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“Gentlemen [& Women], Start Your Gravity!”

by Allan Appel | May 21, 2012 8:04 am | Comments (3)

With that exciting call, 27 young racers such as 10-year-old Lauren Mullally strapped on gloves and helmets and took to their handmade all-gravity-powered vehicles.

After all the heats and brackets concluded, one of the drivers opened up her back seat and, presto, she and her family served Italian ices out of a cooler to all the fans.

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Hitting The Beach? It May Cost You

by Thomas MacMillan | May 14, 2012 2:05 pm | Comments (24)

For the first time in recent memory, New Haveners driving into Lighthouse Park this summer may have to pay for the privilege. If Jeanette Morrison gets her way, the entrance fee will be less than it otherwise might have.

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On Eve Of Big Party, Quicksilver Reveals All

by Allan Appel | May 10, 2012 3:09 pm | Comments (1)

Independent: Nice to see you again, Quicksilver. Nothing personal, but why’s your tongue hanging out?

Quicksilver: Wouldn’t yours be if you were 100 years old?

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Scouts Clean Trail

by Staff | May 9, 2012 12:00 pm | Comments (4)

Boy Scout Troop 401, Cub Scout Packs 25 & 401, and their relatives cleaned the Cliff Trail at Fort Hale Park Sunday morning.

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Hue Dies Are Forever

by Allan Appel | May 4, 2012 3:02 pm

Little kids like Lawrence McFadden said “Ni hao” (hello), wrote welcome signs in Chinese characters, and created flying sculptures of a “hu die,” or butterfly. One class also took a poll on who wanted to visit China: 13 Yes, and four No, the nays due to fear of flying.

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73 Steps Up, Lighthouse’s Secrets Revealed

by Caitlin Emma | Mar 2, 2012 12:26 am | Comments (8)

Ensign Watkins was the first British man to storm New Haven’s beach during the Revolutionary War; a farmer living in the area shot him dead on the spot. When the British didn’t return for his body, Watkins began haunting the woods around the beach. He finally inhabited the New Haven Harbor lighthouse when it was built in 1840—where his ghostly soul remains.

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Rookie Embarks On A Road Mission

by Thomas MacMillan | Jan 20, 2012 2:11 pm | Comments (24)

After poring over the city’s traffic-calming manual, new Alderman Sal DeCola is looking to make the road to Tweed Airport a little less like the nearby runway—and the streets of Morris Cove safer overall.

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Oops: City Will Mail Clearer Reval Notices

by Allan Appel | Dec 12, 2011 12:35 pm | Comments (36)

Look for another version of the notice about your new tax assessment—now that City Hall has discovered that last week’s notices gave homeowners like Renata Dicks the mistaken idea their taxes will go down.

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That’s The “Margaret Pastore” Clock Tower

by Allan Appel | Dec 5, 2011 1:00 pm | Comments (3)

“The first person to litter on this garden will be struck dead by lightning, and you know who will send the bolt.”

That warning from beyond the grave was delivered by Dick Pastore, youngest son of Margaret Pastore, the first female city parks commissioner, who died in 2008 at age 99.

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Stake(holders) & Eggs Served

by Staff | Nov 18, 2011 12:07 pm

Platters of cheese and fruit, plates of pasta and prime rib and eggplant parmesan fed a crowd of “stakeholders” at Anthony’s Ocean View Thursday night. But the main item on the menu was eggs—eggs you couldn’t eat.

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