Substation Loses Home, For Now
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.
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City, SCSU Team Up On Global Science Hub
by | May 4, 2015 5:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Katherine Perez knew since she took her first advanced physics class that she wanted to be a scientist. Now a rising junior at Southern Connecticut State University, she will get a step closer this summer through a fellowship in nanotechnology and medicine.
Substation Showdown Produces A Promise
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.
Students Keep More Than Pizza Rolling In Dough
by | Mar 23, 2015 2:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Ugur Citlak.
The following article was reported through a collaboration between the New Haven Independent and the Multimedia Journalism class at Southern Connecticut State University. The students are profiling small businesses around the New Haven area.
It’s a Thursday night, and Ugur Citlak is behind the counter at More Than Pizza, answering phone call after phone call.
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Latest Fire Was Arson
by | Mar 5, 2015 1:51 pm | Comments (2)
View from the building’s rear.
Authorities are seeking a “person of interest” suspected of causing a two-alarm fire and explosion Wednesday at Winthrop Avenue and Goffe Street.
New Whalley Substation Gets OK
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.
Apple Oil Truck Rolls Over; School Bus Crashes
by | Feb 18, 2015 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
(Updated) Two crashes caused traffic tie-ups and an oil spill Wednesday morning.
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Cop Cracks Crooks’ Copper Caper
by | Feb 16, 2015 3:26 pm | Comments (8)
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The copper thief confessed to hitting homes all over town. That meant Detective Joseph Aurora’s investigation was just beginning.
Burglars Clean Out Barbers
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.
Dead Body Found In Basement
by | Jan 7, 2015 4:10 pm | Comments (3)
City housing inspector Rick Mazzadra made a grisly discovery in a Blake Street basement Tuesday — the hanging corpse of a 24-year-old man.
Sleigh Pulls Into Southern
by | Dec 11, 2014 12:54 pm | Comments (0)
Southern Connecticut State University and the New Haven Police Department School Resource Officers will team up to sponsor the Friends of Rudolph Sunday. The event will feature 90 minutes of fun-filled Holiday craft activities for children and their family members. Children also receive a gift from Santa.
Ground Broken On Bowen Field’s $11.6M Redo
by | Oct 27, 2014 4:30 pm | Comments (7)
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Mayor Harp hands her construction cap to a Hillhouse student.
Come November of 2015, Hillhouse High athletes will have one more reason to be thankful — the long-awaited reopening of Bowen Field.
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Cops Contemplate WEB Substation Move
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.
Owl’s Nest Still Endangered
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.
He Never Gave Up On That Green Giant
by | Sep 30, 2014 8:36 am | Comments (4)
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Eli Greer wasn’t ready to part with his old Giant Upland two-wheel mountain bike and buy a new one. Sure, someone had stolen it. But he believed he would somehow get it back.
4 “Urban Oases” Created In City Parks
by | Aug 11, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (0)
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Students work on site at an earlier event at Common Ground high school, creating an educational wetland as part of the urban oases program.
Common Ground High School sent in these photos and the following write-up about the creation of urban wildlife refuges in New Haven, announced at an event Friday morning featuring kids, environmentalists, politicians and the United States Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS).
Reverend Furlow Comes On Board
by | May 19, 2014 12:44 pm | Comments (5)
Richard Furlow has five separate neighborhoods to represent; he promised to do so “independently.”
Bowen Field Rehab Delayed Another Year
by | Apr 16, 2014 8:25 am | Comments (9)
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Hillhouse mom Johnson: Bring the bulldozer!
Track runners and football players will have to wait until August 2015 to return to a renovated Bowen Field, as the city pursues a $4 million plan to haul away polluted debris to Ohio.
Angela Russell Resigns
by | Apr 8, 2014 12:18 pm | Comments (11)
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(Updated 1:48 p.m. with Russell comment.) Queue up yet another special election: Angela Russell has resigned from the Board of Alders.
Another Tuesday, Another Election
by | Mar 3, 2014 5:52 pm | Comments (4)
Voters return to the polls Tuesday for — what else? — another New Haven election, this one for seats on the Democratic Town Committee.
Possible Link Probed In Hillhouse, Yale Threats
by , and | Dec 19, 2013 12:58 pm | Comments (1)
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Custodian Maribel Fernandez waited outside for her son, a student.
Police are looking to question a 49-year-old man in connection with a phoned threat that led to a lockdown at Hillhouse High School Thursday — the same 49-year-old man suspected of having phoned in a similar threat that led to a lockdown at Yale University last month.
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“Church Without Walls” Wants Some
by | Dec 12, 2013 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
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160 Carlisle St.
A home-based church in Beaver Hills is ready to expand across town to Trowbridge Square — if it can convince to city to sell it a shuttered youth center for $1 million, then raise big money to renovate the building.
Business, Civic Leader Louis Stone Dies At 62
by | Dec 2, 2013 11:40 am | Comments (8)
(Updated Monday with full obituary) Louis Stone, a warm and widely respected leader in New Haven’s civic circles, died on Thanksgiving Day after a tragic accident.
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In Tune, St. Brendan Marks First Century
by | Nov 25, 2013 4:32 pm | Comments (0)
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.
Jewish Cemetery Database Launched
by | Oct 20, 2013 5:27 pm | Comments (2)
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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?