The first sign was the smell: a stench so strong it gave 14-year-old Madeleine Cahn a headache. Three days and two rainstorms later, the odor remained. Madeleine’s mom, Laura Cahn, said she too felt a headache just walking the 15 feet from the back door of her home on Cleveland Road to her car.
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David Sepulveda
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Aug 12, 2013 12:01 pm
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The New Haven-based band Kindred Queer shared a Westville stage with some New York friends to launch musical ambitions — and kick-start a “progressive folk” wave in town.
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David Sepulveda
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Aug 9, 2013 8:12 am
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A crowd gathered at Westville’s Beecher Park Monday, some with high expectations, some wondering what to make of the soon-to-perform band with the quizzical name.
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Allan Appel
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Aug 5, 2013 11:00 am
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A storybook pedestrian bridge across the West River just upstream from the Blake Street crossing has seen no pedestrians or wide-eyed kids in strollers in a long time.
That’s because it’s so deteriorated, with the hand rails separating from the deck, that the city has had to close it. It is hidden under brush near a playground just off the road.
The site, by the recently built retaining wall on Whalley.
(Updated 12:54 p.m.) Larry Waldorf has been trying for more than a decade to build more than 100 senior homes on a steep swath of land running down from Whalley Avenue to the West River. After a second city denial, he plans to keep trying — in court, not at City Hall.
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David Sepulveda
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Jul 30, 2013 12:43 pm
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Tet Offensive lead singer Brian Robinson, with the String Quartet.
Set up at the base of a majestic copper beech tree, a “chamber rock” group that blends classical music and rock was one of two main attractions at the latest installment of the Beecher Park Summer Concert Series held Monday evening on the grounds of Westville’s Donald Mitchell Library.
Amid Westvilleans hunting for farm-fresh veggies, Justin Elicker fielded an urban pioneer’s pained questions about pre‑K admissions while Toni Harp picked up local tomatoes — and, with some effort, uttered the word “I.”
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David Sepulveda
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Jul 15, 2013 12:06 pm
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Part of the legacy left by the late actor Paul Newman, that of giving seriously ill children and their families an opportunity for “a different kind of healing,” was buoyed Saturday through the 9th annual Chili Cook-Off and Beer Festival fund-raising event organized by Delaney’s Restaurant in the heart of Westville’s historic district.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jul 10, 2013 1:52 pm
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City zoners decided not to allow a daycare to open in Beaver Hills, and cast votes that will mean people will have more places to have a drink around town.
With the help of a spare cardboard box and some higher-order math, one neighborhood tested a new way of choosing candidates — when the choice is between more than two.
Crossing guard Linda Paecht found a shaded perch for her water bottle as she shepherded summer-school kids across the street — and kept herself cool enough in the process.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jul 9, 2013 7:55 am
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First Bridget Gardner heard water rushing underneath her house. Then she noticed her windows cracking. Her doors stopped shutting right, and the sinkhole in her front lawn kept getting bigger.
On Monday, she heard her state representative announce that help is on the way.
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David Sepulveda
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Jul 4, 2013 9:44 am
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The July Fourth celebration arrives a day early each year on Richmond Avenue, a quiet, Westville cul-de-sac whose neighbors are “all in” when it comes to their Third of July annual event.
Every year for the past 15 years, Westville residents Jaime and Tim Kane, have hosted the block party barbecue, pot-luck picnic, concert, and mini-fireworks display that is, for many, the highlight of the summer.
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David Sepulveda
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Jun 27, 2013 3:30 pm
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PHOTO COURTESY OF FR. EMMANUEL
Father Emmanuel was in Nigeria to help supervise clinic construction
When Father Emmanuel Ihemedu came before the Westville community and supporters at a fundraiser at Lyric Hall last February, a new health clinic under construction in his hometown of Ejemekwuru, Imo State Nigeria, was a mere foundation built on a dream.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 21, 2013 2:50 pm
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With the endorsement of the incumbent and 10 years on his Democratic ward committee, Ronald Rainey pitched himself as the experienced candidate as he launched his quest to be the next upper Westville alderman.
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Nick Defiesta
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Jun 20, 2013 2:52 pm
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Project engineer Peter Sammis presents the plan.
What do you do with 50,000 cubic yards of dirt?
Yale is digging up all that dirt in building two new residential colleges. It wants to dump it all in Upper Westville — so people’s backyards don’t flood.
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Allan Appel
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Jun 11, 2013 12:40 pm
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Nicholas Avila as Caesar, Yashaira Leguisamon as Cassius, and Makhi Drummond as Cato.
A funny, kid-friendly 30-minute Julius Caesar has its debut and full run in a single performance Tuesday night at 6:30 at the Mauro-Sheridan School on Fountain Street.
