by | Jul 5, 2015 8:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Joseph Vidro said he learned how to be a dynamic dad from his own father, and he tries to live up that example with his own three kids.
“I learned about being resourceful from him and the things he did to provide for his family,” said Vidro, shown with his 10-year-old daughter Aniaya.
by | Jun 19, 2015 12:34 pm | Comments (15)
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Chair Peralta with Alder Evette Hamilton.
Cops and fed-up neighbors found agreement about the dirt-bikers that have revved back onto the streets this spring: Both sides are tired of the mayhem.
Continue reading ‘Whalley, Edgewood Neighbors Press For Dirt-Bike Relief’
by | Jun 18, 2015 11:03 am | Comments (4)
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The fish was splayed on the cutting board as though given wings. But with its missing head, the only thing it was flying toward was a vat of hot oil.
by | May 12, 2015 8:26 am | Comments (0)
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The “WEB” — Whalley, Edgewood, Beaver Hills — police substation will have no physical home of its own for at least three months.
by | May 10, 2015 5:21 pm | Comments (25)
A cyclist who collided with two cars on Whalley Avenue Saturday night escaped serious injury, according to Sgt. Jason Rentkowicz.
by | May 7, 2015 11:44 am | Comments (14)
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Romei: 5 new cameras coming to Chapel West.
A man danced in daylight at the intersection of Chapel and Church as downtown police and security personnel tried coaxing him out of the street. Onlookers had pulled out their cell phones to record him — joined by the Town Green Special Services District.
In case you haven’t noticed, your comings and goings downtown and along Upper Chapel and Dwight are likely being recorded.
by | Apr 3, 2015 12:18 pm | Comments (21)
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The former Newt’s Cafe.
Vuoso: Pizza’s on its way.
The head of Whalley Avenue’s improvement association has kept a key block blighted for years because, he said, he’s not a slumlord.
by | Mar 31, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (7)
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New substation site.
It began with accusations of “rewarding” a “slumlord” with city money. It ended with a hug, and promise to ensure that a rundown stretch of Whalley Avenue will get cleaned up.
by | Mar 18, 2015 12:26 pm | Comments (0)
When she was growing up in Antigua, Pat Daniel was not allowed to join the steel band. Rehearsals were at night; participating was frowned on, especially for girls. When she came to New Haven, Daniel became one of the first members of the St. Luke’s Steel Band.
by | Mar 13, 2015 3:00 pm | Comments (13)
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Next up: a super-CVS?
In the wake of Cumberland Farms’ failure to win support to rebuild on upper Whalley Avenue, CVS has begun wooing neighbors with a plan to build an expanded pharmacy with more grocery space and a drive-thru.
Continue reading ‘A 2nd Chain Seeks To Build On Busy Corner’
by | Mar 13, 2015 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
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S&S hub “ambassador” Rivera-Labuthie, Wyman, Demchak, and DSS Commissioner Roderick Bremby deliver.
Stop & Shop received an unusual delivery Friday: a mental-health and job-training “help desk.”
Continue reading ‘MOMs Partnership Gives Birth To Stop & Shop Mental-Health Hub’
by | Mar 13, 2015 8:16 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Talbot: Tom Talbot was right this time.
Neighbors made use of a little-known appeals process to try to overturn a zoning staffer’s decision — only to have the staffer write a subsequent opinion to uphold his own decision.
The episode brought to light a still-to-be-resolved question about how the city’s zoning board reviews public appeals.
by | Feb 19, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (1)
With the blessing of the City Plan Commission, the Whalley police substation is on the move — two blocks east, next door to Minore’s Meats.
by | Jan 20, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (0)
Poised at the front of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Robert Davis raised his chin, lifting his lips to the microphone.
Voice steady, he read: “We must use our time creatively, in knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise to democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”
by | Jan 13, 2015 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
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It’s Karaoke Day, owner Greg “Chanz” Simpkins announced in his Headz Up Barber Shop: Everyone should take turns singing — now that someone had made off with the surround-sound system.
by | Dec 10, 2014 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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MOMs Partnership Project Director Kia Levey with a rendering of the S & S hub.
From now on when you go shopping for milk and groceries at the Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue, you can also pick up breathing techniques to lessen stress and tips on how to better communicate with your kids, and a whole range of other mental and behavioral health services.
It’s such a bargain, it won’t cost you a penny.
by | Nov 11, 2014 2:43 pm | Comments (0)
Eblens got the OK from the zoning board to set up on Whalley Avenue at the corner of Dwight Street.
by | Nov 7, 2014 12:26 pm | Comments (4)
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Edge of the Woods has been a neighborhood anchor, with a diverse clientele, for over 25 years.
Since Edge of the Woods owner Peter Dodge bought his natural-foods grocery store’s shopping plaza and spruced it up, visual changes have spilled out to the Whalley Avenue corridor.
by | Oct 23, 2014 8:02 am | Comments (3)
Two landlords are arguing over whether police should move a substation a block down Whalley Avenue.
by | Oct 20, 2014 2:29 pm | Comments (0)
One more hurdle down to bring Eblens to Whalley Avenue.
by | Oct 15, 2014 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Opponents line up at zoning hearing.
The owner of a controversial former Westville bar found his request to open up elsewhere on Whalley denied by a zoning board – and roundly denounced by neighbors.
by | Oct 15, 2014 11:07 am | Comments (2)
Two Dwight groups divided over a proposed Marriott Residence Inn on Whalley agreed in favor of a plan for an athletic apparel store a block away.
by | Oct 13, 2014 2:41 pm | Comments (6)
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60 Whalley now.
60 Whalley, next?
The owner of a regional athletic-wear chain is seeking zoning relief to open a store in the former Rite Aid at Whalley Avenue and Dwight Street.
by | May 6, 2014 10:17 am | Comments (7)
A 73-year-old man was apparently crossing against a “Don’t Walk” signal at Whalley and Orchard around 8:20 p.m. Monday when a motorcyclist hit him — and may end up having killed him.
by | Mar 20, 2014 9:16 am | Comments (1)
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New housing is coming downtown. New stores and apartments for the elderly are coming to lower Whalley. And West River is getting some spring cleaning.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Housing, Whalley Retail & Elderly Housing, & W. River Clean-Up OK’d’