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Neighbors Explore Homemade Traffic-Calming Fixes

by Allan Appel | Mar 4, 2020 5:23 pm | Comments (1)

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Paul Vercillo pointing to the “death trap,” the intersection at Quinnipiac Avenue and Hemingway Street.

“Shhhhh, drive slowly. The oysters are sleeping.”

Would a sign with that slumbering shellfish sentiment slow you down if you were tearing down Quinnipiac Avenue?

Or, if you hadn’t a clue about local history and industry, would it just evoke a big question mark in the brain, perhaps a moment of distracted head-scratching, and a harder foot on the accelerator?

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Heights Pitched On New Traffic-Slowing Measures

by Allan Appel | Jan 9, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (5)

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Looking north on Quinnipiac Ave from East Grand.

The city has found $1.8 million for traffic-calming measures for speed-plagued Quinnipiac Avenue north of Grand Avenue to Foxon Boulevard.

Neighbors are glad to hear that. But as witnesses to repeated accidents and near-misses, they say they can’t wait the years for that money to move through the pipeline and improvements be implemented.

So they are proposing a spate of temporary, low-cost measures in the meantime.

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Flood-Plainers Get Plain Talk On Preparation

by Allan Appel | Jan 8, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (5)

A worst-case flood would cause an estimated $15 billion in damage to 1,901 acres in the city’s most flood-prone neighborhoods with 3,689 people and 1,550 buildings, 162 of them historic and five critical facilities.

So it might be time to purchase flood insurance from FEMA, provider of these stats. If you do, you’ll get a 15 percent discount because we as a city rate high in preparedness and public education on the subject.

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Missing Toddler’s Father Arrested

by Eugene Driscoll | Dec 5, 2019 1:56 pm | Comments (0)

Anyone with information on Vanessa Morales (pictured) should call police at 203 735 1885.

The search for a missing 1‑year-old girl from Ansonia continued Thursday as the girl’s father was held in jail in New Haven after an arrest on weapons charges.

The arrest was made after Ansonia police served a search and seizure warrant on the man’s residence in New Haven’s Fair Haven Heights neighborhood.

Police conducted the New Haven search in connection to ​“an ongoing Ansonia homicide investigation,” according to an incident report written by New Haven Detective Elizabeth White. The Ansonia police are currently investigating the homicide of a woman thought to be the 1‑year-old girl’s mother.

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Suspected Dealer Crashes, Escapes

by Thomas Breen | Nov 13, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (0)

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Burgundy Buick’s front grille after a car crash at Clifton Street and Quinnipiac Avenue Monday night.

City police officer Jocelyn Lavandier was working an extra duty shift outside the C‑Town Market in Fair Haven when she saw the passenger of a nearby burgundy Buick roll a marijuana cigarette. She also smelled ​“the odor of unburnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle.”

That was the start of a six-officer, four-minute pursuit of the suspected drug dealer’s vehicle across the river and into Fair Haven Heights — ultimately resulting in a non-fatal car crash on Quinnipiac Avenue, and no arrests.

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Rosa Makes The Sale

by Allan Appel | Nov 5, 2019 9:03 am | Comments (8)

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Elicker with DeLauro at Bella Vista

Longtime Democratic activist — and Bella Vista tenant association vice president — Patti DiPalma was leaning toward the party’s young mayoral nominee, Justin Elicker.

But she wasn’t quite sure yet he would give him her vote Tuesday morning.

She listened to Gov. Ned Lamont and to U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and to City Clerk Michael Smart, and to a host of others Democratic Party leaders urge her to select Elicker. She remained undecided.

Then she listened to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro. That made the difference.

DeLauro, DiPalma said, is like family.

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Heights Hopefuls Target Housing, Speeding

by Allan Appel & Thomas Breen | Sep 6, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)

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Wallace, right, with voter Leroy Reddick on Lexington Avenue.

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Rosa Ferraro at an alder hearing.

Speeding, speeding, speeding tops the agenda of the Democratic challenger vying to be the next Fair Haven Heights alder, while the ward’s incumbent has her sights set on boosting affordable housing for homeless youth and on fixing broken sidewalks and paving cracked streets.

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The Cops Didn’t Shoot

by Paul Bass | Aug 9, 2019 1:35 pm | Comments (23)

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Officers Brandon Way and Donald White had to make an instant decision — to shoot or not to shoot — in a dark parking lot.

Two bits of advance work helped them keep everyone safe without pulling a trigger: Way knew his way around the parking lot. And Officer David Santiago and his partner knew a man across town who watches his block — and likes to talk football.

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Ethics Board Clears 2 Conflict Cases

by Thomas Breen | Jun 10, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (4)

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Board of Ethics member Roger Wilkins, counsel Kathleen Foster, and chair Leslie Arthur.

The sister of a city employee has no conflict buying a city-built two-family house, since that family relationship appears to have no bearing on the pending transaction.

Same goes for the husband of a city employee who has applied for a city architectural contract unrelated to his wife’s work.

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Cops Focus On McDonald’s To Foil Drag Racers

by Allan Appel | Jun 5, 2019 1:23 pm | Comments (1)

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The McDonald’s at 225 Foxon Blvd. on Route 80 — a state road that is also the busiest in the city — has two other distinctions:

• It has become the staging area for late-night drag racing that every summer perennially plagues the Quinnipiac Meadows area of the city,

• It was the scene of an astounding 100 accidents last year alone.

That’s why changes might be in that location’s future. Changes like stationing an extra-duty late night cop stationed at the eatery and installation of a divider to prevent eastbound hamburger-hunters from from cutting off I‑91 Exit 8 mergers onto the road.

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