Officers Matt Stevens and Jocelyn Lavandier: Restrain & detain.
The man ran from the cops, through traffic, to the edge of the bridge. He was out of control. He turned, grabbed a dark object from his waist, pointed it directly at an officer.
New electricity, new plumbing, new kitchen, new bingo board and sound system.
Add to that new noise-attenutating ceiling-borne panels that look like flying sculptures.
Throw in new flooring, windows, lights, furniture, carpeting, and a paint job of such bright wall colors that Margie Staggers, who is partially blind, can take delight in them.
Rick Vieira and Paul Bronson stood in front of the empty, gleaming storage cabinets that have recently been installed at the Fair Haven police substation on Blatchley Avenue.
In a few months, they said, the cabinets will be empty no longer, but filled with, for starters, non-perishable food to distribute to up to 150 Fair Haven families in need.
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Feb 28, 2018 9:23 am
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Federal court on Church St.
In between sentencing five brothers who sold heroin, a federal judge had to figure out what to do with “Carlito,” the user who sampled the wares to assess the potency of each shipment.
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Feb 20, 2018 8:46 am
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Pettway and Riggins.
Damon is a drug dealer and a robber, but a scholar too. He reads academic treatises in his spare time, it turns out. It’s enough to surprise former revolutionary Kenyatta Shakur. First they trade street talk. Then they trade ideas. Shakur has been out of the fight for decades. “We need soldiers like you out here now,” Damon says.
Then they start talking about Nina. Kenyatta’s estranged daughter. Damon’s girlfriend. Nina has letters that Kenyatta and her mother Ashanti wrote to each other while Kenyatta was in prison, letters that a lot of academics want to get their hands on now that Ashanti has passed. Letters that Kenyatta wants even more than they do. Problem is, he needs to somehow reconnect with Nina to get them, and there’s a lot of hurt in the past to get through first.
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Feb 9, 2018 2:45 pm
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Principal Cordero flanked by the university mascots.
“Boola! Boola!” dozens of students in Yale T‑shirts shouted as the bulldog mascot danced around them in Fair Haven School’s auditorium Friday morning.
The students don’t attend Yale — at least not yet.
They are students of the K‑8 school. And they were engaged in an annual ritual aimed at gearing them to recite college fight songs as college students one day. Only they weren’t Yale students. Close to 850 students and hundreds of parents packed Fair Haven School’s auditorium on Friday for the 9th Annual Snowball. The Snowball is a yearly event where students perform dances and recite the fight songs of ten different Connecticut colleges, including Gateway, University of New Haven, Quinnipiac, and of course, Yale. The purpose of the Snowball, according to Sharon Arnold, is to get kids excited about colleges and encourage physical activity. Students danced choreographed dances in front of a screen that played images of each school, as well as statistics about the schools, including admissions rates and size of the student body. At times the students were joined by mascots and cheerleaders.
“Light the Night” fixture on Poplar Street, near Patriot Marine’s about-to-open business.
Three blue light telephones are on order by the police department and will soon be installed at darkened Fair Haven intersections where nighttime trouble often occurs.
Add some bright new fixtures leased from the electric company by a new, community-minded business down by the river.
Toss in more surveillance cameras, and re-positioning older ones, and the result: Fewer bad behaviors in public places.
Longtime James Street resident Rose Vega Bradley called it “an explosion.”
What it was: A drunk driver losing control, leaping the curb, and crashing on a street where residents are becoming increasingly alarmed about speeding.
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Feb 5, 2018 7:07 pm
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A ghost gun available on the Internet; below, Harp, lawmakers at Church on the Rock.
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Lawmakers Monday gathered in a Hamilton Street church in a quest to stop people from turning their guns into automatic weapons and stop people who shouldn’t have access to guns from building them at home.
Built on a foundation of small intimate gatherings, the show has been gaining in popularity and interest. So Husdon decided to let in more people than usual this time. “I’m a community guy,” he said. “I just want people to come together.”
Inside 150 Sargent, proposed new primary care site.
Tens of thousands of New Haveners next year will receive basic health care in a new spot with an experimental approach — if state and federal regulators say OK.
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Jan 9, 2018 2:27 pm
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Deymar was excited to get his hands on Trouble at school Tuesday. A classmate, who got a remote control helicopter, wasn’t as sure he would get to enjoy his gift.
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Jan 8, 2018 3:44 pm
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Martinez teachers hatch plans.
Within two months, seventh-grade students at John S. Martinez School will construct walk-through planetariums from cardboard and plastic — an ambitious engineering project that will cap off the next academic quarter’s new teacher-developed curriculum.
New Haven has a long history of sizable businesses that closed their doors or pulled up stakes and moved elsewhere. So why not build local businesses from the ground up that are friendly to the environment, provide good jobs, and are unlikely to leave?
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Dec 12, 2017 9:33 am
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Anthony Allen and Michelle Stronz, the founders of A Tipping Point (ATP), at Monday night’s meeting.
A new not-for-profit committed to economic development with a social impact is looking to convert a vacant industrial building near the Mill River into the new home for a brewery, a coffee roaster and an indoor mushroom farm.
NHFPL Director Martha Brogan with Eliezer and son Pablo Cruz.
Young Marty Looney remembers being so absorbed in biographies of Babe Ruth, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Lou Gehrig that he forgot the time and his mother had to come and haul him home to Wolcott Street for dinner.