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The Community Preservation Act (CPA) provides funding for affordable housing, historic preservation, and parks and open space projects throughout Boston. This Friday, JP residents are invited to share their ideas for CPA funded projects.
Two men were shot and killed on Monday night in Jamaica Plain in the area of Mozart and Bolster streets.
Ask and ye shall receive. At least that's the case for the Joseph P. Manning Elementary School. As the school will be adding a sixth grade starting in 2020, just as the school's administration wanted.
There are more than 165 independent businesses in Jamaica Plain and dozens of them will be participating in the 3rd Annual JP Local First Fair on June 20.
Jamaica Plain's Patrick J. Barron was among the 67 students who graduated from St. Sebastian’s School at its 75th Commencement Exercises on June 6.
Do parents want their child's school to be an adventure? Well, a new preschool is banking on it, as the Adventure in Montessori Early Childhood Center opened in April in Jamaica Plain.
State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz has announced neighborhood office hours for June 2019. Office Hours, held by Sen. Chang-Díaz and her staff, will take place within each of the neighborhoods of the Second Suffolk District.
The defunct Jamaica Plain World Fair will be returning to the neighborhood after a 10-year hiatus, and is being renamed as the Latin Quarter World's Fair (LQWF).
Curley School Principal Katie Grassa got pied in the face 11 times on Wednesday after the school hit its fundraising goal of $17,000.
The next JP Fixit Clinic will have an extra facet added to its regular focus on helping people fix their broken household items. Clinic organizers will also be letting people know about the Digital Right to Repair legislation that is currently under consideration at the State House.