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(Updated) Two men tied a package containing what they claimed was a bomb to a fence at a downtown parking garage Monday afternoon. Police closed off the block — and found out the “bomb” was just a bag of bus tickets.
by | Jul 7, 2013 4:21 pm | Comments (0)
The city has set up “cooling centers” at senior centers and libraries to help people cope with the heat during the day time, beginning Monday.
by | Jun 26, 2013 11:36 am | Comments (4)
Thanks to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday, Peg Oliviera and Jen Vickery can stop wasting money on separate tax filings — and take pride in a country that, for the first time, respects their legal marriage.
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by | Jun 25, 2013 12:52 pm | Comments (0)
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A crowd gathered at Union League for a panel discussion & pep talk.
The concepts and goals of feminism are just as valid today as they ever were.
On the other hand, maybe you shouldn’t use the word “feminist” without sizing up whom you’re talking to.
by | Mar 11, 2013 8:12 am | Comments (6)
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Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field — or was it a time-traveling Abe and Mary Lincoln? — took time off from fighting for the 14th Amendment to drop by for Greater New Haven’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday..
They were protected by reenactors from the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery.
by | Mar 5, 2013 10:06 am | Comments (0)
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North Haven firefighter and St. Bald’s chairman Jason Cusak.
Fourteen teams with a total of over 125 firefighters competed to raise money for childhood cancer research. The event at O’Tooles on Orange Street raised $74,700 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation in New Haven. Firefighters raised money by getting their hair shaved off; Jo Bella Salon, Paul Mitchell Academy and The Salon (orange Street) provided the clippers to do the honors. Top fund-raising team: Guilford’s Firefighters Local 4177, which brought in a hair-raising $10,290.
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‘Firefighter Shearing
Boosts Cancer Research’
by | Feb 9, 2013 8:44 pm | Comments (1)
Mayor John DeStefano, who has been monitoring New Haven’s worst blizzard in a century from Ireland, expects to be on his way home Sunday.
by | Feb 9, 2013 8:28 pm | Comments (55)
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Carl Z.’s truck got stuck on Poplar during a rescue mission.
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Orange Street. All roads were closed to vehicles Saturday; sleds exempt.
(Updated) Don’t expect your street to get plowed Sunday.
And if people keep trying to drive around town, it could take longer.
Meanwhile, it’s official — New Haven got hit with the biggest blizzard in a century.
by | Jan 21, 2013 2:00 pm | Comments (6)
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We New Haveners tend to mistrust neighbors and fear walking at night more than our suburban neighbors do. But we’re more optimistic about our kids’ futures.
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by | Dec 21, 2012 4:35 pm | Comments (7)
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano spoke for the nation’s cities Friday as soon as the National Rifle Association stopped talking. His message: You’ve got to be kidding.
by | Dec 18, 2012 3:28 pm | Comments (13)
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New Officer Cherelle Carr, who grew up in New Haven, with her cousin Officer Jillian Knox.
As he dispatched a fresh batch of rookies to help keep New Haven’s streets safe, Mayor John DeStefano called for the national banning of semi-automatic weapons and large capacity gun clips — or else “the unimaginable will become more commonplace.”
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‘Mayor Swears In 28 Cops,
Calls For New Weapons Ban’
by | Dec 16, 2012 9:46 pm | Comments (1)
As he assembled with other notables at a President Obama-led vigil in Newtown Sunday night, outgoing Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman laid out his ideas for how his colleagues should act.
by | Dec 16, 2012 12:31 am | Comments (0)
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Newtown resident Paige Kousidis and kids Yanni and Angella at vigil on the Green.
Bearing white candles sheltered against the breeze, hundreds of New Haveners sent their light and prayers across the Green Saturday night north and west to Newtown in a support for the families devastated by Friday’s massacre, including one family in their midst.
by | Nov 27, 2012 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
Around 1,800 locations lost power Tuesday afternoon due to a problem on Grand Avenue, according to United Illuminating.
by | Nov 16, 2012 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen of Congregatin Beth El Keser Israel in Westville sent in the following eulogy of former New Havener Rose Goldring Brunswick, a suffragette, unionist, rights activst, Zionist, and great-great grandmother. She died Oct. 17 at the age of 100.
by | Nov 7, 2012 10:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Superstorm Sandy? That was so last week.
A Nor’easter blanketed New Haven with an unexpected pile of snow Wednesday. Thomas MacMillan and Ariela Martin took notice.
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‘Winter Wonderland --
Early November Version’
by | Nov 5, 2012 9:13 am | Comments (0)
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At the scene of the original discovery.
A 35-year-old female who liked to smoke a pipe. A tough-as nails-survivor of a rib-fracturing who lived to a ripe old age.
They died centuries ago. Their newly discovered skeletal remains have revealed their stories anew.
by | Oct 30, 2012 8:09 am | Comments (2)
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Inside the Emergency Operations Center early Tuesday.
As Superstorm Sandy headed out of town leaving 195 fallen trees, 107 blocked streets and 172 downed power lines in her wake, city officials convened in a downtown bunker to plan the clean-up.
by | Oct 29, 2012 10:52 am | Comments (0)
Gov. Dannel Malloy is ordering all state highways closed today, due to Hurricane Sandy. After 11 a.m., trucks will not be allowed on state highways. After 1 p.m., state highways will be closed to all non-emergency vehicles.
“Residents need to take this storm very seriously,” Malloy said in a release. “Beginning in the next several hours, wind gusts will begin to exceed 50 m.p.h., making traveling along our roads — especially wooded areas like the Merritt Parkway — very dangerous. We’re doing this in two phases, so that trucks will first be prohibited and then all non-emergency vehicles. If you’re in a non-evacuation area, stay home.”
by | Oct 29, 2012 7:50 am | Comments (5)
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Firefighter Melendez passes out a flyer about mandatory evacuation.
Mascola and firefighter Ortegon.
This time around, Chuck Mascola isn’t following firefighters’ orders to evacuate his waterfront home: He’s staying home to bail out the basement.
by | Oct 28, 2012 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Polcie Chief Dean Esserman, Assistant Chief Thaddeus Reddish, and Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts at work in the emergency operations center Sunday.
The mayor ordered the evacuation of homes in the Morris Cove and City Point neighborhoods and part of Fair Haven beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday, as New Haven braced for a storm surge from Hurricane Sandy expected to double the worst of Tropical Storm Irene.
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by | Oct 15, 2012 7:59 am | Comments (0)
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Firefighters spent an hour and a half Sunday evening extinguishing a fire at a commercial bakery on Grand Avenue.
by | Oct 15, 2012 7:54 am | Comments (2)
Pedro Segarra is a symbol of the emergence of Latino demographic and political power in Connecticut. He came to New Haven to challenge Latinos to do more with those numbers.
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‘State's Only Latino Mayor
Brings Challenge To Town’
by | Aug 10, 2012 5:51 pm | Comments (10)
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Drivers await rescue at Lombard and James.
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As Gabriella Reyes stopped by the Board of Ed offices on Meadow Street to bring her friend a buffalo chicken sandwich, she noticed it started to rain. Before she knew it, she was up to her waist in water, watching her car float down the street.
by | Aug 31, 2011 7:16 pm | Comments (19)
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LCI’s Rickie Mazzadra (left) and Rafael Ramos prepare a food delivery.
(Updated 7:41 p.m. Thursday) All schools regained power by Thursday and plan to be open Friday, which is the first day of school for kindergarten.