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Bike Rack Finds A Home

by Staff | Oct 30, 2007 10:25 am

After the parks commission said no, Amity Bicycles’ owners found somewhere they could donate a bike rack: Westville’s “green” synagogue.

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“Pirate” Prevails, Opens Spanish Station

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 30, 2007 8:01 am

Spanish-language radio has returned to the airwaves of New Haven after a seven-year absence, thanks to this crusader for community control of the airwaves.

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Ethics Proposal Still Meets Some Resistance

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 30, 2007 12:07 am | Comments (10)

Aldermen hashing out an ethics reform proposal rejoiced at getting to keep occasional free tickets to the Shubert Theater and Pilot Pen. But some balked at the thought of banning a hypothetical reward no alderman typically gets.

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Angels, Edgewood Patrol Target Landlords

by Paul Bass | Oct 29, 2007 4:47 pm | Comments (16)

They marched on Walgreens until they got a nicer new store. They took up arms and got more police patrols, and a drop in crime. Now Edgewood’s rabbi-led “defense patrol” is taking on a new target: absentee landlords they say are running down the neighborhood.

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Halloween “Riot”; Teen Stabbed

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 29, 2007 1:08 pm | Comments (3)

As Saturday night partiers left downtown bars at closing time, the streets became filled with costumed revelry. “Numerous fights” broke out, one causing a “riot situation,” according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery.

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All-Woman Team Guides Breast Cancer Patients

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 29, 2007 12:20 pm

It’s just a coincidence that the surgeon, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist who staff the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Women’s Center for Breast Health are all female, as is the social worker who helps patients in need apply for help with insurance coverage. That coincidence makes a difference for breast cancer patients like Lorna Gibbs (pictured). Click here to read their story.

Dead Remembered, in Mexican Tradition

by Thomas MacMillan | Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm | Comments (2)

Florencio Maza helped to assemble an altar in a Fair Haven church in memory of deceased friends and family, including his cousin Filiberto Maza, who was killed in New Haven in June.

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2007 Voting Guide…Well sort of

by Steve Kalb | Oct 29, 2007 7:55 am

In a little more than a week voters across the state will be going to the polls to vote for local mayors, town clerks, first selectmen and a host of other not-too-terribly-glamorous jobs. While the national pundits’ pastime has become handicapping the presidential election, to many there are more pressing concerns: local schools, local taxes and are they really going to put another strip shopping center in this town? By all accounts voting is one of only a few requirement this democratic society makes of you; since whom you vote for could determine your taxes I am always amazed by the number of people who don’t vote.

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Black Business Leaders Honored

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 29, 2007 7:39 am

When “technical difficulties” threatened to silence the “Negro National Anthem” at the annual awards dinner of New Haven’s black chamber of commerce, a professional singer stepped in and saved the day…

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City’s Share of New Schools: $276M

by Allan Appel | Oct 29, 2007 7:37 am | Comments (12)

Sue Weisselberg is sending the state a revised plan for New Haven’s citywide school rebuilding program, showing the overall cost going down but the city’s share jumping more than $20 million.

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