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Allan Appel
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Oct 20, 2013 5:27 pm
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Hodes and Greer at the cemeteries with the new guide.
When Eliezer Greer’s wife lost one of two twins in childbirth, he didn’t want to ask God, “Why? Why this one?”
He decided to take on a project instead. He began to walk the Jewell Street cemeteries. They were in bad shape, the buried poorly documented. Would a tiny child buried here today be able to be found by a loved one or a distant relative on a quest in 50 years? Greer wondered. A hundred?
Rapper Travis Pittman gave up the street life. In his mom’s kitchen, he resumed slinging — a new smoothie packed with organic baby spinach, agave, and powder extracted from “the most powerful plant on land.”
Stanley Welch didn’t join the crowd at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s historic “I Have A Dream” speech. Welch had already been there, done that — witnessing King’s speech in person 50 years ago, a life-altering moment that stays with him to this day.
The mother of a Muslim student enrolled in a New Haven school, learning that her daughter was depressed, searched her daughter’s diary. She discovered entries about being taunted as “Bin Laden’s daughter” and a “towel head.”
The Community Action Agency sent in this write-up about a recent planting project:
Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) joined forces with the Whalley Avenue Special Services District (WASSD) to beautify Whalley Avenue from downtown to Blake Street with barrels and planter boxes filled with colorful flowers!
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jul 10, 2013 1:52 pm
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City zoners decided not to allow a daycare to open in Beaver Hills, and cast votes that will mean people will have more places to have a drink around town.
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Nick Defiesta
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Jun 20, 2013 11:57 am
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The City Plan Commission Tuesday night sided with neighbors who don’t want a new day care center in Beaver Hills and don’t want neighbors parking on their lawns in East Rock.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 12, 2013 12:15 pm
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Three years after neighbors helped kill a plan to open a convenience store on a residential stretch of Blake Street, the owners tried out a different idea: How about a daycare center?
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 24, 2013 7:43 am
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One day before neighbors are to meet on the future of Bowen Field, a Hillhouse student shared the results of her relevant research: An astroturf field at the high school’s new gridiron would likely send rubber pellets leaching into Beaver Pond.
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Melissa Bailey
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Feb 18, 2013 5:36 pm
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Alderwoman Robinson-Thorpe: “It’s unacceptable.”
In order to carry passengers down Goffe Terrace Monday, the Z3 bus had to swerve around a bank of unplowed snow, crossing the yellow lines into oncoming traffic.
The tight spot was one of dozens neighbors flagged as they called in complaints about narrow streets and high snow piles — questioning the city’s assertion that the post-blizzard cleanup is largely done.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jan 8, 2013 4:44 pm
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The city will issue bonds for $3.6 million to pay for an upgrade to Hillhouse high school’s football field — with a promise to address neighborhood concerns about the environment.
A 21-year-old was shot four times at the Getty Gas Mart in Beaver Hills Monday night, after he ran into the store to escape a man he had been fighting with.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Dec 28, 2012 12:04 pm
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A new turf field might be good for the Hillhouse football team. Its new bleachers might be good for parents and fans. But will it be bad for the hooded mergansers, mallard ducks, and great blue herons who live nearby?
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Melissa Bailey
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Oct 10, 2012 3:01 pm
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When neighbors and city officials invited him to New Haven to hear a “pop-pop-pop” of automatic rifles Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal pronounced the noise “irrefutably intrusive” to the neighborhood — and pledged his support in chasing down $6.5 million in federal money to move the firing range indoors.
Detectives were on their way to the Bronx Sunday afternoon to retrieve an 11-year-old New Haven boy who had run away from home, sparking an extensive citywide search.
Guns drawn, cops ordered a man out of a gold GMCSUV and had him walk backwards to them with his hands in the air. The police thought they might have the carjacker they were looking for — but it was the wrong guy.
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Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez
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Jun 24, 2012 11:36 pm
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On the eve of a monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling, New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon was running for reelection — and detailing some of the work she’d like to do if Connecticut needs to pick up the pieces of a fractured health reform law.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jun 18, 2012 8:16 am
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Hillhouse linebacker Terrell Fairweather looks forward to seeing his team play under the lights on a new turf field, after a surprise last-minute $11.6 million snuck through the state legislature to redo Bowen Field.
