Westville

Inspector Guides New Restaurateur

by | Oct 1, 2012 12:05 pm | Comments (2)

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Inspector Hamilton (foreground) with first-time restaurateur Swint.

“Dejavu’s” will replace the Soco’s sign.

As city sanitarians passed 24 and flunked two eateries in the latest round of health inspections, they found time to direct a first-time restaurateur through the hoops of approval — so she can pass when they come knocking on her new Westville door.

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Roz Berman, Avatar Of Bygone GOP Era, Dies

by | Sep 27, 2012 8:50 am | Comments (5)

Berman emcees the state FOI Commission’s 25th anniversary bash at the Lawn Club.

Her dad was a labor organizer. She made a career getting union votes and championing the First Amendment and women’s causes — as a Republican.

Yes, people like Rosalind Berman — a state representative and lifelong civic leader and volunteer — once existed in our town.

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3 Fail Inspections; Bar Regulars Differ

by | Sep 24, 2012 11:17 am | Comments (3)

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Customer Tirozzi: Owl’s Nest “always spotless.”

“Men’s room hand sink cracked” contributed to a failing grade.

This lunchtime crowd wasn’t fazed by hearing about a frozen fish found in a black garbage bag out back. Or a hand soap dispenser that had slipped off a wall. Or a slightly cracked sink in the men’s room.

This is a bar, after all. Their bar. And it’s plenty clean to them.

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Parents Fight Last-Minute Classroom Shuffle

by | Sep 11, 2012 8:04 am | Comments (12)

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Edgewood parent Davis: “Pulling a para out the second week of school is disastrous in the mind of a child.”

After the school system abruptly transferred a gentle,” fantastic” paraprofessional to an overflow K‑2 program, 90 parents called on the schools to bring back extra help to classrooms across the city.

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Digital Divide Targeted

by | Aug 28, 2012 10:15 pm | Comments (1)

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Students Rance Smith and Derrick Sims know kids who either have no computer at home, or whose machines malfunction.

Nearly all the families at Rance Smith’s Mauro-Sheridan Science, Technical, and Communications School have home computers. But four or five of his friends who go to the Wexler-Grant neighborhood school don’t.

That digital divide” may be about to narrow.

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Onion Dome Lands

by | Aug 10, 2012 2:05 pm | Comments (0)

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As a century-old congregation watched in awe, a 120-ton crane lifted a 14-foot gold-leafed cross and 5‑ton copper cupola 120 feet into the air Friday morning and placed it on a perch high above the flats of Westville.

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100th Westville Tree Planted

by | Aug 3, 2012 2:55 pm | Comments (15)

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At the base of the freshly planted tree Thursday evening, a small plaque bore a circular medallion in an image of a tree. It was inscribed 100th Tree Planted 2012.”

The plaque was created to commemorate a milestone in work of the Westville Community Green Space Group, a local organization that began its work six years ago, transforming vacant curb lawn and masonry strips into handsome, tree-planted oases garnished with flowering perennials.

Neighbors gathered Thursday evening on West Rock Avenue across from Edgewood Park to plant yet another tree and mark a milestone in their efforts, the milestone noted in the inscription.

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Shutdown Warning Leads To Passed Inspection

by | Aug 3, 2012 12:03 pm | Comments (1)

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Corcoran & fellow teacher Karissa Stolman sample fries at Delaney’s, one of 24 eateries inspected last week.

Bridget Corcoran won’t be nervous about sampling the French fries at Delaney’s, now that the Westville restaurant avoided a shutdown by the health department by scoring a nearly perfect 99 on a third-try inspection.

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Joe-Pye & Boneset Herald
A New Day At Duck Pond

by | Jun 3, 2012 3:46 pm | Comments (1)

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Young Westvillian Eva Heitmann helped plant blue iris.

She raised her eyes from her labors when someone called out, It looks like planting rice in Southeast Asia!” But Stephanie FitzGerald knew very well where she was: Staking holes in the mud to insert Joe-Pye weed and other shallow water plants in the newly marshy meadow of the restored Edgewood Park Duck Pond.

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