A 10th anniversary is sometimes called the tin anniversary, so hopefully someone will be playing a tin instrument while JP Porchfest celebrates 10 years on August 16. The party actually starts the day ...

Jamaica Plain’s Neighborhood Council will be discussing the JP/Rox plan on Wednesday. It will be a special meeting through the council’s Housing and Community Development Committee.

Get your preservative-free delicious When Pigs Fly bread while you can at its Jamaica Plain store because it’s closing ...

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The newly-reopened Flaherty Playground is one small step for Chihuhuas, and one giant step for German shepherds — as it ...

Nonprofit Rogerson Communities is proposing a two-phase plan to build two new buildings that would provide 135 affordable housing units for seniors. Two Jamaica Plain organizations are receiving ...

A neighborhood advisory group has chosen 10 residents to serve on a committee to address rapid development in Forest Hills. Dignitaries cut the ribbon at the Nurtury Learning Lab on June 16, 2014.

The Jamaica Plain Film Festival is presented by the Loring Greenough House in collaboration with Imag9ne Media. JPFF features work by local artists and independent film-makers based in Jamaica Plain ...

As a renter herself, At-Large Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy knows what it’s like to face the squeeze of the rising cost of housing. Erin Murphy is Dorchester through and through. She was born in ...

Jamaica Plain’s Marvin Mathelier co-owns Ula Cafe, is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves, executive director of the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center, and is running for one of the ...

Hello, neighbors. This is Chris Helms, publisher of the site you’re reading, the Jamaica Plain News. If that name rings a bell, it may be because you knew me as the founding editor of Jamaica Plain ...