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Lt. Rose Dell |
Apr 22, 2019 3:50 pm
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 19, 2019 2:05 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 15, 2019 4:42 pm
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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?
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 10, 2019 7:40 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Apr 3, 2019 12:08 pm
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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.
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Lt. Rose Dell |
Apr 1, 2019 1:16 pm
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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.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 27, 2019 12:42 pm
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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.
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Lt. Rose Dell |
Mar 25, 2019 7:47 am
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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.
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Lt. Rose Dell |
Mar 18, 2019 7:54 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Mar 7, 2019 12:50 pm
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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.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 6, 2019 8:40 am
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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.
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Lt. Rose Dell |
Mar 4, 2019 2:03 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 18, 2019 8:30 am
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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.
