Hyde Jackson Square Main Street - Open House and Holiday Window Stroll
When: Thursday, December 6, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Where: Gail’s Cafe, 268 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
 Mayor
Thomas M. Menino and Hyde Jackson Square Main Street invite the
community to an Open House and Holiday Window Stroll.
Come celebrate Hyde Jackson Square Main Street’s work to
strengthen the commercial business district in Hyde Square and Jackson
Square in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
The event will be a great opportunity for residents, business owners,
property owners, and representatives of neighborhood organizations to
talk to staff, the Board of Directors, and volunteers of Hyde Jackson
Square Main Street about the state of the neighborhood.
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Chris Leinberger - Guest Speaker - Transit-Oriented Development Seminar
On Thursday, December 6, 2012, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) will be holding a
transit-oriented development seminar: 'TOD Finance Summit' with guest
speaker, Chris Leinberger.
Attendees will learn why transit-oriented
development is important now, where it can be located, ways it can be
funded, and the challenges to getting TOD built. Featured speaker,
Chris Leinberger, will talk about the shift toward more walkable places
and the impact this is having on real estate and development.
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December's Monday Wine Club at Ashmont Grill (3rd, 10th and 17th)
benefits the DAC and the Erick Jean Center for the Arts.
ArtRox Holiday Pop-up Shop Nov 30 thru Dec 24
Hyde Jackson Square Holiday Stroll Dec 6
Grove Hall Library presents the Harper Schiller Jazz Duo Dec 15
Boston City Singers - Four Concerts: Dec 1, 8, 16, 18
Sustainable Planet - Plants, Animals, Humanity, the Earth - our Future
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Boston Public Library
Grove Hall Branch Library
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Highlights on Events in Greater Uphams Corner
Uphams Corner Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative
Wed Dec 5, 2012
The Uphams Corner Working Advisory Group meeting will be:
Wednesday, DECEMBER 5, 2012
6:30pm to 8:30pm
The Salvation Army Kroc Center
650 Dudley Street, Dorchester
ALL MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, please visit our website www.fairmountindigoplanning.org or contact:
Ines Palmarin, Co-Director
617.918.4434 Ines.Palmarin.BRA@cityofboston.gov
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Jeremy Rosenberger, Co-Director
617.918.4431 Jeremy.Rosenberger.BRA@cityofboston.gov |
Boston Redevelopment
Authority
One City Hall Square | Boston, MA 02201-1007
How to Live within Your Means
Dec 6 2011 5:45 pm
The Uphams Corner Library and the Boston Home Center present:
"How to Live within your Means," a workshop designed to help you
- understand your finances
- assess your finances
- create a budget
- tailor your finances to accommodate your personal needs
Plus they will offer some helpful tax tips.
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Friends of the Uphams Corner Library Meeting
Sat Dec 8 9:30am
A message from the Friends .....
"Greetings, everyone. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving
holiday and that everyone is doing well. This is a friendly reminder
that our next Friends of the Uphams Corner Branch Library meeting will
be this Saturday, December 8th, at 9:30am in the "round room" off of
the children's section.
This is our last meeting of the year (2012). Let's come together to
plan more exciting programs for year 2013! We look forward to
seeing all of you there!
Thank you. Josette Teneus "
Questions? Contact Josette at josetteten1@gmail.com
 "WINTER CONCERT Free for All"
Sunday, December 9, 2012 3 PM
Ashmont Hill Chamber Music and
Rachel Goodwin, Artist Director
Presents a "free" winter concert
Peabody Hall
Parish of All Saints
209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA
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Featured from Prior Issues
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Upham's Corner InSight into the News
Important Community Meeting - Presentations on "Realizable" Proposals
Mon Dec 3, 2012
The PUBLIC is invited!!
Hibernia Hall
184 Dudley St, Roxbury
Mon, Dec 3, 2012
4:00pm - 8:00pm
Graduate students from Harvard's Community Innovation (CI) Lab will
give final (nine) presentations - 'realizable' proposals to important
local issues - all featuring technological solutions. Three of
the proposals focus on Uphams Corner. Others look at DSNI issues
and the Orchard Gardens Residents Association.
The CI Lab course paired graduate students with community partners who
identified important local issues. The students then worked
collaboratively to develop proposals. Everyone is invited to this
exciting event.
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Harvard Schools Work Together to Solve Community Problems
Dec 2, 2012
Students from two Harvard University schools are working together on challenges in "marginalized Boston communities."
- Solving Problems Using Technology, taught by Susan Crawford from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Advanced Workshop in Participatory Urban Planning and Design, taught by Michael Hooper from the Harvard Design School.
Students from both courses are working with the City of Boston Mayor's
Office of New Urban Mechanics to focus on 'realizable' proposals to
local issues identified by three community partners: DSNI, Orchard
Gardens Residents Assoc and Uphams Corner Main Street.
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1299 Mass Ave and EE Square in Boston's Early History
 Since 1874 there have been many road and land changes in the section of Dorchester we now call Edward Everett Square.
Did you know that in 1874 ...
- Edward Everett Square did not exist
- Massachusetts Avenue did not terminate here
- The major N/S road was Cottage Street
- The triangular lot at 1299 Mass Ave did not exist
The 1874 Boston atlas shows a section of Dorchester with quaint, almost
country-like, roads. Rapid residential and commercial development
ensued. A new road was cut into the intersection and in 1917, the
owner of 1299 Mass Ave built a garage that covered the entire plot of
land.
Almost 100 years later in 2010, Living Stream Ministry has
purchased the property and is converting the original garage (with
substantial improvements) into a building to be used by the Christian
congregation, "Church in Boston" as shown in the rendering above.
Detailed Maps and Building Photos
Public Works holding UPHAMS CORNER NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 6:00pm
The City of Boston Public Works Department invites you to attend a
kick-off meeting to discuss the reconstruction of roadways at Uphams
Corner.
The scope of work will include new sidewalks, street
lights, upgraded traffic signals, tree plantings, way-finding signage,
and improved connectivity for pedestrians. The meeting will be held on:
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:00 PM
Cape Verdean Adult Center
34 Hancock Street
Dorchester, MA
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SAVE THAT APP!! Adopt a Hydrant
 Dec 4, 2012
SAVE THAT APP!!
Earlier in 2012, Mayor Thomas M. Menino launched the Adopt-A-Hydrant program, a
first-of-its-kind effort, designed to tap into community spirit.
The
Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics is preparing to announce the 2013
version of Adopt-A-Hydrant program where residents can name and adopt
fire hydrants - which means keeping them free of snow. Easy to
use. Go to the special website, login and pick out your favorite
fire hydrant. When it snows, ... well ... you know what to do.
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C-11 Police Alert for the Holidays
November 2012
Captain Sexton, Area C11 of the Boston Police Department, reminds all
residents of Boston to be careful during the holidays. He cites
package theft as a growing concern.
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Featured from Prior Issues
Fairmount Community Forum Exceeds Expectations
Nov 17, 2012
Opening with a one-hour overview of the planning initiative, the BRA
led the over 200 attendees quickly into engaging exercises that set the
stage for the several hours of breakout session brainstorming.
What changes do they want to see in their communities that will promote sustainability and economic feasibility in the areas of
- jobs
- housing
- quality of life
- transportation and more?
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Excellent Turnout for Main Street Annual Meeting
Uphams Corner Main Street held their 2012 annual meeting at Paraiso
Restaurant on Dudley Street. Hoping to attract business
representatives before the businesses opened for the day, Main Street
offered a light breakfast and an early start time (8AM).
The meeting was well attended (close to 50) and the speakers
interesting including several business owners. Main Street also shared
upcoming developments with the business community.
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Main Street Annual Meeting in Photos
 Paraiso
Restaurant's front room in the "glass dome" was a good fit for the
crowd that attended Uphams Corner Main Street's Annual Meeting.
With a light breakfast - especially the excellent fresh fruit
selection, a well maintained schedule and interesting speakers, the
meeting created an enjoyable opening for "just another day" in Uphams
Corner. Photos show attendees listening intently and enjoying
themselves.
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Businessman Camilo Pichardo Loves Uphams Corner
Businessman Camilo Pichardo has much to say about the Uphams Corner
neighborhood and the people he interfaces with regularly and all of it
very positive.
"Listen" to his speech at the Uphams Corner Main Street Annual Meeting,
find out more about his business (YELP) and learn more about him - his
principles, his attitude, his family and why he cares so much about
Uphams Corner.
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Wakeup Call for Main Streets and all Nonprofits
The indictment of Carolos Schillaci, former executive director of the
Hyde / Jackson Square Main Street, provides an opportunity for all
groups specifically involved in this incident to review the sequence of
events, to learn from the errors and to assess if adequate controls
have been put in place to prevent a recurrence.
The seriousness of what happened, how easily it happened and how
apparently naive the 'victims' were is pause for reflection. All
nonprofits, certainly all Boston Main Street groups including Uphams
Corner would do well to view this incident as a 'wake-up call.'
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Confessions of a Died-in-the-Wool Flu Shot Avoider
Nov 24, 2012
Ten days into the almost overwhelming marathon of coughing, phlegm,
sneezing, sore throat, swollen tonsils, chills and weakness (though,
thank goodness, no fever) ... 'How could I have passed up the
brief pain of a flu shot?'
Too busy? I never get sick! I'm healthy ...
Whatever the excuse, it may not be worth clinging to a tenuous
lifelline. Pharmacies and health centers - all of them are
stocked with untainted, high quality anti-viral doses of what the CDC
(Centers for Disease Control) says are the likely culprits this flu
season."
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