by | May 26, 2015 7:42 am | Comments (8)
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Coming to residential avenues: a second “Snogo.”
Encourage neighbors to grab shovels to help an elderly Quinnipiac Avenue neighbor avoid a fine. Send a mega-snowblower to hit neighborhood streets, not just downtown. And have people move their cars first to the even side of the street — then maybe the odd.
Continue reading ‘With Summer Coming, City Gears Up For Snow’
by | May 15, 2015 4:12 pm | Comments (0)
Hooker eighth-grader Melissa Cisija was acting out again. Seated against a backdrop of her favorite possessions — a globe, rocking softly to and fro from its stony shelf, an eyeglass, and a fork, formerly known as a dinglehopper — she crossed her arms, shook her head, and glared at the audience before her.
“I just want to belong!,” she exclaimed.
by | May 15, 2015 2:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Seeing a white Highlander SUV blocking an Orange Street bike lane, Stephen Saladino hit the brakes. He dismounted his city-issued Fuji and whipped out his Zebra-brand ticketing device, which caught the attention of a man on the sidewalk.
“I own the store here!” the man announced. “My customers can’t park here?”
by | May 7, 2015 2:10 pm | Comments (1)
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“Give me an A,” Dan Shaw commanded from the wicker seat of a high-backed chair. “Come on, now.” It was a minute past eight o’ clock at night, and by his watch, rehearsal was already running too late.
by | May 1, 2015 11:41 am | Comments (0)
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“Here comes the sun!” an onlooker said. “We got the sun up.”
“We may not be responsible for getting it over the real horizon,” joked one of the members of New Haven Morris and Sword. “But we did get it over the mountains.”
by | Apr 30, 2015 12:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Firefighters at the crash scene.
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Peter Dobkin Hall, an East Rock preservationist known nationally as an expert on not-for-profit organizations, died early Thursday in a crash on I‑95 in Branford.
by | Apr 16, 2015 2:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Opening soon with a liquor license.
The zoning board prioritized relaxation Tuesday night, approving two downtown liquor license requests as well as a therapeutic massage center’s move to East Rock.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Theater And Sandwich Shop To Sell Alcohol’
by | Apr 10, 2015 2:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Another package disappeared from outside an East Rocker’s door. Thanks to a sharp-eyed citizen, Officer Matt Myers had information to work with.
by | Mar 20, 2015 12:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Gandleman at the zoning board
Elm City Wellness’s plans to move from State Street into a former law office at 770 Orange St. have won unanimous approval from the City Plan Commission.
by | Mar 12, 2015 12:36 pm | Comments (46)
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Harper: Townhouses will block “natural light.”
East Rock neighbors stalled developers’ plans to put five three-story townhouses on Anderson Street, claiming the townhouses would block their light and deny them privacy.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Neighbors Delay Five Townhouses’
by | Mar 11, 2015 10:44 am | Comments (1)
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IRIS’ current offices at 235 Nicoll St.
New Haven’s refugee resettlement not-for-profit is moving a block up Nicoll Street and getting twice the amount of space — and the use of an elevator.
by | Mar 6, 2015 9:32 am | Comments (2)
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The city’s chief librarian said the mayor’s proposed budget for fiscal 2015 will stabilize operations, but she could really use almost half again as much staff if branch operation hours are ever to go from about 31 hours a week to nearly 40.
by | Feb 17, 2015 5:07 pm | Comments (0)
The city is banning parking from 7 a.m. through 3 p.m. Wednesday in parts of Newhallville and East Rock to enable crews to remove mounds of snow blocking the road. Violators may be towed.
Continue reading ‘Parking Bans Wednesday In Newhallville, East Rock’
by | Feb 1, 2015 3:01 pm | Comments (2)
Jose García orchestrated 300 individual chicken wings bubbling away in the seven-basket fryolator for 15 minutes. He gave each basket ten deft shakes a minute so the vegetable oil parboiled them evenly. Then out they went to the refrigerated truck in the parking lot to await saucing.
They joined what in the end will be — count ‘em — 25,000 individual wings, 360 pounds of cut celery, and 17 five-gallon buckets of Buffalo wing sauce, which will fill about 1,000 Super Bowl orders at Archie Moore’s between 11:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Asked if he could reveal what’s in the wing sauce, longtime manager Jim Wooley thought deeply and then replied, “No.”
Continue reading ‘Archie Moore’s Wings It For The Super Bowl’
by | Jan 30, 2015 9:49 am | Comments (2)
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As the national touring company of the latest Broadway production of Matilda forms up for its debut at the Shubert Theatre this spring, the talented second-graders at the Worthington Hooker School on Canner Street made their own contribution, a Matilda spin-off production.
by | Jan 28, 2015 5:02 pm | Comments (22)
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DeCarrone plans to hand off her coffeeshop to Oricchio, at right.
Back in the mid-1990s, not long after I had moved to New Haven from New York City, I was sitting at Lulu’s European Coffeehouse enjoying a mug of her high-test, low acid brew when the eponymous hero of the shop sat down and shoved a sheaf of crumpled papers at me. “This is my friend’s writing,” she said. “You simply must read it.”
by | Jan 28, 2015 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Oricchio serves one of the last pastries, a chocolate croissant.
David Oricchio was nearly out of “carbs” by 2 p.m. Tuesday — no “pastries, bagels, bread”; just a container of Trader Joe’s plain yogurt, some Irish oatmeal, and three day-old scones.
Still the customers kept coming.
by | Jan 27, 2015 5:38 pm | Comments (4)
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A crowd of onlookers gathered to watch the maiden voyage of the Snogo — one of New Haven’s new monster snow trucks — on Church Street Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Dave Lawlor maneuvered an old-school eight-foot plow down Anderson Street more smoothly, and a day earlier, than he would have after storms in years past.
by | Jan 27, 2015 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
A past year’s entrant.
A massive snowfall means … it’s time for another New Haven snow-sculpture contest.
by | Jan 16, 2015 9:00 am | Comments (6)
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The 45th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love March launched from Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church on Lawrence Street under fair skies, and chilly, but warming temperatures. If history is a guide, the march would have launched under stormy skies as well.
by | Dec 29, 2014 1:40 pm | Comments (22)
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From left to right: Shahnan, Ahmad, Akbari, Samad, Noori.
Reza Noori risked his life working as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now a refugee living in New Haven, he faces a different battle — one he said he fights with little help.
Continue reading ‘Afghan Refugees: IRIS Misuses Resettlement $$’
by | Dec 15, 2014 4:27 pm | Comments (18)
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Asked how long the State Street Bridge has been closed, Mezcal Restaurante Mexicano’s gregarious owner, Ricardo Trejo, rolled his eyes and sighed. “I’ve lost track of time,” he said.
Continue reading ‘State St. Bridge Debacle Nears $30M, & Counting’
by | Dec 10, 2014 5:46 pm | Comments (0)
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East Rock neighbors will soon be able to do their jogging at mActivity, a newly approved high-end gymnasium on Nicoll Street.
by | Dec 8, 2014 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Tim Shortt, New Haven’s new “teacher of the year,” chose an unusual way to get his second-graders to learn about the 50 states: He sends them on “mystery Skype” dates with people across the country to divine their residence through savvy geographical queries.
Continue reading ‘Vet-Supply Salesman Morphs Into Teacher Of Year’
by | Dec 1, 2014 12:54 pm | Comments (6)
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Decorative tile and wood trim.
Standing amid the soaring ceilings and architectural splendor of the 19th century Anderson Mansion, Shmully Hecht vowed to prevent a “crime” — by reviving the East Rock treasure.