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Man Shot Dead In Trowbridge Square

by Paul Bass | Nov 28, 2011 8:59 am | Comments (6)

Police found a 29-year-old man shot in the back and the head at Liberty and Putnam Streets Sunday night.

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Historic Trowbridge Houses Saved, For Now

by Allan Appel | Nov 14, 2011 3:43 pm | Comments (2)

In a temporary victory for preservationists, the city has suspended plans to raze three houses on Putnam Street in the historic Trowbridge Square section in the Hill.

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Demolition Clock Ticks In Trowbridge Square

by Allan Appel | Aug 9, 2011 1:34 pm | Comments (10)

Luis Colon wants to help his friend buy and restore this stately high-ceilinged 140-year-old house. A not-for-profit developer also stands ready to step in to save the house along with two other venerable clapboards on Putnam Street.  And city preservationists want it rehabilitated— rather than demolished, which is what the city plans to do with all three buildings.

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Hidden Urban Farms Strut Their Stuff

by Allan Appel | Aug 8, 2011 11:01 am | Comments (6)

You won’t find Matthew Browning’s honey-flavored white Lebanese summer squash in any store. His Church Street South neighbors find them—and get them for free—when they pass his front-yard gardens on Portsea Street on their way home from the produce-less convenience store on the corner.

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Sacred Heart Could Find New Spiritual Life

by Allan Appel | Mar 2, 2011 8:20 am | Comments (3)

After a long search, an historic Catholic church in the Hill may have found congregants of a new faith to pray in it.

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God Might Return To Trowbridge Square

by Allan Appel | Mar 23, 2010 2:21 pm | Comments (24)

The Archdiocese of Hartford has formally put Sacred Heart Church in the Hill up for sale. Parishioners and neighbors fear the hallowed ground might turn into just another parking lot.

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City Forecloses On 40 Lots

by Paul Bass | Apr 30, 2009 11:31 am | Comments (12)

Isaac Santana hopes his brother will no longer have to pick up all those trashed McDonald’s wrappers and Corona bottles next door.

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Troublesome Reminders? Or Loving Memories?

by Georgia Kral | Jun 26, 2007 4:31 pm | Comments (6)

Some neighbors of this memorial for Aaron McCrea on Church Street South want it removed, while others say it should be allowed to stay up as long as the families want it there.

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They Cut Through The Yellow Tape

by Paul Bass | Mar 15, 2007 5:42 pm | Comments (2)

When 8 year-old Tory James cut the “ribbon” (actually yellow construction tape) on his family’s new home, he inaugurated a hopeful new approach for reviving city neighborhoods.

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Trowbridge Square Hopes To Reopen Ransacked Center

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 29, 2006 3:21 pm

Volunteers cleaning out this shuttered Hill youth center last week were shocked to find it ransacked of copper pipes. As the city clamors for youth programs in the wake of summer violence, Kaye Harvey (pictured) hopes to find a way to revive this once-vibrant community hub.

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