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Rally For Justice

by Melinda Tuhus | May 30, 2007 5:50 pm

These New Haveners (Dramese Fair, T.J. Tucker and Patrick Falconer, left to right, holding the banner) came to the State Capitol Wednesday to ask a question: What if so-called “drug-free zones” protected kids near schools rather than brand entire cities?

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“The One House Everyone Belongs To” Honors Community Heroes

by Allan Appel | May 30, 2007 3:49 pm | Comments (3)

These two gentlemen, both slightly beyond their teen years, happily reprised water safety techniques learned long ago through the Farnam Neighborhood House, as old-timers gathered to honor people who help the Fair Haven institution continue to make a difference in kids’ lives.

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Aldermen Pass Budget; Look To Future

by Melissa Bailey | May 30, 2007 11:31 am | Comments (18)

In overwhelmingly passing a new $443 million city budget, aldermen also got started on the next budget—voting to start early in looking for long-term cuts in city spending demanded by citizen watchdogs.

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Fairmont Mainstays Seek To Flee 12 Years of “Hell”

by Allan Appel | May 30, 2007 11:30 am | Comments (2)

Dolores Pittman, Josephine Dixon-Banks, and Lyda Dixon (right to left) are proud of the bleeding heart, an unusual plant growing in the woodland garden they have created on a shaded patch of ground at the Fairmont Heights housing complex in Fair Haven. It is one of several gardens—flower and vegetable—created by these women and several other gardeners on the grounds of the Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) property that is their home.

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A Public Health Warning

by Staff | May 30, 2007 11:03 am

”“Any celebration on Memorial Day 2007, particularly a celebration of public health, must be tempered by the catastrophe of the war in Iraq.” So said Robert Dubrow (pictured) in a speech to graduates of Yale’s School of Public Health, who voted him teacher of the year. Click here to read the speech, which described the Iraq war as a public health disaster there, here, and around the world.

Man Falls to Death

by Melissa Bailey | May 29, 2007 5:56 pm | Comments (1)

A 48-year-old man fell to his death off the Union Station Parking Garage at 50 Union Ave., on Memorial Day at 5:55 p.m. Police had not released his name as of Tuesday afternoon. Police were investigating the cause of his fall.

Read on for more crime details, according to police spokeswoman Bonnie Posick.

A 35-year-old man told police he had just left his home on Winthrop Avenue and was walking near Winthrop and Davenport Avenues at 3:24 a.m. Saturday when an unkown person opened fire on him. He was shot in the back and grazed to the hand.

Police responded to calls of a person waving a handgun at 268 Valley St. Saturday at 10:02 p.m. Police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection to the incident, and recovered an illegal gun.

Staff at the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at 451 Foxon Boulevard reported a burglarly at 3:12 am Sunday. Robbers broke in through a window, apparently found nothing of interest to steal, and left.

The weekend saw two back-to-back carjackings of Hondas:

At 5:09 a.m. Sunday at Grand Ave. and Poplar St., a man was approached by two assailants with a revolver. They took his gold chain, his Jesus medallion and his Honda.

Five minutes later at 509 Ferry St., a victim reported having been approached by six men who put an ice pick to his neck and stole his Honda.

A woman and her two children were robbed of their VW Passat at Rice Field at the base of East Rock on Monday at 3:20 p.m. A man on a bike approached the car, displayed a knife, and ordered them out of the car.

Two Papa John’s delivery men were robbed at 11:30 p.m. Monday at 17 Francis Hunter Drive.

And Monday at 7:48 p.m. at 136 Dwight St., two men committed strongarmed robbery.

Cops Kick Off Recruitment Drive

by Paul Bass | May 29, 2007 5:42 pm

At a time when big employers like Stop & Shop and U.S. Surgical have cut their workforces, this woman has a job she says you’ll love.

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Wind Power Coming To The Elm City

by Melinda Tuhus | May 29, 2007 1:38 pm | Comments (19)

New Haven has pledged to reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2010. To reach that ambitious goal, the city is promoting energy efficiency, bio-diesel fuel, solar arrays for public buildings—and now, windmills. Will John DeStefano be the Mayor of La Mancha, the Don Quixote of Dixwell?

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A Lonely Vigil

by Melinda Tuhus | May 29, 2007 9:50 am

This woman, who identified herself as “a public health nurse and a mother,” declared that increasing the number of troops in Iraq but cutting the funding to treat returning vets—as President Bush has proposed—is “a crime.”

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Memorial Day, Lenzi Park, New Haven

by Allan Appel | May 29, 2007 9:28 am

There’s a little-known park in New Haven, a tranquil, flat rectangle of grass with a mural of the world at one end and young fruit trees at the other, most of a city block long, between Grand and Saint John’s Street on Jefferson. If you’re not looking for it, it’s likely you’ll not find it. Yet on Memorial Day, 2007, when the flag that hangs from the pole at the park’s center was at a limp half staff in the heat, this quiet urban green space merited a visit and the nearby plaque at its base a reading. For the park was named in memory of Joseph W. Lenzi, who was born across the street in 1922 and died, killed in action, on the sands of Iwo Jima in 1945.

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