If a Margarita Muñiz Academy music teacher wins the prestigious Manilow Music Teacher Award, the prize includes $5,000 in Manilow Bucks to purchase classroom instruments. The Margarita Muñiz Academy ...

About JP News Jamaica Plain News is an independent online news source and community platform for the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. David Ertischek Our publisher David Ertischek ...

A thousand youth, parents and families jammed the Stony Brook amphitheater Wednesday for the annual summer awards program of the Phillips Brooks House Summer Urban Program. The Phillips Brooks House ...

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There’s a new, punnily named business in Jamaica Plain: Espresso Yourself — likely a reference to the Madonna and N.W.A. songs “Express Yourself,” and a play on the popular beverage — is now open, ...

The CVS stores on Centre Street recently went from automation to customer relations — replacing the store’s automated checkout kiosks back to registers manned by service clerks. This occurred at both ...

On March 30, Governor Baker signed into law An Act relative to motor vehicle license suspension, an important reform of our criminal justice system. Previously in Massachusetts, individuals convicted ...

Boston Police have identified a man who was shot and killed in Roxbury on October 8th as a Jamaica Plain resident. Carlos Lind, 20, of Jamaica Plain, was found suffering from a gunshot wound in the ...

Jamaica Plain 15-year-old Damaris Sosa and Anne Castner-Williams are living proof that youth mentoring programs have a tremendous impact on both the youth and families served as well as the adults who ...

Jamaica Plain’s Neighborhood Council will be discussing the JP/Rox plan on Wednesday. It will be a special meeting through the council’s Housing and Community Development Committee. The public meeting ...

The old James’s Gate Pub will become 11 condos plus ground-floor retail in a four-story building approved this week by a key neighborhood group. The Zoning Committee of the JP Neighborhood Council ...