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Is Jamaica Plain weird? Should it be kept weird? What’s weird in the first place?The Upper Crust condescended wonderfully to entertain the gathered masses at the Jamaica Plain Music Festival, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.

Is Jamaica Plain weird? Should it be kept weird? What’s weird in the first place?

By David Ertischek on October 7, 2015
The Upper Crust condescended wonderfully to entertain the gathered masses at the Jamaica Plain Music Festival, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.
Is this weird? The Upper Crust condescended wonderfully to entertain the gathered masses at the Jamaica Plain Music Festival, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.

If you’ve lived in Jamaica Plain for more than a year or two, you’re probably familiar with people who have embraced JP’s “weirdness.”

Letter: What was the T Thinking With the Flat Roof for New Busway?

Letter: What was the T Thinking With the Flat Roof for New Busway?

By Chris Helms on October 7, 2015
The new Washington Street busway. URS architects and engineers ( Now Aecom).
The new Washington Street busway. URS architects and engineers ( Now Aecom).

Dear Editor,

I have been reading your ongoing reports about all the changes taking place in the Forest Hills area with great interest. I take a bus each work day to Forest Hills in order to continue on the subway to work in Boston. I appreciate your news reports, since the MBTA has been in no way forthcoming about the changes to the station.

Will More Housing Really Lower Rents? Prove It, Mr. MayorFile photo: Olmsted Place Apartments under construction on Nov. 19, 2014 at the site of the Home for Little Wanderers.

Will More Housing Really Lower Rents? Prove It, Mr. Mayor

By Richard Heath on May 17, 2015
File photo: Olmsted Place Apartments under construction on Nov. 19, 2014 at the site of the Home for Little Wanderers.
File photo: Olmsted Place Apartments under construction on Nov. 19, 2014 at the site of the Home for Little Wanderers.

Earlier this year, Mayor Marty Walsh told Jamaica Plain News and other community newspapers how he plans to keep people from being forced out of Boston by the high costs of rent and sales prices: “The key is to increase the supply of housing.”

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