Before he was roasted, Andy Sharpe stepped out of Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster Street for a cigarette. The interior of the club was dim, amber light filling the space everywhere except for the stage, where the spot light rested on an empty podium. Two rows of armless chairs lined the stage to the left, where the roasters would sit. A wicker chair with cushioned footstool, looking like a castoff from the set of Golden Girls, was positioned between the stage and the roasters’ bleachers. A few people milled about, ordering drinks.
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Apr 24, 2015 2:08 pm
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A 1930s pocketwatch, costing two to three dollars at the time.
Not all the flowers may be out in time for Sunday’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square, but 50 clocks will be.
The still-working antique time pieces from the 1880s to the 1950s, all manufactured by the New Haven Clock Company, will be ticking away in a first-time pop-up exhibition to highlight local collectors of home-grown timepieces.
Doug Hausladen and Giovanni Zinn brought speeding-weary Wooster Street neighbors promises of a “beacon” of hope for a fatal road. Some wanted stop signs instead — but not necessarily bike lanes.
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Mar 30, 2015 7:44 am
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“I ordered up some spring weather,” said the Rev. Alex Dyer, on the morning of Palm Sunday, from the steps of St. Paul and St. James on the corner of Olive and Chapel. “There must have been some miscommunication.”
His congregation was on the steps and sidewalk all around him, everyone smiling in the cold.
Family members of an 81-year-old pedestrian struck and killed by a car blasted police for clearing the driver.
At a meeting at City Hall Tuesday night, Lisa Dogolo (at left in top photo), daughter of victim Dolores Mariconde Dogolo, joined Wooster Square neighbors in questioning why police concluded the driver of the car was not at fault in the collision that cost her mother her life.
With the influx of new housing in Wooster Square and downtown, will the city alter existing bus routes? What will development look like near the highway on Water Street? How will the former C. Cowles & Co. factory building be integrated into the neighborhood?
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Mar 6, 2015 12:19 pm
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Fair Haven’s newest walking-beat cops helped a woman gain the confidence to seek protection against her abuser — and then continued to follow up with her and her family.
A police investigation has concluded that the driver of a blue Audi was not at fault when her car struck and killed 81-year-old pedestrian Dolores Mariconde Dogolo in Wooster Square.
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Feb 25, 2015 3:04 pm
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Petra, left, with attorney James Segaloff at hearing.
Close to 300 new apartments planned for Wooster Square won’t significantly increase car traffic — and the project will actually bolster safety for bicycle riders and pedestrians, its engineer argued.
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Feb 6, 2015 5:15 pm
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LCI’s Mazzadra carries out two fighting roosters.
One rooster was missing an eye and comb.
City officials rescued eight roosters and about a dozen chickens from a house in Fair Haven Heights, after discovering signs of a cockfighting ring beneath a Grand Avenue bar.
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Jan 12, 2015 9:17 am
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First-graders work with counting blocks at BTWA.
After an uphill battle to launch, Booker T. Washington Academy is settling into its building on Greene Street with plans to stay longer than planned. Leislani Nunez, meanwhile, has plans of her own — to stay at the school each day longer than her mom needs her to.
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Dec 18, 2014 9:20 am
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Outing and Osorio.
The organization taught her about trauma, brought financial stability to her family, and saved her life. It also bakes a wickedly good plate of chocolate chip cookies.
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Dec 10, 2014 9:33 am
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Cavaliere and Furlow at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Westville’s Lyric Hall will now have permission to sell beer and wine at its shows, while a Grand Avenue restaurant may serve, too — minus the live entertainment.
That is the upshot of decisions made Tuesday night by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Neighbor Elsie Chapman with Hausladen, Mayor Harp.
Dogolo was killed crossing Ollive.
John Pescatore offered one cheap and easy fix to slow cars speeding down Olive Street: Place fluorescent delineator tubes down a short section to shrink two lanes into one, forcing drivers to yield to cars going the opposite way.
A Wooster Square church is looking to host free daily breakfasts for the transient and homeless — leading some neighbors to offer an amen, and others to object.
In a unanimous roll call vote, Board of Alders granted zoning relief to Wooster Square’s latest proposal for new apartments at its regular meeting Thursday night.
LEAP is back with swim classes for children ages 5 to 13. The classes start next week at the LEAP Community Center pool at 31 Jefferson St. Classes are twice a week: Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday, with the option for a 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. start time. The 10-class session costs $100.
(Updated) The attorney for the driver who killed 81-year-old pedestrian Dolores Mariconde Dogolo in Wooster Square seconded Tuesday an initial police assessment that she was not using a cell phone at the time of the collision.
