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| Jan 15, 2024 11:54 am |Nobody stole any vehicles in West Hills, West Rock, Westville, or Amity during the first week of 2024.
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| Jan 15, 2024 11:54 am |Nobody stole any vehicles in West Hills, West Rock, Westville, or Amity during the first week of 2024.
Legal aid lawyer and Democratic ward co-chair Amy Marx will be the next alder for Upper Westville’s Ward 26, after winning a special election to fill the seat left empty by Darryl Brackeen.
Joshua Van Hoesen finally got to speak to an unaffiliated voter on Benton Street about an upcoming special election for alder. But first he had to break form and agree to break a rule.
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| Feb 6, 2023 12:49 pm |New Haveners in need of wheelchairs, bath seats, walking sticks and more can now borrow those supplies for just a dollar from a Whalley Avenue pharmacy, thanks to a newly opened outpost of a medical equipment charity.
Continue reading ‘Medical Equipment Charity Opens On Whalley’
A 27-year-old New Havener named Shanice Reyes was struck and killed by a car Friday evening on a deadly stretch of Whalley Avenue.
A medical marijuana pharmacist is set to roll recreational bud and edibles onto Whalley Avenue as soon as December — after getting approved for the city’s first ever adult-use cannabis business special permit.
And another leading local cannabis entrepreneur has won a key vote of support from a state council to build out her own “social equity” cultivation and retail ventures.
Continue reading ‘Canna-biz Wins First City Dispensary Permit’
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| Aug 8, 2022 3:01 pm |Tanaya Atkinson braved the heat -– and not the basketball team -– to give back to New Haven kids getting ready to return to school.
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| May 11, 2022 1:29 pm |One recent Wednesday morning, before arriving to Whalley Avenue to open his pharmacy business for a day, Victor Fok drove to a patient’s house to teach them how to test their blood sugar levels, free of charge.
At Fok’s previous job at a large corporate pharmacy chain, he would never have had the time and incentive to prioritize patient education. Now, as a co-owner of the recently-opened True-Care Pharmacy in the Amity neighborhood, Fok and his team hope to reach community members where they live with personally-delivered prescriptions, immunizations, and education initiatives.
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| Mar 24, 2022 11:56 am |After breaking both of his feet and fracturing his kneecap in a scooter crash on Whalley Avenue, Dean Howard fell behind on rent — and got hit with an eviction lawsuit.
His Stamford-based landlord has now withdrawn the case, after Howard caught up on what he owed with the help of his employer, his dad, and a state assistance program.
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and | Mar 10, 2022 3:43 pm |The word at Transformerz barber shop Thursday was Ukraine — along with some other topics that had to stay in the shop.
Continue reading ‘Word At The Barber Shop: Ukraine Needs Our Help’
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
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| Dec 17, 2021 9:07 am |After an outpouring of community resistance and a denial of a request for approval of a parking plan, the final kibosh was put on a proposal for a BYO nightclub or “assembly hall” on upper Whalley Avenue.
The kibosh came in the form a vote against a special exception for Kenneth Redding’s proposed “assembly hall” at 1331 Whalley Ave. at Tuesday night’s Board of Zoning Appeals meeting.
Redding was not present at the gathering. He attended a zoning hearing a month earlier when neighbors came out in force with concerns not only about parking, but about late-night carousing and drinking, and vagrancy in neighbors’ yards.
“I recall an overwhelming negative community presence based on very late hours, bad behavior,” BZA Acting Chair Alexandra Daum said. “I would concur and move to deny, based on community pushback and the City Plan recommendation.
The vote was unanimous. (Read a previous story on the subject here.)
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| Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am |A proposed BYOB nightclub on Upper Whalley hit another administrative roadblock Wednesday, as City Plan Commissioners unanimously recommended rejecting the venue’s request to share parking with its shopping strip neighbors.
Continue reading ‘City Plan Rejects Upper Whalley Nightclub Proposal’
One candidate handed out assignments to dozens of neighbors: Here’s your street. Here are the doors to knock on. Here are flyers to hand out. Let us know who’s voting.
At another end of the ward, the other candidate set out to meet voters as well. Alone.
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| Aug 23, 2021 1:48 pm |Will the third time prove the charm?
That’s the question for a vacant parkway-adjacent Amity lot, where a property owner won city permission to build a four-story self-storage facility — after that same landlord won approvals for projects that never got built.
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| Aug 20, 2021 11:11 am |A Bridgeport-based orthodontist bought an Amity strip mall for $5.75 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions — and a local mega-landlord borrowed more than $3 million with plans of paying down debt and buying more properties, in the city’s latest mortgages.
Continue reading ‘Property Sales Roundup: Amity Strip Mall Sells For $5.75M’
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| Aug 13, 2021 4:39 pm |As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.
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| Aug 11, 2021 12:11 pm |Plans for a new four-story self-storage facility on the far west side of town moved ahead, with the help of side and rear yard relief from city zoners.
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| Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am |Two city Health Department nurses set up class in a barbershop. The topic at hand — Why should we trust the Covid-19 vaccine? — elicited straight talk about why people choose to remain unvaccinated.
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| Jun 13, 2021 8:17 pm |Mayor Justin Elicker picked up two more resounding votes of support this weekend in straw polls held by Democratic ward committees.
Continue reading ‘Ward 27, 25 Democratic Committees Back Elicker’
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| Jun 4, 2021 11:50 am |During a night when two more New Haveners got shot, two mayoral candidates invoked different years to criticize each other’s handling of violent crime.
Continue reading ‘2020 vs. 2006: Mayoral Candidates Year-Check Each Other On Crime’
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| May 12, 2021 9:42 am |Medical marijuana? Nope.
Baconator with a side of fries? Not happening.
What about … self-storage?
Continue reading ‘Self-Storage — Not Burgers, Not Pot — Coming To Amity Lot’
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| May 3, 2021 11:51 am |(Updated) A 70-year-old pedestrian died after getting struck by a driver on a perilous stretch of Whalley Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Update: Pedestrian Identified In Fatal Whalley-Ramsdell Crash’
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| Apr 21, 2021 5:32 pm |More than 200 friends, family, and fellow motorcyclists gathered again at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Tuesday night to mourn the death of Revolucion motorcycle club (MC) President Daniel Velazquez Quinones in a crash last Friday.
Continue reading ‘200 Return To Crash Site To Promote “MC” Unity’
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| Apr 18, 2021 10:03 pm |Memorial candles were lit, engines revved, and cries of “Revolucion!” rang out at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Sunday evening at the spot where an allegedly drunk driver killed the popular leader of a local motorcycle club.
Continue reading ‘Motorcyclists Mass After Crash Kills Leader’