by | Jul 29, 2010 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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As Rudy’s bar prepares to leave its home of 76 years this weekend, staff removed the wooden carvings on the walls for safe keeping — and revealed a mysterious image from the past.
by | Jul 9, 2010 1:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Federal stimulus dollars were put to use this week at Howard K. Hill Funeral Home, where Akayla McKinnie learned to adorn a casket with a gold name plate.
by | Jun 23, 2010 7:48 am | Comments (1)
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Fifteen graduates of the Montessori School on Edgewood entered a final procession Tuesday, then heard about another graduation they’re expected to attend in 17 years. Underclassmen (pictured above) donned robes and joined the procession, too.
by | Jun 22, 2010 7:46 am | Comments (43)
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Leo “Big Daddy” Vigue is throwing in his bar towel after 50 years, as his storied watering hole moves to a more upscale location on Chapel Street.
by | Jun 9, 2010 2:24 pm | Comments (2)
Some 5 to 8 percent of Whalley Avenue merchants can’t read. Kids no longer can sound out words because no one teaches phonics. And the only caregiver one neighbor could afford, her aunt, had her charge watching too much TV, so the child may not have been ready for kindergarten.
by | May 7, 2010 11:06 am | Comments (13)
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New Haven is preparing to sell a Dwight apartment complex to a Fairfield County developer who faces allegations of negligence, fraud, and building leaky condos in Bridgeport.
Continue reading ‘City’s Co-op Savior Has Troubled Track Record’
by | Apr 22, 2010 4:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Even though Bobby Ewing would still like to return to “the old days,” when tenants like him owned Dwight Co-Op Homes and the complex resounded with the voices of little kids, he plans to stick around to see what happens when the classic modest-income co-op gets turned over to a private developer.
Continue reading ‘City Finds Potential Buyer For Dwight Co-Op Homes’
by | Mar 31, 2010 12:08 pm | Comments (26)
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Bulk food runs? PeaPod delivery? Shuttles to the suburbs? Days after Shaw’s supermarket closed, neighborhood leaders brainstormed new ways to get food to Dwight.
by | Mar 25, 2010 11:01 am | Comments (3)
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Families at Ethan Gardens met their new landlord for the first time and got a taste of new rules — and a new day — coming to their failed former co-op.
by | Mar 24, 2010 8:22 am | Comments (2)
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A police cruiser in pursuit of a man with a gun hydroplaned briefly out of control at around 6 p.m. in the rain Tuesday at the corner of Day and Chapel.
by | Mar 23, 2010 11:05 am | Comments (34)
The produce section is no more. The meats are long gone. Four aisles are shut down completely, and the rest hold only a random assortment of items.
by | Mar 18, 2010 5:07 pm | Comments (3)
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When the feds move forward with a foreclosure on the Dwight Street co-op complex, the city is ready to buy the property — if it can find a developer for the apartments.
by | Mar 10, 2010 12:57 pm | Comments (4)
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After 40 years of paying the bills, Bobby and Scarlett Ewing and their neighbors were ready to burn the mortgage and own their co-op complex. Instead the feds are about to foreclose and hand it to someone else.
Continue reading ‘On Verge Of A Dream, Co-op Faces Foreclosure’
by | Mar 10, 2010 9:01 am | Comments (16)
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Neighborhood leaders channeled fear and concern over losing the Whalley Avenue’s Shaw’s supermarket into the beginnings of a citizen-driven marketing drive to lure a new store to town.
by | Mar 3, 2010 3:23 pm | Comments (4)
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Subject One wore an unzipped gray sweatshirt. Blue jeans with a rip in the left knee. Black Nikes. A blue Superman cap with a frayed rim.
Subject Two? She had a gray sweatshirt, too. Thin build. Black hair. She was typing on a computer.
by | Mar 3, 2010 12:28 pm | Comments (28)
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Dwight is going through an “unexpected, horrible divorce” — with a supermarket. So Linda Townsend-Maier told neighbors at a standing-room-only gathering. It was clear that she will not make this “emotional journey” alone.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Mourns, Looks Beyond Shaw’s “Divorce”’
by | Mar 3, 2010 8:33 am | Comments (29)
“We are Ward 8!” came the victory cry when a diverse team of vote-pullers helped incumbents beat back a challenge in Wooster Square and East Rock, as Democrats elected new neighborhood leaders citywide Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Wooster Square Team Survives Primary Challenge’
by | Mar 2, 2010 1:59 pm | Comments (2)
Leading New Haven ministers took turns singing to the heavens — and helped raise over $20,000 to combat AIDS in the process.
by | Feb 18, 2010 12:44 pm | Comments (15)
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No one votes. Shaw’s is closing. Neighbors are losing homes and jobs. Sounds like a job for … Democratic ward co-chairs?
by | Feb 15, 2010 5:56 pm | Comments (74)
Jesse Hameen II stopped by Shaw’s supermarket on Whalley Avenue to pick up some groceries. Six weeks from now, he may have to trek out to the suburbs to get his apple cider, zucchini, and tofu “ice-cream” bars.
by | Feb 11, 2010 12:23 pm | Comments (8)
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Barack Obama’s election was the first 44-year-old Willie Bellamy ever voted in. His regard for the 44th president is so passionate he collects Obama-phernalia from comic books to posters to cups to trains, including a sheet of stamps from Liberia honoring Barack Obama. Price on each stamp: $45.
by | Jan 25, 2010 8:38 am | Comments (5)
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Disabled former soldier David Ross lived quietly with his cat, Taco, in a rundown Chapel Street apartment house. Then a multi-alarm fire destroyed his home and drove him into the street with just the clothes on his back and a camera bag.
by | Jan 14, 2010 4:10 pm | Comments (12)
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As her grandson headed to prison, Cassandra Waller wondered aloud whether his sentence would teach him anything — or just put him closer to the criminals he got caught up with one fateful spring night.
by | Jan 8, 2010 1:08 pm | Comments (25)
Two pizzerias will shut their doors earlier than usual tonight. In the wake of a late-night double-shooting, the neighborhood’s top cop asked them to help him defuse a dangerous mix of “booze, girls, guns, and bad blood.”
by | Dec 24, 2009 12:24 pm | Comments (3)
Three weeks ago Glendalis Gonzalez returned home to find her building surrounded by fire trucks. She lost everything in the flames.
Her family just got it all back, and more — thanks to cops and neighbors who hustled in time to transform the Gonzalez Christmas from a time of desperation to a celebration of community love.