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Duck Pond Reborn

by Thomas MacMillan | May 16, 2012 2:06 pm | Comments (8)

After a $300,000 overhaul, a revamped Edgewood Park duck pond is ready to welcome migrating terns, herons, egrets, alewives—and one lucky turtle.

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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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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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The Water’s Safe. Really

by Allan Appel | May 8, 2012 12:16 pm | Comments (2)

After a decade, good potable water has started flowing again from the noble public fountain at the southeast corner of the New Haven Green. But so far more birds appear to know about it than do people, and the people who notice think the H2O isn’t safe.

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Homeless Camping Request Rejected

by Thomas MacMillan | May 3, 2012 11:05 am | Comments (17)

A group of homeless people came to City Hall seeking an OK to set up a new outdoor camp. No can do, the mayor replied. It’s too dangerous.

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The “Healing” Begins

by Thomas MacMillan | Apr 18, 2012 4:08 pm | Comments (13)

With Occupy New Haven gone, the city is left with a “concrete” dust bowl and a tree that will likely have to come down. The grass could return by summer.

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Without Blossoms, Festival Still Blooms

by Staff | Apr 16, 2012 3:01 pm

Most of the blossoms were gone, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from flocking to Wooster Square Sunday for the neighborhood’s annual festival.

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Post-Occupy Clean-Up Will Cost $25K

by Thomas MacMillan | Apr 11, 2012 7:42 am | Comments (14)

The city will have to shell out thousands of dollars to fix Occupy New Haven’s damage to the Green, if and when it succeeds in removing the protest camp, according to city Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts.

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The Walls Come Down

by Thomas MacMillan | Apr 3, 2012 11:02 am | Comments (2)

Public works staffers hauled off Occupy New Haven’s wooden pallet barricades and fire marshals ordered plywood signs removed, as Occupy infighting smear campaigns erupted on Facebook and Twitter and three key organizers decamped to an undisclosed location.

On the other hand, Quinnipiac Tribe Grand Sachem Iron Thunderhorse offered to guide occupiers on the path to becoming “true human beings”—from prison.

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City’s Brief: Occupy Was Always Forbidden

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 27, 2012 11:00 am | Comments (10)

After a federal judge told the city to draw up specific rules covering protest encampments on the Green, the city replied: We’ve got rules. We just haven’t been enforcing them.

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