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Restaurants are now allowed to have customers inside at a reduced capacity, and to help offset the loss of customers, outdoor seating has been expanded for many eateries.
Community Servings, a Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit provider of medically tailored meals and nutrition services to individuals and families living with critical and chronic illnesses, has appointed Devin Allston as Delivery Operations Manager.
Hyde Square Task Force is working with two incredible artists, Rixy Fz and Silvia López Chavez, who have collectively created six visual art activities that Latin Quarter families can do at home.
A bilingual community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on July 11 will kick off a series of anti-racist summer programming in Egleston Square.
The site of the dive bar The Drinking Fountain is for sale, and being advertised as a good opportunity for developers.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey and his opponent U.S. Congressman Joseph Kennedy III will debate live on Facebook on July 7 with a unique twist to the debate.
There will be various lane closures on inbound and outbound sides of the Arborway through August 31 due to sidewalk improvement work.
The Urban Edge Resiliency Fund will directly assist families and individuals living in Urban Edge’s housing, as well as low- to moderate-income families in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Servings was one of 10 programs to receive a COVID-19 Relief Fund Grant from Alkermes.
Last month's Black Lives Matter Vigil in Jamaica Plain was like none before it with thousands of people lining Centre Street. Unbeknownst to many, the Black Lives Matter Vigil in Jamaica Plain has happened the first Thursday of every month for more than four years.