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Pierrette Comulada and Josh Silverman met in 1977 as students at Edgewood School. Now they’re proud parents of a fourth-grader who walks to school and studies in the same classroom in an evolved but enduring neighborhood institution.
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by | Feb 21, 2011 3:28 pm | Comments (3)
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Abe Lincoln Croc
Abraham Lincoln once gave a stirring speech at Court and State Streets that compared the condition of pre-union working people to the oppressions of slavery. You can see a picture of that on a Westville gallery wall — only Lincoln appears as a crocodile.
by | Feb 15, 2011 3:07 pm | Comments (24)
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Mark Oppenheimer.
How do you get your kid into the magnet school down the block? Westville author Mark Oppenheimer, who lives within paper-airplane-flying distance of Edgewood School, set out in search of answers, then blogged the results:
by | Feb 8, 2011 5:15 pm | Comments (5)
One landlord, on Whalley, finally emptied that Dumpster and removed the bulk trash in the parking lot. After an inspector showed up, a homeowner on Bellevue Road finally shoveled the sidewalk. Meanwhile, a neighbor is keeping an eye on a Colony Road address to make sure a commercial truck doesn’t reappear in the driveway.
by | Feb 8, 2011 12:37 pm | Comments (7)
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The finished commission, in front of the gallery.
The same day that Westville’s famed snow-asaurus received a heaven-sent glazing of ice that is sure to extend the fantasy reptile’s life, its creator — me — weighed the icy conditions for yet another frozen heap of form and color.
by | Feb 6, 2011 10:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Funeral services will be held Monday for a beloved longtime Edgewood School teacher, Richard Cavallaro.
by | Feb 2, 2011 12:32 pm | Comments (20)
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When city plows failed to arrive yet again, neighbors on one block brought out their shovels. One neighbor reports.
by | Jan 31, 2011 12:25 pm | Comments (23)
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Though it remained hard to see over the mounds of snow lining my street, speculation about the about the big green creature sprawled across my Westville lawn was not in short supply. Is it a dragon, a dinosaur? How was it painted?
A small boy with his sister and mother gave a thumbs up as he authoritatively asserted, “It’s a Stegosaurus.” Period.
Another passerby said she was happy to see that “it’s a vegetarian” after spying sprigs of pachysandra dangling from the creature’s mouth.
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‘Psychedelic Snow-asaurus
Invades West Rock Avenue’
by | Jan 21, 2011 12:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Visitors mingle before the start of the program at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery.
The bittersweet closing of the exhibit titled “New Work” by painter Frank Bruckmann and sculptor Susan Clinard at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery may portend a new way in how the gallery puts closure on future exhibits. The show, which had a conventional opening on Dec. 9, closed Sunday with a special concert celebrating the show’s successful run, while paying unique homage to the work through the music of Westville composer, singer and musician Gaylene.
by | Jan 21, 2011 12:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Valley Street resident Emily Diffenderffer, with neighbor Tom Ciancia, points out where a car careened off the road into her hedge.
Valley Street from Blake Street to Parkside Drive —that’s three-quarters of a mile — has no marked crosswalks. Neighbors call it a perfect candidate for the city’s first “complete street.”
by | Jan 10, 2011 12:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Fat organic carrots were a big seller at Tom Cornell’s stand at the inaugural winter farmers’ market at Edgewood Park on Sunday. Scores of local shoppers stopped by to purchase local food.
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‘Hundreds Visit Farmers
Market -- In The Snow’
by | Jan 5, 2011 5:21 pm | Comments (2)
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A much loved member of the Westville and Yale Jewish communities was eulogized Wednesday as the very definition of the traditional Jewish “woman of valor.”
by | Dec 22, 2010 3:46 pm | Comments (2)
New Haven’s big downtown development project du jour and a long-running campaign to strengthen “sinking homes” on the west side of town both got big boosts Wednesday from the State Bond Commission.
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‘State $$ OK'd For D'town
Crossing, Sinking Homes’
by | Dec 22, 2010 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
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“The Shadow knows” was a refrain heard in the 1930’s as families gathered around their radios to hear the exploits of their favorite crime fighter imbued with special psychic powers. On Saturday, families gathered to pay homage to a different kind of shadow through the art of shadow puppetry at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery.
by | Dec 20, 2010 8:00 am | Comments (3)
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Looking spry for a man approaching the end of his second century, Donald G. Mitchell dropped by a centennial celebration of the library built and named in his honor in Westville.
“You age very nicely,” said the president of the New Haven Free Library board, Elsie Chapman.
“I’ll be 189 in April,” Mitchell replied laconically.
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‘Mitchell Himself Helps
Mark Library's Centennial’
by | Dec 16, 2010 7:43 am | Comments (6)
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Author and editor Anne Witkavitch, a former Westville resident who still has family ties to the area and currently lives in Bethany, will be reading selections from her recently published anthology, “Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers“Pya and other holiday-themed works at Deja Brew Café, 763 Edgewood Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 19, from 12 to 3 p.m.
by | Dec 9, 2010 9:04 am | Comments (9)
Three NHR Books: Authors and jacket illustrations
Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery has long established itself as a place to view masterful paintings, prints and sculptures, but its use as a space for a variety of cultural and community events continues to evolve. Tuesday night the gallery was host to a book launch party by New Haven Review Books — “the world’s latest small press for high-quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry” according to Review co-founder Mark Oppenheimer.
by | Dec 6, 2010 1:23 pm | Comments (2)
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OK, we’ll just come out and say it: Jack Paulishen is an amazing photographer. Here are shots the Hillhouse High teacher and Westville neighbor took at the Westville holiday tree lighting.
by | Dec 3, 2010 8:36 am | Comments (4)
While thousands of lights lit up the holiday tree on the Green, several small flames illuminated a corner in Westville.
by | Dec 2, 2010 5:36 pm | Comments (5)
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After years of flooding and structural damage to their houses, homeowners in Westville were cast a lifeline on Thursday.
by | Dec 2, 2010 8:58 am | Comments (22)
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Two passengers were trapped. Firefighters had to work fast to free them — but not too fast.
by | Nov 23, 2010 8:36 am | Comments (5)
Numerous witnesses told cops they saw him at a party argue with another young man about a bottle of beer, then knife him to death. The cops found bloody clothes on his bed. But, Daniel Petrillo insisted, he didn’t do it.
by | Nov 21, 2010 1:34 pm | Comments (13)
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Det. Matt Merced checked a sewer for a knife or other evidence.
(Updated: 2:32 p.m.) A dispute at a party — possibly over as minor a matter as a bottle of booze — led to a fatal knifing and a predawn SWAT raid early Sunday morning in a usually calm family neighborhood on the west side of town.
by | Nov 18, 2010 10:35 am | Comments (6)
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Jacques McAdams’s solo business selling LPs to DJs began to tank a year ago. That’s why in the run-up to Thanksgiving he was again visiting the food pantry of the Jewish Family Service on Whalley Avenue in Westville.
by | Nov 11, 2010 2:44 pm | Comments (10)
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DeStefano (left) and Hausladen at Wednesday night’s meeting.
Wondering whether he and fellow neighborhood organizers are “spinning our wheels,” Doug Hausladen had a question for the mayor: Would he consider giving community management teams some real power — to, for example, sign off on development deals in their neighborhoods?