The Annex

Record Riot Sealed With KISS

by | Nov 13, 2017 8:51 am | Comments (1)

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Pat Prince edits Goldmine, a print and online magazine that caters to the vinyl and music collector. Once KISS took off their makeup, that was the end of them for a lot of people,” he said during one of many musical discussions people were having at a Record Riot” on Sunday at the Annex YMA Club Lounge and Hall on Woodward Avenue. Later on, New Haven musician Tim Goselin pulled the KISS album Animalize out of the stacks and smiled.

This was one of the ones that did it for me as a kid. I love their stuff from when they stopped wearing the makeup. I’m always looking for those records,” he said.

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Sound Down Around Tweed

by | Aug 7, 2017 4:30 pm | Comments (6)

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Larson and Makres in front of 109 Burr, with the airport behind.

If Kim Makres’s tidy beige ranch house were any closer to Tweed New Haven Airport, it would almost be on the runway.

Close as it is, it picks up 97 percent less noise than it used too from the planes landing and taking off perhaps 75 yards away. As for the cars racing by on Burr Street to catch those planes, she doesn’t hear a single engine revolution or the slap of a tire.

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Gulf Oil To Replace, Modernize Holding Tanks

by | Jun 9, 2017 12:27 pm | Comments (2)

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The existing tanks to be replaced.

In the coming months, expect to see some action down on the farm.

Make that the farm of oil tanks in the Port of New Haven, where Gulf Oil has announced the tearing down of three old oil-holding tanks and their replacement with a new, state-of-the-art 3.5 million barrel new one.

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Green Energy Powerhouse Seeks D.C. Help

by | Mar 17, 2017 7:54 am | Comments (4)

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Murphy tours GreenFuels plant Thursday.

A plant that turns vegetable oil and animal fat into millions of gallons a month of biodiesel fuel along New Haven’s harbor got a visit — and a promise of help — from one of Connecticut’s U.S. senators in a two-front threat: against competition from Argentina, and against eniornmental regulatory changes planned in Washington.

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Power(-Fighting) Couple Hits Streets Again

by | Apr 28, 2016 1:14 pm | Comments (8)

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Meyersons canvass for Sanders in the Annex on primary day.

Bill and Cathy Meyerson have worked for so many underdog political campaigns that they can’t begin to remember just how many. On Tuesday they were focused on on their latest quest: to help a democratic socialist from Vermont win Connecticut’s presidential primary.

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Redo Proposed For “Eyesore” Traffic Islands

by | Apr 20, 2016 7:36 am | Comments (2)

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The traffic island on Woodward at Conrad.

Beautify two Woodward Avenue’s two traffic islands by adding attractive plantings that can survive a steady diet of car exhaust.

Improve the access and paths for people in wheelchairs visiting the Pardee Sea Wall.

Create a place for the free exchange and sharing of books and magazines.

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The Detectives Are Coming

by | Apr 14, 2016 7:18 am | Comments (1)

Detective Pleckaitis and Det. Sgt. Gartner.

When the city’s management teams gather for their monthly meetings, there’s often a police officer present — usually the district manager — to provides the monthly report of crime stats and what to look out for.

Starting this month there will be a new — and additional — officer in each of the city’s ten management team meetings, with a more specific role: checking in on robberies and burglaries.

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Recycler’s Plan Sparks Green Debate

by | Dec 18, 2015 4:52 pm | Comments (2)

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Students Mohd-Khairi and Russell report to City Plan on airborne mercury near the harbor.

A recycling company’s request to take in packaging materials has some people arguing that that’ll help the environment by preventing burning or burying trash — and some neighbors claiming that pollution might actually increase.

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