by | May 10, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Ruiz pitches at Westville/West Hills.
The app in real time.
Finding out information about your local political representatives could get a lot easier thanks to a new phone app created by two homegrown developers.
by | May 9, 2019 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Lindquist.
Six neighborhoods will learn two new words this summer and fall: “tactical urbanism.”
The hope is the term will help make their communities safer to bike and walk.
by | May 6, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (1)
An Augustine Street man was accessorized to ride his Harley Davidson with heated pants and jacket and gloves — until someone made off with the hot items.
by | May 6, 2019 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
Janet Warner
Carry Us Away Again.
The buildings in the middle are New Haven’s downtown, there’s no doubt about it. But now the downtown has become an island unto itself, floating off into a gray sky, trailing vines and tree roots as it rises. Carry Us Away Again, artist Janet Warner’s portrait of the Elm City, feels weighty in one sense — it’s New Haven as sanctuary city, New Haven as an oasis. But there’s also no denying the fun in the image, its surreal playfulness.
That combination runs rampant throughout “2020,” Kehler Liddell’s latest show — running through May 26 — which challenged 47 artists to take that titular number and tell us what it meant to them.
by | Apr 29, 2019 4:01 pm | Comments (0)
A scammer first stole money from an Austin Street woman through a phony “Cash App,” then doubled the take through a Google Play gift card transaction.
by | Apr 22, 2019 3:50 pm | Comments (3)
Two pit bulls — one white, the other white and brown — ran into a man’s Pond Lily Avenue backyard.
The white and brown pit bull did the killing. The same dog killed the man’s rabbit last year. But this year the dog got caught, by New Haven Animal Control.
Meanwhile, the police department’s bomb squad also got to detonate a Japanese World War II grenade found in a resident’s garage.
Top Westville /West Hills/ Amity/West Rock/ Beverly Hills cop Lt. Rose Dell details this incident and other crimes in her latest weekly summary of notable police calls.
Her summary follows:
by | Apr 19, 2019 2:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Roosevelt’s at 883 Whalley Ave.
A large local real estate company is the new landlord of a half-dozen commercial buildings and vacant parking lots at the heart of Westville, including the former home of the long-shuttered 500 Blake Street Cafe.
Continue reading ‘Ocean Management Acquires Perrotti Westville Properties’
by | Apr 16, 2019 11:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Amity Stop & Shop strikers during picket duty Tuesday.
Manganello and St. Clair.
Personal stories from the picket line.
by | Apr 15, 2019 4:42 pm | Comments (6)
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In one hand he had his cell phone, with mom on the line for shopping advice. In the other hand was a handout with a Westville rabbi’s admonition against crossing a picket line to buy food for the Feast of Freedom. His basket was empty.
There David stood amid walls of macaroons, white fish, and grape juice in Aisle 13 of the Amity Stop & Shop, pondering the fifth question added to this year’s traditional Passover four questions: To buy? Or not to buy?
Continue reading ‘Let My Matzah Go: Stop & Shop Purchases Deemed Not Kosher For Passover’
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.
Continue reading ‘At Least 2 People Want To Serve On Civilian Review’
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.
Continue reading ‘Three Artists Reconnect At Kehler Liddell’
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.
Continue reading ‘Children’s Services Agency Eyes Westville Village Move’
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.
Continue reading ‘Guns Found In Blanket; Market Hit Again; Crash At The Car Wash’
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.