Neighbors Raise Substation $$$
by | Jun 18, 2008 7:23 am | Comments (13)
Whalley neighbors like Peaches Quinn (pictured) reported at least temporary success in their struggle to save their police substation. Not everyone was celebrating.
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Whalley Substation Saved, For A Price
by | May 21, 2008 8:06 am | Comments (17)
A new plan could keep the Whalley Avenue police substation open, if neighbors raise enough money. How much money? It depends whom you ask.
WEB Fights For Whalley Substation
by | May 14, 2008 8:23 am | Comments (27)
Just when their agitation succeeded in cutting crime, Whalley neighbors landed in a new battle: to save their police substation.
He Never Melted. Will SCSU Drivers?
by | May 14, 2008 8:08 am | Comments (12)
Carl Goldfield had a question: In a world of $4 a gallon gasoline, global warming, and an obesity epidemic, should any institution be building three new parking lots so people can “roll out of their cars into their offices” or classrooms?
No One Hurt In Cofield Home Fire
by | Apr 18, 2008 8:42 am | Comments (0)
Firefighters rushed to the home of the late Rev. Curtis Cofield to put out a kitchen fire before it could spread.
SWOT Team Eyes Route 10
by | Apr 3, 2008 7:52 am | Comments (1)
“SWOT” stands for “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.” It is bureaucratese for “a way to look at existing conditions and potential changes along eight miles of State Route 10, from the I‑95 interchange in New Haven to Skiff and Dixwell streets in Hamden.”
WEB Gets Action On Prisoner Drop-Offs
by | Feb 20, 2008 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
Weary neighbors of the Whalley jail applauded officials upon learning that the state’s taking steps to help cope with prisoners being released into town.
Shea It Ain’t So!
by | Jan 18, 2008 8:05 am | Comments (3)
Neighbors marked a changing of the guard, as their beloved district manager, Sgt. Steve Shea (on the right in photo), passed the baton to newly minted Lt. Kevin Costin.
WEB Presses State On Prisoner Drop-Offs
by | Jan 16, 2008 8:25 am | Comments (1)
Whalley Avenue is one of the state’s dropping-off point of choice for ex-offenders released from jail — sparking calls for change from neighbors seeking to improve a struggling area.
Flames Leap From Discarded Ash
by | Jan 6, 2008 5:28 pm | Comments (1)
Firefighters rushed to the scene of a fire in Beaver Hills Sunday morning caused by discarded ashes from a wood stove.
WEB Considers Roundabout
by | Dec 19, 2007 9:17 am | Comments (8)
When Erin Sturgis-Pascale brought her gospel of traffic calming to Whalley Avenue, not everyone was ready to accept the new faith.
Man Shot In Beaver Hill
by | Nov 14, 2007 5:24 pm | Comments (0)
Andy was up on a ladder, painting the Diamond Ridge Apartments when a bullet flew by below, striking a man in the leg. “It was scary,” said the painter. “I was ready to jump on the roof!”
“Funkaerobics,” Belly Dancing Get Beaver Hills Fest Shaking
by | Oct 1, 2007 8:54 am | Comments (1)
“You want every extra bit of flesh to be shaking around!” Amanda “Muneerah” Hilton shouted over her shoulder, wiggling her hips. “American culture tells you that’s bad, but in belly dancing, it’s good!” A group of disciples imitated her actions, learning how to do “snake arms” — raise your arm from elbow to wrist to fingers and then let it drop — at a wellness festival hosted by business owners in the Edge of the Wood plaza on Whalley.
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A Ruby Sparkles
by | Aug 20, 2007 1:08 pm | Comments (17)
A new couple on a gem of a one-block street have joined with neighbors to bring about a turnaround in Beaver Hills.
“The Muslim Trainer” Signs Books, Offers Weight-Loss Tips
by | Apr 23, 2007 2:15 pm | Comments (2)
In the past two years, when Mubarakah Ibrahim wasn’t leading a fitness boot camp, tending to her four children, teaching yoga at her fitness studio, or chatting with Oprah, she was writing a book. The Ten Commandments, actually. Of weight loss.
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Chief Starts Damage Control Tour
by | Mar 20, 2007 11:17 pm | Comments (2)
In effort to repair public trust in the wake of the recent bribery and theft scandal in the police narcotics unit, top police brass began making the rounds Tuesday to neighborhood management teams. Police Chief Cisco Ortiz gave assurances that drug arrests would continue, and pledged to hold accountable all officers who may have turned a blind eye to coworkers’ illegal schemes. “They’re just as guilty as the ones who committed the crime.”
“Brooklyn” Waves To Whalley
by | Mar 14, 2007 2:02 pm | Comments (0)
For those low-income or working families unaware of New Haven’s free help with tax returns and the Earned Income Tax Credit, Lady Liberty is attracting customers on Whalley Avenue for one of several tax-prep services that charge fees and snooker cash-needy clients into costly “advances” on refunds. Click on the play arrow for a brief chat on the job, including some statuesque tax-prep advice.
KFC Staked Out
by | Feb 4, 2007 2:44 pm | Comments (0)
The cops swarmed the area around Kentucky Fried Chicken and blocked off Whalley Avenue from Winthrop to Sherman Sunday to stake out an armed robber who may or may not have fled.
Evergreens for Walgreens, Godot for Winthrop & Whalley
by | Dec 20, 2006 7:46 am | Comments (2)
The news from the latest “WEB” (Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills) management team meeting: The new “cookie-cutter” Walgreens will at least have some older trees around it. No prospective buyer’s in sight for the lot at Whalley and Winthrop. And crime has dropped.
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Name The Edge Bear
by | Dec 12, 2006 10:33 am | Comments (12)
It’s hard to say a proper hello to the friendly bear who greats shoppers at Edge of the Woods on Whalley Avenue — because he/she doesn’t have a name. Have a suggestion for the name? Post it by clicking here; Edge owner Peter Dodge is offering a $20 gift certificate for his favorite.
Westville, Meet Whalley
by | Nov 22, 2006 8:35 am | Comments (0)
If this looks like a team photo, it is, sort of. But why were Sgt. Bernie Somers and A.P. Mastrogiovanni (on the left in the photo) and Angelo DeLeo, the president and secretary respectively of the Westville-West Hills Neighborhood Management Team, far from home and hanging out at the Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hill (WEB) Management Team meeting on Tuesday night at the substation across from Edge of the Woods?
Dems Endorse Replacements for Rawls-Ivy, Jolly
by | Sep 27, 2006 7:07 am | Comments (11)
Scrambling to fill the Ward 28 aldermanic seat left empty by Babz Rawls-Ivy, who resigned after admitting to stealing $49,000 in federal funds, local Democrats chose an Orthodox Jewish man with deep family roots in Beaver Hill. In a vote that the Democratic Party chairwoman is calling into question, Moti Sandman (pictured) beat out Jamaican-born entrepreneur Ilona Leffingwell for the ward committee endorsement Tuesday. Meanwhile, in Ward 14, Fair Haven activist Erin Pascale beat out City Hall opponent Evelyn DeJesus-Vargas for the endorsement to fill another vacancy.
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WEB Embraces New Beat Cops
by | Sep 20, 2006 12:01 pm | Comments (3)
The spike in crime has startled Edgewood and Beaver Hills as much as any neighborhoods in town, with some people questioning whether community policing is dying. But the cops received nothing but love at a meeting with the area’s management team, and these two officers were part of the reason why. Meanwhile, Police Chief Cisco Ortiz announced that more cops would soon be on the street.
Rawls-Ivy Resigns
by | Sep 14, 2006 2:28 pm | Comments (3)
“The way forward is with a broken heart.” So wrote Beaver Hills Alderwoman Babz Rawls-Ivy Thursday in a letter announcing her resignation in the wake of pleading guilty to embezzling $49,000 in federal money.
Resignation Looms?
by | Sep 12, 2006 3:58 pm | Comments (1)
City Hall’s opponents and supporters alike were scrambling Tuesday to find a candidate to replace Beaver Hills Alderwoman Babz Rawls-Ivy. If, as expected, Rawls-Ivy (at left in photo) resigns her seat this week in the wake of her guilty plea to embezzling public money, a special election must take place within 45 days to choose her successor, under Section 53 of the city charter. Independent readers have been unanimous in their comments in calling for Rawls-Ivy to resign. Wrote one reader: “I’m sorry to read of her misdeeds, but I know firsthand that she has done tremendous good — for the four children she has adopted, and for her neighborhood and the city. I’m sure Babz will do the right thing now and resign, but our city will be the worse off for losing her as an alder.” Click here to join the discussion; please be civil and respectful in your choice of words.