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Highway Expansion Claims Pin Oaks

by Melissa Bailey | May 2, 2013 7:53 am | Comments (5)

Bill “The Flag Man” Shields tried to stop the mighty grapple from felling his trusty shade tree. A state spokesman regretted the loss—but vowed to compensate with dozens more pin oaks, red maples and spruces along Long Wharf.

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Pizza Trucks Parade

by Allan Appel | Apr 10, 2013 3:52 pm

A fire engine maneuvering around a slow-poke antique vehicle? Look again: That was the first-ever known parade of pizza trucks.

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A Fish Tale Opens On Long Wharf

by Allan Appel | Dec 13, 2012 9:10 am | Comments (2)

This 12-pound lobster named LJ was “officially” pardoned and sent back to Maine, uneaten.  It was a different story for the blue-points.

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Emancipation Proclamation Declaimed

by Allan Appel | Sep 23, 2012 11:16 am

They don’t come near the soaring words of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural or the poetic rhythms of the Gettysburg Address. In fact they are dull governmental bureaucrat-ese of an executive order that was largely politically and militarily motivated.

Yet the Emancipation Proclamation in a stroke freed tens of thousands from slavery and redirected American history down a new path of civil rights, for all.

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Boathouse Platform Will Cross Centuries

by Allan Appel | Jul 13, 2012 8:45 am | Comments (5)

When a new boathouse comes to Long Wharf, the public will walk on water.

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Register-Retail Switcheroo Gets 1st OK

by Thomas MacMillan | Jun 21, 2012 8:13 am | Comments (4)

The New Haven Register assigned half a dozen staffers to a City Hall meeting, but only one was there to report on the news. The rest were making it.

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The Knot Easy Gets Thumb’s Up From On High

by Allan Appel | Jun 11, 2012 12:00 pm | Comments (1)

Theological conundrum: Include jet skis in the blessing of the boats?

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Long Wharf Awaits The Perfect Picnic Table

by Allan Appel | Sep 21, 2011 2:09 pm | Comments (3)

If he can design and operate two major restaurants in New Haven, Arturo Franco Camacho figured, he can come up with the perfect picnic table for patrons of the food trucks at Long Wharf. All he needed was a bright new idea; he came up with one.

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Nature Preserve Rescued From DOT Bulldozer

by Neena Satija | Sep 13, 2011 7:28 am | Comments (4)

Back when Steve Wilcox thought the state was slicing off a third of the Long Wharf Nature Preserve and turning it into a highway exit, he started spending less time around the park. Now that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) has said the park will stay the way it is, the Wilcoxes plan to visit even more often.

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Commissioners Deem Boathouse Ship-Shape

by Thomas MacMillan | Jul 22, 2011 7:56 am | Comments (9)

City Plan commissioners saw the latest designs for a new $30 million boathouse for New Haven harbor, then gave the plan their blessing as it readies for launch.

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