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Westville | January 4, 2010

City Cited Soco's Right Before Murder

by Thomas MacMillan | January 4, 2010 2:35 PM | Permalink

Six days before a man was shot dead at the front door, the city ordered the owner of a Fitch Street bar to clean up his act.

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Westville | December 31, 2009

New Flooding Worries Beverly Hills

by Leonard J. Honeyman | December 31, 2009 8:00 AM | Permalink

Water is bubbling up where it doesn't belong in upper Westville, into basements and garages. Neighbors like Richard Carr want to know why.

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Westville | December 16, 2009

Cabbie Hits Pedestrian

by Paul Bass | December 16, 2009 11:37 AM | Permalink

Sydney Simpkins was on the way to have dinner with her sister at Delaney's restaurant in Westville Tuesday evening when a collision stopped her in her tracks.

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Westville | December 15, 2009

Altman On "The Actor's Life"

by Staff | December 15, 2009 12:44 PM | Permalink

by David Sepulveda

It's not every day you run into people on the streets of New Haven that can say they have just finished filming a movie with Meryl Streep, or George Clooney - but Bruce Altman can.

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Westville | December 10, 2009

Firefighters Tame Westville Fire

by Thomas MacMillan | December 10, 2009 1:55 PM | Permalink

When firemen woke her up Thursday morning, Roxi Cunningham quickly searched for her most important possessions. She grabbed her purse, but she couldn't find her cat Sox.

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Westville | December 7, 2009

Ex-Cop Brings Music & Family Feel To Westville

by Riquee Blackman Jarmon | December 7, 2009 11:00 AM | Permalink

The Skamatix were playing. Some of them live right up the street. People were dancing. They live up the street too -- and in at least one case were related to the musicians.

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Westville | December 7, 2009

Holiday Tree Lights Up Westville

by Staff | December 7, 2009 9:36 AM | Permalink

Jack Paulishen sent in these photos of Westville's Friday night tree lighting festivities.

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Westville | November 24, 2009

City Offers Solution For Killer Intersection

by Leonard J. Honeyman | November 24, 2009 12:11 PM | Permalink

Efforts to make a deadly intersection safer may have turned a corner, as Westville neighbors gathering at the spot agreed to a plan to ban left turns from West Elm Street onto Forest Road.

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Westville | November 17, 2009

Cop Hurt At Killer Intersection

by Paul Bass | November 17, 2009 11:31 AM | Permalink

This time, no one died.

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Westville | November 9, 2009

From Mauro-Sheridan to Mars

by Allan Appel | November 9, 2009 7:57 AM | Permalink

Nicholas Colombo reassured mom he'll visit her after he's done traveling to Mars. The kindergartner is taking his first steps on that journey at the city's science and technology-themed school, whose new $47.5 million home was dedicated Sunday.

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Westville | November 4, 2009

It Took A Village

by Staff | November 4, 2009 5:57 PM | Permalink

by David Sepulveda

At the far end of Austin Street, one can glimpse a slice of West Rock's fractured basalt columns and ledges, part of a magnificent and extended geological ridge that rises to 700 feet - a natural backdrop for New Haven's Westville Village. At Austin Street's other end is Blake Street and the recently built Wintergreen of Westville, a rambling and controversial "luxury" apartment complex that blocks views of West Rock and that some say is a monument to poor planning and ill-conceived expectations.

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Westville | November 4, 2009

What Would It Take To Vote GOP?

by Leonard J. Honeyman | November 4, 2009 10:22 AM | Permalink

The city's Ward 26 is a tough neighborhood if you are a Republican.

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Westville | November 3, 2009

Still No New Family at Kohary House

by Ben Johnson | November 3, 2009 11:09 AM | Permalink

There was plenty of time for people to line up for a possible foreclosure bargain in the Westville hills. No one ended up taking it.

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Westville | November 2, 2009

Final Tally: $2.4M Of Pot

by Paul Bass | November 2, 2009 4:04 PM | Permalink

The cops have finished taking stock of all the marijuana they removed from a secret drug factory, and the figure hit the millions.

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Westville | October 30, 2009

Cops Raid Pot Factory, Arrest Homeowners

by Paul Bass | October 30, 2009 1:28 PM | Permalink

(Updated 4:29 p.m.) "It's amazing. It's amazing," exclaimed Ray Pearson, upon learning that a massive "illegal grow operation" was running next door to the home-daycare center he runs on a quiet Westville block. Police Friday afternoon were removing hundreds of plants and placing the house's owners under arrest.

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Westville | October 28, 2009

Ahoy, Hallow's Eve Mateys!

by Allan Appel | October 28, 2009 7:52 AM | Permalink

He only looks like Ian Alderman, an ordinary harmless Westvillian. And that U-shaped space dark and dank down by the West River? It only appears to be the tunnel under Edgewood Avenue.

Shiver me timbers, don't be fooled. Come Halloween, Alderman will have become Captain Thunderbolt, a late 18th century local pirate who terrorized the neighborhood. The tunnel will have been transformed into a spectacular skull-and-bones festooned vessel.

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Westville | October 27, 2009

A "Reverse" Foreclosure

by Ben Johnson | October 27, 2009 10:45 AM | Permalink

The premise of a "reverse mortgage" sounds hard to beat: Sell your home and live there, too. Leave the home, however, as Raymond Rosen did when he entered a nursing home, and you might not be able to come back.

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Westville | October 26, 2009

Race Pits Shoestring Vs. Shoe Leather

by Leonard J. Honeyman | October 26, 2009 11:00 AM | Permalink

For $24, one can buy a decent dinner, see a movie with a friend or, if you are Westville's Jim O'Connell, run for alderman.

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Westville | October 22, 2009

You Can Cram "Em In

by Leonard J. Honeyman | October 22, 2009 10:25 AM | Permalink

Birds of a feather really do flock together. So you don't need more than a glorified doghouse to raise the half-dozen hens New Haven residents are now allowed to own, a UConn poultry specialist said Wednesday night.

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Westville | October 9, 2009

What About The Parents?

by Melissa Bailey | October 9, 2009 7:51 AM | Permalink

City officials heard that message as they took their school reform road show to Westville.

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