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Jan 21, 2014 12:02 pm
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The St. Luke’s Steel Band and Music Haven’s Haven String Quartet may seem an unlikely combination. It is. They know it, and they made the most of it at a joint annual Dr. Martin Luther King Community Celebration Monday afternoon at St. Luke’ s Episcopal Church.
They lifted every voice — and every violin, and every steel drum.
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Thomas MacMillan |
Dec 16, 2013 5:15 pm
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As he contemplates closing up his sprawling 80-year-old family-owned engine repair business, Pete Nizen III pointed out some of the patients awaiting attention — a 1938 Mercedes crankshaft, a 1939 Mack truck engine, a 1954 firetruck engine.
Nizen’s shop, increasingly inhabited by these remnants of another time, has itself become an anachronism, out of place on what was once New Haven’s “automotive row.”
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Gilad Edelman |
Dec 6, 2013 9:25 am
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Fast-food strikers rallied outside St. Luke’s Church as the local event in a nationwide strike, though it was unclear how many, if any, New Haven workers actually went on strike.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 25, 2013 4:32 pm
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Old timers and new timers came together at a Whalley Avenue church to mark the centennial of a Catholic congregation that has grown smaller but still makes beautiful music together.
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Allan Appel
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Oct 20, 2013 5:27 pm
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Hodes and Greer at the cemeteries with the new guide.
When Eliezer Greer’s wife lost one of two twins in childbirth, he didn’t want to ask God, “Why? Why this one?”
He decided to take on a project instead. He began to walk the Jewell Street cemeteries. They were in bad shape, the buried poorly documented. Would a tiny child buried here today be able to be found by a loved one or a distant relative on a quest in 50 years? Greer wondered. A hundred?
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Allan Appel
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Oct 4, 2013 10:20 am
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Pastor Valerie Washington frequently tells the story of how David calmed Saul’s agitation — some interpreters call it mental illness—with the playing of his lyre.
In a storefront church on Whalley Avenue, her little congregation is putting that into practice: making a big noise for God through a practical and spiritual ministry that comforts hurting people with the healing power of music.
Russell, at left, was joined with, among others, mayoral candidate Toni Harp, at right.
A newly created public safety commission. A manual of police tips, in print and on line, to frustrate robbers in stores and protect employees. And a standing community fund instantly available to aid victims of violence.
One sign on Whalley beckoned viewers to tune into a band many of them have never heard of — while across the street another sign required viewers to crane their heads to read it.
When he saw a “now hiring” sign outside a new fast-food pizza joint near his house, Andre Earl got in line and waited over an hour for a minute-long interview.
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Allan Appel
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Apr 12, 2013 3:39 pm
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Lyde and Edna Adams got both friendly and computer friendly.
Cynthia Lyde turned on her HPNX 6110. She checked her email.
It was a miracle!
Or at least it was a feat Lyde hadn’t imagined being able to carry out — until she and a dozen other older folks overcame computer-phobia by “surfing” for six weeks.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 3, 2013 8:21 am
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An AutoZone security guard moved closer to his dream of being a cop when he made his very first arrest — and received his first accusation of putting cuffs on the wrong guy.
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Thomas MacMillan and Paul Bass
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Feb 22, 2013 5:48 pm
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A child’s smoke- and water-damaged bedroom on Ellsworth Avenue.
As fire investigators probe two pre-dawn blazes, one fire-damaged building may have to come down. Another, on Ellsworth Avenue, will stand, thanks to a firewall that stopped flames from tearing through the entire building.
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Allan Appel
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Feb 8, 2013 11:11 am
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The two dozen bagels, cream cheese by the bucket, several pounds of grapes, and strawberries in the market basket of Kara Cassidy and Bernadette Laukaitis Friday morning was not a pre-storm stock up. It was a little snack for 14 hungry athletes who happened to be in town to shoot hoops amid a blizzard.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jan 11, 2013 9:36 am
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Start CEO Bill Placke
Start Community Bank’s efforts to foster financial literacy and work with first-time account holders have paid off — in the form of an award of nearly $300,000 from the federal government.
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Melissa Bailey
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Dec 12, 2012 3:37 pm
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A 3-family house burns on George Street.
Freshman Torrai Darden looked out of the window at Career High School Wednesday afternoon and saw smoke. He never guessed the flames would be tearing through his house.
