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Derby Alderman: Only Elected Officials Get The Big Table!
by Eugene Driscoll | Jan 27, 2012 3:07 pm
A newly-elected Derby Alderman took issue Thursday with the seating arrangement of elected officials at public meetings.

Alderman Arthur Gerckens,...

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$8,000 For Oxford Trees
by Jodie Mozdzer | Jan 27, 2012 2:36 pm
The town of Oxford has received an $8,000 grant to plant new trees at the high school.
Assumption School Open House Slated For Feb. 1
by Lucia Hanock | Assumption School | Jan 27, 2012 1:33 pm
Assumption School in Ansonia is hosting an open house from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 1.

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Twitter News Break
Jan 27, 2012 4:44 pm
They may not agree on much, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be rooting for the same football team next Sunday.
Legislative Analysts Say Malloy Won’t Achieve Pension Savings
Jan 27, 2012 4:11 pm
(Updated 5:15 p.m.) The legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis concluded Friday that the state employee pension concession deal will...more »
One Month After Stroke, Prague Is Back To Work
Jan 27, 2012 2:32 pm
A month after suffering a minor stroke on Christmas, Sen. Edith Prague was back at the state Capitol Friday in good health and telling reporters...more »

Obituaries »

Dorcas Wumba-Di-Mazimi, 85

posted: Jan 27, 2012 10:30 am

Dorcas Wumba-Di-Mazimi of New Haven passed away January 18, 2012.

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Sandra Randolph, 70

posted: Jan 26, 2012 8:17 am

Sandra Corrine Randolph 70, of New Haven, CT passed away on January 20, 2012.

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Kenneth Rawls, 68

posted: Jan 16, 2012 11:38 am

Kenneth Rawls, 68, passed away on December 31, 2011.

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Top-Level Shakeup Looms At Police Department

Paul Bass File Photo Esserman asks 3 assistant chiefs to leave. Paul Bass reports.

Today’s Debates

Walk ... Shakeup ... Redistrict ... $174K ... Timeout ... Taco ... Tasers

Driver Dies
In Chapel St. Collision

Melissa Bailey Photo Medical condition prompted crash. Melissa Bailey reports.

Freshmen Take The Reins

Thomas MacMillan File Photo In some aldermanic committee assignments. Staff reports.

Pryor Cleared

On conflict of interest question. Christine Stuart reports.

Parents Want Walls

Diana Stricker Photo For Branford Intermediate School. Diana Stricker reports.

Cascades Of Romance

Courtesy of the artist Insook Hwang’s bubbles of promise. Stephen Kobasa reports.

Dorcas Wumba-Di-Mazimi, 85

She was a nurse in Belgian Congo: obit.

They Don't
Teach To The Test

Allan Appel Photo Young humans, dogs spotted snuggling with books in Fair Haven. Allan Appel reports.

Default School 101

Neena Satija visits teens at New Haven Adult Ed (WNPR).

Track The Money

So suggests a business group tackling education. Christine Stuart reports.

Today’s Debates

1 Taco ... 400 Tacos ... Taco Flood! ... Gallo ... Czar ... Tasers ... Boundaries

400 Tacos, & Counting

Melissa Bailey Photo New Haven’s Latino advocates deliver the first batch across the East Haven border; Maturo ducks out. Melissa Bailey reports.

Bungling Bandit Snagged

Week’s most hapless mugger labeled his gun; competent criminal still at large. Staff reports.

School Boundaries
May Be Redrawn

Melissa Bailey Photo Melissa Bailey reports.

Heaviest Comment
Yet On East Haven

An Italian-American urban cop describes both sides of the coin.

NRDC Sues EPA
To Stop Nanopesticide

Gwyneth K. Shaw reports.

Ansonia Snags
Jimmy Miller

Will share him with New Haven for a while. Jodie Mozdzer reports.

Fowler Heads North

Marcia Chambers PHoto Branford’s deputy chief becomes scandal-torn Windsor Locks’s new top cop. marcia chambers reports.

How To Innovate While
Protecting Public Safety?

National Academy report tackles question. Gwyneth K. Shaw reports.

Sandra Randolph, 70

She loved swimming, traveling & ice-skating:  obit.

Wanna Slam Maturo?
Take A Number, Please

Hugh McQuaid reports.

Today’s Debates

Wraparound Sue ... Affable Avery ... Gallo ... Graveyard ... Indicted ... Nash

Taco Flood!

Fans nationwide are sending presents to E. Haven Town Hall. Staff reports.

"Placemaking"
Express Heads Here

$$ could flow to New Haven arts scene, Malloy’s envoy says. Joshua Mamis reports.

Facing Probe, Cop Retires

by Paul Bass | Jan 27, 2012 12:43 pm | Comments (13)

Paul Bass File Photo A veteran city cop retired Friday amid a department investigation into a video showing him picking up cash from the floor of a Stop & Shop while working an extra-duty job.

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A Turnaround Timeout Floated

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 27, 2012 10:09 am | Comments (5)

Melissa Bailey Photo As the school district released report cards for its 43 schools, the teachers union president called on the superintendent to “take a breath” before restructuring any more low-performing schools.

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The People Talk, The Cops Walk

by Paul Bass | Jan 26, 2012 5:41 pm | Comments (22)

Paul Bass Photo Three officers started walking a regular beat in Newhallville, as a grassroots crime-fighting “conversation” that put them there continued.

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She Has A Taco—& An American Tale—For Joe

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 26, 2012 12:50 pm | Comments (32)

Melissa Bailey Photo After East Haven’s mayor’s words made her cry, Reyna Catalán invited him to Middletown Avenue to try her tacos—and witness the sacrifice immigrants make.

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Chief Vows Review Of All Taser Fires

by Allan Appel | Jan 26, 2012 8:40 am | Comments (21)

Allan Appel As neighbors complained of overly aggressive use of tasers, New Haven’s chief unveiled a directive to examine how his officers deploy the newly popular weapon—every time they pull the trigger.

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Grand Jury Probes Gallo & Evidence Tampering

by Paul Bass | Jan 25, 2012 2:12 pm | Comments (29)

Thomas MacMillan File Photo First Lennie Gallo, an aspiring New Haven top cop, was exiled to the animal shelter when his boss said he couldn’t be trusted with humans. He reemerged as next-door East Haven’s chief—and now the center of a federal probe into alleged evidence-tampering that goes beyond harassing Latinos.

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City Seeks OK To Tear Down Ribicoff

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 25, 2012 12:34 pm | Comments (4)

Melissa Bailey Photo After watching the Brookside projects next door get razed and rebuilt, Esther Pearson is hoping the same transformation can soon take place in her own remote public-housing complex.

“If I die before you get this done,” she told one housing authority staffer, “you’ll have to put my body somewhere!”

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Weisselberg Returns As “Wraparound Czar”

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 25, 2012 9:30 am | Comments (27)

Melissa Bailey Photo She rebuilt the schools. Now she’s returning to New Haven in the hopes of rebuilding kids’ connections to social services.

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24 Hours In New Haven: A Special Report

by Uma Ramiah, Melissa Bailey, & Paul Bass | Jan 25, 2012 12:47 am | Comments (8)

Melissa Bailey Photo From the fish that got away on Long Wharf to the dashboard that burst into flame on Amity Road, follow along with the hourly happenings of an ordinary extraordinary day in New Haven.

Uma Ramiah Photo

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5:12 p.m. Mahadav Makes The Ma’ariv Minyan

by Uma Ramiah, Michelle Turner, Allan Appel, & Melissa Bailey | Jan 24, 2012 6:28 pm

Allan Appel Photo

At Young Israel Synagogue, nine men were waiting to say the afternoon and evening prayers. Assaf Mahadav made it just in time.

Continue reading ‘5:12 p.m. Mahadav Makes The Ma’ariv Minyan’ »

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Road "repair" work on York
Jan 28, 2012 6:36 am
Address: York And Chapel New Haven, CT
Rating: 4

York Street used to be one of the best paved streets in town. Recently work was done on the...

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Pothole on Dwight
Jan 28, 2012 6:36 am
Address: Whalley And Dwight New Haven, CT
Rating: 3

Please fill this dangerous pothole, just at the intersection of Dwight and Whalley

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