by | Jul 3, 2019 12:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Welcome to Route 80: Scene by the Shell station. Marottoli, below.
Vinnie Marottoli would like to have a “Return To Sender Party” clean-up along Route 80.
The idea: Collect Walmart’s litter, Dunkin’s, 7 – 11’s, Taco Bell’s. Segregate each business’s litter and then return their very own bagged stuff right back to them.
by | Jun 6, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (6)
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Corner in question.
The southwest corner of Quinnipiac and Grand Avenue is so overgrown with bushes and shrubs, that already dangerously poor traffic sight lines are growing worse. Can the city get overgrowth cut — and save drivers, cyclists and pedestrians from harm?
by | Jun 5, 2019 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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The McDonald’s at 225 Foxon Blvd. on Route 80 — a state road that is also the busiest in the city — has two other distinctions:
• It has become the staging area for late-night drag racing that every summer perennially plagues the Quinnipiac Meadows area of the city,
• It was the scene of an astounding 100 accidents last year alone.
That’s why changes might be in that location’s future. Changes like stationing an extra-duty late night cop stationed at the eatery and installation of a divider to prevent eastbound hamburger-hunters from from cutting off I‑91 Exit 8 mergers onto the road.
Continue reading ‘Cops Focus On McDonald’s To Foil Drag Racers’
by | May 20, 2019 1:37 pm | Comments (0)
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has announced a $5,000 reward “for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the Diyanet Mosque in New Haven, Connecticut on May 12, 2019.”
by | May 17, 2019 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Sumeyya Sahim, only in the U.S. six months from her native Istanbul, Turkey, arrived early at the Diyanet Mosque Friday. Five days after someone started a fire there, the congregation was ready to gather again in communal prayer.
by | May 17, 2019 2:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Blumenthal with mosque President Haydar Elevulu.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal Friday leaped ahead of investigators and called a suspected arson at New Haven’s Diyanet Mosque “an act of terrorism,” then walked the statement back.
Continue reading ‘At Mosque, Blumenthal Dials Up “Terror,” Then Walks It Back’
by | May 16, 2019 10:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Serra and her mother Aysegul Uzun. “I want to come together,” Uzun said, “because this is my home.”
With Turkish and American flags waving side by side, hundreds gathered outside the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue Thursday evening for a prayer vigil and collective demonstration of interfaith solidarity four days after someone intentionally set the Islamic place of worship on fire.
by | May 16, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (0)
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Ercan Uzun and Ersoy Musn outside Diyanet Mosque on Wednesday. Below: The mosque at 531 Middletown Ave.
Ercan Uzun and Ersoy Mus stood outside the Diyanet Mosque on Wednesday, reflecting on the emotional roller-coaster that the mosque’s 300 members have gone through in the few days since Sunday’s fire at the 531 Middletown Ave. place of worship.
Continue reading ‘Mosque Has Insurance; Donations Top $114K’
by | May 14, 2019 4:48 pm | Comments (17)
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Elevulu (above), congregants (below) at the mosque Tuesday.
Haydar Elevulu stared at the charred exterior of the Middletown Avenue mosque his community had hoped to have rebuilt by September. He felt “hurt” that someone might have such hatred against Muslims, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, to have set fire to it.
But Elevulu barely had a moment to dwell on that thought— as New Haveners of all faiths rallied around the congregation with offers of help and (at last count) more than $69,000 in donations to rebuild.
by | Apr 4, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (4)
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Bishop Woods students cheer on wind-powered vehicles in a schoolwide race.
Two plastic straws. Two wooden skewers. Two pieces of cardboard. One sheet of paper. One fuzzy pipe cleaner. And one plastic bag.
by | Apr 3, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (13)
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Armmand and Quinnipiac Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes at Tuesday night’s meeting.
With only a little more than a month left before the May 9 deadline for submission, only two of the 12 community management teams have sent in to the mayor their nominations for the city’s new police Civilian Review Board.
Some confusion reigns about aspects of the nomination process, like which specific application form is legal.
Continue reading ‘Management Teams Slow On Civilian Review Names’
by | Mar 28, 2019 2:47 pm | Comments (0)
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Mendy Paris: Bullish on condos.
A Westville-based landlord spent nearly $300,000 buying half a dozen condos on a quiet block in Quinnipiac Meadows, in some the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Feb 20, 2019 1:20 pm | Comments (0)
East Shore cops conducted 58 motor vehicle stops in a week — and caught an erratic moped driver and a woman who allegedly fled the scene of a Valentine’s Day crash.
by | Feb 7, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
Edgewood, Martinez, ESUMS, Nathan Hale: Parents invited in.
Moms and dads, alders, social-service providers and neighborhood fixtures will be walking through eight schools over the coming months, giving school principals and teachers a lesson on how to make them feel welcome.
Continue reading ‘Want A Tour? Schools Seek Parent Feedback’
by | Feb 6, 2019 2:18 pm | Comments (18)
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Budget critics Dennis Serfilippi and Pat Kane, after the colloquoy.
Will police-controlled drones be the city’s answer to solving the chronic and sometimes terrifying dirt bike problem?
And why is the city not incorporating into the budget-in-progress a Financial Review and Audit Commission (FRAC) recommendation for a $25,00- to-$50,000 study for an “operational audit” of the police and fire departments?
Wouldn’t that shed needed light on just how the police and fire departments can function well even in lean times, with maybe reduced manpower and maybe not sending fire engines to heart attacks?
by | Feb 5, 2019 2:37 pm | Comments (0)
Not the same vehicle in question.
A Foxon Hill Road resident’s pickup truck was stolen from his driveway. The car was later located in Brooklyn, New York.
There was one small problem. The car was on fire.
Continue reading ‘Stolen Truck Found — On Fire, In Brooklyn’
by | Feb 4, 2019 8:34 am | Comments (2)
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Mia Edmonds-Duff and Michelle Sepulveda read to Ross-Woodward students.
Have you ever had to do something scary?
Two sisters who work in the city’s high schools asked that question to a class of Ross-Woodward’s fourth-graders on World Read Aloud Day, which took place across the city’s elementary schools on Friday morning.
Continue reading ‘4th Graders Connect On World Read Aloud Day’
by | Jan 9, 2019 4:31 pm | Comments (0)
A 49-year-old man has died from injuries suffered when a driver hit him on Foxon Boulevard.
by | Oct 15, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (11)
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Shiller: Prices up 30 percent since 1975.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
by | Aug 7, 2018 1:11 pm | Comments (2)
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Feray Gokcek with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
Alders decided not to dip their toes into one well of international controversy on Monday night when they formally turned down a bid to rename a Middletown Avenue streetcorner after modern Turkey’s founding president.
by | Aug 6, 2018 8:12 am | Comments (11)
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I-91 Bridge #03094 between Exits 7 and 8.
Middeltown Avenue Bridge isn’t falling down. But steel reinforcement is on the way so it never gets to that point.
by | Jun 8, 2018 12:34 pm | Comments (8)
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Feray Gokcek, with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
Feray Gokcek has enough signatures to legally ask the government to name the corner of Scarboro Street and Middletown Avenue “Ataturk Corner” in honor of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern-day Turkey. But he is missing one key piece — a letter of support from an alder in favor of the change.
by | Jun 8, 2018 8:04 am | Comments (29)
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An early rendering of the proposed New Heights development.
The builder of a proposed new mini-village on the banks of the Quinnipiac River agreed to delay asking for zoning help from the city until neighbors get more of a chance to vet the plans.
Continue reading ‘Neighbor Concerns Delay Riverfront Project’s Zoning Quest’
by | May 3, 2018 7:37 am | Comments (2)
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John Riley and Keith Manson, at left, sought damages from a New Haven cop for a 2013 car accident. But witness Mario Notareno, at right, undercut their case.
A jury saw no merit in a lawsuit claiming that a cop caused a head-on collision with a dirt-bike five years ago.
by | Apr 5, 2018 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Defenders Monument, from the new booklet.
You may know the Connecticut state bird (the American robin). And perhaps the state flower (the mountain laurel).
You may even know the state fish (correct: the shad).
How about the official Connecticut state hero? Who even knew we had one!