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Young Black Pros Unite

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 30, 2007 1:10 pm | Comments (9)

Ask anyone in this room: There’s no network of support for young black men and women starting careers in New Haven. Trading business cards and collecting names from New Haven and beyond, a new group started to build one.

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Joe Taylor Walks Through Fair Haven’s River History

by Allan Appel | Apr 30, 2007 1:09 pm

Anybody know the reason for this redoubtable stone arch at the entrance to Fair Haven’s Brewery Apartments overlooking the Quinnipiac River just north of the Ferry Street Bridge? Hint: Although the river might be the means of delivering hops and other ingredients for the late 19th century beer-making that happened here, how might those frosty bottles of Quinnipiac and Yale lager be distributed to thirsty Nutmeggers along the shoreline and on up to Boston?

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Benedict Arnold Returns To Green

by Staff | Apr 30, 2007 10:15 am | Comments (5)

And he had a militia with him. Mark Branch and Betsy Branch were there. She took these photos; he sent in the following write-up:

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Docs, Activists & Big Business Seek a Cure

by Nicole Allan | Apr 30, 2007 8:57 am | Comments (3)

“When the change is this close,” one panelist said, “it’s worth figuring out.” So a group representing activists, big business, policy-makers, doctors and activists spent Sunday trying to do just that, as they contemplated how to fix Connecticut’s broken health care system.

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A Showpiece Reopens, $12.9M Spiffier

by VJ Vitkowsky | Apr 30, 2007 8:44 am | Comments (30)

Worthington Hooker’s K-2 students danced around the maypole to celebrate the coming of spring, and the re-opening of their newly renovated 107-year old school.

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Kids Rock at United Community Nursery Anniversary

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 30, 2007 8:39 am

What’s that guy playing on the nose flute? At a celebration for the nursery school that brought them all together, these kids tried to guess. (Click on the play arrow to see for yourself).

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“Father Figures” Fill The Gap

by Allan Appel | Apr 30, 2007 7:36 am | Comments (2)

“Unless we take steps we are simply losing a generation of our young African-American and Latino men.”

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Officer Bullock Calls Nobody A Liar

by Paul Bass | Apr 30, 2007 7:35 am | Comments (2)

After a crash totaled two cars and sent two teens to the hospital, Officer Wayne Bullock calmed an “irate” driver without taking sides.

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Feds Not Giving Up On Middleman

by Paul Bass | Apr 27, 2007 5:40 pm

The feds asked a judge to put an accused middleman (at right in photo) in the New Haven Savings/ NewAlliance bank scam back on trial after he went free on a technicality.

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News Not From The Compost Heap

by Paul Bass | Apr 27, 2007 12:22 pm

Well, given the rain, this week’s Independent opinionated v-log news summary was filmed not by the compost heap, but by the blue bins on the front porch. Special Recycled News Edition. Click on the play arrow to watch. Click here for past editions.

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