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 ...

The Landscape Design Council (LDC) of Massachusetts has recognized Jamaica Plain’s Christine Poff, the director of Boston’s Community Preservation Committee, as a 2018 awardee for excellence in the ...

Jamaica Plain resident Thomas Schuch, MD MPH, a pediatrician with South Boston Community Health Center, was recently given an HPV Vaccine Is Cancer Prevention Champion Award for outstanding efforts to ...

A mammoth project along the rapidly-changing Washington Street corridor, which passed muster with the Boston Redevelopment Authority this fall, gained approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals on ...

A Jamaica Plain resident’s new podcast is exploring the perspectives caregiving — and the numerous forms it takes. The Shape of Care: A Podcast About Caregiving is a 6-episode series created by ...

A new three-paneled mural entitled A Message to the Future, is now on display on a McBride Street building. ‘A Message to the Future’ mural (Photo courtesy Jennifer Uhrhane) This is the second new ...

In his first public address as the Boston’s Chief of Housing, Arthur Jemison joined The Community Builders (TCB) for a hard hat tour of 250 Centre, a 110-unit affordable and mixed-income housing ...

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At the corner of South Street and Carolina Avenue in Jamaica Plain is a colorful court that hosts lively tennis, pickleball and basketball games throughout the week. Next door, at 30 Carolina Avenue, ...