by | Nov 9, 2010 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Police Detective Caminer Lavache is also First Lt. Lavache with the 192nd Engineer Battalion, Army Reserve. In a moving and candid pre-Veterans’ Day conclave he told 100 third to eighth-graders that the hardest part of his deployment to Afghanistan was “leaving my children.” One of them was in the audience to concur and to applaud.
by | Nov 4, 2010 7:32 am | Comments (0)
The Westville Quality Market has paid a fine of $900 and will have its liquor permit suspended for three days after a violation of several state statutes and regulations.
by | Nov 2, 2010 5:01 pm | Comments (3)
Voters in the busy polling station at Edgewood School faced a choice mid-afternoon Tuesday: Hope somebody scans in your ballot later, or stick around for a while to see for yourself.
by | Oct 28, 2010 3:17 pm | Comments (4)
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Clockwise from top: actors Jeffrey Simno (portraying a cop named Ahern), Peter Chenot, Ryan Gardner, and Ian Alderman (portraying a cop named Lawler).
As the curtain went up on a new theater production in Westville, a century-old character came out of retirement — and reclaimed an ancient role.
Continue reading ‘At Vaudeville House, A 1913 Murder Revisited’
by | Oct 15, 2010 11:00 am | Comments (17)
It is difficult to do justice to the scope and breadth of an artist’s experience in a single article; presenting a slate of artists in single piece, may simply be over-reaching. That said, it seemed a challenge worth pursuing as I ventured out to artists’ studios, galleries and businesses in Westville’s weekend of open studios, October 2 – 3; part of the annual Artspace City-Wide Open Studios event. This extended survey and accompanying photo montages provide a glimpse of some of Westville’s artists, and the ideas that inform their work. Apologies to those artists, who because of time constraints, were missed.
by | Oct 15, 2010 7:25 am | Comments (28)
Rob Smuts will watch to see which neighborhoods recycle the most curbside trash over the next 16 weeks. The winner gets a prize: The chance to upgrade to spacious new bins and join the city’s new approach to putting out the garbage.
Continue reading ‘Will The East Shore Out-Recycle East Rock?’
by | Oct 14, 2010 3:40 pm | Comments (15)
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When the light turned green, the driver of a Saturn sedan hit the gas — and found a man suddenly rolling up his hood and cracking his windshield.
by | Oct 11, 2010 4:00 pm | Comments (6)
The newest performance space in New Haven is likely also one of the oldest.
Continue reading ‘85 Years Later, Theater Comes Back To Life’
by | Oct 11, 2010 1:06 am | Comments (0)
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Not only is the new site of a growing home care operation ideally situated for ease of reaching its 700 patients. The view at a ribbon-cutting wasn’t bad either.
by | Sep 21, 2010 7:11 am | Comments (13)
Winning a prestigious 2010 New York International Film Festival Award in the category of Best Sports Documentary last week, was another in a series of surprises for Westville resident and Bridgeport high school arts and media teacher Kathy Silver. “The Pride of the Lions,” a 20-minute documentary film, chronicled the challenges and adversity that faced the football and soccer teams at Bridgeport’s Bassick High School, while capturing some of the most transformational moments in the school’s recent history.
by | Sep 20, 2010 11:00 am | Comments (5)
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Somebody concluded that Westville’s Mark Oppenheimer is an “emerging leader in the humanities.” Fortunately for Oppenheimer, that somebody had $50,000 to spare.
by | Sep 20, 2010 7:12 am | Comments (38)
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John Lively at his Westville home.
A request to speak privately with the judge in the Petit murder trial led to a juror’s dismissal — and, the juror says, to an unfair public drubbing.
by | Sep 13, 2010 7:11 am | Comments (14)
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Almost an acre of tall, frondy invasives will be destroyed as part of a plan to restore and enhance the habitat around Edgewood Park’s beloved duck pond. Some neighbors asked if the cure is worse than the sickness.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood Park’s Phragmites’ Days Numbered’
by | Sep 6, 2010 12:34 pm | Comments (8)
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If you are a fan of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip, you have already seen some of the handiwork of Design Monsters George Corsillo and Susan McCaslin, a husband-and-wife graphic design team specializing in commercial art. Corsillo is responsible for coloring the nationally syndicated Doonesbury cartoon strip. The design power-couple recently moved to Westville from Darien, in what Corsillo has described as a search for “kindred spirits,” among other things.
by | Sep 2, 2010 11:01 am | Comments (0)
With Rosh Hashanah a week away, the holiday’s ancient melodies have resurfaced with wild new riffs.
by | Aug 31, 2010 11:47 am | Comments (26)
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Charlie Pillsbury said he had hoped a younger Green Party member would emerge to try to unseat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro this November. No such luck. So he’s dusting off his 2002 campaign signs, calling for a 70 percent military budget cut, and throwing his hat — gently — into the ring.
by | Aug 23, 2010 2:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Rain fell intermittently, but theatergoers were undeterred as a sea of umbrellas blossomed over an entranced gathering for the reprise of iMarvel, a play by A Broken Umbrella Theatre Company. The Westville-based theater company, whose members wrote the play based on the works of New Haven author Donald Grant Mitchell (aka Ik Marvel), presented a round of three 45 minute shows in Edgewood Park Sunday.
by | Aug 13, 2010 12:12 pm | Comments (13)
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Nervous neighbors like Dick Margulis succeeded in convincing government to reconfigure a killer intersection. Then they noticed cars turning the wrong way at that same corner — and got worried again.
by | Aug 12, 2010 11:42 am | Comments (27)
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Should Westvillers throw dirty Kleenex into their big blue bins this weekend?
Those and other questions arose at a community meeting about a new way of throwing out household garbage that debuts Monday in Westville and will soon to spread through the whole city — potentially putting New Haven back on the cost-saving recycling track.
Continue reading ‘Hold The Pizza Box Bottoms. As For Tissues….’
by | Aug 5, 2010 9:54 am | Comments (9)
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Sergio Rodriguez blew up balloons and provided chocolate chip, oatmeal, and sugar cookies with pink sprinkles to mark the opening of his campaign headquarters for the final push of his primary challenge for the 92nd General Assembly District seat.
by | Aug 4, 2010 3:46 pm | Comments (4)
Sergio Rodriguez knocked on Louis Sheehan’s door to talk about state government. Sheehan’s suggestion: Help get bulk trash cleared from Fountain Street.
Continue reading ‘On Bulk Trash, Which Politician Gets The Call?’
by | Jul 19, 2010 4:44 pm | Comments (3)
After wind and rain knocked a tree onto power lines at the entrance to Westville’s Beverly Hills district, Anthony Simmons worked with a surgeon’s dexterity to untangle the mess.
by | Jul 16, 2010 10:37 am | Comments (0)
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Westville neighbors are looking for the owners of a lost bird.
by | Jun 24, 2010 1:24 pm | Comments (8)
Shiva Carey had Edgewood Skate Park to himself as he mounted his World Industries skateboard on the bank of the half pipe, dropped in, and raced up and down the concrete, graffiti-covered walls.
by | Jun 22, 2010 12:27 pm | Comments (2)
(Updated) A police manhunt concluded with officers tracking down three teens who were fleeing them in Westville Monday night.
Continue reading ‘“Cop Of The Week,” Partners Catch Suspects’