by | Feb 14, 2018 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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The house at 236 Cranston St.
Two gutted, dilapidated cars sit on the front lawn of 236 Cranston St.
The city is taking a Quinnipiac Meadows homeowner to court for consistently failing to clean his yard of the heaps of used cars he likes to fix up and race.
by | Feb 8, 2018 3:11 pm | Comments (26)
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Hunters leave their boat to retrieve fallen duck.
Some mornings Ed Schwartz hears a “pop, pop, pop” volley of shots from duck hunters in boats on the Quinnipiac River off the Land Trust preserve.
by | Jan 19, 2018 1:08 pm | Comments (2)
Ahmed, Appel, Rahman — & lots of food.
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First came the dandakae. Then came a story about how Afghans and Pakistanis are building new lives on New Haven’s east side, a story at odds with the narrative coming out of Washington.
by | Oct 6, 2017 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Feray Gokcek, with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
A Turkish dissident who fled his homeland in 1991 is now fighting a political battle in New Haven’s Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood: to name a streetcorner after an icon of secularism.
by | Apr 27, 2017 2:33 pm | Comments (3)
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Police have been spending the day clearing out rooms full of illegal explosives discovered in a single-family ranch house on the east side of town.
by | Feb 10, 2017 2:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Congregation President Elevulu inside the mosque.
The minarets.
Prayers can legally soar as high as congregants send them when a new mosque is completed at 531 Middletown Ave. But the two white minarets outside may legally reach only 57 feet up.
So the city has put a temporarily halt to the construction of the mosque.
by | Feb 8, 2017 4:05 pm | Comments (7)
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Davis: You asked for more stops …
Quinnipiac Meadows top cop Sgt. Roy Davis came to report news neighbors were looking for — a rise in motor vehicle stops in an area plagued by speeders.
That sparked a new set of questions about how cops make those stops, and of whom.
by | Jan 11, 2017 2:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Tatyana Ramirez was struggling with the “tower of power” two-minute challenge — how to build the highest, most stable structure in the room with only candied fruit and toothpicks — when she had an algebraic revelation: Use a triangular base.
by | Sep 12, 2016 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Davis, the new East Shore district manager, at Dunkin.
The kids hang out in the road. They sit on mailboxes and throw rocks at condo windows.
Gail Roundtree has tried talking to them. But they cursed at her. About 15 of them even chased her up a hill.
Now she asked Sgt. Roy Davis what he’ll do about it.
by | Jun 15, 2016 10:30 am | Comments (0)
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After months of working with worms and dirt, kindergartens joined in and pretended to be worms themselves.
by | May 10, 2016 3:40 pm | Comments (8)
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Megna: Riding off into the political sunset.
Maybes: Egan, Lee, Antunes, Paolillo.
The race is on to fill a vacant state representative seat — or it will be on once a presumed frontrunner decides if he’s in.
by | Jan 25, 2016 8:22 am | Comments (13)
The owner of a future drive-thru Popeye’s chicken outlet promised to bring 100 jobs to the Quinnipiac East neighborhood — and make sure pedestrians don’t get run over.
by | Dec 9, 2015 3:28 pm | Comments (3)
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Over objections from some neighbors, Quinnipiac Meadows neighbors are getting a Popeyes restaurant with a drive-thru to replace a gas station and abandoned lot on Foxon Boulevard.
by | Nov 24, 2015 3:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Figure 1,565 turkeys weighing on average 12 to 14 pounds at $1.60 a pound — and you’ve already spent about $20,000.
by | Sep 8, 2015 11:46 am | Comments (6)
Spears (above left), the Donald; Antunes (below left).
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Like Donald Trump, Richard Spears said he is not part of the political “establishment” — unlike his opponent.
That opponent, Gerald Antunes said, he is emerging from political retirement because unlike with Donald Trump, the public can’t find Richard Spears.
by | Aug 3, 2015 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
More bats will be hanging around Fair Haven Heights, and that’s a good thing for bats and humans alike — not so much for the mosquitoes.
by | Jun 3, 2015 3:08 pm | Comments (0)
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This silvery menhaden, several inches long, washed up dead on the marshy edge of the Quinnipiac River, as an osprey shrieked warnings into the air.
Continue reading ‘Whirling Disease Strikes Fish in New Haven’
by | Feb 18, 2015 3:48 pm | Comments (1)
Two men were playing pool at Poor John’s Pub on Middletown Avenue Tuesday night when they got in an argument over a $5 pool debt.
by | Nov 4, 2014 1:57 pm | Comments (3)
The partisan warfare of Washington D.C. seemed a world away from New Haven’s Bishop Woods neighborhood, where a Republican candidate helped a leading Democrat make the connection she needed to hit polls around town.
by | Sep 15, 2014 3:30 pm | Comments (4)
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This time, no one could accuse Malloy of breaking his pizza vow.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy came to vote-rich Bella Vista bearing not only 30 boxes of pizza but two proposals to help keep seniors in their homes, plus one swipe at his opponent’s public-transit credibility.
Continue reading ‘At Bella Vista, Malloy Delivers Pie, Policy Promises’
by | Sep 8, 2014 11:07 am | Comments (0)
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Some 40 neighbors and relatives of three young Quinnipiac Meadows shooting victims gathered to march in the sweltering humidity Saturday in commemoration of three young Quinnipiac Meadows murder victims, and to raise awareness for the horrors of gun violence in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors, Victims’ Families Urge City To “Put Down the Guns”’
by | Sep 3, 2014 12:03 pm | Comments (8)
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HANH Deputy Director Sheila Allen Bell with DuBois-Walton.
The head of New Haven’s housing authority promised to help — and asked for the public’s help — after neighbors confronted her with complaints about crime-plagued developments, insufficient spot inspections and eviction of wrong-doers, plummeting property values and quality of life in the far northeast corner of the city.
by | Aug 6, 2014 12:24 pm | Comments (9)
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Frustrated over deadly violence, Quinnipiac Meadows neighbors Tuesday night pointed a finger at what they called a culprit: the housing authority.
Continue reading ‘Crime-Plagued Q Meadows Calls On Housing Authority To Do Better’
by | Jul 8, 2014 8:14 am | Comments (3)
The Board of Education won’t be able turn two properties on Runo Terrace into a parking lot for Quinnipiac School in Fair Haven Heights just yet, not before a full accounting of school construction costs.
Continue reading ‘Alders To Probe School Construction Costs’
by | Jul 7, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (7)
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Within seconds of parking their cruiser near the corner of Smith and Palmieri avenues, Officers Matt Wynne and Darryl Cargill had a hit.
“There it is,” Wynne said, as a silver Nissan Pathfinder rolled past a stop sign. Cargill stepped on the gas.