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Man Shot Dead

by Staff | May 22, 2012 4:47 pm | Comments (6)

A man was shot dead at Dixwell Avenue and Gibbs Street Tuesday afternoon, around a block from where another homicide occurred last week.

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Homicide Victim & Friends Drove To Shelton Ave. To Party

by Paul Bass | May 16, 2012 12:39 pm | Comments (3)

A carload of five young women met up on Shelton Avenue with a carload of men to “party” when gunshots rang out—and fatally struck a 20-year-old woman from Danbury in the head and neck.

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So Long Playground, Hello Home

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2012 10:30 am | Comments (5)

As workers lowered the first walls of a new Yale-designed house into place at the corner of Newhall and Starr streets, neighbors mourned the loss of a neighborhood basketball court, and began working to create a new one.

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“Let There Be Light” (Emitting Diodes)!

by Paul Bass | May 7, 2012 2:44 pm | Comments (5)

Under a bright noon sun, Fernando Casanova tricked a brand-new street light into turning on—and offering a new vision for nighttime safety in Newhallville.

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Struck Cyclist Goes To Hospital

by Paul Bass | Apr 27, 2012 12:58 pm | Comments (20)

A cyclist riding riding against traffic on Dixwell Avenue on a rainy night went to the hospital with head injuries after a driver hit him.

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With Money Drying Up, Food Lifeline Perseveres

by Allan Appel | Apr 23, 2012 12:11 pm | Comments (2)

A couple’s volunteer pantry in Newhallville has hit hard times itself as it keeps feeding people lining up for free food.

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2012: A Space Odyssey

by Paul Bass | Apr 16, 2012 8:25 am

They were there to celebrate a new job-training and youth-arts center. They couldn’t stop talking about “space”—as in, “This space is amazing!”

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Newhallville Approaches The “Promise Land”

by Andy Ross | Apr 12, 2012 11:12 am | Comments (1)

The Promise Land Project that kicked off in January of 2011 made many promises to the residents of a small 20-block Newhallville area that runs from Cave Street south to Division and from Dixwell to Winchester East.

In just one year it has made progress to keep those promises while planning to expand its efforts in the neighborhood and beyond.

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$5M Jumpstarts New Jobs Effort

by Paul Bass | Apr 11, 2012 11:51 am | Comments (4)

A one-time teenaged factory “trucker washer” who succeeded in business has returned to Winchester Avenue to help other New Haven kids follow in his footsteps—and to help out-of-work adults get jobs drawing blood.

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Bike Thieves Try New Trick

by Staff | Apr 10, 2012 3:12 pm | Comments (18)

Two thieves rolled an old bicycle across the Farmington Canal Trail—then seized on cyclists who had to stop.

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