Firefighters Rescue 3
by | Mar 19, 2013 8:38 am | Comments (3)
Firefighters rescued two adults and a child who had climbed out of a third-story window to escape a fire on Dixwell Avenue early Tuesday.
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Hyundai Dealer, Auto
Repairers Get Green Lights
by | Feb 27, 2013 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Guess & Colon at their Newhallville business.
Orlando Colon helped Abdulqawi Guess fix his car as a favor. Now he’ll help him fix cars for the public, since Guess got city permission to expand his Newhallville tire-repair business.
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‘Hyundai Dealer, Auto
Repairers Get Green Lights’
#10 Confessed
by | Feb 19, 2013 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Daniels, allegedly pictured at crime scene, was arraigned Tuesday.
He looked like the killer. A trusted person said he was the killer. Mike Wuchek thought he might be the killer. But he couldn’t be sure.
Charter School
Gets $7K Bounce
by | Feb 18, 2013 9:03 am | Comments (1)
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Rev. Eldren D. Morrison.
A Dixwell pastor’s dream of creating a neighborhood charter school is getting a boost with a $7,500 donation from a foundation associated with Achievement First and ConnCAN.
Engine 6 Tackles Nemo—Flake By Flake
by | Feb 10, 2013 5:36 pm | Comments (12)
Gardin prepares to hop off the truck to direct traffic.
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Firefighters “Noodles” Nardini, Allen, Bialecki, and Gardin wait to see if a tow and a plow can clear an intersection.
An ambulance was stuck in the middle of Shelton Avenue three blocks ahead. The fire crew would need to find an alternate route to reach an emergency carbon-monoxide call. Or at least get somewhere close enough to walk.
“If we don’t get by that [ambulance] up there,” Lt. Melissa Allen remarked, “we’re dead in the water.”
FBI Enhances
Dixwell Murder Footage
by | Feb 6, 2013 2:02 pm | Comments (0)
Detectives are hoping someone will take a good look at a new batch of photos — and help them find the man who shot a Dixwell grocery clerk to death.
Web Guy Takes On Yelp
by | Feb 5, 2013 3:33 pm | Comments (10)
Greg Morehead didn’t feel satisfied when he sampled online restaurant reviews — so he cooked up his own dish.
Keitazulu Has His
Top Hires In Mind
by | Feb 5, 2013 12:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Build two new vo-tech schools. Bring back Petisia Adger as police chief. Install Jorge Perez as superintendent of schools.
Helene Grant To Remain
Closed Through Wednesday
by | Feb 4, 2013 9:05 pm | Comments (0)
Officials announced that Helene Grant School will be closed an additional day — Wednesday — while they prepare a new temporary home for the students and teachers.
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‘Helene Grant To Remain
Closed Through Wednesday’
New Top Cops For Dixwell,
East Rock, & Newhallville
by | Jan 23, 2013 5:36 pm | Comments (4)
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East Rock and Newhallville, meet Lt. Ken Blanchard. Dixwell, meet Sgt. Sam Brown. They’re your new “district managers,” or the top cops in charge of your neighborhoods.
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East Rock, & Newhallville’
Man Murdered At Market. 2011 Case Solved
by | Jan 22, 2013 5:12 pm | Comments (21)
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On the same day police announced they’d solved an old murder, a new one occurred.
Off Screen, Ex-Cotton-Picker Marks The Journey
by | Jan 22, 2013 8:50 am | Comments (4)
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Tanaya Brown serves Jaynes at Hillhouse inauguration party.
Hillhouse seniors served the pizza slices for Inauguration Day. Willie Mae Jaynes served up a slice of living history.
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Elks Fight Foreclosure
by | Jan 4, 2013 12:56 pm | Comments (11)
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Exalted Ruler Jorge Lopes.
In December, the Elks celebrated 105 years in New Haven and hosted dozens of kids at its annual Christmas party. That same month, an ominous sign appeared on the lawn of the Dixwell African-American fraternal organization’s home.
Kwanzaa Feast
Lights Up Dixwell
by | Dec 24, 2012 9:26 am | Comments (0)
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Reggie Coleman scored an MPG3 player, skateboard, and a WWII model airplane to build and paint. But the best present of all was that his dad was out of jail and at Wexler-Grant school to see Reggie score straight As in the first marking period.
Father’s Day Comes Early
by | Dec 14, 2012 12:44 pm | Comments (3)
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Terrance Gray left his barbershop with seven customers waiting. He had a much more important place to be: with his “baby,” marking the effort he’s making to serve as a strong male role model in her life.
Irreplaceable Irrita
by | Nov 26, 2012 1:13 pm | Comments (0)
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City elderly services chief Pat Wallace sent in this photo and write-up.
Popeyes Gets Its Drive-Thru
by | Nov 22, 2012 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Customers at the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on Whalley Avenue will be able to order a bucket of grease to go, now that city planners have OK’d plans for a new drive-through.
Dougie Does His Route
by | Nov 21, 2012 2:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Brown, Bethea, and Yun.
“She’s been going through a lot lately,” Douglas Bethea said as Rhea Brown exited Mid‑K Beauty Salon clutching her bag of turkey and groceries.
“Dougie, I love you man” she said. “Thank you for everything.”
Varick Readies New School,
New Sanctuary, New Homes
by | Nov 12, 2012 12:33 pm | Comments (0)
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The Varick Deaconness sings Sunday.
Amid foot-stomping gospel hymns and a stem-winder sermon on how not to be your own worst enemy at the precipice of the Promised Land, one of New Haven’s oldest black churches announced its newest initiative: creation of a new pre-K‑4 independent school to be called Booker T. Washington Academy.
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‘Varick Readies New School,
New Sanctuary, New Homes’
Clyde Mack Raps
by | Oct 24, 2012 12:49 pm | Comments (0)
Dixwell-bred rapper Clyde Mack took a break from recording to rap without a beat — about how he claims that local rappers are “maturing” and collaborating rather than beefing.
$50M Winchester Ave. Project Advances
by | Oct 18, 2012 2:20 pm | Comments (7)
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Shattered windows overlook a manicured courtyard at Higher One.
Science Park appears on its way to becoming a place where people live, not just work, as a developer plans to tear down two of its empty old factory buildings to make a parking lot for 158 new loft-style apartments. It has dropped retail from the plan and left room for tenants who have two cars.
Alejandro & Virginia Get The House
by | Oct 12, 2012 11:09 am | Comments (3)
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The Sampedro/Cruz family, from left: Vanessa, Nancy, Betzabeth, Virginia, Alejandro, Jessica.
Betzabeth Sampedro will get her own room — and her mechanic father Alejandro will spend some of the money he saved up to renovate a neighborhood eyesore — now that the city has picked winning bidders for two abandoned houses.
Kids Practice
Their Walking Beats
by | Oct 3, 2012 4:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Tianni Robbins knew that to be safe you walk with an adult, stick to the crosswalks, look both ways, and wear bright clothing like her shiny pink coat and glowing green boots. She didn’t know that if you have to walk in front of a big truck, drivers can’t see little kids if they’re close to the bumper.
Grandma’s Mugger Didn’t Get Far
by | Sep 21, 2012 2:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Officer Matt Williams got one of the biggest rewards that can come from doing his job right: two words from a 67-year-old woman who’d been traumatized outside the front door of her apartment by a gun-wielding PCP head.
Knock, Knock
by | Sep 13, 2012 8:25 am | Comments (2)
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Rev. Boise Kimber and fellow ministers plan to knock on doors Saturday not for a voter drive, but to recruit African-American men to set their kids’ sights on college.