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Westville | July 2, 2009

Hill, Westville: Keep Our Mail Here

by Paul Bass | July 2, 2009 2:21 PM | Permalink

"Please don't let them close this post office!" Lottie Poindexter pleaded.

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Westville | July 2, 2009

Neighbors Give Thumbs Up To Signal Work

by Leonard J. Honeyman | July 2, 2009 7:33 AM | Permalink

"People come flying through this intersection," Marty Feldman was saying. Just then a dozen cars zoomed through the intersection, oblivious to the flashing yellow light.

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Westville | June 26, 2009

Brawl At Wintergreen

by Paul Bass | June 26, 2009 3:07 PM | Permalink

The college dorm in Westville that's not officially a college dorm got rowdy, and bloody, early Friday.

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Westville | June 26, 2009

Tchakirides issues Theft Warning

by Paul Bass | June 26, 2009 9:07 AM | Permalink

After coming across a rash of thefts in his new district, Lt. Martin Tchakirides is putting out a message to New Haven car owners: Don't leave those laptops or purses in view.

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Westville | June 17, 2009

Path to Nowhere Or Fly-Fishing Boardwalk?

by Thomas MacMillan | June 17, 2009 2:48 PM | Permalink

Just think what this waterside walkway could do for Westville.

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Westville | June 12, 2009

Crack In The SIdewalk

by Paul Bass | June 12, 2009 10:25 AM | Permalink

A Westville reader sent in this photo of cracks in the sidealk outside renovated Mitchell Library.

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Westville | June 11, 2009

Tchakirides Pulls Double Duty

by Paul Bass | June 11, 2009 2:33 PM | Permalink

Four districts across town are receiving new top cops.

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Westville | June 9, 2009

Candidate Begins Forming Positions

by Thomas MacMillan | June 9, 2009 11:35 AM | Permalink

New Haven schools? They're good. Community policing? Needs work.

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Westville | June 8, 2009

Music History Steps Offstage

by Adzua Agyapon | June 8, 2009 7:39 AM | Permalink

Old-school hip-hop artist Kangol Kid came to town not to headline a concert, but to pop in on some elementary school kids.

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Westville | June 4, 2009

Top Cops Move On

by Paul Bass | June 4, 2009 4:14 PM | Permalink

Two top neighborhood cops are turning in their "district manager" cruisers.

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Westville | June 4, 2009

Gabrielle Remembered; Whalley Widening

by Paul Bass | June 4, 2009 3:57 PM | Permalink

A year after a driver mowed down an 11 year-old girl on Whalley Avenue, the state prepared to start widening the congested road -- endangering other pedestrians' lives, in the view of neighborhood critics.

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Westville | June 1, 2009

So Long, Old Davis

by Paul Bass | June 1, 2009 11:58 AM | Permalink

A school community on the move bid farewell Sunday to a 91 year-old brick home -- and looked ahead to a future of new memories.

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Westville | May 25, 2009

The Dead Named

by Allan Appel | May 25, 2009 4:09 PM | Permalink

Maybe it takes a grandmother from Moldova in the former Soviet Union to appreciate America's Memorial Day.

And to help explain why the Elm City has eight separate Civil War memorials, a large number for a city of our size.

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Westville | May 25, 2009

Pot Melts

by Paul Bass | May 25, 2009 7:55 AM | Permalink

Vaughn Weston and Ciarra Collins sang "God Bless America" with families from 33 different nations -- then demonstrated how one school is learning about all of them.

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Westville | May 11, 2009

10,000 Converge As Art Struts In Westville

by Thomas MacMillan | May 11, 2009 7:43 AM | Permalink

It also pirouetted, curtsied, limboed, writhed, turned, and swooped.

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Westville | April 30, 2009

Westville Crawls With Poets

by Thomas MacMillan | April 30, 2009 7:44 AM | Permalink

The 30 people gathered after hours in Aquila Motors weren't looking for late-night oil changes. They wanted to hear verse.

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Westville | April 29, 2009

Should He Have Followed? Screeched?

by Paul Bass | April 29, 2009 12:33 PM | Permalink

Two days after he was mugged at knifepoint, Don returned to the street of the crime -- and saw two boys who resembled his attackers.

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Westville | April 24, 2009

Hen Legalization Gets 2nd Chance

by Thomas MacMillan | April 24, 2009 7:46 AM | Permalink

As a legally owned urban chicken, Sussex is able to strut around with her head held high. With the passage of an upcoming ordinance amendment that would permit backyard hens, other city chickens may soon be able to stand tall.

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Westville | April 20, 2009

New Blood Enters Political Stream

by Thomas MacMillan | April 20, 2009 7:30 AM | Permalink

Ward 1 Democrats made an early choice for alderman, as two other fresh faces launched challenges to west side incumbents.

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Westville | April 3, 2009

Alert Issued On Van Driver

by Paul Bass | April 3, 2009 2:56 PM | Permalink

The following two email messages were distributed in Westville to alert people to a continuing problem: a stalker following kids in a white van.

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