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Spring Fantasy Hits Runway

by Ariela Martin | May 11, 2012 10:57 am

From rudimentary sketches to fitted dresses, models paraded unique designs to benefit one cause: New Haven’s homeless. The process to create one runway-ready dress is not as simple as it may appear, but through months of planning and preparation, fabric and pins were transformed into glamorous spectacles.

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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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Trouble-Making Earns Award, Not Rebukes

by Paul Bass | Apr 30, 2012 4:05 pm | Comments (8)

Bonita Grubbs got a surprise when she Googled herself. She discovered that she has “caused a lot of trouble.”

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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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CAA Looks East On Whalley

by Caitlin Emma | Mar 22, 2012 10:58 am

The Community Action Agency of New Haven is making a move—seven-tenths of a mile up the street.

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Aldermen Want To Make Non-Profits “Emeritus”

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 20, 2012 7:46 am | Comments (2)

Two aldermen have come up with a plan so that non-profits who’ve shown they’re doing good work wouldn’t have to sit through several-hours-long hearings in order to give five-minute pleas for money.

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St. Francis Expansion OK’d

by Allan Appel | Mar 19, 2012 1:31 pm | Comments (1)

Over neighborhood objections, a group home in the Hill has gained approval to expand the number of beds it offers to adolescent boys in trouble with the law.

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Clawfoot Tub Recalled

by Allan Appel | Mar 2, 2012 9:07 am | Comments (1)

Thomas Cama grew up at Poplar and Pine in Fair Haven in an apartment with only an old clawfoot tub. When he was a third-grader in 1963, the new building of Farnam Neighborhood House opened. Cama was there to play basketball and afterwards take the first shower of his young life.

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Emancipation & The 2 New Havens, Seen Fresh

by Allan Appel, Gwyneth K. Shaw, & Joshua Mamis | Mar 1, 2012 1:34 pm

A son of the Tre was paired with a son of Yugoslavia. A blueberry creme brulee was paired with a Pisco sour. In the process, New Haveners and suburbanites came together to give a signature youth program a needed boost—while tasting the city in all its flavors.

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Klein & Cole Coats—For Charity

by Caitlin Emma | Mar 1, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (1)

Bethany Watkins’ church had just finished giving away its winter coats from last year when the Burlington Coat Factory called in late January. The outlet had 300 brand new coats to give away.

Watkins (pictured above) rifled through the coats on Wednesday as Immanuel Baptist Church prepared to sell the new stock to help two local charities.

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