Cop Of The Week
by | Aug 24, 2006 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
Officer David Runlett kept a cold wet cloth with him to stay cool on a blistering afternoon of traffic duty. Little did he know that it would help him save the life of an 18 month-old baby.
Hometown Heroes
The View From Grandma Ruth’s Porch
by | Jun 18, 2006 7:04 pm | Comments (1)
The voices of gospel filtered down Dickerman Street Sunday morning. They came from the small wood-panelled sanctuary of one-story Mt. Zion Pentecostal Church, where 13 scattered bodies cooled themselves with paper fans, clapped their hands, and sang along with two women and a man playing a five-string electric bass.
Lord, make us one! they sang.
Lord make us one!
Lord make us one every day!
Public Servant of the Week
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.
They Became Good Dads
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.”
Cop of the Week
by | May 10, 2006 8:46 am | Comments (1)
Hey Oprah: This woman has a story to tell.
Cop Of The Week
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.
A Cascade of Thanks
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.
Cop of the Week
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.
Hometown Heroes of 2005
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.
Home Court Advantage
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.