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Surprise Pesticide Spraying Irks Neighbors

by | Aug 21, 2013 4:45 pm | Comments (11)

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Dubino and Madeleine Cahn look out over Lot D.

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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Quaint Bridge Will Return

by | Aug 5, 2013 11:00 am | Comments (2)

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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.

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Next Stop, Superior Court

by | Aug 1, 2013 2:05 pm | Comments (4)

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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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Chamber Rock Meets “Hi-Fi Pie”

by | Jul 30, 2013 12:43 pm | Comments (1)

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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.

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Chili-Beer Festival Makes Big Splash

by | Jul 15, 2013 12:06 pm | Comments (2)

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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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On Westville Cul-De-Sac, July Third Was The Big Day

by | Jul 4, 2013 9:44 am | Comments (4)

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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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