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It's beginning to feel like summer in Jamaica Plain -- and that means that Thursdays on the Loring Greenough House's lawn will start anew on ...

Thanks to a family finances class from a JP nonprofit, Marisol Pascual-Valletta has taken the next step in her dream to become a Spanish-English court interpreter. Our publisher David Ertischek has ...

It's beginning to feel like summer in Jamaica Plain -- and that means that Thursdays on the Loring Greenough House's lawn will start anew on ...

Several parts of JP lost power Thursday, including Sumner Hill, Brookside Avenue and Amory Street. Eversource, the new name for NStar, reports 537 outages across Boston as of 2:30 p.m. on their handy ...

[Editor’s note: Since the original posting, we’ve added context around a quote from the chairman of the JPNC Zoning Committee.] A plan by the neighborhood’s best-known landlord for a six-story ...

Members of the Egleston Square community gathered for a special Wednesday night Mass in remembrance of local community leader Father Jack Roussin. Known to his parishioners as “Father Jack,” the late ...

Originally created to memorialize fallen soldiers from the town of West Roxbury (now Jamaica Plain) who lost their lives during the Civil War, the Soldier’s Monument on Centre Street in JP is now a ...

The 2017 Fall JP Moms Yard Sale is almost here! This annual community event will be held on Saturday, September 9, from 9 am to 1 pm at First Church in Jamaica Plain by the Soldier’s Monument. More ...

A praying mantis has taken up residence along a particular fence along Carolina Avenue of late, and if you’ve never seen one before — and you can find this one — it’s quite an impressive sight. Once ...

The owners of Hatoff’s Gas Station have filed plans with the city to expand the existing gas station. This comes on the heels of the news that they’ve also proposed getting rid of the gas station for ...