Hello Neighbors! 

JP SHOPPING SPREE is TOMORROW! Check out your neighborhood markets & WIN PRIZES! 

DOWN LOAD YOUR PASSPORT HERE!

http://www.buylocaljp.com/passport.pdf

- or get them at any participating market! 

Also Check out the BUY LOCAL JP web…

Happy Spring Neighbors!

With spring quickly opening up, it is time again to think about the yearly community Clean-Up. This year's annual BOSTON SHINES is the last Saturday morning in April: Saturday, April 30, 2011.

This event has…

Scary phrase right?

What is even scarier is that the Tobacco Industry is doing this to our young people in MA right now in the form of underhanded tobacco marketing tactics!

Are you serious? Yep, sure am. 

Did you know tobacco products are being made and marketed to look and taste like "candy" and that they are being sold in plain site and as individual units to make them more affordable to young people?

Did you…

Got an important meeting or job interview to make? Your worries about being late because of the T are now over thanks to Howf*#ckedistheT.com.

The sites provides real time data about all operating MBTA T trains. It's very useful site with an o-fun-sive title.

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Would you like to spend one day doing something for someone else? Volunteer with Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly for EASTER! This is a great opportunity for a family, group, or individual volunteer.

Our organization provides companionship to low-income elders in the city of Boston. Our elders are over 70, live on less than $8000 a year, and have no one to spend the holiday with. Visiting Volunteers will bring a meal and flowers to an elder and spend time visiting with them.…

We all believe - or at least have been told - that God answers prayer, but is it true? I think the best answer might be, "Yes and No."

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Soleil Tan and Spa, located at 708 Centre Street is now open! We are open 7 days a week!

M-F 9:30 AM to 8 PM

Sat. 9:30 AM to 6 PM

Sun. 10 AM to 6 PM.  We are a full service salon including nails, hair, waxing, facials, and tanning!  

Grand Opening Specials : Mani and Pedi $35 (Save $7) and 1st Tanning Session Free!

617-983-1600

We also have a huge free parking lot in back!

JP neighbors,

Now that we are a citywide network, you will be posting neighborhood related information in the re-activated Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Forum. Please do not add information as a blog post unless you want to start a citywide conversation or are a NFN partner making a citywide announcement. 

For events, it's really important that you tag each event…

Neighbors, 

A couple weeks ago, we announced we'd be consolidating our network into one city wide network. So far I've accomplished the following:

1. Made the JP network the base network and changed the website address to NeighborsForNeighbors.org
2. Made it really easy for you to find what you are looking for on the front page with our new "Craigslist" style navigation. Thanks you to David K for the support and Guidance. 
3. Created forum categories for each…

Wanted to give everyone a quick update on our progress!

We now have 402 City of Boston residents that have signed our petition.  370 of those are from Jamaica Plain.  We also have a large number of supporters who are anonymous to me, but not the elected officials who see the emails.  We feel strongly that looking at the numbers close to 59% of the 162 are from JP.  

We currently have 158 fans on Facebook and 87 followers on our Twitter account.  Not all are…

Neighbors,

Over the weekend we migrated to the our new URL and began implementing the new navigation structure on the front page. 

A technical glitch took the network offline from Saturday from about 5 pm to early this morning, thanks for your patience as that took some time to resolve. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please leave them as a comment. 

UPDATE:  Tobias has been found, and is safe and home.

Boston Police twitter alert this morning:

33 ALVESTON ST, JP* MISSING 10yo male, Native American, 4'11, 110LB..brown eyes, bright blue Northface jacket, blue jeans, black sneakers

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The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in their efforts to locate Tobias Chance, a 10 year-old male, who went missing this morning, Thursday, March 31, 2011. According to his parents, Tobias ran away at about 7:30am. Tobias was last seen leaving the family home in the area of 33 Alveston Street in Jamaica Plain. Tobias has…

A large 12.5 acres of undeveloped woodlands on Hellenic Hill which overlooks Jamaica Pond was put on sale in January 2011. The big money pressures will be immense to maximize the development of these lands. We respectfully support the conservation and preservation of…

Hey Neighbors,

Every couple of months we remind everyone what you can and cannot do on NFN. Here is an updated version of our Policies and Guidelines. You can always refer to them here. 

We add dates next to items that are new or change so you can track the document. 

Hi Neighbors!

Last night someone saw fit to steal one of the large ceramic planters from in front of Vee Vee restaurant. This planter was quite heavy and it was a bit of a project to take it, but take it they did, after dumping out the dirt on the sidewalk. It must have taken a while, and it's highly unlikely that no one witnessed this. We don't expect to ever see it again, obviously, but what I'd like to ask of you is this: if you're out and about and see something funny going on,…

Neighbors,

Check out these two awesome pictures of the (Bald Eagle) Red Tail Hawk taken the other day along the road where the old Kelley rink was (Willow Pond Road). Props to neighbor John O'Brien for sharing the pictures with us. Like birds? Join John's …