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Allan Appel
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Oct 4, 2013 10:20 am
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Pastor Valerie Washington frequently tells the story of how David calmed Saul’s agitation — some interpreters call it mental illness—with the playing of his lyre.
In a storefront church on Whalley Avenue, her little congregation is putting that into practice: making a big noise for God through a practical and spiritual ministry that comforts hurting people with the healing power of music.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Oct 2, 2013 12:07 pm
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Willie Hoffman lays out the plan.
Edgewood Park’s natural splendor helped draw Juliet Avelin’s family to leave Vermont’s green mountains and relocate in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood. Then the news of an assault made her family start avoiding the park.
On Tuesday, she and her neighbors began the process of taking the park back.
SCSU students who worked on the Edgewood Park clean-up, along with Sgt. Renee Forte, Officers Elizabeth White and Allyn Wright, and LCI Specialist Nick Licatta.
Friends of Edgewood Park’s Jon Miller sent in the following write-up about a clean-up in Edgewood Park:
In small amounts litter is a nuisance, but when it accumulates into the kind of massive eyesore that recently developed in Edgewood Park, it becomes a serious threat. The mounds of garbage along Chapel Street had become a blight that was turning people away from the park. And fewer people means more problems, which means still fewer people — a vicious cycle.
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.
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!
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jul 1, 2013 12:02 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel
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Jun 17, 2013 8:18 am
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Oct 19, 2012 4:56 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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.
