May 28, 2024
Fresh News for the Neighborhood You Love
Need a last minute restaurant to dine at this Valentine’s Day? Jamaica Plan has a few places for you to call up. Act fast, Valentine’s Day is the most hectic time for dinner reservations!
Keep in mind there’s a Nor’easter coming in late Saturday, but snow isn’t supposed to start in earnest until midnight, according to WHDH.
A group of volunteers at a previous National Day of Service in Franklin Park. Credit: Franklin Park Coalition
If you choose to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping out in the community, there’s a good volunteer opportunity at Franklin Park. The park is hosting a Day of Service.
Dancers from Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations strut during the First Night parade on Dec. 31, 2014. Credit: Richard Heath
The JP community center and nonprofit that puts on such signature neighborhood events as Wake Up The Earth and the Lantern Parade took part in the New Year’s Eve festivities downtown. Here are photos from Spontaneous Celebrations’ contributions to the revelry.
A close-up of the window at Tails, 380 Centre St. It’s one of three JP business windows in the running for this year’s Deck the Windows contest.
A new pizza joint in West Roxbury is running away with this year’s “Deck the Windows” city contest for holiday decorating — and leaving JP’s three entries in the dust.
“Everybody comes for the food” — Valentina and Vera work the stoves at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Saturday, Nov. 14. Credit: Richard Heath.
The annual St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church holiday bazaar opened on a magnificent Saturday this weekend.
A Forest Hills landmark since 1958, St. Andrew Ukrainian Church has held its holiday bazaar for the past twenty years.
Monday is Patriots’ Day, a state and local holiday in Massachusetts commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord in the War of Independence. The Boston Marathon is run Monday, of course, and the Red Sox play their traditional home game.
