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Jamaica Plain real estate prices continue to rise. Take for example the recent sale of a uninhabitable Union Avenue house that was destroyed in a fire in December of last year. It was priced at $500,000, and sold for $580,000.
After a one year hiatus JP Open Studios was back this past weekend, and only outside.
City Councilors Lydia Edwards and Elizabeth Breadon are targeting what some call predatory towing practices in Boston by seeking to establish a towing bill of rights, and other towing related regulations.
When Community Servings was founded in 1990, a small group of volunteers delivered 30 hot dinners to nourish people struggling with wasting syndrome associated with HIV/AIDS. Today, more than three decades later, the Jamaica Plain nonprofit organization has cooked up its 10 millionth scratch-made meal as its mission has expanded to serve individuals with a wide range of illnesses.
District 6 City Councilor Matt O'Malley says that in his 10 years on the Boston City Council he can clearly point to his proudest legislative achievement.
In recognition of Banned Books Week, the Jamaica Plain Branch Library is featuring some commonly banned books, with a chance to win one of them.
Hyde Square Task Force is hosting an Afro-Latin music performance as a part of JP Open Studios on Sept. 25th.
The Sedgwick Slog started off organically 11 years ago with only 12 runners from Sedgwick Street. Now it's a block party and this year was kicked off with a police escort.
There will be a virtual public meeting about the proposed project on the site of the shuttered Doyle's Cafe on Sept. 23.
Seniors were joined by Jamaica Plain residents on Saturday to stand up for a proposed low-income senior housing project that is being threatened due to lawsuits by a local landlord and Turtle Swamp Brewing.