by | Apr 15, 2019 12:33 pm | Comments (0)
It took just a minute.
On Green Hill Terrace, a woman left her car idling, ran inside to grab paperwork — and returned to find the car gone.
At Pizza Heaven, an employee left her car idling, went back inside to grab an order — and returned to find her car gone.
by | Apr 12, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (3)
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James Bhandary-Alexander …
… and Dennis Serfilippili, who plan to apply to serve on the new CRB.
Westville/West Hills will be able to forward the applications of at least two people who want to be appointed to the city’s new Civilian Review Board.
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by | Apr 10, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
Julie Fraenkel
The Visit.
One figure reclines on the ground, head thrown back. The other hovers, impossibly, in the air above the first. Their only points of contact are the delicate hands of the one doing the hovering, and their lips, making contact. Julie Fraenkel’s The Visit is playful and poignant, and one of many highlights of “Re: Connecting,” a show at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville that finds, as the title suggests, works by three artists — Fraenkel, Liz Antle‑O’Donnell, and Matthew Garrett — connecting with one another in formal, thematic, and emotional ways.
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by | Apr 8, 2019 7:57 am | Comments (3)
A Marvel Road man said he never really intended to shoot his neighbor. He was just fed up with the feces on his property, and he lost it.
by | Apr 3, 2019 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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At rehearsal for Edgewood School’s upcomimg production of the play Madagascar, the students knew their lines, knew the songs, knew where they were supposed to be on stage. They had the dance routines together, the choreographed moments, even an effect that gave the impression of large shipping crates sliding from side to side in the hold of a boat tilting in the ocean — because an animal was now at the wheel.
by | Apr 1, 2019 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
A burglary inside an unlocked Cleveland Road garage, a suspicious check sent to Fountain Street, and a theft of a running car left unattended on West Hill Road led to a series of “professional tips” from a top cop.
by | Mar 27, 2019 12:42 pm | Comments (22)
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Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker listens to Westville neighbors during a fundraiser …
… organized by Betsy Schulman and Amy Marx.
Justin Elicker lost by 1,800 votes the last time he faced Toni Harp in an election. And back then, she wasn’t even the incumbent. Now, she’s a three-term mayor with access to a powerful GOTV apparatus and deeper campaign pockets.
How does Elicker plan to win this time?
by | Mar 25, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (1)
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Cops made another gun arrest a west side motel this past week, this time at the Regal Inn, and caught up with an alleged liquor store robber with an affinity for Amsterdam Vodka nips at the Three Judges Motel.
by | Mar 22, 2019 12:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Dylan Kuhnhenn is a budding actor. Sam Powell is known for throwing great Super Bowl parties. Jessica Wills is the star of an illustrated book.
All three have Down Syndrome and have found their independence through the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center.
by | Mar 18, 2019 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Children’s Community Programs of Connecticut’s COO David Abrams and Gretchen Test.
Artist Lesley Roy’s Westville Village studio may also become the future home of the Children’s Community Programs of Connecticut.
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by | Mar 18, 2019 7:54 am | Comments (1)
Robbers hit Westville Quality Market again, and officers responded to “found object” calls recovered six marijuana plants in Amity and a 12-gauge shot gun and a rifle wrapped in a rifle in a blanket on Fitch Street.
Meanwhile, a conveyer belt malfunction led to a bumper-bender at the car wash.
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by | Mar 11, 2019 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
A man was standing in his driveway at 2:23 a.m. when he saw a Buick Lacrosse speed by, cross lanes, then crash into a retaining wall and flip over.
by | Mar 7, 2019 12:50 pm | Comments (1)
Jonathan Wilner
Under the El.
In one sense, the scene in Jonathan Wilner‘s painting Under the El is very quiet. Three figures each occupy their own space in a wide, vaulted hallway. They don’t seem to acknowledge each other. We can’t even discern their faces. The action is all in the architecture. Maybe the columns are encrusted with decorations. Or maybe they’re liquifying, flowing upward into the ceiling. The whole place is melting into the sky, and the three people in the painting don’t even seem to notice.
by | Mar 6, 2019 8:40 am | Comments (3)
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New Haven felt a little closer to New Orleans Tuesday night as revelers converged on Mitchell Library during the annual Mardi Gras fundraising celebration for the New Haven Free Public Library.
by | Mar 4, 2019 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
Four men disavowed any connection to the marijuana paraphernalia found in their car; a trio robbed a pizza delivery driver; and Officer William Gargone tracked down a burglar who’d been caught on a Willard Street home security camera.
Continue reading ‘Those Weren’t My Bob Marley Pure Hemp Rolling Papers’
by | Mar 1, 2019 6:08 pm | Comments (9)
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Veteran barista Nate Blair in his new joint.
Nate Blair knew that every neighborhood needs a hub, and Westville was no exception. With the opening of Cafe X, a new coffee shop on the corner of Whalley and Blake, he aims to create that hub.
by | Feb 28, 2019 3:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Christina Crowder.
Christina Crowder spends a lot of time conserving and preserving — music, and the environment.
by | Feb 25, 2019 8:41 am | Comments (0)
Police tracked down a thief and instead of making an arrest, made peace.
by | Feb 19, 2019 8:51 am | Comments (6)
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Determined special victims cops Lt. Renee Dominguez, Detective Leonardo Soto, Sgt. Mary Helland.
A serial rapist was preying on prostitutes on New Haven’s west end. The cops couldn’t get any leads on him. Until one of his alleged victims turned on her new phone — and saw her attacker’s face pop up in her Google Cloud photos.
by | Feb 18, 2019 8:32 am | Comments (0)
Two pit bulls got away. So did a driver who waved a gun at a traffic & parking employee. And a snow shoveler who swiped some DVDs and some cigs.
But police did track down two men who left the scene of a car collision. And got two different stories.
by | Feb 18, 2019 8:30 am | Comments (1)
Penrhyn and Rod Cook Photos
The Bite.
It’s a split-second full of energy, caught with the click of a camera — two zebras running at a full gallop, the first one right behind the second, hot on its tail. The zebra giving chase extends its neck, opens its mouth, and bares its teeth, as if to bite.
We don’t know the context. How long did the chase last? Did the bite actually happen? What was the cause? What we do know is both that it’s a far cry from the static portraits of zebras we’ve seen a million times over, or from zebras the vast majority of us see only in zoos, grazing, docile, tails switching. These zebras are doing something else entirely, and photographers Penrhyn and Rod Cook of PenRod Studio are showing us their lives — lives that are in danger.
by | Feb 13, 2019 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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“Snails taste with their eyes,” explained artist Martha Savage, who with fellow artist Molly Gambardella created Snail Market at West River Arts on Whalley Avenue in Westville.
Looking around the room, Savage’s metaphor seemed fitting. Every inch was filled with pieces of art and design — most of which were for sale.
by | Feb 11, 2019 8:41 am | Comments (4)
With the help of a quick-acting almost-victim, police caught a 34-year-old man at the corner of West Elm Street and Alden Avenue with a “a reusable shopping bag filled with stolen packages” from people’s porches.
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by | Feb 11, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (3)
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The Westville arts scene grew a little bigger with the opening of Chapel Haven’s new UARTS program and store in the heart of the village Friday afternoon.
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by | Feb 8, 2019 1:38 am | Comments (2)
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Julie Robbins cuts the ribbon on The Well for Women Thursday.
Women of the Elm City have a new haven where they can take off their superwomen capes and draw from a “well” that aims to restore them to fight another day.
Continue reading ‘Well Women’s Sanctuary Opens In Westville’