by | Aug 22, 2011 7:49 am | Comments (17)
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Don’t put each other down. Learn to walk away; it’s no sign of weakness. Do be your brother’s keeper. Pull your pants up, boys. Keep your legs together, girls. Finish school, be involved with a church, and finish your lives.
by | Aug 16, 2011 7:54 am | Comments (13)
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A fast-growing charter school found new footing on old stone floors, as students at Amistad Academy held their first day of class at the old — and new — Dwight School.
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by | Aug 15, 2011 5:01 pm | Comments (16)
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Sean Reeves.
“O” was riding his bike on Kensington Street when “Bon G” called out to him: “Stop fucking looking over here.” O said “Fuck off” and kept riding.
Twenty minutes later, he was jumped, bullets flew, and a 16-year-old lay dying in the street.
by | Aug 12, 2011 1:22 pm | Comments (15)
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From left: Assistant Police Chief John Velleca, Chief Limon, Mayor DeStefano.
(Updated) Police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with Wednesday night’s shooting death of a 16 year-old, and they’re looking for a second suspect — the person they believe pulled the fatal trigger.
by | Aug 11, 2011 2:30 pm | Comments (21)
A 16-year-old boy died Thursday from wounds suffered in a shooting after a fight about a girl. Then his family clashed with Yale cops at the hospital.
Continue reading ‘Street Brawl Leads To Year’s 21st Homicide’
by | Jul 21, 2011 4:37 pm | Comments (2)
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In an upset victory over a longtime incumbent, Yale union steward won her local party’s blessing in a challenge against Alderman Yusuf I. Shah.
by | Jul 8, 2011 8:23 am | Comments (9)
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As two simultaneous contests to fill a power gap commenced in Dwight, the race focused on who will bring a strong, independent voice to a neighborhood hit hard by violence.
by | Jun 13, 2011 7:47 am | Comments (6)
Police raced to the scene of two separate violent incidents in town shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday.
by | Jun 7, 2011 7:38 am | Comments (14)
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Outgoing Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder is sticking to her plan to wait until July 1 to retire — and in her first extensive comments on the subject, described allowing the mayor to pick her replacement as more democratic than having an election.
Continue reading ‘Calder: Avoiding Election Boosts Democracy’
by | Jun 2, 2011 7:36 am | Comments (22)
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Calder.
Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder announced Wednesday she will resign July 1, thus ensuring that her ward’s next alderman will be appointed by the mayor, not chosen by popular election.
by | May 31, 2011 12:41 pm | Comments (67)
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A campaign-season press conference Tuesday about wanted crooks turned into a sidewalk seminar with skeptical young “Tre” neighbors who had questions about ski masks and a vanished hoops court.
by | May 26, 2011 7:31 am | Comments (2)
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The morning after surviving the second attack in three months by a gun-wielding robber, Johnny Jimenez was back behind the counter at Eliu’s Mart. He has no plans to quit.
Continue reading ‘1 Bullet Later, Papi Returns To The Counter’
by | May 24, 2011 11:00 am | Comments (36)
Calder and Douglass.
As Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder left a special budget meeting at City Hall, she was ambushed with a petition signed by 100 constituents — asking her to resign her post sooner rather than later so that they can choose her replacement.
Continue reading ‘Calder Ambushed; Will Voters Get To Vote?’
by | May 23, 2011 7:30 pm | Comments (14)
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Cops at the shooting scene.
(Updated 9:11 p.m.) “Papi” was walking in from the back room of Eliu’s Delight Mini-Market Monday night when two masked men entered and one of them opened fire, hitting him in the side.
by | May 20, 2011 11:39 am | Comments (1)
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Dwight Gardens.
One of the partners in the rescue of the failed and foreclosed-upon Dwight Garden co-operative apartments on Edgewood Avenue, the Housing Authority of New Haven, will no longer play a part in the deal.
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‘Housing Authority Quits
Dwight Co-Op Deal’
by | May 17, 2011 3:02 pm | Comments (16)
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Robert Frizzelle stopped in to his neighborhood junk-food outlet Tuesday only to encounter baskets of oranges and bananas in the front window — and a childhood memory swelling up inside him.
by | May 6, 2011 7:58 am | Comments (20)
Nine months after doors closed on their Elm Street hangout, faithful Rudy’s patrons raised a glass at the new incarnation of a storied watering hole.
by | Apr 25, 2011 7:55 am | Comments (39)
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Chapel and Howe.
Brian McGrath wants to bring dense, “European-style” development to Chapel West, instead of a Hamden-like stretch of businesses surrounded by parking lots. But first he’ll have to ensure his plan won’t mean gun shops and off-track betting or an extension of the Crown Street club district.
by | Apr 20, 2011 1:47 pm | Comments (7)
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Michael Schaffer (left) is sworn in by Bob Solomon.
When real estate developer Michael Schaffer was sworn in on Tuesday as the newest housing authority commissioner, he lost no time in questioning staff on bed bugs, elevator repairs and a missing loan payment at the Dwight Co-op Homes.
by | Apr 15, 2011 8:05 am | Comments (23)
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Frank Douglass and his grandchildren.
With no supermarket in the neighborhood, Frank Douglass’ grandkids were eating junk food from the corner store. With a new Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue Friday, he said, his 7‑year-old grandson Jahsir can go back to eating carrots like he’s “Bugs Bunny’s little brother.”
by | Mar 31, 2011 4:07 pm | Comments (30)
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Former Shaw’s worker Darious Goodman is back stocking shelves at his old haunt, as Dwight’s shuttered supermarket prepares to reopen in two weeks with a new name — and a 100 percent-local crew of employees.
Continue reading ‘Stop & Shop Hires 150 Workers—All From City’
by | Mar 21, 2011 11:48 am | Comments (11)
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Augusta Lewis Troup School Principal Richard Kaliszewski has died, school officials said Monday.
by | Mar 15, 2011 12:57 pm | Comments (1)
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This bright ceiling mural with cosmic and zodiacal designs was done over the years by a single artist during his visits to Fellowship Place It will be preserved and reinstalled when the mental health facility completes a long-overdue rehab of its Elm Street clubhouse.
by | Mar 14, 2011 12:14 pm | Comments (7)
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The Celentano Funeral Home wants to use a brick building four houses down the street to serve wine and beer at events that are not funeral-related. That departure from quiet post-mortem repasts has some neighbors worried it will become a magnet for late night carrying-on in a a neighborhood that already has its problems. Others feel a business has a right to try to make it any way it can in a tough economy.
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‘Home Plans Non-Funeral
Events At Elm St. Outpost’
by | Mar 2, 2011 8:32 am | Comments (14)
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Demchak (at right) with neighborhood activist Deborah Davis.
Anne Demchak used to slice bologna and wrap meats at East Haven’s Stop & Shop. Today she’s the manager of the new Stop & Shop replacing Shaw’s on Whalley Avenue. She vowed it will be staffed and open by Easter.