by | Oct 19, 2012 4:56 pm | Comments (0)
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After a fire tore through an Edgewood Park pavilion, a city building official determined that the bulk of it is salvageable — but part of it will have come down.
by | Oct 19, 2012 12:08 am | Comments (2)
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Firefighters Thursday night doused a fire that caused heavy damage to a 40-year-old building in Edgewood Park.
by | Oct 13, 2012 10:01 am | Comments (0)
(Updated Sunday 10:08 a.m.) A passenger was killed, and the driver injured, when a car zooming down Forest Road rolled over early Saturday, police said.
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by | Oct 9, 2012 2:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Maintenance worker Carlos Vargas will keep his job.
Singapore’s largest private bank found the best place to sink $41.65 million — a financially troubled apartment complex in Westville.
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by | Oct 7, 2012 12:42 pm | Comments (1)
Two months after a midsummer flash flood wreaked havoc on a vibrant neighborhood talent showcase, performers returned to tell Lyric Hall impressario John Cavaliere how much they love him. And to help him buy a new furnace and build a retaining wall.
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.
by | Sep 29, 2012 8:55 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven’s pizza has often been celebrated over the years but rarely if ever as a glimpse of heaven. It was Saturday, as New Haven buried its matriarch of brick-oven pie, Flora “Flo” Consiglio.
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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by | Sep 24, 2012 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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In the end, only one tag remained on the pyramid where skateboarders soar to glory. “SCSU Helping Hands,” it read. And handprints surrounded it.
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.
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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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.
by | Aug 16, 2012 8:27 am | Comments (6)
John Cavaliere was just finishing lunch at his Westville antique store and theater when the skies opened up. He looked outside and saw “manhole covers dancing on top of geysers of water” — and found that water pouring into his basement to ravage furniture, records, and tools.
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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.
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.
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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by | Jul 20, 2012 8:38 am | Comments (12)
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After falling in love and marrying, Francesca Martin and Gudrun Scheffler find themselves at risk of being torn apart: When Scheffler’s work visa expires in September, they will be forced to separate or leave the country, because the federal government refuses to recognize their union.
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by | Jul 20, 2012 7:44 am | Comments (0)
Another man and another woman came knocking on Westville doors Thursday night. They came to listen, not to peddle bogus magazine “subscriptions” for charity.
by | Jul 18, 2012 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
A day after Westville neighbors blew its cover on an apparent door-to-door scam, a “literature sales” company sent young people back on the streets with a new list of supposed charitable causes it claimed to represent.
by | Jul 5, 2012 5:18 pm | Comments (3)
After leading police on a chase through Westville, a man stepped out of a car with a Glock .45 in his hand, presenting the police on his tail with a split-second life-or-death decision.
by | Jun 24, 2012 11:36 pm | Comments (6)
On the eve of a monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling, New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon was running for reelection — and detailing some of the work she’d like to do if Connecticut needs to pick up the pieces of a fractured health reform law.
by | Jun 13, 2012 7:37 am | Comments (4)
Two “cool” brothers and a “quiet” Yale cop pitched their proposed pawn shop as a tidy and law-abiding place, but neighbors convinced zoners to nix the plan.
by | Jun 6, 2012 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Mansard of Holy Transfiguration Church being repaired with copper panels; old dome remains in place.
For 45 years you could easily have passed by a quiet and leafy corner of Westville without noticing the recessed church and its Russian-style dome high above, and streaked grey by age and pollution. No longer.
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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‘Joe-Pye & Boneset Herald
A New Day At Duck Pond’
by | May 23, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments (3)
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Under cover of darkness, a gang of flamingos popped up at 196 West Rock Ave.