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Thomas Breen |
May 21, 2020 12:08 pm
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Closed downtown businesses in March.
A federal judge has turned down a complaint from a local bar owner alleging that the mayor and the governor have violated her constitutional right to free assembly during the pandemic.
The court’s rationale? The emergency orders limiting the size of social gatherings are not “arbitrary” or “unreasonable” or “a plain, palpable invasion of rights,” but rather appropriate actions for government to take during a public health emergency.
Ocean Management’s plans to transform a largely vacant riverfront stretch of Westville into 129 market-rate apartments won key approvals as city planners chose increased density over immediate neighbors’ traffic concerns.
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Brian Slattery |
May 21, 2020 9:36 am
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Jason Calogine was tired and prepared. Rehab Rajou was energized and excited. Isabella Fletcher-Violante was happy to be there. They and several other fellow Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet students were on a Zoom chat with Michael Hinton, a teaching artist at Elm Shakespeare, recording a final few scenes for the school’s production of Cymbeline — which pivoted from theater to Zoom film project to keep the program going during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rendering of project’s riverine bike path and pedestrian plaza.
Building new apartments on the grave of the old 500 Blake Street Cafe is a great idea. But what about the traffic? And what kinds of stores will go on the first floor?
Westville neighbors offered that support and unleashed those questions Wednesday night in a virtual gathering with a prominent developer about his plan to build on the lot that used to house the storied restaurant-bar-banquet hall.
A New Haven driver in his early 40s went on a tear through Westville streets, slamming into cars and circling the blocks, until he got stuck — and pulled into an ambulance.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 17, 2020 12:25 pm
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The Westville Synagogue on West Prospect Street was shot at, not by bullets, but by projectiles from a BB gun.
The incident likely occurred some time between April 10 and April 13. The police responded Tuesday at noon, when someone associated with the congregation entered the building and reported the damage.
No one was hurt as the building was empty due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with congregants gathering only virtually at home to celebrate the eight-day Passover holiday.
Organizer Luis Luna at the Food Garage: Undocumented workers are frontline workers.
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Common Ground High School barn, where Food Garage team divides up boxes.
What began in mid-March with a few boxes of extra vegetables from Trader Joe’s has turned into a grassroots operation that collects donated food for around 180 mostly immigrant families a week out of a garage in Westville.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 30, 2020 1:59 pm
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Natalie Kikkenborg at her home, in self-quarantine.
Natalie Kikkenborg is finally beginning to feel like herself again — nearly three weeks after the 36-year-old Westville fitness instructor and single mom’s temperature first shot up to 102 degrees, and over one week after she tested positive for Covid-19.
She wants people to see her and know about her experience, in part to dispel misconceptions about who is or isn’t at risk during the pandemic.
Ocean Management plans to build 129 new apartments and over 7,000 square feet of new commercial space at the site of the long-shuttered 500 Blake Street Cafe in Westville.
Someone left a car running at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Saturday, went inside to the convenience store — and came back out to find someone else taking off with the vehicle.
Vowing to crack down on dangerous driving amid a rash of pedestrian crashes, police obtained an arrest warrant for a man accused of plowing into the walker of a woman inside a Westville pedestrian crosswalk.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 18, 2020 4:09 pm
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CFO Penn in foreground, with Superintendent Tracey.
The Board of Education is really not in deficit. It has just been chronically and systemically under-funded for the last 30 years, and you should write to your representatives, especially in the state to deliver that message.
