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Gas Leak Forces Evacuation

by Staff | May 21, 2013 9:55 am | Comments (1)

(Updated) Officials are investigating a gas leak that forced a 96-year-old woman out of her home Tuesday morning.

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“Gentlemen & Women, Start Your Gravity!”

by Allan Appel | May 20, 2013 11:00 am

Marchela Corolla changed her Italian ices cart from last year for a shorter swifter model and nosed out rookie driver Andrew Jimenez in the first heat of intense competition in Morris Cove.

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Sandy Schooled City On Storm Response

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 21, 2013 12:01 pm | Comments (5)

As monster storms become more common, New Haven should install video cameras to monitor flood gates, figure out how the National Guard can be more useful, and install cable TV in emergency shelters.

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WPCA Land Swap OK’d

by Melissa Bailey | Mar 19, 2013 11:27 am | Comments (1)

City lawmakers OK’d a deal that makes way for the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) to launch a 20-year plan to cut the amount of dirty water dumped into the Long Island Sound.

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“Grey” Plan Advances

by Allan Appel | Feb 25, 2013 2:58 pm | Comments (5)

The Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) won enough approvals Wednesday night to match its mouthful of a name: City Plan Commissioners gave the go-ahead to a site plan for first $50 million phase of building upgrades of the East Shore water treatment plant. Wetlands management and coastal site plans also were approved.

A land swap with the city to make the upgrades possible was also approved, all by unanimous vote of the commissioners.

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3 Eateries Fail; Fingernails Doom Krauszer’s

by Allan Appel | Feb 25, 2013 1:40 pm | Comments (2)

A food worker at Krauszer’s was making sandwiches while wearing artificial fingernails. Unfortunately for the boss, a city health inspector walked in on the act.

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City, WPCA Eye Land Swap

by Melissa Bailey | Feb 18, 2013 1:07 pm | Comments (2)

In a proposed land deal with the Water Control Pollution Authority, the city aims to regain control of an out-of-the way roundabout where ATVs and dirt bikes have been sneaking into East Shore Park. 

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Now If New Haven Were Syracuse ...

by Paul Bass | Feb 15, 2013 12:39 pm | Comments (13)

Eight tri-axle dump trucks lined up to help return Woodward Avenue to normalcy five days after Winter Storm Nemo buried it. In cities more accustomed to big blizzards, monster snow-removal vehicles might have arrived earlier—with plow “wings” on the side.

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Brrrrring It On!

by Staff | Jan 2, 2013 8:40 am | Comments (1)

For the 13th straight New Year’s Day, some 50 New Haveners were not wimps. By any stretch of the imagination.

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Get Your Swimsuit Out

by Staff | Dec 19, 2012 3:53 pm | Comments (3)

The Polar Plunge is back on after all, in a, errr, stripped-down version.

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