Jamaica Plain News

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Peoples Federal Savings Bank has no grounds to immediately bar the Connecticut-based People's United Bank from opening branches in the Boston area under that name.

The police blotter from last Friday, Feb. 3, included the arrest of two Bickford Street women for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

A local actor who is making it big in Hollywood came home to Boston recently. Julia Jones, who grew up in JP, was in the city to promote a DVD of "The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn, Part I." She made the press rounds, telling the Globe she hopes to stay in movies , though she has enjoyed her television roles, such as Dr.

Julie Walsh and Marie Eddy prepared meals served at the Farnsworth House in Jamaica Plain, where John Malia ate lunch last week.

At 83, George Russell moves a little slower than he used to and his voice, which has never lost its Midwestern twang, is softer.

''I've worked with her on dozens of issues, and she's always been . . . very much in command of what's happening in the housing at Bromley-Heath,'' Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said about executive director Mildred Hailey , 78, who is retiring March 31.

Love is in the air, and for couples, the big day should be filled with joy, flowers and a decent place to eat.

A A Needham man was in court Thursday to face accusations of possession of child pornography.

In light of proposalsA before the state Senate and House to enact so-called "three-strikes" legislation, most city councilors came out today strongly against any future law that could take away judges' discretion and increase the number of people incarcerated for nonviolent offenses.

When Orion Kriegman and his wife bought their house in Egleston Square, they had a vision for what they could do make an urban neighborhood more sustainable.

Driving past the Roxbury Court House one afternoon in mid-February [1968], Kevin White spotted a large circular crowd in an empty parking lot.

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Today Mayor Thomas M. Menino kicked off Boston's eleventh Earned Income Tax Credit Campaign announcing the opening of 22 free tax prep centers across the city to assist residents in filing their taxes and claiming the EITC credit.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson hosted U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Jamaica Plain.

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson recognized the James J. Chittick Elementary School , located in Mattapan, for earning accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children - the nation's highest mark of quality in early childhood education.

"It was essential," Scott Roche, 29, of Jamaica Plain, said of the software. "It would have been impossible to trace this stuff without it." "I was able to figure it out using the software," Roche said.

The beer, Milk Stout Nitro, is hitting the Boston area this week in a series of events that include tastings at more than a dozen liquor stores and "rollout parties" at five local bars.

Boston's neighborhoods have shifted and evolved dramatically since the Hub's official township was declared in 1630, said architectural historian Emily Wolf.

A "Five Things You Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

A panel discussion about controversial prison sentencing reforms-including the "three strikes" laws-turned into a political strategy rally by several prominent Boston elected officials on Jan.