David Sepulveda of Westville sent in this report about Sharece Sellem, a city mime who will be performing an autobiographical play in the neighborhood on July 30.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jul 20, 2011 8:11 am
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Adam Marchand (left) and Michael Slattery.
One said his experience as a tech entrepreneur will help him cut the fat from the city budget and put more city services online. The other said his experience as a union negotiator will help him crack the worker-benefits budget problem and work effectively with Yale on town-gown issues.
Ana De Los Angeles behind the counter at Manjares.
Ana De Los Angeles was doing well enough with her young Westville coffee shop that she added an evening tapas menu. Now she’s ready to expand into gelato — and a vacant next-door storefront.
When the space at 838 Whalley Avenue that housed Jennifer Jane Gallery was vacated, customers at its next-door neighbor Manjares Pastry Shop began floating the possibility of expansion to owner Ana De Los Angeles.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jul 11, 2011 7:55 am
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Darryl Brackeen, Jr. screwed a camcorder onto a tripod, set it up in his front yard, and unveiled his latest campaign proposal — handing out numerical grades to city workers and departments.
The latest idea to emerge from the campaign trail: Require New Haven restaurants to post signs in their windows with letter grades based on their health code inspections.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 24, 2011 7:51 am
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Greer points out a fallen stone.
The gravestones on Jewell Street go back to 1856, but for years some of them have been neglected. Tombstones have toppled and groundhogs have moved in. With a new database of cemetery plots, Eli Greer is poised to perform an “act of true kindness” for those buried there.
Amir ElSaffar, top, Dena ElSaffar and Tim Moore play traditional Iraqi Instruments.
Iraqi-American Amir ElSaffar is a versatile instrumentalist who plays jazz trumpet and the santour (hammered dulcimer) and sings. His name may be familiar to some New Haven audiences, especially the city’s Iraqi refugee community.
The renowned musician and composer will be back in Westville this coming week with his Safaafir Iraqi Maqam Ensemble.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 9, 2011 2:30 pm
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Brackeen (left) with Maachah Elouafai.
With a few clicks on his Dell laptop Tuesday afternoon, Darryl Brackeen Jr. uploaded a YouTube video announcing his candidacy for upper Westville alderman. Moments later, as his offline campaigning began, a neighbor voiced a warning about taking on Alderman Sergio Rodriguez: “You’ve got your work cut out for you.”
The newest addition to Westville’s expanding economy and its emergence as a destination is Trader’s Market, a year-round flea market that beckons customers to “shop, swap and save.”
During its grand opening last weekend, a giant tethered balloon drew a visual line in the sky to the market’s location at 86 Fitch St., at the corner of Onyx Street, just a block away from bustling Whalley Avenue.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 1, 2011 2:51 pm
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Ozyck inspects a “tortured” tree.
As new trees take root in ample plots of grass by the Westville cemetery, others down Route 63 are being “entombed” in concrete “coffins” that, in the eyes of one urban forester, will ensure their lives are nasty, brutish and short.
Somebody killed Ryan Barnaby, the 34-year-old man found near the duck pond in Edgewood Park night night, according to the state’s chief medical examiner.
Sgt. David Guliuzza stretched crime scene tape across Chapel Street.
Neighbors reported a shot in the park at 9:30 p.m. Monday. Police found a body more than five hours later, and were still searching for evidence the following morning.
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Thomas MacMillan
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May 13, 2011 11:34 am
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Miller at the “ridiculous” spot.
At one Westville intersection, a lack of sidewalks pushes pedestrians into the street, and bus passengers are forced to step into traffic to board the bus. City Engineer Dick Miller has a plan to change all that — and get rid of a “ridiculous” “crosswalk to nowhere.”
Sixth-graders Rachel Young and Mary Linton want to go to Yale one day. With a boost from a new “Pathway To Promise” campaign, they and students across New Haven spent part of the school day strategizing with their teachers about how to get there, as a seven-letter word became an official focus of the city school curriculum.
Lola Nathan planned on spending April vacation on the beach in Fort Lauderdale. Instead, she and her teachers and staffers forfeited their week off to prepare classrooms for when students return Monday — to a gleaming $48 million rebuilt version of their 93-year-old home.
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Allan Appel
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Apr 6, 2011 12:27 pm
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In an old vaudeville house in Westville, the screen will light up with Lon Chaney as Alonzo the Armless, a knife thrower with a secret; and with Joan Crawford in her first screen role, as an ingenue whom he falls in love with but can’t quite embrace, yet. Live music will fill accompany the progress of the carny couple’s creepy romance.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 5, 2011 11:20 am
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Angry taxpayers will have four more ears to hear their appeals. Two more towers will rise at Bella Vista. And countless ducks will paddle in a cleaner Edgewood Pond.