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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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.
by | Feb 25, 2011 9:54 am | Comments (2)
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Since his release from prison in November after four years on drug charges, Stephen Carmichael has found only part-time landscaping and snow-shoveling work. With help from a prison re-entry program, he might be headed back to full-time work as a chef.
by | Feb 9, 2011 9:37 am | Comments (0)
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The Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night granted permission for this little brick building on Lynwood Place to become the new student center of the Chabad Lubavitch movement for the Yale community.
by | Feb 6, 2011 11:13 am | Comments (3)
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Prosecutor Kiyana Smith felt that the death of Jack in “Jack and the Beanstock” was hardly accidental. So she led the prosecution team on a charge of murder. Judge Angela Robinson commiserated and counseled her that one of the glories of our legal system is how hard the prosecutor must labor to overcome the presumption of innocence.
by | Feb 1, 2011 3:29 pm | Comments (38)
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Jesse Hameen II shopped at the old Shaw’s; now there’s a new option.
Central New Haven will have a supermarket again, now that Stop & Shop has agreed to take over the old Shaw’s on Whalley Avenue.
by | Dec 23, 2010 9:06 am | Comments (10)
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Hunter.
John Dow returned to New Haven to offer a vision of a lion at heaven’s threshold.
Ben Hunter’s basketball coach asks him to put his cigar out at the Pearly Gates, Dow told a standing-room-only crowd of mourners. “He walks around and says: ‘Yo, Moses, whyn’t you let me borrow that staff?’ ‘Yo, David, show me the sling shot; I don’t believe it.’ Sitting down with Dr. King, Mother Theresa at his first heavenly meal, Ben’s at the table and looks down at all of us and says, ‘Now what?’”
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by | Nov 18, 2010 12:16 pm | Comments (2)
Robin Higgins.
Johnny sat at his Xbox chatting with his new friend, Max, through his Xbox Live Internet connection. As they played together, Max, who’s 12, asked Johnny questions.
“How old are you, Johnny?” he inquired. “Where do you live? What school do you go to?”
Out of earshot of his mother in the other room, Johnny answered his friend as they both cooperated to shoot the bad guys in the video game.
Johnny had no idea that his new friend had lied: He was actually an older man pretending to be a middle-schooler so that he could lure him in trusting kids. The next day, Johnny disappeared.
Fortunately, like the video game they were playing, this abduciton story was fictional. Sgt. Robin Higgins role-played it for ten parents and grandparents gathered at the at the Dwight police substation on Tuesday night. She was there to teach the crowd about online dangers and how to address them.
by | Nov 7, 2010 2:23 am | Comments (3)
A 3‑year-old watched as police raided an apartment on Chapel Street and, they say, busted an “open-air” drug-dealing operation.
by | Oct 25, 2010 2:07 pm | Comments (26)
A wall by the park at the Garden Street apartments where a 16-year-old girl was shot to death Sunday. The alleged shooter appeared in court Monday.
Neighbor Tenia Howell (with son Randy Jr.): “Life is crazy” in the neighborhood.
Nineteen-year-old Golda “smiled” and “laughed” as she told police how she pointed “Little G,” her .380-caliber handgun, at her 16-year-old friend Jamese and pulled the trigger. She thought the safety was on. It wasn’t.
by | Oct 19, 2010 12:00 pm | Comments (12)
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Amid concerns about eviction proceedings already in process, a deal to save a foreclosed housing project on Dwight Street almost failed at the 11th hour. Alderman ironed out last-minute details in an emergency meeting, but questions remain.
by | Oct 13, 2010 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
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After saying no to ice cream, zoners Tuesday night voted down a sandwich shop at a Hill storefront.
by | Sep 29, 2010 11:48 am | Comments (13)
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When a new bar opens on the grave of the old Rudy’s, will Leo Vigue return to pour the pints?
by | Sep 28, 2010 12:44 pm | Comments (8)
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Gloria L. Williams
In 1946, Gloria L. Williams attended the bridal shower of her cousin Constance “Connie” Baker Motley. She returned over the weekend to James Hillhouse High School to celebrate Connie again — this time for her posthumous induction into the Connecticut Freedom Trail.
by | Sep 23, 2010 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
The rehabilitation of the 80-unit Dwight Cooperative apartments on Edgewood Avenue moved forward Wednesday, as the City Plan Commission formally approved an agreement designed to rescue the foreclosed property that had been falling into eye-sore status.
by | Sep 21, 2010 7:39 am | Comments (6)
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Police arrested a 16-year-old after he allegedly drove a rental car into a Mini Cooper and a Honda Pilot in front of the Hospital of St. Raphael on Monday afternoon. The car was connected to three incidents of shots fired earlier in the day.
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‘Cops Arrest Teen After
Shootings, Car Chase’
by | Sep 1, 2010 3:59 pm | Comments (1)
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A car fleeing state troopers on the highway ended up crashing Tuesday night in front of El Amigo Felix, setting Howe Street ablaze with flashing police lights.
by | Aug 26, 2010 12:49 pm | Comments (3)
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The call came in around 6 p.m.: A man was holding a woman hostage inside an Edgewood Avenue apartment with red curtains in the front window.
by | Aug 25, 2010 4:42 pm | Comments (8)
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(Updated) Luis Cabrera said he saw three teens on BMX bikes push a man into the bushes and run off with his money.
by | Aug 25, 2010 2:43 am | Comments (22)
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Negotiators appear to be closing in on a deal to bring supermarket shopping back to the Dwight neighborhood.
by | Aug 4, 2010 11:20 am | Comments (12)
After a weekend of goodbyes and jubilation as Rudy’s bar prepared to leave its Elm Street haunt, cops arrived to settle a dispute between landlord and departing tenant.
by | Jul 29, 2010 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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As Rudy’s bar prepares to leave its home of 76 years this weekend, staff removed the wooden carvings on the walls for safe keeping — and revealed a mysterious image from the past.
by | Jul 9, 2010 1:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Federal stimulus dollars were put to use this week at Howard K. Hill Funeral Home, where Akayla McKinnie learned to adorn a casket with a gold name plate.
by | Jun 23, 2010 7:48 am | Comments (1)
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Fifteen graduates of the Montessori School on Edgewood entered a final procession Tuesday, then heard about another graduation they’re expected to attend in 17 years. Underclassmen (pictured above) donned robes and joined the procession, too.