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Pee Wee Herman.
Officer Yonick Crawford caught a thief trying to make off with two 30-packs of Budweiser from the Amity Stop & Shop. Thieves at other west side locations had better luck escaping with a 55-inch TV and a Pee Wee Herman doll.
by | Oct 15, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (11)
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Shiller: Prices up 30 percent since 1975.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
by | Sep 12, 2018 8:15 am | Comments (5)
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Tenant leader Montreal Johnson: How about homeownership?
Forget high-rises. Think front porches, gardens, homeownership, and perhaps a swimming pool.
Westville Manor tenants offered that vision of a preserved community as they guided officials beginning the last phase of efforts to transform public housing in West Rock.
by | Jul 20, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (6)
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Targets lined up inside the range …
… as the ribbon is cut outside.
Francine Caplan wasn’t sure she’d live to see the day where she didn’t hear a hail of gunfire just blocks away from her home. She and her neighbors had been pushing for what seemed like forever — actually more than two decades — for the city to move the outdoor police firing range in Beaver Hills.
by | Jul 13, 2018 8:26 am | Comments (1)
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Step aside, Stop & Shop and Big Y: There’s a hotter spot to buy produce near the Brookside housing development.
by | Jun 19, 2018 12:46 pm | Comments (12)
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Jon Sullivan presents plan to Westillville-West Hills.
A project that would put 124 market-rate senior apartments in the shadow of West Rock is a step closer to happening about 19 years after it was approved the first time.
Continue reading ‘W. Rock Senior Housing Plan Back On Track’
by | Jun 3, 2018 6:55 pm | Comments (17)
The suspect.
Updated — One hundred New Haven cops — a quarter of the force — were still out looking Sunday for a man in connection with the shooting death of a 28-year-old woman in front of her 6 and 11-year-old children.
by | May 22, 2018 3:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Former West Rock Nursing Home in all its deteriorated glory.
An abandoned former West Rock Nursing Home will get a new lease on life as apartments.
by | Apr 30, 2018 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Jessica Trochsler, with students at Brennan-Rogers.
Nearly 600 teachers, parents and students showed up at school sporting blue T‑shirts Friday in support for the hundreds of Elm City kids with autism.
The vibrant display grew out of a years-long efforts by a handful of special education teachers to draw attention to the students in their classes.
Continue reading ‘Teachers Seek Inclusion For Special Ed Kids’
by | Mar 27, 2018 1:02 pm | Comments (3)
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The range as of Jan. 22.
The new indoor police firing range is in the home stretch of completion.
by | Feb 28, 2018 3:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Volunteer and activist M.Z. Pearl of Westville Manor.
Speed bumps. Stop signs. More lights and cameras. More cops, after the new classes are trained. And maybe even a new splash pad.
City decision makers said those fixes can happen relatively soon to make West Rock a safer, healthier neighborhood.
As for $500,000 worth of new sidewalks or a $300,000 new traffic signal, and reconfigured bus routes, those longer-term fixes are going to have to wait a bit.
by | Jan 22, 2018 9:24 am | Comments (2)
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Westville Manor resident Asia Melton explains how she got pothole fixing results.
West Rockers agreed that their neighborhood needs speed bumps. Bus service that actually gets people where they need to go. A shuttle bus to Hamden.
As for more cops and a substation? Opinions were divided.
by | Dec 21, 2017 8:49 am | Comments (16)
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A second bridge like this one will connect Brookside to Winslow Augustine Park.
Brookside neighbors will have a shorter trip to Winslow Augustine Park and Wilmot Road once a new pedestrian bridge connecting the two is installed next year.
And young Brooksiders might rediscover the troll under the bridge.
Continue reading ‘Troll Under Bridge May Return To Brookside’
by | Oct 19, 2017 4:46 pm | Comments (2)
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The courts at Winslow-Augustine were dug up and rebuilt.
Outdoor basketball courts in the city — 21 one of them to be exact — are sporting new surfaces and paint thanks to an initiative to make them a safe place to play.
by | Sep 28, 2017 3:28 pm | Comments (9)
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Greig back at work after a six-week recovery from her crash.
West Rockers are trying to tweak the B bus’s route through their neighborhood and make their streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians — before another one gets hurt.
by | Sep 14, 2017 3:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Ribbon cut on West Rock’s new Hill Health Center outpost.
Starting next week, Mabel Carroll and her neighbors in West Rock’s public-housing developments won’t have to take two buses to see a doctor.
by | Aug 25, 2017 12:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Delgado gets some straight talk from senior Flemming.
Charlie Delgado didn’t enter the room and immediately start introducing himself and shaking hands. He didn’t pass out his campaign literature or deliver a polished campaign stump speech.
Charlie Delgado was there to seek votes. But, he told the crowd, he is not a politician.
by | Aug 22, 2017 9:13 am | Comments (15)
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Sepulveda: back in the Ward 30 saddle, hoping to stay there.
Political newcomer James-Goldson.
Two of the three candidates running to be the next alder for Ward 30 are lifelong New Haveners with connections and histories that they hope will bridge both sides of the big rock on the west side of town.
They also hope to turn out enough voters to decide whether strong experience or new energy matters most in the next representative for the West Rock/West Hills section of the city.
by | Aug 9, 2017 8:19 am | Comments (4)
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Bill MacMullen overseeing the demo of the old Q House in January.
The Q House is still on track for construction to begin next spring despite some fits and starts, including a detour through Probate Court and a subterranean discovery.
Continue reading ‘Q House, Delayed, Set For Spring Groundbreaking’
by | Aug 2, 2017 4:03 pm | Comments (17)
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Marcus Paca pitches Jane Knight of Casa Otonal.
“Ain’t gonna change,” West Rock’s Earlana Mundy told the candidate.
“Nothing changes?” he responded. “Well, that’s why I’m running.”
by | May 3, 2017 12:56 pm | Comments (0)
Solar Youth Inc. green jobs interns spent a recent Saturday tackling litter and trash around the Wintergreen Brook.
Continue reading ‘Solar Youth Keeps It Clean At Winterbrook’
by | Apr 25, 2017 12:11 pm | Comments (4)
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On a recent afternoon at the West Rock Community Center, Sarah Bowles, Elm Shakespeare Company’s new education program manager, heard the kids in her after-school program talking about bars. She asked them what they meant. They explained: In hip hop, the bars meant the metered sentences that rhymed with each other.
That was like Shakespeare’s language, Bowles told them. “It’s like bars.” And they got it. Soon they were trading lines from Shakespeare with the same ease and flow they brought to their favorite hip hop songs.
by | Jan 26, 2017 9:03 am | Comments (3)
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Bevilacqua shows the phase 2 plans Wednesday evening at City Hall.
The City Plan Commission gave the go-ahead for the city’s housing authority to get moving on the second phase of the redevelopment of a West Rock public-housing community.
by | Nov 18, 2016 9:00 am | Comments (8)
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Caplan eager to break ground.
Francine Caplan was all too happy to be standing Thursday in a back lot tucked behind Southern Connecticut State University, with a shovel in her hand. The day was more than 20 years in the making.
by | Oct 27, 2016 3:29 pm | Comments (0)
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Sciulli: Everything has changed.
With a Dec. 1 deadline looming, local nonprofits are changing how they operate to comply with a new federal overtime rule.