A group for casual, occasional through serious birders in Jamaica Plain.

Hope to record unusual sightings, maybe even post photos. Anything from backyard feeder visitors to what you see on the emerald necklace.

Dear neighbors, we've been working on this plan for the last 8 months and I'm pumped and relieved to finally be sharing it with you. Here goes...

Why we are consolidating our 18 neighborhood social networks:

• We can't afford to continue operating all our networks 
• We don't have the capacity to manage them
• Patch is doing a great job fulfilling the need we once served. Go Patch!
• Our partners, like…

There are many types of notifications that allow you to receive emails about new activity on Neighbors for Neighbors. You can receive email notifications when you have new private messages, new friend requests, when Administrators send broadcast messages, and when your content is being featured or when a new member joins a group you are a member of. You can control which message you wish to received…

Dear Neighbors,

Here are the results of the Neighbors for Neighbors February 2011 Network Evaluation. The evaluation was generously and voluntarily lead and prepared by our neighbor Anna Sandoval. Anna, thank you so much for the weeks of work and all your help. You rock neighbor!

Kindly review and leave your thoughts as comments below. 

Beginning next week, we'll begin incorporating recommendations…

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Please contact me at krobidoux@jpndc.org or 522-2424 w/ any questions about the construction.

As part of the Jackson Square Redevelopment Initiative, the infrastructure improvement work will continue this spring. Work will be done at the intersection of Lamartine and Centre Streets that will include portions of the SW…

Early this morning around 3:03AM, officers from District E-13 (Jamaica Plain) arrested suspect, Brett G. Callahan, 20 of Charlestown and charged him with Breaking and Entering in the Night with Intent to Commit a Felony, and Possession of Burglarious Tools.

Officers initially responded to 362 Centre St.  as a result of a commercial alarm going off.  Officers arrived on scene and almost immediately detected noise coming from the…

If you care about the environment, and also have a bathroom that needs some sprucing up, here is how to do some updating with minimal impact to the planet, as well as your budget.  The recent rise in "green" awareness has given rise to numerous eco-responsible products and resources that allow you to build the water conserving, energy-smart bath you've been longing for...  without going totally over budget.  Here are the details.

Water is priority…

Around 2:00pm, on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, officers from Area E-13 (Jamaica Plain), members of the BPD’s Licensing Unit, Hazmat Team, as well as, the City’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) responded 3575 Washington Street (Boston Best Auto) to conduct an environmental inspection of the business located at the aforementioned address. Officers had received numerous complaints from residents alleging that the business had been selling cars out of the location. Moreover, many…

I wanted to post another update as we come close to finishing our second week up and running.  

Since launching on March 7th we have collected 396 signatures on the JPforAll online petition.  252 are from the City of Boston of which 227 are from JP!!!  We have another 93 people who are anonymous to me, but the percentages indicate that a clear majority of those are City of Boston residents too. We now have 112 Facebook fans and have a Twitter account with 44 followers.  Great…

To my JP neighbors, friends, activists and constitutes:

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Invites you to a Public Information Meeting

for the Casey Overpass Project…

Parks come to life as locals share personal stories and memories in film by Igor Kharitonenkov.  Featuring stories from JP locals!

Boston, MA - “Stories from the Emerald Necklace,” a local documentary by Igor Kharitonenkov exploring the historic Emerald Necklace park system through the voices and stories of park visitors, will have its television…

Hi Neighbors 

We just finished our first 48 hours with the JP for All movement and thought you might like to know some of the great things that have been happening over the last couple of days.  

Our Facebook fan page now has 55 fans and a direct URL of www.facebook.com/jpforall

Our barely live website got an amazing update today.  Supporters of JP for All translated the page and I was able to get our new…

The JP Patch is reporting the JPNC (Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council) Voted that Whole Foods is "Not a Good Fit for Hyde Square."

Joseph