by | Mar 23, 2011 12:00 am | Comments (12)
Investigators had a line on an illegal gun trafficker. They arranged to meet him behind Butta J’s Cafe. The encounter went awry: A suspect allegedly tried to run over two cops, who then fired their weapons; a PT Cruiser smashed into a pole; and a foot chase led to the Farmington Canal Trail.
by | Mar 18, 2011 12:12 pm | Comments (1)
Police are asking people who know anything about a murder that took place in the Hill early Friday morning to call them at 203 – 946-6304.
by | Mar 3, 2011 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Celentano Museum Academy students join with NHPS teachers Matt Presser, Redell Armstrong and Akimi Palitz, and Marcus Strong from Yale University’s Black Men’s Union.
A group of seventh and eighth graders from Celentano Museum Academy were originally planning to spend their Saturday afternoon with friends at the mall. Instead, they spent it together at the Stetson Library. Credit the change of plans to President Barack Obama — not to mention Malcolm X, Phyllis Wheatley, and a range of other influential African-Americans.
by | Mar 1, 2011 8:10 am | Comments (9)
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Officer Rivera.
Officials locked down Wexler Grant School Monday afternoon as cops searched the neighborhood for two men who committed a robbery at Popeye’s.
by | Feb 23, 2011 12:51 pm | Comments (3)
When Stephanie Richards invoked the Holy Ghost from the pulpit in a small wood-paneled sanctuary on Dickerman Street, she was preaching. In a way, she was singing, too.
by | Feb 16, 2011 11:02 pm | Comments (17)
Two months after a murder at the same spot, bullets flew again at a Derby Avenue Dunkin Donuts, striking one person in the head and another in the foot Wednesday evening, according to police.
by | Feb 7, 2011 11:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Building Official Andy Rizzo, Asst. Chief Ralph Black, & Acting Battalion Chief John Shepa at the scene.
A 12-foot-high “veneer” wall collapsed onto the roof of the state armory on Goffe Street, forcing a partial evacuation of the jailhouse next door and prompting concerns about further damage.
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‘Firefighters Rush To
Armory Rooftop Collapse’
by | Jan 31, 2011 12:34 pm | Comments (5)
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Roofer Tim Schwink collided with an woman who then collapsed on Dixwell Avenue.
(Updated) Police Monday responded to 44 traffic accidents by 4 p.m. and were headed out to handle 12 more, thanks to continuing street problems connected to last week’s storm.
by | Jan 31, 2011 8:52 am | Comments (33)
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Carolyn Flint.
(Updated) Since the last week’s storm struck, visiting nurses had been unable for days to attend Carolyn Flint’s mother on narrow Edgar Street in the Hill — until a late-innings all-out push finally cleared the way.
by | Jan 28, 2011 6:06 pm | Comments (30)
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As a main Fair Haven traffic artery remained “a nightmare” for drivers a day after a snowstorm, aldermen from neighborhoods across town demanded answers from City Hall about New Haven’s handling of the historic mounds of white stuff. And a new explanation emerged for why some smaller streets went days without getting plowed.
by | Jan 24, 2011 12:09 pm | Comments (22)
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Where C‑Town shopping carts once rolled on Dixwell Avenue, Isee Greenwood wants to see teenagers roller-skating, doing homework, playing educational video games, and best of all, staying out of trouble.
by | Jan 13, 2011 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Lead Volunteer Melzetta Reed serves up daily lunch to Jeannette Green at the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center.
Seniors in Dixwell/Newhallville and the East Shore will continue to have access to affordable meat and potatoes beyond Feb. 1, after the city found a partial solution to sudden cutbacks to a state-run Meals on Wheels program.
by | Jan 6, 2011 6:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Ed Funaro stepped out of his Dixwell Avenue pharmacy on Wednesday to help a guy, who had just been shot in the arm, find his car keys.
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‘"Wild Man" On Sidewalk
Had Just Been Shot’
by | Dec 29, 2010 11:59 am | Comments (7)
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(Updated Thurs.) Daily deliveries of chicken and split pea soup are slated to end on Feb. 1, as the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center feels the impact of sudden cuts to a regional elderly nutrition program.
by | Dec 21, 2010 11:38 am | Comments (2)
A client creating a quilt, which she has sold.
Hill Health Center’s Susan Feldman sent in these photos and text about a program for homeless women. Participants are selling handcrafted goods, including shawls, brooches, and tote bags.
Homeless women in recovery from chronic illness, addiction and mental illness who attend the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center/Village of POWER, are learning entrepreneurial skills which will improve not only their holiday season but possibly their employment skills for the years to come.
by | Dec 16, 2010 4:52 pm | Comments (36)
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Ben Hunter.
Firefighters found the body of a beloved Dixwell basketball coach and youth worker in a second-floor bedroom. He’d apparently been dead for some time.
by | Dec 14, 2010 1:50 pm | Comments (17)
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On the brink of opening its doors once again, the abandoned Winchester factory at the crossroads of DIxwell and Newhallville bears the marks of years of abandonment. Wind whistles through broken windows, paint hangs from walls, and tiny mushrooms grow between floorboards.
by | Dec 10, 2010 8:51 am | Comments (2)
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The venerable local NAACP unveiled some new-media tools to attract young professionals like Sharece Sellem: a new website, a Facebook page, and, of course, tweets.
by | Nov 26, 2010 4:05 pm | Comments (7)
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Newhallville and Dixwell people who graduate from an upcoming environmental remediation training program have a good shot at snagging jobs on a major development project in their neighborhood.
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‘Winchester Redo Could
Mean Neighborhood Jobs’
by | Nov 25, 2010 9:56 am | Comments (1)
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Liz McCrae (at left, with patron Rita Osborne) is bringing Sister Cantaloupe to Dixwell for a post-Thanksgiving comedy show.
Did you hear the one about the pastor who’s a little too stylin’?
by | Nov 23, 2010 12:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Starting at 10 a.m. Monday, canned goods, boxes of stuffing,spices,cake, seasonings and bottles of water, along with 250 turkeys, poured out of the firehouse at the corners of Goffe and Webster. Between 5:30 and 6 p.m., all that remained were some bottles of water, a case of cake mix and a few cans. Plus stacks of empty boxes.
The Thanksgiving donations were collected by students at the Edgewood School and given away by the New Haven Guardians and the New Haven Firebirds, organizations representing black New Haven cops and firefighters.
by | Nov 19, 2010 1:01 pm | Comments (18)
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Two venerable city institutions are scouting new turf after a $1 million property transaction: Yale University and Pastor Martha Green.
by | Nov 19, 2010 9:11 am | Comments (6)
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City inspector Rafael Ramos (pictured) wasn’t tracking down slumlords on Thursday night . Instead, he was setting up tents on the Green, lickety split. He’s good at that, too, having had lots of practice taking 50 or 60 kids camping every summer for the past nine years.
The tents were needed for Tent City on the Green, the city’s third annual community event to raise money for homeless shelters.
by | Nov 12, 2010 3:06 pm | Comments (7)
A report came across the palm-sized Motorola radio transmitter on Juan Monzon’s left shoulder: An armed robber was in a car speeding east on Whalley Avenue with a pile of stolen CDs. Monzon hopped on his white Cannondale. He had a hunch where the car might be headed.
by | Nov 10, 2010 2:44 pm | Comments (7)
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Spruill formally signs the new group’s memorandum of agreement.
Bill Spruill has lived all his 75 years in Dixwell. He’d like to help revitalize the area — by returning it to the way it used to be, updated for the 21st century.