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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 13, 2017 8:51 am
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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.
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.
An already legendary 22-year-old stunt rider involved in controversial mass rides promised to keep doing wheelies and drifts and tire melts with his buddies on asphalt — but no longer on city streets.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 9, 2017 12:27 pm
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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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Christopher Peak |
Apr 25, 2017 2:06 pm
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After a man “fainted” in a barge hull being repaired in the Buchanan Marine shipyard, New Haven firefighters sped to the scene to execute a treacherous “recovery.”
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Lucy Gellman |
Mar 17, 2017 7:54 am
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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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Allan Appel |
Mar 10, 2017 1:11 pm
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A belated silver lining benefit from the destructive rage of Hurricane Sandy was delivered to neighbors in Morris Cove Thursday night: The design for the pier to replace the Fort Hale Pier, which that red-letter storm battered and destroyed back in 2012.
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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Allan Appel |
Apr 14, 2016 7:18 am
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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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Aliyya Swaby |
Mar 9, 2016 3:50 pm
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The owner of Libra Cafe lost her right to keep her restaurant open until 1 a.m. on weekends — almost a year after the zoning board allowed her to extend her hours.
In an era of union givebacks and losses, Sargent/Assa Abloy workers Monday voted 187 to 5 to approve a three-year contract that avoids a strike and keeps health benefits intact.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Dec 18, 2015 4:52 pm
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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.
Police retrieved documents from a firefighter’s locker as part of an investigation into whether he stole money from a 94-year-old woman he met on a call — allegations that led the fire chief Friday to put to the firefighter on paid leave.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Aug 18, 2015 10:24 am
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Juan Diaz, a onetime radio and TV journalist in Santo Domingo, brought a sense of performance to the kitchen as he fried green plantain to make mofongo.