by | Sep 5, 2013 2:48 pm | Comments (15)
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When he saw a “now hiring” sign outside a new fast-food pizza joint near his house, Andre Earl got in line and waited over an hour for a minute-long interview.
by | Aug 31, 2013 9:56 pm | Comments (1)
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Firefighters rescued two women early Saturday morning as flames gutted the three-story house where they rented apartments.
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by | Aug 7, 2013 10:53 am | Comments (0)
The Community Action Agency sent in this write-up about a recent planting project:
Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) joined forces with the Whalley Avenue Special Services District (WASSD) to beautify Whalley Avenue from downtown to Blake Street with barrels and planter boxes filled with colorful flowers!
by | Aug 2, 2013 1:12 pm | Comments (48)
Police are investigating three possibly related attacks on people by teens on bikes in and around Edgewood Park.
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by | Aug 2, 2013 9:47 am | Comments (36)
In the wake of a group attack on a jogger by Edgewood Park, a top cop is urging people to take precautions while exercising in public.
by | Jul 1, 2013 12:02 pm | Comments (4)
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A new inkberry bush took root at the corner of Ellsworth and Edgewood avenues, the latest of 16 years of plants that have shown up on Edgewood Avenue thanks to a gang of local gardeners.
by | Jun 17, 2013 8:18 am | Comments (4)
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Aldermanic musketeers Walker, Douglass, Hamilton.
Their wards overlap. They can practically signal to each other from their houses, which are not more than five blocks apart. Their issues overlap too: public safety, jobs, and youth opportunities.
So the three first-term Democrat aldermen — West River’s Tyisha Walker, Dwight’s Frank Douglass, and Beaver Hills’ Evette Hamilton — decided to join hands Friday afternoon to announce the kick-off of their reelection campaigns. As a team.
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by | Apr 3, 2013 4:57 pm | Comments (31)
NRA instructor Eugene Kenny would have joined his fellow gun-rights supporters at the state Capitol Wednesday — if he hadn’t accidentally shot himself in the foot.
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by | Mar 9, 2013 8:59 pm | Comments (0)
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It felt like spring Saturday, but one hearty snow leprechaun was holding on to his bearings on Ellsworth Avenue.
by | Mar 1, 2013 9:12 am | Comments (5)
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A reader sent in this photo of a snow sculpture still standing strong on Ellsworth Avenue Thursday as much of Nemo’s powder faded into memory.
by | Feb 20, 2013 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
Wingate, center, with Robinson-Thorpe, at right.
A city planner came to Beaver Hills and Edgewood neighbors with a pitch — help us imagine how the whole city should look
by | Feb 1, 2013 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
Police are looking for two men accused in a violent robbery outside Goodfellas Restaurant on State Street that left a 60-year-old woman with a head injury.
by | Jan 28, 2013 1:37 pm | Comments (0)
Someone shot out the window of a school bus with kids inside.
by | Nov 7, 2012 1:44 pm | Comments (1)
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It probably started with a blow torch, then spread along the vines, surmised Steven.
by | Oct 31, 2012 3:44 pm | Comments (1)
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Nobody ever wounded Marquis Smith when he served his country in Iraq. Someone did successfully aim at him on Mischief Night — and the Army vet may never see out of his left eye again.
by | Oct 19, 2012 4:56 pm | Comments (0)
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After a fire tore through an Edgewood Park pavilion, a city building official determined that the bulk of it is salvageable — but part of it will have come down.
by | Oct 19, 2012 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
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There was smoke, but no fire, in an Elm Street house Thursday night. Lots and lots of smoke.
by | Oct 19, 2012 12:08 am | Comments (2)
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Firefighters Thursday night doused a fire that caused heavy damage to a 40-year-old building in Edgewood Park.
by | Sep 24, 2012 2:13 pm | Comments (21)
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Sandra McKinnie with public defender Maggie Castinado Monday.
As family and friends watched on in support, a New Haven woman appeared in court Monday on charges of stealing money from a second political campaign — this time a local race for alderman.
by | Sep 24, 2012 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photo
In the end, only one tag remained on the pyramid where skateboarders soar to glory. “SCSU Helping Hands,” it read. And handprints surrounded it.
by | Aug 28, 2012 4:07 pm | Comments (2)
A man in a baseball cap played an unwitting starring role in a video in an Edgewood neighborhood driveway — shortly before thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and electronics disappeared.
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by | Jul 30, 2012 8:54 pm | Comments (0)
Police closed down Winthrop Avenue south of Whalley around 5:30 after a blue Lincoln Continental collided with a Grand Cherokee, sending the Cherokee’s 24-year-old driver to the hospital.
by | Jun 16, 2012 10:02 pm | Comments (1)
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As two black leaders reflected on a past barrier to black freedom, they saw a current threat — not white supremacist’s lynchings, but black-on-black violence.
by | Jun 3, 2012 3:46 pm | Comments (1)
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Young Westvillian Eva Heitmann helped plant blue iris.
She raised her eyes from her labors when someone called out, “It looks like planting rice in Southeast Asia!” But Stephanie FitzGerald knew very well where she was: Staking holes in the mud to insert Joe-Pye weed and other shallow water plants in the newly marshy meadow of the restored Edgewood Park Duck Pond.
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‘Joe-Pye & Boneset Herald
A New Day At Duck Pond’
by | May 16, 2012 2:06 pm | Comments (8)
Thomas MacMillan Photos
After a $300,000 overhaul, a revamped Edgewood Park duck pond is ready to welcome migrating terns, herons, egrets, alewives — and one lucky turtle.