Holder-Winfield campaigns for state senator in Westville Sunday.
Gary Holder-Winfield watched his mother die a slow painful death over four years in the hospital. That helped convince him to embrace a controversial bill coming up in the state legislature — to allow physicians to help terminally ill patients take their lives.
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David Sepulveda |
Feb 7, 2014 2:21 pm
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Even before its completion, “Snowbama,” my latest snow-day creation, began to stop traffic. Motorists exited their vehicles to snap pictures, fodder for their Facebook and Twitter feeds.
“Is that Obama?” one driver asked as the work began to take form..
“No, it’s Snowbama!” I yelled back, wondering if my caricature of the president, whom I’ve always supported as a voter, would ever achieve a respectable artistic likeness.
Pipsqueak the diamondback terrapin, who has spent her seven years advancing the science curriculum, will remain. So will the NASA space suit, the bearded dragon and Rosie the tarantula.
The woman who brought all those aspects of the world to the 567 kids in her school, meanwhile, will leave the building.
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David Sepulveda |
Feb 4, 2014 1:55 pm
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New Haven Youth Soccer (NHYS) players do not show up for games in the matching finery of team uniforms worn by some of their suburban counterparts. But the players, despite the league’s limited resources, bring important skills and values that serve them on Connecticut’s soccer fields and beyond.
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Jan 27, 2014 3:50 pm
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Federal courthouse: ’60s survivor.
With New Haven’s landscape changing amid a wave of building projects, William H. H. Rees’s memory focused on what happened during a previous massive rebuilding wave, in the mid-20th century — and how citizens stopped several colossal mistakes in their tracks.
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Thomas MacMillan |
Jan 23, 2014 1:37 pm
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The day after a snow storm blanketed Westville in white stuff, two “yetis” were out with shovels — and looking to bring more community action to an often overlooked elected office.
Police arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with an Upper Westville home invasion — and said the alleged perpetrator and victim already knew each other.
Police are investigating a report of a home invasion in Upper Westville in which armed robbers locked a homeowner in a trunk after pointing a gun at his children and fleeing with his money.
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Thomas MacMillan |
Jan 9, 2014 12:50 pm
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Alder Russell favors the plan.
Cumberland Farms has returned to the drawing board after a city zoner panned its plan to raze seven buildings and put up a 24-hour gas station on upper Whalley.
The city should not allow the company to proceed with its submitted $3 million plan, concluded Deputy Director of Zoning Tom Talbot.
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Melissa Bailey |
Dec 12, 2013 5:17 pm
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Just a year and a half after taking over Edgewood School, Principal Raeanne Reynolds shocked parents by announcing she plans to leave within weeks to take a job in Branford.
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David Sepulveda |
Dec 9, 2013 2:15 pm
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A Hanukkah menorah at the corner of Blake Street and Whalley Avenue was still aglow with the good cheer of a holiday just ended. Several feet way, a crowd had gathered to usher in another holiday season with the annual lighting of the Westville Village Christmas Tree.
“Trash Talkers” Diezi and Kwak and their little helpers at the Whalley Avenue bridge.
A new band of energized west-siders have set out make their park safer and more beauitful by picking up one cigarette butt, one can of soda — and one discarded tire and bicycle — at a time.
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Thomas MacMillan |
Nov 28, 2013 11:29 am
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For the first time since 1888, the first day of Chanukah lands on Thanksgiving. For the first time ever, Chabad of Westville celebrated the Jewish holiday by making a menorah out of packages of food — provisions that will go to feed the hungry.
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David Sepulveda |
Nov 27, 2013 12:08 pm
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The small stage at Lyric Hall assumed a larger-than-life presence at a screening of what some regard as among the most influential films of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
