Downtown Streets Cleared
by | Nov 29, 2010 6:24 pm | Comments (1)
Police blocked off downtown streets Monday evening as they investigated a report of a suspicious package at One Century Tower at 265 Church St.
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Strong Black Women Mentor Their Younger Selves
by | Dec 29, 2009 10:24 am | Comments (4)
Dymin Ellis (pictured) was wearing half a dozen strong black women role models on her T‑shirt. At an all-day conference on Monday, she met that many more in person.
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Mr. Mailbox & Co. Stage a “Write-In”
by | Aug 3, 2009 7:20 am | Comments (0)
Rachel Holmes loves old-fashioned letters and postcards. She got a chance to support the carriers who deliver them as a dozen union members, dressed up in Hawaiian shirts, leis, and grass skirts, braved a near-tornado to promote letter and postcard writing.
Winners Selected in Couture New Haven Contest
by | Apr 2, 2009 10:34 am | Comments (6)
After a contest that drew more than twice the expected number of applicants, Yale University Properties marketing and promotions coordinator Brittany Lipsett said the new face of “Couture New Haven” would be 23-year-old North Haven resident Marie-Lynn Piscitelli (pictured, left).
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Power Outage Hits City
by | Dec 15, 2008 12:35 pm | Comments (4)
(Updated: 3:23 p.m.) Some 3,100 customers lost power in New Haven Monday after an accident involving a United Illuminating (UI) employee.
“Now Cracks a Noble Heart”
by | Sep 13, 2008 9:14 pm | Comments (1)
More than 1,000 officers in a long blue line saluted as the casket of fallen Sgt. Dario Aponte was carried into St. Michael’s Ukrainian Church for his funeral mass.
Hundreds Flee Omni Fire
by | Sep 12, 2008 9:51 am | Comments (6)
Fire Lt. Herschel Wadley (at left) thought he was bringing his crew to another middle-of-the-night false alarm. Instead they arrived to find close to 300 visitors — including Korean filmmaker Eunjae Lee (top photo) and economists from around the country — streaming groggily out of the Omni Hotel.
“Democracy Victory” At VA
by | Aug 7, 2008 5:00 pm | Comments (3)
There was peace, and voter registration, at the veterans hospital Thursday, thanks to an agreement between state officials and the head of the local facility.
The Lights Are Back On
by | Jun 11, 2008 2:51 pm | Comments (0)
The juice was back by 1:20 p.m. in almost all of the 3,300 New Haven homes that lost power overnight, according to United Illuminating.
Bleach Factory Evacuated
by | Apr 17, 2008 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
(Updated: 12:49 p.m.) Thirteen to 15 people have been taken to the hospital for respiratory problems after a leak of chlorine gas at H. Krevit & Co. on Welton Street near the Hamden border.
Library Parties On
by | Feb 5, 2008 11:19 pm | Comments (1)
In her commedia dell’arte mask, Margaret Watley was in fine Mardi Gras form as she attended the ninth annual Fat Tuesday-themed party to benefit the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) in its 121st year.
Rookie Rodriguez Bats for Hall of Famer
by | Feb 5, 2008 12:24 pm | Comments (0)
The rookie alderman from the 15th Ward in Fair Haven, Joey Rodriguez, went to bat at Monday night’s BOA meeting on behalf of Roberto Clemente, the great baseball player, who is a role model for many local Latinos.
Lauri Roman Cleans Her Office
by | Feb 4, 2008 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
In five minutes! A presidential candidate was coming.
No Noose Is Good News
by | Jan 17, 2008 3:21 pm | Comments (1)
In the wake of a disturbing rash of incidents involving nooses across the state, New Haven’s NAACP and Turner Construction vowed zero tolerance for hate crimes in New Haven.
Rell Pressed On Tobacco $$$
by | Jan 10, 2008 7:46 am | Comments (3)
New Haven’s Rosa DeLauro (pictured) and the rest of Connecticut’s D.C. delegation want answers from the governor about where all that tobacco settlement money — $1 billion and counting — is going. Full story here.
Long Wharf Memorials Cleaned, But . . .
by | Jan 7, 2008 1:28 am | Comments (0)
The Vietnam Memorial and others in Long Wharf Park, recently defaced with gang graffiti, were cleaned by the city Sunday morning. Becky Sanchez, peeking out from her business, might have had a bird’s‑eye view. For three months now she’s been the owner and operator of the La Pinchera Coamena food truck, which is parked more or less parallel to the great V that faces toward Long Island Sound and the Atlantic in the direction of Vietnam.
Vietnam Memorial Defaced Again
by | Jan 5, 2008 8:54 pm | Comments (5)
The city is considering installing security cameras on Long Wharf after vandals defaced the Vietnam veterans memorial for the second time in a little more than a week.
Fire Damage Totals $10M
by | Dec 12, 2007 9:58 am | Comments (21)
(Updated: 5:32 p.m.) A fire that ripped through a downtown block Wednesday morning has destroyed at least six businesses and incurred $10 million in damages, city officials say.
July 4 Brings Anti-War Message From CT to DC
by | Jul 5, 2007 10:06 am | Comments (1)
As New Haveners joined a patriotic anti-war protest at an out-of-town Independence Day “boombox” parade, a Connecticut Congressman joining the march said that summer hearings will keep the pressure on the White House to bring troops home from Iraq.
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Ortiz Answers The Question Of The Hour
by | Mar 19, 2007 5:19 pm | Comments (6)
Why did Police Chief Francisco Ortiz (pictured above) transfer Lt. Billy White — then change his mind? That’s the question of the hour in the unfolding city police bribery and theft scandal. Ortiz offered answers Monday. Click here to read about it.
Other developments:
The state’s ACLU chief (pictured) accused the mayor of ducking responsibility and questions about the affair by “scapegoating” another prominent black leader with accusations of a “shakedown.” Click here to read more.
Embattled Lt. Billy White (pictured) — at the center of the scandal after his arrest last week in an FBI sting — was honored as “cop of the year” at this police-firefighter hockey game last year.
Cllck here to read a potboiler 57-page FBI affidavit about the case; here to read about the “Estupido” incident on Long Wharf; and here, here, here, here, here , here and here for other coverage of the case.
“Holy #&%$!... Do It Again!”
by | Jan 21, 2007 9:33 am | Comments (3)
Click on the play arrow to watch reader Matthew Robb’s video of the demolition Saturday of the New Haven Coliseum. Following is more footage that readers sent in.
Can You Hear Us Now?
by | Jan 12, 2007 9:37 am | Comments (2)
If you’ve been wondering where in New Haven the spontaneous popular anger would surface at the president’s newly announced escalation of American military involvement in Iraq, wonder no longer. Despite the cold weather, nearly 100 people took the steps and avenue in front of City Hall Thursday night carrying signs and shouting “Escalation hurts our nation” and “One, two, three, four, we don’t want your stinkin’ war.”
Katrina’s Responders, A Year Later
by | Aug 29, 2006 8:45 am | Comments (0)
Megan Finn (top photo) and her family, washed out of New Orleans, parked in New Haven — and stayed. Like many New Haveners moved by the tragedy, Frank and Paula Panzarella (middle photo) travelled to New Orleans to help people rebuild; then they returned home to raise money and consciousness here. Sheila Allen Bell (bottom photo) tried to figure out how to welcome refugees to town. A year after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury on the Big Easy, here’s a look at how some New Haveners new and old responded.
Independence Day - New Haven Style
by | Jul 5, 2006 9:12 am | Comments (0)
Only a week ago the Aziz family of Yemen arrived on these shores. Allan Appel found the family and other relative newcomers at New Haven’s Long Wharf fireworks celebration, and spoke with them about Independence Day.
CAA Blows Up Its Board
by | Jun 30, 2006 9:21 am | Comments (0)
With its old board of directors “imploded,” this year’s books balanced, and a new building in the works, the city’s most corruption-mired anti-poverty agency is starting anew. “It was just time to move forward and restore the hope and integrity of the organization,” said new Community Action Agency CEO Amos Smith (pictured at right), after a meeting Thursday night at which the board of directors was almost entirely turned over.