to maintain safety protocols and reduce large crowds, this year¡¯s Porchfest will span two days from August 21-22 from 11 am-4 pm on…
JP Observer: JPNDC Raising Funds to Create Center for Equity and Prosperity for Boston Families
Special to the Gazette Known mostly for creating jobs and affordable housing in the Jamaica Plain area for the past 44 years, the JP Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (JPNDC) current strategic plan calls for going deeper and wider to increase services…
Boston Public Schools Releases Draft of Three-Year Federal Funding Plan
Boston Public Schools (BPS) Superintendent Brenda Cassellius this week released the first draft of the district’s plan to distribute Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief II (ESSER II) federal funding. The funding, approximately $400 million over the next three years,…
Jamaica Plain COVID Infections Spike
Throughout June and the beginning of July COVID infections were virtually nonexistent in the neighborhood with no residents testing positive for the virus in Jamaica Plain week after week. However, with new variants of the virus penetrating the US Jamaica…
JPA Hears Neighbors’ Concerns With Dogs At First Church in JP Burying Ground
The Jamaica Pond Association (JPA) met virtually on July 12, where members and neighbors discussed an issue around people using the historic cemetery at the First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist as a dog park. Resident Bonnie McBride raised…