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Firefighter Shearing
Boosts Cancer Research

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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Boosts Cancer Research’

Biggest Blizzard In A Century; Drivers Defying Ban Hinder City’s Efforts To Plow The Streets

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.

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Mayor Swears In 28 Cops,
Calls For New Weapons Ban

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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Calls For New Weapons Ban’

New Haven Comes
Together For Newtown

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.

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The Bones Speak

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.

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Highways Are Closed
-- But Not Daf Yomi

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.”

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-- But Not Daf Yomi’

Evacuations Ordered On East Shore; Schools Closed; Emergency Shelters Set Up

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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