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Wolcheski on Whalley.
A neighbor called Sgt. John Wolcheski to let her new top neighborhood cop know that cars had been regularly blowing through the stop signs at the intersection. So Wolcheski parked his squad car just off the intersection of Percival and Carmel streets.
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Rabbi Greer
Hundreds of thousands of dollars might be flowing in to Rabbi Daniel Greer’s Edgewood neighborhood institutions — or they may be flowing out — or both, depending on the trajectories of two new filings.
Continue reading ‘Greer’s Housing Corporations Added To Sex Abuse Lawsuit’
by | May 11, 2016 7:55 am | Comments (0)
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Miller.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio give a teary sendoff to one of New Haven’s top cops, pursue new solutions for old cities, and look at the newly conserved and reopened Yale Center for British Art.
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Rabbi Greer.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Rabbi Daniel Greer — who revived a declining neighborhood and has publicly crusaded against gay rights, prostitution, and coed university dorms — of repeatedly raping and molesting students at his yeshiva at Elm and Norton streets.
by | Apr 18, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (2)
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Refugees prepare family plots at MLK Peace Garden in the Hill, one of 17 community gardens swept clean this weekend.
Eileen O’Donnell, 72, fixes Chapelseed’s compost bin.
“I’m glad to be here — and lucky,” Walter said as he busily screened compost into a wheelbarrow. “My father did gardening for a living. He worked on estates; I work on community.”
by | Apr 14, 2016 7:32 am | Comments (28)
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Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Olivia Martson inspect the proposed cycletrack design.
New Haven’s city engineer found a way to please opposing sides in Westville with an updated plan to build two-way protected bike lanes — then moved on to absorb a different flavor of public feedback up Edgewood Avenue in Dwight.
by | Mar 31, 2016 4:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Miller shares laugh with his kids, Chief Esserman and mentor Spell.
Top Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills (aka “WEB”) district cop Lt. Makiem Miller has many sides. He’s the guy who mentors at-risk kids, but won’t let them beat him at paintball. He’s also the smiling face that both cops and the community look to in tense situations.
by | Mar 8, 2016 8:24 am | Comments (9)
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James Street developersSalinas and O’Brien, at right, with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes and City Hall’s Matt Smith Monday night.
The Board of Alders gave final approval to a deal to transform the defunct CT Transit bus garage on James Street, and it gave the OK for the city to accept a $1.2 million grant to advance bike ridership on the west side of town.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK “DISTRICT” Deal, Cycle Corridor’
by | Jan 21, 2016 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
UI plans to have power returned to the homes of some 1,700 west side New Haveners by 2:15 p.m., according to company spokesman Mike Foley.
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Proposed Edgewood lanes.
State money may be on the way to help New Haven offer a protected bike commute from the west side of town.
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To the extent that Cyclo-cross racers live to race in challenging conditions, Sunday’s 2015 Elm City CX Finale race at Edgewood Park, could not have been more different from last year’s inaugural race, when snow squalls covered trails and riders reveled in the extra challenging conditions.
Continue reading ‘300 Cyclocross Racers Navigate Formidable Course’
by | Jul 14, 2015 4:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Exiles from the sudden closing of Daggett Street Square studios in the Hill, which left a huge hole in New Haven’s artistic community, have moved into or are playing at shows in the Edgewood neighborhood, filling, note by note, a void that many still feel acutely.
Continue reading ‘Daggett Exiles Find Musical Shelter In Edgewood’
by | Jun 19, 2015 2:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Finishing what they started: That is the reason three alders gave the people gathered in a field behind Augusta Lewis Troup School to support them for another term.
by | Jun 19, 2015 12:34 pm | Comments (15)
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Chair Peralta with Alder Evette Hamilton.
Cops and fed-up neighbors found agreement about the dirt-bikers that have revved back onto the streets this spring: Both sides are tired of the mayhem.
Continue reading ‘Whalley, Edgewood Neighbors Press For Dirt-Bike Relief’
by | Jun 4, 2015 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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“Saving the Sound” means, in part, working on the waterways that run through New Haven.
by | May 18, 2015 11:45 am | Comments (0)
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United Illuminating crew members started felling trees in Edgewood Park Monday — a day after nature started the job for them.
by | May 12, 2015 8:26 am | Comments (0)
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The “WEB” — Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hills — police substation will have no physical home of its own for at least three months.
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This locust tree has another week to remain standing — before it and a couple of dozen other orange-tagged aboreal Edgewood Park denizens get the axe.
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Ominous clouds and the threat of rain didn’t hold back the people gathered at Edgewood Park for a walk. It just meant they had to walk a little faster.
by | Mar 31, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (7)
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New substation site.
It began with accusations of “rewarding” a “slumlord” with city money. It ended with a hug, and promise to ensure that a rundown stretch of Whalley Avenue will get cleaned up.
by | Mar 26, 2015 8:22 am | Comments (4)
Everything is coming up bioswales on West Park Avenue.
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Albert Miller started the work week picking up leftover holiday trees, as planned. Then came a call from Edgewood Avenue.
by | Feb 19, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (1)
With the blessing of the City Plan Commission, the Whalley police substation is on the move — two blocks east, next door to Minore’s Meats.
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 19, 2015 4:46 pm | Comments (1)
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Kyle Walker tested out the ice in Edgewood Park’s duck pond — then fell through. Pete Callan grabbed a sled and a “noodle” to save him.