Saturday, November 24, 2012
Start your holiday shopping at locally owned stores during Small Business Saturday.
Small Business Saturday is on Nov. 24 this year, two days after Thanksgiving. It is a day for everyone to support the small businesses that their community thrives on. American Express founded the day in 2010 to help small businesses get exposure during the holiday season, when they might be otherwise overlooked. With retailers buzzing around the holidays, it is important to support local small businesses that rely on their neighbors in order to continue prospering and building the local economy in Jamaica Plain. Last year, 100 million people nationwide participated in Small Business Saturday by shopping at locally owned stores to help boost the economy and their communities. Here's a list of a few participating stores where you can shop …
Friday, November 23, 2012
The experiment will involve “Boston Bean” $5 notes good at participating local retail stores.
This holiday season you could buy your gifts locally with cash, or with Jamaica Plain-only currency. Boston Bean, in partnership with The JP New Economy Transition, will inject $1,000 worth of $5 “Boston Bean” notes into the local economy. The notes will be distributed for free to neighbors to spend on holiday shopping at local participating stores. Each bill will get its own authentic, indented serial number, according to Dakota Butterfield, a JPNET representative, at a Wednesday meeting of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association. The program has been funded by an anonymous donor. The currency is good through Jan. 31, 2013. The idea is that dollars spent locally is a sustainable solution to an economic downturn, according …
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Say hello to Jamaica Plain's newest prospective homebrewing supply store owner.
Joshua Sattin is a homebrewer turned school teacher turned back to homebrewer. He's in the fundraising stage of his own homebrew supply business - aptly labeled Boston Homebrew Supply - out of his Forest Hills home. The local 32-year-old father of twins took the time to answer a few questions via email about what it takes to make it in the do it yourself homebrew scene. Jamaica Plain Patch: Where/What did you teach? Joshua Sattin: My wife and I both grew up in Brookline. We lived in Boulder, Colo. from 2005 to 2010 and I taught high school math at a public school in Arvada, Colo. I taught all grades nine through 12 and almost every class over the course of my five years there. These classes were Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-…
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The bike repair co-op experienced a burglary this week, but they've said police involvement is "at odds with our established points of unity."
The Community Spoke! bike shop experienced a burglary this past week forcing them to close. Though the organization has made efforts to tell the public via their blog and social media channels, they say they do not want police assistance in locating the missing items. "We feel that the police will interfere with our mission to provide a free and important service to those who decide to use it," says a post on the co-op's website. "To us this is more important than recovering our stolen property or “bringing those responsible to justice.” Here's more from the post: "What service can the police provide? Do we actually want the police to target, question, and harass the youth of color of Jamaica Plain on behalf of the Spoke? Would that really…
Developers say the 49-seat restaurant will be a “morning business and a night business.”
In the vacant lots of Washington Street in Forest Hills there’s typically vehicle traffic and little else. Though, alongside the addition of the Harvest Co-Op, a new café will soon fill out the space. Kevin Walker, president of WCI Corp., presented plans to build a 49-seat café at 3840 Washington St., which is now a lot south of the Forest Hills T station, at a meeting of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association Wednesday afternoon. BAPA member Jeffrey Ferris, owner of Ferris Wheels bike shop, said the area is a particularly difficult place to open a restaurant. “You don’t have the benefit of being near a residential neighborhood,” he said. Walker called the café a “morning business and a night business,” adding that he …
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Dakota Butterfield
10:34 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Hey Ajax! You might want to check out the BERKSHARE, a local currency system that has been running in the Berkshares of western Massachusetts since 2006. Over 300 businesses accept the BERKSHARE, and the currency is issued by 5 different banks through 13 branch offices. You walk into a bank, hand over $90US dollars and get $100Bershares in return. As long as you do your transactions in BERKSHARES… more ›