End In Sight For Firing Range?
by | Jun 23, 2009 8:31 am | Comments (10)
“It’s like there’s a war going on in our front yard,” Jennye Hansen pleaded. Police Chief James Lewis said he may have found the solution to her problem.
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100 Cars Coming To Fitch Street
by | May 22, 2009 10:02 am | Comments (5)
A Hamden businessman won permission to store towed cars in a yard in Beaver Hill, after he promised to make a number of improvements and live by a number of conditions.
4 Nabbed In ATV Bust
by | May 18, 2009 7:41 am | Comments (41)
David DelValle and his buddies planned to roar into the Freddie Fixer Parade on their dirt bikes.
Then they ran into Lt. Leo Bombalicki.
Online Petition Aims At SCSU Garage
by | Mar 19, 2009 11:49 am | Comments (20)
Neighbors who have been cleaning up this pond see a looming threat to their efforts — a garage planned by Southern Connecticut State University.
Bombalicki: “Community” Won’t “Direct Police”
by | Mar 18, 2009 8:20 am | Comments (23)
Fresh from vacation in Aruba, Lt. Leo Bombalicki (pictured, left) updated members of the Whalley-Edgewood Beaver Hill Management Team Tuesday evening on his efforts to implement Chief James Lewis’s post- community policing philosophy, which will no longer allow the “community” to “direct” law enforcement by “screaming.”
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Plaza Neighbors Press New Owner
by | Feb 25, 2009 7:55 am | Comments (33)
Now that the Beaver Hill Shopping Center has a new owner, neighbors like Jim Travers are hoping that the “dilapidated eyesore” will get a makeover. Hoping, and working to make sure.
Protestors: Tear Down That Wall
by | Jan 30, 2009 4:35 pm | Comments (31)
Decrying “profiling” and an “abuse of power,” protestors descended on the Whalley Avenue police substation Friday.
WEB Targets 25 Most Un-Wanted
by | Jan 21, 2009 2:08 pm | Comments (58)
A wall in the Whalley Avenue police substation is posted with the mug shots of 25 young African-American men. The 25 aren’t wanted for any crime. They’re men the district’s new top cop aims to push out of the neighborhood or into jail.
Bombalicki Takes WEB Reins
by | Jan 20, 2009 7:48 am | Comments (7)
Would-be bank bandits beware: A new sheriff has pulled into Norton and Whalley.
Collier Heads For Richmond
by | Dec 16, 2008 2:09 pm | Comments (3)
Lt. Sydney Collier is leaving his perch as top cop in New Haven’s “WEB” district to join a former colleague in Virginia.
Laundromat Parking Targeted
by | Dec 3, 2008 2:35 pm | Comments (2)
Neighbors organizing to stop a laundromat from opening on Whalley Avenue have taken a new tack: focusing on parking.
Mumbai Terror Touches New Haven’s Chabad
by | Nov 30, 2008 1:21 pm | Comments (12)
Meir “Chesky” Holtzberg was saying a graveside prayer when he learned the news: Terrorists were holding his cousin hostage in India.
Whalley Regroups For Round 2
by | Nov 25, 2008 8:00 am | Comments (5)
After losing round one, Whalley residents met in an emergency meeting to plan the next step in their opposition to the new laundromat poised to open in their neighborhood.
Dear Neighbor: Your Property’s A Mess
by | Nov 19, 2008 7:48 am | Comments (4)
Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hill (WEB) embarked on a letter-writing mission. The goal: “Curb appeal.”
Crowd Blasts Laundromat
by | Nov 13, 2008 11:09 am | Comments (15)
Neighbors stormed the Hall of Records to speak out against a new laundromat for Whalley Avenue. They wanted to talk about loitering and litter; the Board of Zoning Appeals wanted to talk about parking, and only parking.
City Seeks To Relocate Academy, Firing Range
by | Oct 23, 2008 7:43 am | Comments (11)
After years of struggling with the sound of gunfire, Beaver Hill neighbors like Seth Poole (pictured) are finding hope in a new plan to move the police academy and its firing range out of earshot.
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Laundromat Team Steams Forward
by | Sep 17, 2008 8:10 am | Comments (15)
Hit with a spray of opposition to their proposed Laundromat, the Sproviero brothers left a community meeting disheartened, but not dissuaded from their plans.
Hit-&-Runner Couldn’t Get Away
by | Sep 11, 2008 4:17 pm | Comments (4)
Megan Harrison was stopped behind a school bus when a man driving behind her just couldn’t wait. He slammed into her Jeep Eagle — then fled.
Whalley Leaders Fight Laundromat
by | Sep 4, 2008 8:10 am | Comments (2)
In an emergency meeting, Whalley Avenue neighbors tried to put the brakes on a plan to bring a second branch of a Laundromat chain to the commercial corridor.
Well, There’s Always Powerball
by | Aug 14, 2008 8:22 am | Comments (2)
Wayne Jones hit the jackpot — snatching a $384,000 Colony Road home for just $25,000 at a foreclosure sale. Then his luck ran out.
Foreclosure Steal May Be Too Good
by | Jul 21, 2008 9:20 am | Comments (6)
Against the backdrop of an arboreal ghost, Wayne Jones picked up a Colony Road Tudor for a mere $25,000. At least he thinks he did.
The Fishes Swim With “Organic Bullets”
by | Jul 16, 2008 12:05 pm | Comments (1)
The police firing range may or may not be disturbing the carp in Beaver Pond, but its impact on humans may lead to its moving near a cemetery.
Cop Of The Week
by | Jul 8, 2008 1:23 pm | Comments (4)
Whalley’s new top cop — the third so far this year — knows the turf: He was chasing crooks on the avenue before he even thought of wearing a badge.
Westville Mystery
by | Jun 29, 2008 9:13 pm | Comments (7)
A rash of graffiti has hit Westville buildings, like these tags on the side of the old Hallock’s building on Whalley near Harrison (currently owned by the Church of Scientology).
Whalley Gas-Conveniece Plan Grounded
by | Jun 19, 2008 8:26 am | Comments (8)
Tales from neighbors like George Rose — who saw “a kid, hanging out at [a convenience store], kill a man because he was eating a certain sandwich” — convinced City Plan commissioners to put a brake on a businessman’s plans for Whalley Avenue.