Many pro-bike lane residents around Boylston Street are very disappointed with the city’s continued insistence on pushing through its original Boylston Street multiple bike lane plan without any ...

Since 2021, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy has collected more than 2,000 items of cold-weather gear for Action for Boston Community Development. Please consider donating a new or lightly-used winter ...

Nonprofit Community Servings has a goal to raise more than $1 million for the 32nd year of its Pie in the Sky fundraiser. This holiday tradition supports critically ill, food insecure neighbors and ...

Bussey Street is a vehicular street that intersects the Arnold Arboretum. The street is named after Benjamin Bussey, whose legacy is complicated due to some of his wealth deriving from the profits of ...

Monday was a beautiful to take a walk around Jamaica Pond. Just ask the more than foot-long snapping turtle that made its way from the Ward’s Pond area, across Perkins Street and to Jamaica Pond. Anna ...

Like Frank Sinatra sang, “I did it my way!” District 6 City Councilor Matt O’Malley is leaving the Boston City Council on his own terms. Matt O’Malley, his wife Kathryn Niforos, and their daughter ...

The following article has been republished on Jamaica Plain News with permission from the author and the Jamaica Plain Historical Society. “I was introduced to Joyce “Joy” Fisher by a mutual friend ...

[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 ...

JP Lock and Security has set out to make a name for themselves as a veteran, woman, minority, and family-owned company based in Jamaica Plain. Brian Jacobs and Trish Del Rosario, owners of JP Lock and ...

Join Boston Mayor Michelle Wu for free kids activities and more during National Night Out in Mozart Park on August 1. Wu will be joined by Boston Police Department and elected officials honoring ...

After 11 years of being based in Jamaica Plain, the proprietors of Deep Thoughts decided that it’s in their best interest to close the store, and move west in the state to where they reside. In a ...

Dogs in fantastic costumes strutted down the red carpet at the 20th Annual Jamaica Plain Costume Parade this past Saturday. Jamaica Plain photographer Mark Wylie was on hand, and getting low, to take ...