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Gazette Links What's UP Events Listings Jamaica Plain Gazette News From JP Get the Gazette! Distribution & Subscriptions Publishing Calendar With Deadlines Reaching the Editorial Dept. News, Letters, Listings... Placing a Classified Ad Help Wanted, Yard Sale, For Sale, For Rent, Legal Notices Placing Major Advertising Regular Display, Directory, Inserts About the Gazette English/Español				Wentworth Institute of Technology's Community Task Force, August 25, 6pm Faculty/Staff Dining Room, 1st floor, Beatty Hall, 550 Huntington Ave. Info: 989-4247. Mission Hill Road Race, a 5k road race and walk to benefit The Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park, Sat., Oct. 2, Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park, St. Alphonsus St. Registration: 8am; Walkers start: 9am; Race starts: 10am; Food, music, awards: 11am. Pre-register by Sept 20, $15; register day-of, $20. Info: 566-6565. 1st Mission Reunion, fundraiser sponsored by Mission Hill Family Collaboration, Moseley's on the Charles, 50 Bridge St., Dedham, Sat., Sept. 18, 8pm-1am. Tickets: $30 per person ($35 at the door), $50 per couple. Proceeds benefit children of Mission Hill. Info: Kenny Galloway, 857-719-7653. Heart of the Hub, Discover Roxbury's annual celebration and fundraiser. The event will include live music, a silent art auction featuring work by local artists, prize drawings, and "A Taste of Roxbury" dinner provided by caterers and restaurants from Greater Roxbury, Thurs., Oct. 21, 6-9pm, at the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Dudley Square. $50. Info: www.discoverroxbury.org. Tallered para Compradores de Vivienda (Spanish language First Time Home Buyer Class) , Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, 56 Warren St, Roxbury, August 21&28, 9am-1pm. Brigham Circle Farmers Market, produce from MacArthur Farm of Holliston and Gary's Too of Townsend. EBT Cards and WIC vouchers accepted. Nutritionists from UMass Boston will sponsor healthy food demonstrations and offer free samples throughout the summer. Thursdays through early November 11am-6pm, 1 Brigham Circle. Second Thursdays: Boston Bicyclists Union offers free bike tune-ups and minor repairs. Harmony on the Hill, a grassroots organization serving Mission Hill and all surrounding communities, needs volunteers to help plan a Mission Hill Celebration of Community Unity around race and diversity. The celebration will be in early fall. Info: 427-6919/info@missionhillinharmony.org/. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, offers free admission to members of the military and their families, through Labor Day, Sept. 6, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. Info: www.gardnermuseum.org. Don't forget! Tell the Gazette! Let us know about news as soon as you know. 617-524-2626.		Aug. 20, 2010 Northeastern focuses on town-gown relations School quiet on the new dorm front Striving to mend frayed relations with the community, Northeastern University is heading into the new school year with three new-hires intended to monitor the schools large off-campus student population and manage town-gown relations. Meanwhile, the school has been quiet all summer about its controversial announcement last spring that it was scrapping plans to build a new 600-bed dorm at its Huntington Avenue campus because of financial concerns. Proposed new hotel could be Comfort Inn Local primary elections in the spotlight Hotly contested Democratic seats will face no Republican challenge Primary elections on Sept. 14 in Mission Hill will decide more than just who's on the ballot come November: for these races, there are no second party candidates, so whoever wins the primary, wins the race. Ex-senator admits to taking 8 cash bribes Sentencing hearing next month Former state senator Dianne Wilkerson admitted taking $23,500 in cash bribes in a guilty plea early June that appears likely to send her to federal prison for corruption. Gazette Publications Inc. also publishes the Jamaica Plain Gazette every two weeks.
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