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Barnard, Common Ground Win National Green Awards

by Staff | Apr 23, 2013 6:38 am | Comments (1)

Two city schools won green ribbons from the White House on Earth Day for their environmental efforts.

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Rock To Rock Rocks

by Staff | Apr 22, 2013 8:27 am

Pedal power brought over 1,100 people from East Rock to West Rock and in some cases Sleeping Giant on two wheels Saturday for the annual “Rock to Rock” group charity ride. The event generated not just unmeasurable amounts of exercise and fun, but also more than $140,000 for 23 local not-for-profit groups doing environmental work.

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Women, Don’t “Go There” With A Man In Prison

by Ariela Martin | Apr 17, 2013 4:03 pm | Comments (2)

He made a choice that landed him in prison. Ultimately she has to make a choice, too—whether she wants to continue a relationship with an incarcerated man.

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Rockview Redo Begins With Renewed Challenge

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 10, 2013 2:00 pm | Comments (5)

As Shirley Banks and her family prepare to return home to Rockview next year, the city faces a challenge: How will this $33 million new version of the demolished housing projects be any less isolated than before?

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They’re Green

by Staff | Mar 14, 2013 4:00 pm

Two New Haven schools with environmental themes won green recognition Thursday from the state.

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Lockdowns Over; Reported Rifleman Not Found

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 13, 2013 3:38 pm | Comments (3)

(Updated 3:41 p.m.) Common Ground High School and Brennan Rogers School went on lockdown for about an hour Wednesday afternoon as police combed the area looking for a man reportedly roaming the vicinity with a rifle.

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West Rock Rocks

by Allan Appel | Mar 5, 2013 12:27 pm | Comments (3)

New Haven has an equivalent of Niagara Falls and the Eiffel Tower, a spot where dinosaurs trod and earth meets an intimation of paradise, and where the first defiant political “shot” of the American Revolution was fired.

Don’t snicker. It’s West Rock.

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Hiking Through Snow, Cops Subdue Suicidal Man

by Paul Bass | Feb 11, 2013 9:44 am | Comments (4)

The man had a gun to his head. He threatened to pull the trigger. Police rushed to the scene—until the snow blocked their path.

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Here, Take Our $39M

by Melissa Bailey | Dec 28, 2012 4:49 pm | Comments (4)

A developer has turned down an already-approved loan for a Winchester Avenue development project, freeing up New Haven’s housing authority to fast-track plans to rebuild rundown apartments in West Rock and Fair Haven.

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“Affordable Luxury” Pitch Comes To Brookside

by Allan Appel | Dec 21, 2012 12:21 pm | Comments (4)

Roberta Hoskie pitched luxury living—at a new home built on what used to be known as the Brookside projects.

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