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Nov 27, 2015 9:34 am
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Partners Bengtson and Valente.
From the car parked in the shadow of West Rock on one-way Stone Street, the smell of marijuana drew the attention of Officers Mike Valente and Pat Bengtson.
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David Sepulveda |
Nov 23, 2015 4:44 pm
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Owner De Los Angeles.
Sitting at a quiet table in Westville’s Manjares Cafe, architect Eric Epstein found the perfect prescription for his long day of demolition work and fierce hunger in a hearty bowl of sancocho moca — a corn on the cob stew of plantain, yucca, chicken, beef, pork, and mixed vegetables, into which he toppled a scoop of fluffy white rice.
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Nov 23, 2015 3:19 pm
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When you’re the tallest person in the room, as former Indiana Pacer and Detroit Piston Dale Davis often is, you get a lot of questions about your height.
Maruo-Sheridan’s seventh and eighth-graders didn’t disappoint.
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Alessandro Powell |
Nov 19, 2015 1:13 pm
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“Can you remember the best Christmas ever?” asked Mike Miglietta, aka noise artist Parlay Droner. “How about the worst?”
Noise for Toys, an outgrowth of Drink Deeply’s Elm City Noise Festival, is set to ring in the Yuletide spirit on Friday at Lyric Hall in Westville, where the festival’s proud parents, Margaret Milano and Miglietta, celebrated their engagement earlier this year.
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Lucy Gellman |
Nov 18, 2015 8:09 am
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Wisdom at “Fashion On9.”
Neville Wisdom had done it hundreds of times, the steps running on loop through his head. A clean cut through skin and muscle would expose the skull. Four tiny burr holes would come next, helping to create a white window of bone.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 16, 2015 2:30 pm
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Jacobson: We’re on it.
After some success at catching out-of-town bikers coming to New Haven to illegally ride dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets, cops are turning up the heat on local, joy-riding lawbreakers.
Getting a head start on Halloween, puppet-bearing Westvilleans young and old descended on Whalley Avenue and surrounding streets and made quite a scene.
They also brought sacks to Edgewood Park and started hopping.
Videographer Travis Carbonella caught all the action.
The first time Christine Casinghino walked into Lena’s Cafe and Confections in Westville, the restaurant was up for sale, and she had a feeling that it was calling out to her as a prospective buyer. So she bought a sandwich, headed back to her office downtown, and then decided to make the plunge into restaurant ownership.
Esra Tara Naamani had to enlist people in high places to get Bank of America to take $215,000 — and then to get inside a “zombie” mansion the bank was allowing to rot.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 23, 2015 10:43 am
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Dakoulas: “We’re not the mall.”
Alex Dakoulas could have set up his shop of carefully curated, indie accessories, retro finds and oddities in any remotely hipster-friendly neighborhood from Baltimore to Boston.
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Markeshia Ricks & Paul Bass |
Oct 22, 2015 4:12 pm
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Water flowed anew through a a 30-foot wide opening in the Pond Lily Dam — along with visions of a reclaimed West River where fish and wildlife flourish alongside human recreation.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 19, 2015 3:04 pm
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The wind gusted. The temperature dropped. Snowflakes even fell. None of that diminished the smiles and cheers of printmakers and onlookers as a steamroller proceeded down a closed-off street and giant woodblock prints were peeled away from layers of padding to reveal freshly rolled relief images in all their black-and-white glory.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 19, 2015 7:57 am
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Responding to a barrage of complaints, a 17-year veteran of New Haven’s 911 call center told Westville neighbors the public has been heard — and enlisted their help.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 19, 2015 7:15 am
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Lawlor with one of the new basins that drain into the bioswale.
Soon, not only will books return to Westville’s Mitchell Branch Library. Water will return to the earth in greater volumes (pun intended) on the library grounds.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 16, 2015 12:37 pm
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“374 Orchard Street,” mixed media collage and graphite on paper.
Bank and credit card statements. Stocks and bonds certificates. Dollar and twenty-dollar bills, barcodes, maps of Connecticut. The insides of security envelopes, in which — if you have been unlucky, overextended, or financially duped — you might have received a foreclosure notice.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 14, 2015 8:46 am
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The plan for the Whalley building.
The Board of Zoning Appeals gave the OK a plan to decrease parking at the former Westville Wines building on Whalley Avenue and did so without adding any strings.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 30, 2015 12:13 pm
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8-year-old Luis Rivera, upper left, got the mayor’s lesson.
Luis Rivera liked the part where the hungry soldiers returning from war tricked the peasants into contributing a hidden carrot, potato, and other good stuff to cook up, literally, a new culinary creation: tasty stone soup.
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Sep 23, 2015 8:43 am
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Westville neighbors living near the intersection of Chapel Street and Central Avenue were awakened in the wee hours of the morning not by an alarm, but the sound of a driver crashing into cars parked along the street.
The former home to Westville Wines won support from the City Plan Commission for an proposal to transform the Whalley Avenue property into a new six-unit retail and office space — with a caveat.