Eighty-one runners from Jamaica Plain ran in the 2014 Boston Marathon this past Monday. We've spotlighted the top ten fastest finishers from the neighborhood.
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In a play to show he's the most social media savvy mayor Boston's ever seen, Mayor Marty Walsh hosted an "Ask Me Anything," live event on the social network Reddit on Thursday afternoon.
It’s finally feeling like spring out there, and as many of us begin to clean up our homes and yards, the city is spearheading its own special spring cleanup in Jamaica Plain this weekend.

This is a view of construction of the Casey Overpass in 1952 or 1953, taken by Ed Barrett. The overpass, of course, is scheduled to be razed and replaced with a network of surface roads.
Sometimes you just gotta throw a hoop party, as tessidactyl chronicled with this Instagram photo.
Mayor Marty Walsh has been open-handed in the first months of his term, promising more money for libraries, the Main Street business development program and now extra leaf and yard waste pickups.







