by | Jun 16, 2006 6:04 pm | Comments (0)
Marcella Dixon picked up the phone and helped a 19-year-old woman give birth to a baby boy. Then she helped guide a frantic group through a fatal shooting in Newhallville. All in a week’s work on 911 dispatch duty.
by | Jun 9, 2006 8:55 am | Comments (2)
Barbara Tinney (pictured) tells a story about passing two little boys who were singing a song popular a decade ago that mentioned fathers. “Then they stopped singing, and one boy asked the other, ‘Who is your daddy?’ And there was dead silence. It broke my heart.”
by | May 10, 2006 8:46 am | Comments (1)
Hey Oprah: This woman has a story to tell.
by | May 5, 2006 12:46 pm | Comments (0)
A 16 year-old boy brought a sawed-off shotgun to Hillhouse High School. He didn’t get a chance to shoot anybody. Thank Officer Marcus Tavares.
by | Mar 27, 2006 2:32 pm | Comments (0)
When two men leapt out of the swerving car she’d been following through Dwight, Detective Karen Bell (pictured) chased after the bigger one on foot, caught up to him for a fight in the middle of Kensington Street, and managed to wrestle his handgun from him and throw it in a snowbank behind her. At a police department awards ceremony, she wanted to thank other people.
by | Mar 8, 2006 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
Alan Wenk, a longtime walking-beat cop in Fair Haven whose idea of fun is hiking the entire Appalachian Trail, was cooped up in a patrol car all morning Wednesday. He found a way to do true community policing anyway.
by | Dec 23, 2005 1:01 pm | Comments (1)
A group of grandmas in New Haven (including Margaret Thomas, in photo) were willing to start all over again raising children — their children’s children. Along with a cop who climbed a pole to save people’s lives, and eight other heroic groups and individuals, they made the New Haven Independent Honor Roll of 2005.
by | Dec 22, 2005 9:17 am | Comments (6)
Her number 15 basketball jersey hangs in two schools’ halls of fame. Now Tracy Claxton has joined a new team: New Haven’s Liveable City Initiative (LCI). She plays on her home court, the Dwight neighborhood.