by | Sep 23, 2011 3:13 pm | Comments (10)
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The kids skateboarding at Edgewood Park won’t have to cross Whalley to grab potato chips to snack — once the apple and cherry trees Semi Semi-Dikoko and his neighbors plant this weekend mature and bloom.
by | Sep 21, 2011 2:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Arturo Franco Camacho brainstorms
If he can design and operate two major restaurants in New Haven, Arturo Franco Camacho figured, he can come up with the perfect picnic table for patrons of the food trucks at Long Wharf. All he needed was a bright new idea; he came up with one.
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‘Long Wharf Awaits
The Perfect Picnic Table’
by | Sep 5, 2011 10:10 am | Comments (4)
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Nine-year-old Jara Bolden was worried this adult-sized branch might fall on his foot and injure him before he successfully hauled it to the curbside — and joined citizens all over town in clearing away arboreal debris from Hurricane Irene.
by | Aug 1, 2011 12:05 pm | Comments (15)
Thomas MacMillan File Photo.
Edgewood Park won a national election to get a new fruit orchard — by close to 10,000 votes more than the next closest community.
by | Jul 12, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments (1)
It’s not often that the night air of Edgewood Park is filled with a crowd’s shouts of “Tequila!” Monday was one of those nights.
by | Jul 7, 2011 3:29 pm | Comments (6)
Frank Somers vanquishes the mess.
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While Cole Zakur was playing hide-and-seek inside “MOAI,” his dad David helped lead neighbors to rescue their reclaimed pocket park from a new wave of menacing attacks — carried out by spray paint-wielding intruders over the holiday weekend.
by | Jul 5, 2011 4:27 pm | Comments (8)
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Crystal Reaves could not understand why people would leave their shorts, bras, and other personal stuff in the four bathrooms at Lighthouse Point Park, which she hosed down with bleach and water beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
The morning after throngs jammed Lighthouse to celebrate Independence Day, park workers were still wading through the debris left behind — as were neighbors outside the park, some of whom said their lawns were trashed.
by | Jul 5, 2011 1:19 pm | Comments (7)
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Or the profits?
by | Jun 29, 2011 4:02 pm | Comments (3)
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The ceremonial plunger is depressed. From left to right: Mayor John DeStefano, Kevin Burke of Wells Fargo and Jeff Zeitlin and Gail Franc of IKEA.
If you can see the monument atop East Rock from your house, you should be able to see fireworks on July 4.
by | May 5, 2011 3:56 pm | Comments (20)
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Workers took down girders on Wednesday.
After 34 years of service, it’s curtains for the stage on the New Haven Green.
by | May 3, 2011 1:42 pm | Comments (1)
A group hoping to land a grant for fruit trees in Edgewood Park is asking neighbors to vote online to help out.
by | Apr 5, 2011 11:20 am | Comments (2)
Angry taxpayers will have four more ears to hear their appeals. Two more towers will rise at Bella Vista. And countless ducks will paddle in a cleaner Edgewood Pond.
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‘Aldermen Vote For
Taxpayers, Seniors, Ducks’
by | Mar 31, 2011 4:46 pm | Comments (8)
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Sabrina Bruno welcomed back Sundae Treat along with 25 other splendidly repainted and restored horses in time for this spring’s 100th anniversary celebration of the historic Lighthouse Point Park Carousel.
The five-year $300,000 restoration project cost New Haven taxpayers not a penny.
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‘Flying Horses Return
For Carousel's Centennial’
by | Jan 3, 2011 8:07 am | Comments (2)
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Michael Howard and Alfred Hunt.
Last-year winner Michael Howard predicted he would prevail in the 11th annual New Haven Polar Plunge. However, Howard met his match in Alfred Hunt, a young Marine scheduled to fly off to Afghanistan later this month.
After 15 minutes in the icy waters off Lighthouse Point, neither young man would consent to come out.
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‘Polar-Plunged Marine
Headed To Afghanistan’
by | Dec 30, 2010 9:04 am | Comments (4)
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After the city closed two park ranger stations this winter to save on utility bills amid a budget crunch, Edgewood Park Friends are working to keep theirs open for cocoa, critters and snow-shoers alike.
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by | Oct 27, 2010 2:18 pm | Comments (17)
(Updated with reader photos.) All of a sudden, Edgewood Park erupted in brilliant red and glowing orange.
by | Sep 13, 2010 7:11 am | Comments (14)
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Almost an acre of tall, frondy invasives will be destroyed as part of a plan to restore and enhance the habitat around Edgewood Park’s beloved duck pond. Some neighbors asked if the cure is worse than the sickness.
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by | Sep 8, 2010 7:19 am | Comments (20)
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Despite a last-minute battle to block a new law — including charges of elitism — aldermen voted to put an end to drinking in Lighthouse Point Park.
by | Aug 23, 2010 2:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Rain fell intermittently, but theatergoers were undeterred as a sea of umbrellas blossomed over an entranced gathering for the reprise of iMarvel, a play by A Broken Umbrella Theatre Company. The Westville-based theater company, whose members wrote the play based on the works of New Haven author Donald Grant Mitchell (aka Ik Marvel), presented a round of three 45 minute shows in Edgewood Park Sunday.
by | Aug 9, 2010 7:55 am | Comments (3)
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Park work — including collecting sand, shoveling mulch and picking up trash — was not high on these teens’ list of desirable jobs when they were assigned through Youth@Work to the Friends of East Rock Park (FERP). In the end the work provided valuable experience, and muscles.
by | Jul 30, 2010 10:41 am | Comments (3)
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As Jazee Jackson and the Friends of Dover Beach planted the riverfront park’s 10th shade tree, two Z‑shaped rocks appeared. Near them, a foot below ground, a shiny paper appeared, with hard-to-decipher writing.
The horticultural adventure turned mysterious.
by | Jul 13, 2010 7:59 am | Comments (15)
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Lighthouse Point Park may yet go dry in the near future — if a proposed booze ban has better luck when it comes before the Board of Aldermen for a second time.
by | Jul 9, 2010 4:22 pm | Comments (10)
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Moments after city officials announced they would welcome Jet Skis back to Lighthouse Point Park under increased supervision, a rider blasted through the nearby waters, breaking the rules.
by | Jun 8, 2010 7:47 am | Comments (60)
It started as a conversation about banning alcohol at Lighthouse Point. Suddenly the discussion was whether to start letting people drink in all city parks.
by | Jun 3, 2010 12:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Maddy Kern likes helping her mom defeat knotweeds and thistles because it benefits her family of four. When she knelt in the dirt on English Street, she had a bigger purpose: bringing an abandoned Fair Haven community garden back to life.