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15 Apartments OK'd For 6-Unit House

by | Oct 30, 2024 8:29 am | Comments (19)

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269 Humphrey: 6 apartments now. 15 to come.

An East Rock landlord won permission to boost the number of apartments at a Humphrey Street house from six to 15 — after a local attorney pointed out that the existing building contains four floors, not three, and therefore has enough gross floor area to accommodate the higher unit count.

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Shack Teaches Senator Community "Formula"

by | Oct 29, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (10)

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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Honda Smith with firefighters from Engine 15 who work with kids at The Shack ...

... as artist David Coardes stands before mural of Alder Smith painted by Imani Roberts.

In the midst of a spirited game of Bingo among a group of senior citizens at The Shack, there was an interruption. It was U.S. Senator Chris Murphy stopping by — to get an up-close look at what makes the West Hills community center work so well.

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Dems Rally On Dixwell For Harris

by | Oct 28, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (26)

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Cherene Cotter: "To have a president come in and deport immigrants… I can’t do that.”

U.S. Sen Blumenthal (right) addresses Saturday's crowd.

With a closing pitch centering abortion access and worker power, local and state elected officials gathered on Dixwell Avenue to rally for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot — especially Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential contest with former President Donald Trump.

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"Turnaround" Troup Principal Honored At Gala

by | Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (4)

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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."

As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated turnaround” school.

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New Haven Picklers Can Now "Dink" Indoors

by | Oct 25, 2024 1:48 pm | Comments (10)

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Welcome to Picklville CT ...

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... at the intersection of Valley & Blake in Westville.

On a recent afternoon at Pickleville CT, the new Westville indoor pickleball facility along Blake Street and Valley Street near Whalley Avenue, Winny Sanchez was dinking” for the first time in her life. 

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Disillusioned With Dems, Couple Votes Stein

by | Oct 24, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (73)

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Demetry Belfort (right), with Brielle Quarles: “If Trump wins, so be it. I’ve voted my principles."

Brielle Quarles and Demetry Belfort don’t believe the doomsday-for-democracy prophecies of a jack-booted Trump future.

They feel burned by an Obama presidency that failed to deliver systemic change on housing, policing, immigration, and American imperialism.”

And they don’t approve of a current Democratic Party leader who flaunts ownership of a Glock pistol.

So, with a commitment to their principles, they voted for a third-party potential spoiler. 

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What Went Down When 911 Went Down

by | Oct 23, 2024 5:32 pm | Comments (11)

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PSAP chief Joe Vitale (center): Frontier "equipment failure" potentially to blame.

By 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday, it was clear: the city’s 911 operators had a problem. 

When they tried to make calls from the system’s landline phones — whether to check in on a civilian in trouble or connect with another department — they were met with a fast stream of discordant beeps.

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C.O. Trauma Put In Spotlight

by | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (6)

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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.

Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.

Those stats and un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.

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