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BB Blitz

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 31, 2006 4:26 pm

Two victims — one, a 13 year-old girl — were shot in the face with BB guns in separate incidents Monday. And a 14 year-old boy has been arrested for a Dixwell Avenue shooting last week. Read on for details, according to police spokeswoman Bonnie Winchester.

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A Fateful Stop At Ferry & Grand

by Paul Bass | Oct 31, 2006 11:22 am | Comments (5)

Bible study had just let out. Edwin Orellano (pictured) returned home, then went back out when a fellow Ecuadorian immigrant called him to come to a Fair Haven intersection. His friend had been stopped by the cops.

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Catholic Workers Confront More Hunger, Appeal For Help

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 31, 2006 7:19 am

“It’s a beautiful thing,” Paul Nu√ɬ±ez said as he ate some great pancakes at the Amistad Catholic Worker House in the Hill. Nunez was talking about the unusual way the family-run home feeds and opens its doors to the needy. (Click here to listen.) An uptick in demand for food there lately may portend a rise in hunger around town.

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DEP to City: Clean Up Leaky Trash

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 31, 2006 7:17 am | Comments (4)

Leaky trucks, oil spills, and waste flowing into a nearby river —” that’s what the state Department of Environmental Protection found this summer at the city’s transfer station. The state sent a list of 11 violations, with orders to clean up. City Hall’s top lawyer (pictured) has hired an outside firm to investigate the findings.

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Gone Dishin’ Everywhere

by Gone Dishin' | Oct 30, 2006 2:20 pm

Our goodness! The American Committee on Italian Migration awards event… Morris Moreland’s CAA good-bye at the Colony Inn… Kiddush with the senator… A screening of An Inconvenient Truth… Was there any place Gone Dishin’ wasn’t in attendance this past weekend? Click here for her round-up.

Gone Dishin’ Everywhere!

by Gone Dishin' | Oct 30, 2006 2:07 pm

Where wasn’t Gone Dishin’ this past weekend? Follow along, and try to keep up…

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R Bar Rage; Fair Haven Stickup

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 30, 2006 1:10 pm

This weekend: A young man was shot in the thigh on Dixwell Avenue, cops seized a gun from an ejected bar patron, and a man was arrested for robbing someone in Fair Haven with a stick. Read on for details on weekend crime, according to police spokeswoman Bonnie Winchester. For block-by-block year-to-date crime info, check the Independent’s crime log.

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Laundry Workers Seek Union

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 30, 2006 11:34 am | Comments (2)

Zuiry Osorio (at left) and Maria Garcia (at right) haul heaps of linens in a balmy room for $8 an hour at a Derby Avenue commercial laundry plant. They don’t have a union. They’re having trouble organizing one, and they’re calling on city aldermen — and the National Labor Relations Board — for help.

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Bike to Work Day, Month and Year

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 30, 2006 8:20 am

There was a nip in the air as Elm City Cycling held its final monthly Bike to Work Day. Paul, a Yale grad student spending his first fall in New Haven, enjoyed banana bread baked by Esther Brown (on right), while Marissa Falcigno (left) radiated a sunny smile to warm things up.

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From Gourds & “Snooty Foods” To Wal-Mart Organics

by Paul Bass | Oct 30, 2006 6:58 am | Comments (1)

On the last day of the season for Westville CitySeed farmers’ market, neighborhood volunteers (top photo) pushed gourds for a fund-raiser while farmer Jim Roby (at left) reflected on a tough weather season and the challenges posed by the likes of Wal-Mart going organic.

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