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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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Odor “Seen” At City’s Scum Pumps

by Thomas MacMillan | May 2, 2012 3:21 pm | Comments (2)

“It can be fairly odorous,” Gary Zrelak warned before heading into the sludge processing room, where conveyor belts fed moist “solids” into a centrifuge.

The smell was an olfactory haymaker, a blow to the head. Two people turned and ran.

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2-Alarm Fire Extinguished

by Staff | Mar 19, 2012 8:22 am

Some 35 firefighters spent an hour putting out a raging two-alarm fire by the harbor early Monday morning.

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Call It A CompStat Bust

by Paul Bass | Feb 28, 2012 5:51 pm | Comments (3)

A strung-out-looking face appeared on the screen. Sgt. Vincent Anastasio took a good look. Three hours later, that good look took a burglar off the streets just as she hit town.

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Ecstasy Bust At Toad’s

by Staff | Feb 17, 2012 5:16 pm

Police charged three men inside Toad’s Place Thursday night with selling Ecstasy at a “dub-step” night at the storied downtown nightclub.

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Barge-Builder Sold

by Allan Appel | Feb 15, 2012 5:18 pm

A local shipyard has a new owner—and maybe a new name and a new future.

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Thanks To Teamwork, Squad 1 “Got It Done”

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 18, 2012 4:04 pm | Comments (5)

When firefighters rolled up to a new situation and heard a 2-year-old’s screams from inside a ventilation duct, they had one thing in mind: “hustle.”

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Would You Believe ... Drag Bingo In The Annex?

by Allan Appel | Dec 19, 2011 8:51 am | Comments (6)

She didn’t zing out barbed lines from Mommie Dearest or Mildred Pierce, but rather huskily called out: “B-8,” “B-11,” “G-3,” and her very favorite—“0-69.”

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Coquitos & Parrandas, All Around!

by Allan Appel | Dec 5, 2011 9:16 am | Comments (8)

Filomena Vagueiro judged that number seven had a nice combination of sock-it-to-me rum, just the right sweetness, and a secret ingredient: It was “probably made by someone very happy with life.”

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Shot On The Streets, He Has A New Mission

by Allan Appel | Nov 15, 2011 1:07 pm | Comments (6)

Henry Green asked young survivors of the city’s meaner streets to write their dream vision of New Haven. They came up mainly with nightmares.

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