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I’m Not Brave

by Gina Coggio | Sep 27, 2005 7:49 am | Comments (4)

For the billionth time, one of her customers exclaimed “Wow, you’re brave!” when Gina Coggio told her she teaches New Haven public school kids. That prompted an early-autumn moment of clarity for the Independent’s teacher-by-day, waitress-by-night diarist.

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Pre-Election Threat: We’ll Take Your Homes

by Paul Bass | Sep 26, 2005 3:11 pm | Comments (2)

Did City Hall use its tax office as a political weapon? That’s what families on Mountain Top Lane wonder after the city sued them for foreclosure on back taxes on what they thought was a city-owned street. A sheriff served them foreclosure notices just four days before this month’s Democratic primary, in which City Hall targeted the neighbors’ alderwoman for defeat. A coincidence, say city officials.

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Not Exactly a Block Party

by Paul Bass | Sep 25, 2005 7:25 pm

It sounded like gunshots. It woke up the block.

We gathered out on Central Avenue and Burton Street, in the Westville neighborhood, under the glow of streetlights. It was around 1:30 a.m. Monday. Our imaginations ran: We’d heard crashes and pops, and now a car was smashed into a utility pole on Burton.

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Sun House in Dixwell

by Judi Janette | Sep 25, 2005 10:34 am

Not only will the sun provide electricity for a new home on Orchard Street. The house will also send unused electricity back to the grid. Welcome to a vision of the energy future.

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Local Bulgarians Dance for Their Own Flood Victims

by | Sep 25, 2005 10:24 am

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Look At The Company We’re Keeping

by Paul Bass | Sep 23, 2005 1:39 pm

Say “New Haven,” and what other communities come to mind? This door, to a boutique that opened on Chapel Street Friday, suggests that we’re keeping some new company.

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Lessons in Double Love

by Paul Bass | Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm

Overdue recognition came Saturday for some of New Haven’s lesser-known heroes: the thousand-plus grandparents who raise their grandchildren. A terrific group called Grandparents On The Move shared the annual Morris Wessel Prize for “Unsung Heroes” at a ceremony at the Educational Center for the Arts. These grandmas have plenty to teach other grandparent-parents—not to mention a reporter.

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Angelo Reyes’ Grand Vision

by Paul Bass | Sep 22, 2005 4:25 pm | Comments (2)

A Fair Havener who turned around his life, then turned around his neighborhood, is buying up six properties within a two-block radius in his neighborhood’s main commercial strip. He hopes to build a Latino version of Wooster Street.

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That’s All I Get?

by Gina Coggio | Sep 22, 2005 4:16 pm | Comments (6)

Tips at the restaurant have been on the skimpy side. And the ex-ex- boyfriend is getting married. All of which gives the Independent’s schoolteacher- by-day, waitress- by-night diarist reason to ponder the meaning of “Thank You.”

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“I Don’t Like What’s Going on Ethically”

by Paul Bass | Sep 21, 2005 2:28 pm

John Hayward quit a job he loved in city government this week because of what he calls barriers to enforcing laws designed to hire and protect minorities and women on construction sites.

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