by | Jun 12, 2013 12:15 pm | Comments (6)
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Three years after neighbors helped kill a plan to open a convenience store on a residential stretch of Blake Street, the owners tried out a different idea: How about a daycare center?
by | Apr 24, 2013 7:43 am | Comments (14)
One day before neighbors are to meet on the future of Bowen Field, a Hillhouse student shared the results of her relevant research: An astroturf field at the high school’s new gridiron would likely send rubber pellets leaching into Beaver Pond.
by | Apr 22, 2013 2:40 pm | Comments (5)
(Updated)The cops tried to pull over a driver Friday night who ended up killing a 29-year-old woman in a car crash.
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by | Feb 20, 2013 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
Wingate, center, with Robinson-Thorpe, at right.
A city planner came to Beaver Hills and Edgewood neighbors with a pitch — help us imagine how the whole city should look
by | Feb 18, 2013 5:36 pm | Comments (32)
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Alderwoman Robinson-Thorpe: “It’s unacceptable.”
In order to carry passengers down Goffe Terrace Monday, the Z3 bus had to swerve around a bank of unplowed snow, crossing the yellow lines into oncoming traffic.
The tight spot was one of dozens neighbors flagged as they called in complaints about narrow streets and high snow piles — questioning the city’s assertion that the post-blizzard cleanup is largely done.
by | Feb 1, 2013 2:00 pm | Comments (3)
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BOE member Samuels: Politics take a toll.
Whatever you do to the Board of Ed — how about putting some real live kids on it?
That was one of the most passionate ideas offered Thursday night about how to change New Haven’s charter.
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‘Charter Reform Idea:
Put Kids On Ed Board’
by | Jan 8, 2013 4:44 pm | Comments (2)
The city will issue bonds for $3.6 million to pay for an upgrade to Hillhouse high school’s football field — with a promise to address neighborhood concerns about the environment.
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‘Final OK Granted For
Bowen Field Borrowing’
by | Jan 8, 2013 9:23 am | Comments (0)
A 21-year-old was shot four times at the Getty Gas Mart in Beaver Hills Monday night, after he ran into the store to escape a man he had been fighting with.
by | Dec 28, 2012 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
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A new turf field might be good for the Hillhouse football team. Its new bleachers might be good for parents and fans. But will it be bad for the hooded mergansers, mallard ducks, and great blue herons who live nearby?
by | Dec 7, 2012 4:12 pm | Comments (13)
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Schools officials make the case for Bowen Field redo.
Joyner floats another idea.
The Jets and Giants share a home field in Jersey. Should Cross and Hillhouse do it in New Haven — and save taxpayers money?
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by | Oct 22, 2012 3:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Sgt. Nick Marcusio (right) with Officer Maneet Bhagtana in Brendan Towers Monday.
Detectives knocked on dozens of doors Monday at the Brendan Towers apartments off Whalley Avenue seeking clues about the murder of Christian Garcia.
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‘After Royal's Murder,
Cops Canvass Apartments’
by | Oct 10, 2012 3:01 pm | Comments (1)
When neighbors and city officials invited him to New Haven to hear a “pop-pop-pop” of automatic rifles Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal pronounced the noise “irrefutably intrusive” to the neighborhood — and pledged his support in chasing down $6.5 million in federal money to move the firing range indoors.
by | Sep 30, 2012 2:46 pm | Comments (1)
Detectives were on their way to the Bronx Sunday afternoon to retrieve an 11-year-old New Haven boy who had run away from home, sparking an extensive citywide search.
by | Sep 7, 2012 3:59 pm | Comments (2)
Guns drawn, cops ordered a man out of a gold GMC SUV and had him walk backwards to them with his hands in the air. The police thought they might have the carjacker they were looking for — but it was the wrong guy.
by | Jun 24, 2012 11:36 pm | Comments (6)
On the eve of a monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling, New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon was running for reelection — and detailing some of the work she’d like to do if Connecticut needs to pick up the pieces of a fractured health reform law.
by | Jun 18, 2012 8:16 am | Comments (14)
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Hillhouse linebacker Terrell Fairweather looks forward to seeing his team play under the lights on a new turf field, after a surprise last-minute $11.6 million snuck through the state legislature to redo Bowen Field.
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by | May 31, 2012 8:56 am | Comments (5)
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Shots rang out in Beaver Hills at rush hour Wednesday after a Tomos scooter collided with a green pick-up truck.
by | May 1, 2012 3:03 pm | Comments (9)
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After one of his delivery guys fended off two gun-wielding muggers, Steven Sahin expanded his Blake Street pizzeria’s after-sundown no-fly zone.
by | Apr 30, 2012 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Diane Brown gets her award from bank Senior VP Lynn Smith.
The Hillhouse High marching band led a parade down Sherman Avenue. But first there were three women to honor.
by | Apr 26, 2012 8:06 am | Comments (1)
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Running mates Betty Alford & Major Ruth, who presented the case to the SEEC.
Two first-time candidates rounded up students and seniors who said another candidate misled them into filing fraudulent absentee ballots. Now they’ve convinced a state agency to take an independent look.
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‘Absentee Fraud Charges
Will Get A State Hearing’
by | Apr 3, 2012 3:48 pm | Comments (3)
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The city has a springtime promise for drivers and bikers jolted by potholes: Let us know, and we’ll roll out the “Wacker” and patch up the road within two weeks.
by | Mar 20, 2012 7:52 am | Comments (12)
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Ward 29 recount: New complaints cast doubt on crucial absentees.
When college sophomore Shavalsia Sabb cast her first-ever ballot, she had no idea she would land in the middle of New Haven’s latest voting controversy.
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by | Mar 8, 2012 5:53 pm | Comments (1)
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Moderators count absentee ballot envelopes as candidates and supporters observe.
After more than two hours of painstaking ballot examination, a vote recount turned up new numbers for candidates who ran in a local election this week.
by | Feb 29, 2012 2:55 pm | Comments (3)
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Nan Bartow sent this write-up and these photos from a neighborhood osprey platform-raising.
by | Dec 25, 2011 11:51 am | Comments (57)
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On Thursday, Antonio “Country” Holloway’s old principal gave him a suit and sent him to a job interview.
On Saturday night, someone shot Holloway on Norton Street.
Early Sunday morning, he died.