Jamaica Plain News

Need to stock up on some home goods? Hit Economy Hardware 's Moonlight Madness Sale this evening from 5 to 10.

The president of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association faced a possible felony vandalism charge in court this month after he wrote protest graffiti on two advertising scooters that were illegally parked on Centre Street for days.

Three different banks were robbed all within hours of each other in Boston Wednesday and police are investigating as to whether or not the crimes are related.

Boston Police report a man caught in the act of rummaging through a woman's car in the parking lot of the Columbus Avenue Walgreens last night got into a "violent" struggle with her boyfriend, cutting his wrist with a knife before police arrived.

At about 3:20pm, on Monday, November 16, 2009, officers from Area E-13 responded to a radio call for an assault & battery in the area of 57 Horan Way.

There's a lot going on this week in the worlds of poly, BDSM and swinging, so check it out.

Ralph Nader, the famed anti-corporate activist and frequent presidential candidate, seemed to be preaching to the converted - almost literally - at the Jamaica Plain Forum held Oct.

Image of a shrine for Gregory Phillips tagged "Bostonist" by Behind Dark Eyes . -- A man was found shot dead this morning on Clifford Street in Roxbury.

Instead of buying the last can of One Pie and dropping it in the food drive bin , stop by Bella Luna tonight and eat some pie for charity.

The completed $28 million development, expected for the end of 2010, will yield a total of 118 units of housing, the majority of which will be available to low and moderate income households.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino aided Thomas A. Edison School pupils Jonathan Wilson, Michelle Dang, Nardos Abraham, and Crystal Soto with their planting yesterday, while Sam Yoon and Michael F. Flaherty Jr.

Tickets can be purchased at SALMAGUNDI 765 Centre St., Jamaica Plain 617-522-5047 Hempest 207 Newbury St., Boston 617-421-9944 Admission will be $25 at the door b4 12AM and more after.

The charm quickly peels awayfrom Boston's atavistic transit system. Like the crappy Pennsylvania Turnpike, we have the hemisphere's oldest subway.

Shriek. Screech. Thud. Three sounds hard to get out of my head these days. It was about 8:45 on a Thursday morning.

Election Day. Blissful sleep for the next two weeks has never been closer. Team Floon splits up to hit polling locations throughout the city during the day, meeting up at Venenzia in Dorchester for their election night party.

Last night between 8:30 pm and 7:30 am today person unknown vandalized the car windows of 13 motor vehicles.

Felix G. Arroyo, the Jamaica Plain resident running for an at-large Boston City Council seat, likes to talk about politics in the form of personal stories.

The Jehovah's Witnesses house of worship on Chestnut Avenue was demolished early this month to make way for a new version, fulfilling plans originally permitted by city inspectors more than three years ago.

Tiffany Baker blamed her alleged brazen demand for "stacks of 20s, 50s and 100s" on a city man who put her up to passing a note to a teller, police report.

Defends e-mails, blasts rivals Incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino upheld neighborhood "independence" as key to Boston's success, dismissing his rivals' calls for citywide master planning, in an interview last week at the Gazette office.