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)
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After a $300,000 overhaul, a revamped Edgewood Park duck pond is ready to welcome migrating terns, herons, egrets, alewives — and one lucky turtle.
by | May 2, 2012 4:25 pm | Comments (0)
Police responded to a report of a sexual assault at the corner of Whalley and Winthrop avenues around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday.
by | Mar 22, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Emergency workers made a sad discovery Wednesday night: A 33-year-old woman may have been dead a day or longer while her little daughter was with her in the apartment.
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‘Mom's Body Found;
4-Year-Old Was With Her’
by | Mar 8, 2012 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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The Purim crowd at Beth El Keser Israel (BEKI).
The carnival-like atmosphere of the Jewish holiday of Purim was on display at synagogues in town as the one-day celebration began Wednesday night. People of all ages donned costumes to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who helped her fellow Jews overcome a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian Empire.
by | Jan 10, 2012 9:28 am | Comments (5)
Police returned to the scene of a home invasion — this time, with a search warrant.
by | Dec 1, 2011 6:16 am | Comments (17)
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In the wake of a reported assault of a yeshiva student on Thanksgiving, a New Haven rabbi has called upon the mayor for action — and raised the prospect of restarting armed citizen patrols in the Edgewood neighborhood.
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by | Nov 8, 2011 6:01 pm | Comments (11)
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(Updated with final results) Edgewood voters might have thought they kicked Alderman Marcus Paca out of office in the Democratic primary — but they found him back at the polls again, asking again for their vote.
by | Oct 16, 2011 9:40 pm | Comments (2)
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The driver of an apparently speeding truck plowed into a car, then rammed into a lovingly rehabbed house in the Edgewood neighborhood Sunday night.
by | Oct 11, 2011 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
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As Jews across town put the finishing touches on backyard “sukkot,” Yeshiva of New Haven was instructing students on the finer points of one of the year’s most enjoyable Jewish holidays — including (in photo) inspecting a citron (“etrog”) that plays an important role.
by | Oct 7, 2011 2:33 pm | Comments (4)
The driver of a stolen car sped away. Police Capt. Leo Bombalicki had no idea where the driver had gone. But he had a hunch where he’d return.
by | Oct 4, 2011 6:47 am | Comments (1)
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Anat Weiner sent in these photos and the following write-up about an event at the Holocaust Memorial on Whalley Avenue. Click here and here for previous stories and background about the memorial.
by | Sep 23, 2011 3:13 pm | Comments (10)
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The kids skateboarding at Edgewood Park won’t have to cross Whalley to grab potato chips to snack — once the apple and cherry trees Semi Semi-Dikoko and his neighbors plant this weekend mature and bloom.
by | Sep 8, 2011 1:32 pm | Comments (54)
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After two weeks of sleeping in the basement to avoid the din of trucks slamming over the speed hump outside his house, Matthew Katz can finally move back upstairs.
by | Aug 25, 2011 5:18 pm | Comments (38)
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Officer Jillian Knox was making her rounds in the Hill when a “hysterical” woman flagged her down. The woman, who had just witnessed a murder, pointed out a fleeing triggerman in a black SUV.
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‘City Sees Year's 23rd
Homicide; Suspect Arrested’
by | Aug 19, 2011 8:26 am | Comments (22)
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Police found a man shot to death lying near two abandoned bicycles shortly after midnight.
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‘Faces Hid By Hoodies,
Gunmen Kill 20-Year-Old’
by | Aug 1, 2011 12:05 pm | Comments (15)
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Edgewood Park won a national election to get a new fruit orchard — by close to 10,000 votes more than the next closest community.
by | Jul 14, 2011 4:41 pm | Comments (1)
An Edgewood Avenue grandmother is fearing for her safety, after bullets flew inside her house while she and her young grandchildren slept.
by | Jul 12, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments (1)
It’s not often that the night air of Edgewood Park is filled with a crowd’s shouts of “Tequila!” Monday was one of those nights.
by | Jul 5, 2011 1:19 pm | Comments (7)
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Or the profits?
by | May 26, 2011 1:43 pm | Comments (3)
Somebody killed Ryan Barnaby, the 34-year-old man found near the duck pond in Edgewood Park night night, according to the state’s chief medical examiner.
by | May 25, 2011 4:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Sgt. David Guliuzza taped off the crime scene Tuesday.
If the man found in Edgewood Park Tuesday was a suicide victim, the gun he used may have been taken from the scene after his death, said Assistant Police Chief John Velleca.
by | May 24, 2011 4:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Sgt. David Guliuzza stretched crime scene tape across Chapel Street.
Neighbors reported a shot in the park at 9:30 p.m. Monday. Police found a body more than five hours later, and were still searching for evidence the following morning.
by | May 22, 2011 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy of Yeshiva of New Haven
Flames leapt to the sky in Edgewood Saturday night — and there was no need to call the fire department.