by | Mar 5, 2007 3:48 pm | Comments (13)
Black activists rallied outside a massive Westville construction site Monday to complain that a developer is hiring on the cheap immigrant workers — like Alex (above), who originally came here from Honduras.
by | Feb 28, 2007 1:07 pm | Comments (14)
A screeching crash brought neighbors outside their homes for a familiar sight — a high-speed car accident at the sloping curve on Yale Avenue.
by | Feb 22, 2007 4:10 pm | Comments (8)
A neighbor sees that two old maples are marked for death row. Where does he go to challenge their fate? This woman has the answer.
by | Feb 14, 2007 5:02 pm | Comments (10)
Westville activists joined State Rep. Pat Dillon in Hartford to lobby for “Main Street” revitalization money as well as for measures to crack down on “nuisance bars.”
by | Jan 2, 2007 1:04 pm | Comments (20)
They ride the same bus to Wilbur Cross High School in the mornings. One night, they met up on this corner in a middle-class stretch of town. One of the students had a gun. He brandished it and said: “Give us everything.”
by | Dec 13, 2006 11:41 pm | Comments (1)
The proprietor of a controversial Westville bar unexpectedly walked in on a meeting of officials and angry neighbors. Click the play arrow to watch some of what happened next. Read on to join a tour the neighbors gave the cops of the bar’s effects on their streets.
by | Dec 13, 2006 1:42 pm | Comments (0)
Did you miss the scheduled opening of this project in Westville Village? Don’t worry — it didn’t happen. The builders insist they will finish the new artists’ lofts and corner restaurant, real soon.
Continue reading ‘Another Deadline Passes For Artists Project’
by | Dec 6, 2006 8:03 am | Comments (6)
But do think about “harsh reality,” about hard choices facing the city this coming year. That’s the message from Westville Alderwoman Ina Silverman to homeowners who are freaking out over the leap in their tax assessments. Silverman e‑mailed constituents a detailed look at the numbers and the process for coming up with new tax bills. Read her message and see what people shouldn’t (and perhaps should) worry about when it comes to taxes, and what they can do about it. Not just in Westville, but all over town.
by | Dec 3, 2006 4:04 pm | Comments (0)
Following is a report from a member of a neighborhood group around Westville Village on a meeting last Thursday night about troubles surrounding the Owl’s Nest bar.
by | Nov 30, 2006 3:34 pm | Comments (7)
Gunfire outside a bar in the heart of Westville Village has sparked a renewed organizing effort by fed-up neighbors like Padma Karma (pictured above with his boxer Boby), who runs a Buddhist center next door.
by | Nov 22, 2006 8:35 am | Comments (0)
If this looks like a team photo, it is, sort of. But why were Sgt. Bernie Somers and A.P. Mastrogiovanni (on the left in the photo) and Angelo DeLeo, the president and secretary respectively of the Westville-West Hills Neighborhood Management Team, far from home and hanging out at the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) Management Team meeting on Tuesday night at the substation across from Edge of the Woods?
by | Nov 1, 2006 1:09 pm | Comments (0)
Shulamit Chernoff of Westville, associate professor of education emeritus at Southern Connecticut State University, has discovered a new career long past the time many other people have retired. She has become an award-winning poet. Click on the play arrow below to watch a video of Chernoff reading aloud a poem — from her new published collection, The Stones Bear Witness (Hanover Press) — about turning 80.
by | Oct 30, 2006 7:58 am | Comments (1)
On the last day of the season for Westville CitySeed farmers’ market, neighborhood volunteers (top photo) pushed gourds for a fund-raiser while farmer Jim Roby (at left) reflected on a tough weather season and the challenges posed by the likes of Wal-Mart going organic.
Continue reading ‘From Gourds & “Snooty Foods” To Wal-Mart Organics’
by | Oct 23, 2006 8:56 am | Comments (0)
A secret forest road, bygone frozen custard, and Marxist-tinged “spectrum lozenges”: A weekend City-Wide Open Studios bike tour encountered all these, and more. Click here for Melissa Bailey’s report.
by | Oct 12, 2006 2:10 pm | Comments (0)
Were Assistant Police Chief Herman Badger and Ward 25 Alderwoman Ina Silverman merely showing their soft and vulnerable sides by displaying an armful of cute stuffed animals? The answer to that question was provided during the course of a get-to-know-you open house at the West Hills/Westville neighborhood substation, an answer that sheds light on community policing.
by | Oct 5, 2006 8:30 am | Comments (0)
These members of the police burglary unit staked out Westville streets in undercover cars, then nabbed a skinny “cat burglar” who they say had broken into up to 15 homes. Here’s how they did it.
by | Sep 26, 2006 3:29 pm | Comments (1)
She helped bring artists’ lofts to Westville. He’s hoping to do the same in Fair Haven. They shared ideas about how to make that happen during an annual meeting of the Creative Arts Workshop.
by | Sep 20, 2006 4:07 pm | Comments (8)
High-school junior Louis Brenner (at left), claiming a violation of his rights, is staying home this week to protest a new citywide policy of random metal-detector searches of all students. Principal Alan Frishman (above) Wednesday urged Brenner to return — and promised to work with him on a social-studies research project on the constitution.
by | Aug 17, 2006 12:34 pm | Comments (0)
On weekdays from Monday, Aug. 21, through Tuesday, Aug. 29, the filming at Sheridan Middle School of Uma Thurman’s In Bloom will mean traffic headaches. Here’s info from a public service announcement about street closings and suggested detours:
by | Aug 16, 2006 1:12 pm | Comments (4)
Glass, and busy work crews, signal progress at two previously stalled building projects bringing new life to two corners of the west side of town.
by | Aug 3, 2006 2:29 pm | Comments (1)
In the Jewish tradition, come and listen to a question: On the hottest day of the century thus far, when the northeast electrical grid was, hour by hour, in danger of collapse, what was Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen (back left in photo) doing on the roof of his synagogue Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI) at Whalley Avenue and Harrison?
by | Jul 11, 2006 9:13 am | Comments (13)
In the wake of closing his family’s 34-year-old bakery, Phil Weinberger urged his former customers, “Remember to support kosher businesses.”
by | Jun 16, 2006 12:05 pm | Comments (2)
Whether it was his straightforward nature or the colorful spread of gourmet food he provided, Tim Mulcahey, owner and developer of the new Wintergreen-Westville Apartments being built on Blake Street, won the support of an anxious crowd of Westville residents Thursday night at the Kehler Liddell Gallery. With the vice-president of Capstone Building Corp and his project manager for construction along to answer questions, Mulcahey presented a the timeline for the completion of the 293-unit apartment complex and addressed concerns of Westvillagers.
by | Jun 14, 2006 11:55 pm | Comments (1)
People who live in Westville like not having to lock their doors. That’s part of the appeal of the neighborhood. But with a recent rise in burglaries —‚Äù a couple each week, mainly from open garages and cars —‚Äù police urge a little more vigilant lifestyle.
Continue reading ‘“A Nice, Sleepy Community” Considers Locking Doors’
by | Jun 13, 2006 2:21 pm | Comments (0)
Years ago, these woods held bustling mills and childhood skinny-dippers. Today, the Westville valley is a little-known trove of peaceful riverside trails. As part of the Festival of Arts & Ideas’ New Haven Preservation Trust walking series, this guy led a tour of the lush green space he seeks to preserve.