Jamaica Plain News alerts us to a July 29 meeting organized by the First Church on Eliot Street about its burying ground. It's fine with dogs, as long as their owners clean up after them, but some neighbors are not.
Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 7/26/21 - 10:19 am
This morning, a BTD tow guy hitched up the infamous abandoned tigermobile and towed it away, according to a post in the Jamaica Plain Facebook group. And all it took was months of 311 complaints.
By adamg - 7/25/21 - 10:41 am
Utility poles along the parkway section of Centre Street in Jamaica Plain have a short life expectancy, as a roving UHub photographer witnessed this morning near Faulkner Hospital.
Earlier:
Pole down. Another pole down. Change of pace: Traffic-crossing signal down.
By adamg - 7/24/21 - 11:36 am
Some people spent their pandemic days on their laptops or baking bread. Laura Cashman spent her time photographing and videoing Boston's own mini-herd of cattle - Allandale Farm's Willard and Curtis - after which she'd return home and create paintings of them. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/21 - 11:14 am
Michael Moxley, who co-owns Canary Square in Jamaica Plain, posts photos of the four "trash humans" who enjoyed a $90 meal yesterday, then fled without paying. Read more.
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By adamg - 7/17/21 - 5:04 pm
So, as Vostradamus asks, how did one (granted, very dead) wind up on the shore of Jamaica Pond?
By adamg - 7/16/21 - 3:53 pm
A fed-up citizen files a double 311 complaint about the situation on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain, where an abandoned car is now getting tow requests painted on it: Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/21 - 3:35 pm
Don't worry, you can still get harder stuff at the Galway House, it's just that the bar is doing its part to ease the critical late-night milk shortage at its end of Centre Street now that the 7-Eleven next there has closed forever: Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/21 - 9:32 pm
A man was shot in the leg on Parker Street or Horan Way in the Mildred Hailey Apartments around 9:10 p.m. and as he was showing up at a local ER, three other victims were turning up as well. Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/21 - 8:56 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old on Parker Street in the Mildred Hailey Apartments this afternoon for a Sunday-night shooting on Smith Street on Mission Hill. Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/21 - 8:33 pm
In the Jamaica Plain Facebook group, Jamaica Plain restrepreneur David Doyle reported tonight the end of the Little Dipper brunch place on Centre Street "due to staffing and other challenges." He says the space will continue to host two popups - Comfort Kitchen and Be Okay Bagels - until they are able to move into their own permanent spaces.
He adds: Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/21 - 9:39 am
Patrick Roath reports a pair of junior trash pandas found themselves some good eatin' sometime overnight in JP's Pondside neighborhood, then couldn't get out - at least not without a helping hand.
By adamg - 7/8/21 - 12:06 pm
WBZ reports an officer's gun went off during a struggle over a gun in a man's car during a traffic stop on Washington Street about a block south of Ukraine Way. The man was taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries in the incident, around 11:20 a.m. Several officers were taken to the hospital as well for observation. Police did not immediately say what the traffic stop was for.
Developers to submit proposal for condos, but no life-sciences labs, on 12-acre Jamaica Plain parcel
By adamg - 7/7/21 - 9:59 pm
Three developers told the BPDA today they will soon file plans to build 24 townhouses and 12 condos on 12 acres of land at the end of Rockwood Street, at the Brookline line and about as rural as one can get within the Boston city limits. Read more.
By adamg - 7/6/21 - 9:04 am
GoFundMe for the family burned out of their home.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 41 Cornwall St. in Jamaica Plain around 5:30 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 7/4/21 - 4:08 pm
A group called Pacific Marimba set up and played in the field at Jamaica Pond near the rotary today: Read more.
By adamg - 7/4/21 - 3:49 pm
A guy fishing at Jamaica Pond this afternoon landed what seemed like a pretty big fish to several people who stopped to watch him reel it in. He showed it off, then said it was nothing, and showed how large another fish he once caught in the pond was.
By adamg - 6/24/21 - 8:26 pm
A man who kept selling fentanyl at the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain even after getting shot in the chest was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison on four counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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