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State cops investigate on Greenwich between Kimberly and First.
Ghost outside of Gem Liquor Store.
Kimberly Square was on partial lockdown Wednesday as state police scoured for clues in an “officer-involved” shooting the night before, and neighbors like Ghost processed the drama they saw unfold in their neighborhood.
by | Nov 29, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (10)
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150 Sargent Dr.: Tough to reach by bus or by foot.
Claudette Kidd of Mothers & Others for Justice testifies Wednesday.
Can these doctors, lawyers, and health CEOs solve a public transit problem? From right to left at Wednesday’s hearing: YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Community Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Cornell Scott-Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.
Given New Haven’s broken bus system, how would car-less New Haveners get to a new primary care center planned for Long Wharf?
Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city’s two community health centers will have to answer that question over the next two weeks to win state permission to transform the way that New Haven’s poor get medical care.
Continue reading ‘Primary Plan’s Obstacle: Broken Bus System’
by | Nov 27, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Godfrey-Hoffman Associates Engineer Marcus Puttock at City Plan.
The bike share station outside Hillhouse High School in April.
The city’s bike share program secured approval for its 40th station, which is the last, for now, for the nine-month-old rental initiative.
by | Nov 15, 2018 8:30 am | Comments (1)
New Haven cops, code enforcers and development officials gathered in the Hill North area Wednesday for a walk to identify blight, building violations, and crime problems with the help of neighbors.
Continue reading ‘Sweep Eyes Overhead Sneakers, Overgrown Trees’
by | Nov 6, 2018 8:51 am | Comments (9)
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Rosa DeLauro at Monday night’s get-out-the-vote rally.
Party stalwarts cheer DeLauro at Betsy Ross Parish House.
Dancing across the stage with her fist raised above a shock of purple-dyed hair, New Haven’s 75-year-old Congresswoman taught veteran and neophyte Connecticut Democrats alike how to send campaigners into the electoral battle of their lives.
by | Jun 7, 2018 2:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Malloy: The state must continue to invest in its infrastructure.
With the days of his administration winding down, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been keeping up a steady schedule of public appearances.
He latest local appearance was Thursday, when he came to the New Haven-West Haven town lines to mark the opening of the West River Bridge on I‑95 and press for the continued modernization of the state’s infrastructure.
Continue reading ‘I-95 West River Bridge Opens Ahead Of Schedule’
by | Apr 30, 2018 5:23 pm | Comments (51)
Dirt bikers fleeing cops Sunday in Edgewood Park.
The daredevil dirt bike season began with a vroom as renegade riders surrounded a driver’s car, then surrounded a cop car, before zooming away through a park.
by | Apr 18, 2018 8:48 am | Comments (3)
Chris Mattei (left) pitches New Haven delegate Iva Johnson at Tuesday night’s table-hopping Democratic Party session.
One spoke of how his grandfather worked as a machinist for three decades at Winchester Arms. Another recalled being voted “most respected on either side of the aisle” in the legislature. A third boasted that his financial resume makes him the best state treasurer candidate — in history.
by | Mar 23, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (2)
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National HIV/AIDS advocate Michelle Lopez speaks at Betsy Ross Hall.
Nartasha Robinson praise dances to Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It.”
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The late Elsie Cofield.
The number of babies born at Yale-New Haven Hospital with HIV has been effectively zero since 1996. But now a new group is battling the disease: people 50 and older.
Nationally known HIV/AIDS advocate Michelle Lopez brought that message to the Betsy Ross Magnet Hall on Kimberly Avenue Thursday evening or the third Elsie Cofield Woman & Girls HIV/AIDS awards event.
by | Jul 15, 2017 9:34 pm | Comments (11)
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Paca lambastes Harp administration at DTC candidate forum on Saturday.
Is New Haven a stable city that has become safer, more responsibly governed, and more attuned to the needs of its students and workers over the past four years? Or is it barely treading water, rife with violence and unemployment, led by a mayoral administration bent on political retaliation and deceit?
by | Jun 26, 2017 8:04 am | Comments (8)
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City’s Jeff Moreno at neglected state-owned Rosette Street lot.
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Harris and McKnight review potential new uses for a vacant lot on Rosette Street.
When Lisa McKnight first moved to Rosette Street almost 50 years ago, her family’s and her neighbors’ yards were lush with grapevines, apple trees, pear trees, and rose bushes. Now she may get to see such splendor reappear on the long-vacant, overgrown lawn across the street from her home.
by | Jun 9, 2017 2:18 pm | Comments (8)
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Underwood presents platform to DTC Thursday night.
DTC Chair Mauro: “This party knows what it is.”
Candidates seeking the backing of Connecticut’s most influential local Democratic Party are on notice: They have some policy questions to answer.
by | Mar 20, 2017 12:15 pm | Comments (1)
A robber thought a kitchen knife would enable him to rob a Kimberly Square convenience store and get away.
It didn’t work out that way.
Continue reading ‘Coffee Pot Cracked On Knife-Wielding Robber’s Head’
by | Feb 21, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (12)
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Bassani pushes Perez; Winfield backs Ellison.
Looking to influence the future course of their party, New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee plans to endorse one of the leading candidates for national chairman in a battle that has revived the conflicting visions of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
by | Jun 3, 2016 2:01 pm | Comments (0)
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The scene in the rear lot of Catapano’s as work began.
It turns out that Lisa Calvo’s body wasn’t buried in the back of a Kimberly Avenue towing yard. At least not as far as New Haven detectives could tell. But they’re not giving up on the hunt for answers to a 10-year-old mystery of why she disappeared.
by | Apr 19, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (9)
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McBath (above), Nance-Holt (below) at Clinton event.
Thanks to a competitive race for president, Annette Nance-Holt was on Kimberly Avenue Monday telling the story of how a gang member’s stray bullet killed her 16-year-old son Blair on a Chicago city bus. Lucia McBath was there, too, recalling how a 47-year-old man shot dead her unarmed 17-year-old son Jordan after starting an argument about Jordan’s loud music.
by | Apr 8, 2016 7:42 am | Comments (6)
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Sanders surrogate Turner brings down the house.
While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wrestled in the mud in New York State, two of their highest-profile surrogates swooped into New Haven for a passionate forum of their own — that ended with a kumbaya moment.
by | Mar 21, 2016 7:32 am | Comments (11)
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Congregation at Sunday’s inaugural Restoration Church service.
Co-founders Betty Lorde and Kim Jenkins.
In the front row of an historic church service, Kim Davis sang a hymn entitled “Holy, Holy, Holy,” not as an outcast, but as a deacon.
by | Aug 18, 2015 4:29 pm | Comments (4)
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A day after the emergency demolition of an historic downtown building, city inspectors acted to prevent collapses at three other properties.
Continue reading ‘Stop Work Order Issued; 2 Buildings Condemned’
by | Apr 12, 2015 10:24 am | Comments (1)
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Expect delays and closures on I‑95 beginning Tuesday, April 21, as the state reconfigures Exit 44.
by | Feb 18, 2015 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
(Updated) Two crashes caused traffic tie-ups and an oil spill Wednesday morning.
Continue reading ‘Apple Oil Truck Rolls Over; School Bus Crashes’
by | Jun 25, 2014 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
Betty Seye took out the dryer and the synthetic hair — and a two-strand twist corn roll bun was underway.
Continue reading ‘Senegalese Hair Braider Marks Decade In Hill’