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Article: Merchants applaud new police on walking beats in Grove Hall
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- Bay State Banner
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- March 23, 1995
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Yawu Miller
Bay State Banner
03-23-1995
Merchants applaud new police on walking beats in Grove Hall.
Don McPherson, who often works the night shift in his family-owned 24-hour convenience store, has war stories from what he calls one of New England's hottest drug spots. Like the time the dope fiend crashed a car through the wall of his building. Or the kid who was shot in front of the Chinese takeout restaurant and crawled into McPherson's store where he died.
A steady stream of crime and violence has punctuated the five years it has taken McPherson and his family to purchase and renovate the row of single-story Grove Hall storefronts which house businesses including a beauty parlor and a ...
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