Pete Stidman

JAMAICA PLAIN GAZETTE

At least one member nearly lost his cool when the MBTA presented a route change for the Route 48 JP Loop bus route to the JP Neighborhood Council (JPNC) three days after it took place.

“Did you notify anyone along Boylston Street that this change was taking place?” council member Red Burrows asked representatives of the MBTA.

“No,” answered MBTA Junior Analyst Dave Barker quietly, admitting that the T had known about the proposed change for over three months.

“That might have been a good idea,” said Burrows pointedly. Other council members lambasted the T representatives for cutting Washington Street and Egleston Square out of the route.

JAMAICA PLAIN GAZETTE

EGLESTON SQ.—Over the past two weeks, four shootings have occurred in the area around Egleston Square, resulting in at five non-life-threatening injuries. Two were on Washington Street, one was at the corner of Egleston and Dalrymple streets and a fourth was on Mozart Street and Chestnut Avenue. Only one of the alleged shooters has been arrested so far.

The spate of violence spread even to the Egleston Square Branch Library when a six-on-one beating of a library patron broke its normally serene environment.

Youth workers, police, state and city officials and residents are now participating in multiple efforts to take stock of resources, develop different types of presence in the area and help make the streets safe.

My First Jamaica Plain Gazette story!

The pages are turning in a drama over five new houses that three parties would like to build near Pond Street and Woodland Road on Moss Hill. The three were working together to subdivide their properties and build five new houses but have now split ways.

One party, developer Dermot Ryan and partner Peg Songin, presented plans for a two-house project on their land at 328 Pond Street at a neighborhood meeting on June 16. The approval of this project would likely preclude any possibility of the other, and there are many disputed points. The smell of a lawsuit was in the air.