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Memorial Sunday for Danny Velazquez, pictured below on his ride.
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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.
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by | Mar 19, 2021 5:58 pm | Comments (10)
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Pet store co-owner Reinaldo Capetillo with one of the puppies that didn’t get stolen during the recent burglary wave.
Rosa displays the grate he’s pitching to storeowners.
Amid a spike of overnight burglaries, top west side cop Elliot Rosa is trying to convince wary business owners like Reinaldo Capetillo to install roll-up metal grates — and he’s touting a friendlier new model.
by | Dec 10, 2020 11:07 am | Comments (39)
Alder Furlow: This wasn’t about affordable housing.
Concerned about drugs, traffic, and violence, Upper Westville neighbors convinced city zoners to stop a two-family home from becoming a rooming house.
by | Dec 9, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (4)
Linwood “Woody” Lacy found his wings, and never gave up on his cooking dreams — which spawned a colorful spin on surf and turf.
by | Dec 2, 2020 10:24 am | Comments (0)
(Updated) Two employees of the Amity post office at 1449 Whalley Ave. have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to a decision to close the branch temporarily.
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by | Jun 5, 2020 1:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Cops track Westville roamer’s whereabouts.
Top west side cop Lt. Elliot Rosa updates us on the whereabouts of the bear roaming Westville — and asks if “Boo-Boo,” who was last spotted roaming Orange, may be the same visitor.
by | Jun 5, 2020 10:21 am | Comments (0)
Stefanie Clark Harris tuned her guitar in Jenn Stockwell’s front yard and introduced a song she had written recently, during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was about “thinking about so much” with “nowhere to go — nothing to hide from or escape from, but left with yourself,” she said. “That wound up being pretty powerful to me and this is a song about it.”
by | Apr 23, 2020 8:43 pm | Comments (0)
Police conducted a manhunt on the west side Wednesday night to locate a suspect in a stolen car case that might turn into part of a shooting case.
by | Mar 6, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (5)
A car thief crashed into another driver’s car, then bailed. He started running. Officer John Truhart ran after him.
by | Feb 27, 2020 8:29 am | Comments (1)
Someone left a car running at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Saturday, went inside to the convenience store — and came back out to find someone else taking off with the vehicle.
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by | Feb 18, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (4)
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CFO Penn in foreground, with Superintendent Tracey.
The Board of Education is really not in deficit. It has just been chronically and systemically under-funded for the last 30 years, and you should write to your representatives, especially in the state to deliver that message.
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by | Feb 17, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Pink or red or salmon-colored cards up in Westville.
Westvillians raised their pink cards — or were they salmon-colored? or red? — to give the thumbs up to support for a local longtime after-school program and a job training program that has been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
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by | Feb 10, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (4)
The west side of town now has its own video report on weekly crimes, courtesy of top district cop Lt. Elliott Rosa.
by | Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm | Comments (0)
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The Lacys, Cathy Graves, Mayor Elicker, and Alder Richard Furlow.
Forty different glazes for chicken wings — ranging from mango habanero to garlic parmesan — are just not enough for fledgling and creative restauranteurs Lachelle and Linwood Lacy.
They have a still-secret 41st sauce coming, combining the best of the previous 40. It is still in the research stage, meaning only family members get to try it.
Glazes and wings galore will also be ready for upcoming Super Bowl weekend.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Rosa (left) and Dell (right) with CMT stalwart Marge Wiener.
All that’s changing is … a vowel.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
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by | Dec 11, 2019 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Lt. Rose Dell at a recent community meeting.
Lt. Rose Dell is headed back to 1 Union Ave after a year building relationships with neighbors to tackle crime on the city’s west side.
by | Dec 9, 2019 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
A senior citizen withdrew $4,000 from the bank to pay two women who scammed her with a false promise of much more cash in return.
by | Dec 2, 2019 3:26 pm | Comments (3)
Three times in six days, drivers on the west side of town left keys inside their vehicles. All three vehicles were stolen.
by | Nov 25, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (4)
Quick reflexes helped a cop grab an unpermitted black Taurus 709 slim firearm with six live rounds inside during a car stop at Chapel Street and Central Avenue; and a repeat thief made off with bottles of Natty Daddy and Jose Cuervo
by | Nov 18, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
A woman admitted she was “too drunk to drive” — after she crashed into a car on the Boulevard, then one at Marvel Road and West Elm.
Meanwhile, a burglar left some scatalogical traces behind after making off with a DVD player, a laptop, and over 1,000 DVDs from the apartment of a man who was in the hospital.
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:51 pm | Comments (1)
A Blake Street senior’s favor to a thirsty handyman ending up costing her. And a Fountain Street tenant learned that neighbors’ constant coital commotion is not a police matter.
by | Nov 5, 2019 2:39 pm | Comments (2)
More shrimp has gone missing at local supermarkets.
by | Nov 4, 2019 4:50 pm | Comments (1)
The winner of an OfferUp online auction brought a $4,940 check to McDonald’s. he rode away with a west side woman’s 2008 Nissan Sentra.
by | Oct 28, 2019 11:55 am | Comments (1)
As Halloween approaches, some of the spirit has vanished from Moore Drive.
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