The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a new three-story home for the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Old Road between Ellington Street and Michigan Avenue in Dorchester, basically to the rear of its existing facilities on Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.
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Police add short Dorchester street to roads blocked off on weekend nights after man is shot to death
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston Police are now shutting Old Road - a shortcut between Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road - on weekend nights following the Sept. 2 murder of Xavier Rivas. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot where Old Road meets Columbia Road around 11:40 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Boston Police report eight arrests, dozens of tickets and 19 vehicle seizures and one gun seizure during a weekend series of raids at several locations from Roslindale to Dorchester on Saturday aimed at busting up the large rolling parties of scooters, ATVs and speaker-equipped and booze-filled cars that have become a regular event across the city. Read more.