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Dirt Biker Hobbles Home

by Thomas Breen | Jun 12, 2019 5:11 pm | Comments (52)

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Christian Marrero recuperates in his aunt’s Newhallville walk-up.

The scene of the May 30 crash.

Christian Marrero lay on the couch with a broken arm and leg and lacerated organs, playing video games with his younger cousin as his aunt chided him for acting so recklessly — and thanked God that her nephew survived a grisly dirt bike crash.

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Drill Torch Passed At Freddy Fixer

by Thomas Breen | Jun 2, 2019 6:48 pm | Comments (4)

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Douglas Bethea and his daughter Shatea Threadgill.

The Fusion Steppers at Sunday’s parade.

Tiny athletes with the Walter Pop Smith Little League.

This year’s Freddy Fixer Parade Sunday ended in tears … of joy, as Nation Drill Squad and Drum Corps leader Douglas ​“Dougie” Bethea passed the baton to his daughter after three decades at the helm of the multiple national championship award-winning team.

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Top Cops Confront Concerns In Newhallville Walk

by Allan Appel | Apr 29, 2019 12:21 pm | Comments (20)

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Newhallville District Manager Lt. Manmeet Colon with newly badged Briella Adantor.

Two happy little girls received badges and became junior police officers. A couple of moms took applications for the Police Athletic League summer camp, and several said the police gesture was positive yet also made pleas for more programs for young people.

Meanwhile, one longtime activist also said not a single police officer is trusted in Newhallville except the district manager. One young woman called the whole parade of police brass and other officials, after a police-involved shooting, ​“pathetic.”

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Neighborhood Development Plan Sought

by Thomas Breen | Apr 29, 2019 7:06 am | Comments (26)

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At work on Audubon Square, downtown.

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LCI chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and deputy Rafael Ramos testify.

Don’t forget neighborhoods.

Alders issued that plea at a public hearing to the city’s economic development team as they pushed for a boom-era strategy for attracting new construction and jobs beyond Downtown.

At the same hearing, a city official made the first public pitch for a plan she said would do just that for Newhallville.

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Probable Assault Crime Cited For Search

by Thomas Breen | Apr 25, 2019 5:29 pm | Comments (23)

State detectives established probable cause for searching for evidence of first-degree assault in a case where a Hamden police officer and a Yale police officer shot at two unarmed people in Newhallville, according to a search warrant application.

The document contains other new details about the explosive incident, including reports of interviews with a man at whom the officer shot, and with a newspaper deliverer who accused the man of attempted robbery.

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Cop Video Released; Hamden Never Told New Haven It Was Crossing The Border

by Thomas Breen | Apr 23, 2019 3:00 pm | Comments (22)

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State police Tuesday afternoon released video from the camera worn by a Hamden police officer as he fired bullets at two unarmed people in a car in New Haven’s Newhaville neighborhood.

It showed the officer firing directly into the passenger window of the car. Meanwhile, the state’s police commissioner revealed that Hamden failed to notify New Haven police that an officer was crossing into town to confront a suspect and that a Yale police officer who also fired his gun did not turn on his body camera.

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Newhallville Celebrates Women Who Point The Way

by Thomas Breen | Mar 27, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (1)

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Claudine Wilkins-Chambers, Robyn Porter, and Delphine Clyburn honored by “Pearls For My Girls” Lincoln Basset 5th grade students.

From Mayor Toni Harp to State Rep. Robyn Porter to Florida women’s health advocate Byllye Avery to Chicago television phenom Oprah Winfrey, local and national female icons alike were lauded as part of a Newhallville student-led celebration of Women’s History Month.

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JROTC Declares Mission Accomplished

by Mallorie Madden | Mar 27, 2019 7:28 am | Comments (1)

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Mallorie Madden, a 2nd-grade teacher at King-Robinson, submitted the following article about her school’s collaboration with another district high school:

It has been students teaching students in New Haven, as Hillhouse High School JROTC cadets have been working with elementary students at King/Robinson Inter-District Magnet School: An International Baccalaureate STEM School.

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All Eyes On Prison Reform

by Brian Slattery | Mar 11, 2019 4:18 pm | Comments (3)

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Children Looking Inside and Outside Prison Walls.

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Artist Deborah McDuff at opening of ConnCAT’s mass incarceration exhibit.

Each of the faces of six children is distinct and unique. But each of them stands for something, too. Each of them is wearing a heartbreaking expression, the kind no parent ever wants to see on a child’s face.

Only one is being consoled. It’s unclear that it’s helping.

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