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Cops Focus On McDonald’s To Foil Drag Racers

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.

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Mourning, Solidarity Mark Mosque Vigil

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. 

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Mosque Has Insurance; Donations Top $114K

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.

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“We’re Not Going Away”

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.

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Management Teams Slow On Civilian Review Names

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.

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Send Up The Drones?

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?

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4th Graders Connect On World Read Aloud Day

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.

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“Ataturk Corner” Thwarted Again

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.

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