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It Worked

by Staff | Oct 30, 2006 7:57 am | Comments (3)

Responding to youth violence he saw on his beat in the Dixwell neighborhood, city cop Shafiq Abdussabur launched a program called CTRIBAT for 6 to 15 year-old boys in the neighborhood. Its events ranged from camping to a prison visit to tough talk about guns. A report being released Monday shows the results: The 55 kids involved this past summer had no problems with the law. And gun-related violence in general went down in the neighborhood. The data, and more findings, are in the report; click here to read it.

Chatham Square Has Its First Fall Festival

by Lesha Daley | Oct 30, 2006 7:48 am | Comments (3)

Luis Cotto helped children paint pumpkins as apart of the festivities at Chatham Square’s first annual Fall Festival.

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Gone Dishin’ For Long Wharf at City Point

by Gone Dishin' | Oct 27, 2006 3:18 pm

The corporate community rolled out the welcome mat, once again, on Thursday night. Joan Channick, the newly appointed managing director at Long Wharf Theatre, was the guest of honor at Sage. David Silverstone, president of the Regional Water Authority, was the evening’s master of ceremonies, representing the other hosts.

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The Latest Compost

by Paul Bass | Oct 27, 2006 11:48 am

Direct from the compost heap … er, newsroom … comes the latest edition of the Independent’s opinionated v-log news summary. Special clean-sweep edition. Click here to watch it.

Jajuana’s Mom Goes Tombstone Shopping

by Paul Bass | Oct 27, 2006 11:48 am | Comments (2)

Thanks to a $750 donation from an Independent reader, Sonda Whitfield went shopping for a tombstone four months after her 13 year-old daughter was murdered.

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Fair Haven Learns About An ID for Life

by Allan Appel | Oct 27, 2006 9:44 am | Comments (1)

As Laura Huizar, the program coordinator for economic development at JUNTA, greeted one of the nearly 100 people who came to the auditorium of the Fair Haven Middle School on Thursday night for a meeting with Mexican consular officials, the tragic death of Manuel Santiago was not far from her mind. “What happened to him,” she told a reporter, referring to immigrants’ vulnerability to crime because many do not have sufficient ID to open bank accounts, “is reflective of a much larger problem in Fair Haven.”

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“Highway Howie” Blasts Drug War

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 27, 2006 9:40 am | Comments (2)

A retired police officer (pictured) spoke in Newhallville in favor of legalizing drugs as a way to fight violence and protect children. Yes, you read that correctly.

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King-makers Put On A Show

by Allan Appel | Oct 27, 2006 9:29 am

Veronica Douglas and her niece Dannieka Wiggins are among hundreds of New Haven church members and students involved in some fashion with MAAFA — a life-changing psychodrama that’s part transformative educational theater, music, drumming, and spiritual audience-involving exercise. Opening in Bridgeport this weekend, the event aims to show kids caught up in urban strife that they descend from kings.

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Lamont & DeStefano Go Portside

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 26, 2006 5:47 pm | Comments (3)

Standing before the loading docks of New Haven Harbor, two Democratic candidates —” gubernatorial hopeful John DeStefano, Jr. and U.S. Senate hopeful Ned Lamont —” found a common issue that resonates on the state and federal levels: Protecting the nation’s ports.

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Gone Dishin’ For Family Secrets

by Gone Dishin' | Oct 26, 2006 2:13 pm

It was a night for mothers and daughters — onstage mothers and daughters, and real-life mothers and daughters like Barbara Greenberg and her daughter Alison (pictured). The occasion was a fund-raising show and buffet at the Little Theatre. Gone Dishin’ (you know better than to ask who that is) was there, of course; read on for her report.

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