by | Apr 6, 2015 4:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Pizza was the hot topic for two New Haven entities that recently added chef’s classes to their menu of offerings, part of marketing strategies aimed at growing business and community participation in a challenging economy.
by | Apr 3, 2015 4:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Actually, it was soon to be hot out of the oven … as sundown approached Friday, launching the eight-day Jewish festival of Passover, and Pablo Cruz was busy preparing fresh matzah at a Westville synagogue.
by | Apr 2, 2015 12:01 pm | Comments (21)
Pilgrim: I’ll sue.
One morning a cop raced to respond to a domestic violence incident on Hemlock Road in upper Westville. He broke down the door to what proved to be the wrong residence— and unwittingly touched off an ongoing dispute between the city and the home’s owner.
by | Mar 30, 2015 12:08 pm | Comments (6)
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West-siders weren’t interested in pie-in-the-sky changes to the neighborhood in the next decade. They wanted practical changes, like the arrival of a neighborhood grocery store.
Continue reading ‘Westville, West Hills Envision The Next 10 Years’
by | Mar 25, 2015 4:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Ninth Square fashion designer (by way of Jamaica) Neville Wisdom is taking his design studio back to where it all began for him — well not exactly that far back. He’s heading back to Whalley Avenue in Westville Village, where he first owned a boutique in 2008, to expand his studio.
by | Mar 24, 2015 12:34 pm | Comments (8)
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Coach Steve Itkin reviews batting fundamentals.
Walter Pop Smith, the baseball little league that has provided opportunities for New Haven’s children to enjoy the national pastime since 1952, is about to change.
by | Mar 20, 2015 12:27 pm | Comments (0)
Mark St. Mary
“Pattern Study 2504,” archival photographic print.
One photographer names two of his abstract compositions “Pattern Study #23061” and “Pattern Study 1008.” Another gives specifics: “Catwalks, Baldwin Bridge, Old Saybrook” and “Abstracted Reflections on Water.”
Which is better for the viewer?
Continue reading ‘Artists Compliment, Complement At Kehler Liddell’
by | Mar 16, 2015 4:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Albert Miller started the work week picking up leftover holiday trees, as planned. Then came a call from Edgewood Avenue.
by | Mar 13, 2015 3:00 pm | Comments (13)
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Next up: a super-CVS?
In the wake of Cumberland Farms’ failure to win support to rebuild on upper Whalley Avenue, CVS has begun wooing neighbors with a plan to build an expanded pharmacy with more grocery space and a drive-thru.
Continue reading ‘A 2nd Chain Seeks To Build On Busy Corner’
by | Mar 13, 2015 11:08 am | Comments (6)
The police provided a fuller report about the robbery and home invasion in Westville that occurred Wednesday, including the facts that the victim had been tied up during the incident and the robbers stole money and a gun.
Continue reading ‘Home Invaders Tied Up Woman, Took Cash & Handgun’
by | Mar 13, 2015 8:16 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Talbot: Tom Talbot was right this time.
Neighbors made use of a little-known appeals process to try to overturn a zoning staffer’s decision — only to have the staffer write a subsequent opinion to uphold his own decision.
The episode brought to light a still-to-be-resolved question about how the city’s zoning board reviews public appeals.
by | Mar 4, 2015 1:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Watching the last of the birds flap around the gymnasium and a few remaining animals with long ears take a seat, their lobes still hanging low, Laura Adam prepared to welcome another wonder of the animal kingdom to the Davis Street School. In her best impression of Ogden Nash, she read:
Continue reading ‘Braving The Winter, Animals Take Westville By Storm’
by | Feb 24, 2015 4:01 pm | Comments (26)
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John Cavaliere doesn’t want Lyric Hall to be added to a growing list of places in New Haven that used to be — but a five-figure back-taxes bill threatens to lower the curtain on the Westville cultural gathering place.
Continue reading ‘Historic Westville Theater Faces Foreclosure’
by | Feb 23, 2015 9:07 am | Comments (10)
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Elizabeth Novicki worried that a 30-foot-high city tree was going to fall on her house. She had reason to.
When the tree fell, Novicki (pictured) was lucky to have escaped injury — and be able to say to the city government: I told you so.
Continue reading ‘Woman, 92, Begged City: Please Cut That Tree!’
by | Feb 17, 2015 5:16 pm | Comments (3)
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James Bell and Mekhi McCray play foosball in the new rec room.
A fire turned into an opportunity to remake Edgewood Park’s Coogan Pavilion into a brighter, more colorful public space with more rooms for kids to have fun.
by | Feb 16, 2015 3:26 pm | Comments (8)
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The copper thief confessed to hitting homes all over town. That meant Detective Joseph Aurora’s investigation was just beginning.
by | Feb 11, 2015 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Jack Paulishen, an award-winning teacher at James Hillhouse High School, didn’t mince words: “As some of you know, I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma this past August, and part of me knows that I would not be getting this award if I didn’t have cancer. Having said that, if I was running this fundraiser (which I have in the past) I’d give me an award too. (Who wouldn’t buy a $25 ticket for a guy who has cancer? LOL.)”
by | Feb 2, 2015 9:34 am | Comments (1)
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John McGowan said he wasn’t particularly interested in the outcome of the match-up between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. At least not at first.
by | Jan 28, 2015 2:38 pm | Comments (10)
In the back, a bacon-and-cheese pizza was in the work. In the front, a reelection campaign.
by | Jan 28, 2015 2:24 pm | Comments (4)
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11-year old Sophie and 8‑year-old Jacob had a little more snow shoveling power left in the tank. Little sister Esther was ready to pack it in.
by | Jan 19, 2015 1:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Brackeen, at left, with neighbors at the organizing meeting.
To start a block watch in New Haven you don’t need a lot of meetings, or even an official OK from the police department. You need a strong commitment to know and keep in touch with your neighbors, and a desire to look for suspicious activity.
by | Jan 18, 2015 4:43 pm | Comments (1)
Officers John Lalli and Dwight Calderon figured they had tracked down Westville’s frozen-fish thief. Then a dead critter slipped out of some trousers — and they knew they had their man.
by | Jan 14, 2015 1:10 pm | Comments (1)
Joy Bush
“Water Bird”
Beanie Babies have returned and landed in Westville.
by | Jan 9, 2015 2:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Barbara Riley, the only woman to head Westville’s private Hopkins School in its 355-year-history, has announced that she will step down at the end of the next school year.
Continue reading ‘Hopkins School Leader Stepping Down In 2016’
by | Jan 2, 2015 9:26 am | Comments (5)
On the front lawn of the Marvelwood Drive home of Ted Baldwin and Barbara Geller, a young giraffe stretches for food. Nearby, its towering parent surveys the landscape.
Continue reading ‘Lawns Transformed Into Sculpture Galleries’