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Edge Expansion OK’d

by Thomas MacMillan | May 21, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (1)

While a dispute with a neighboring property owner remained unresolved, the City Plan Commission Wednesday night approved the expansion of the Edge of the Woods natural foods store.

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Check-Cashing Quashed

by Thomas MacMillan | May 17, 2012 8:22 am | Comments (7)

Faced with an outpouring of objections from nearby businesses and neighborhood organizations, the City Plan Commission put the kibosh on a plan to convert a Whalley Avenue utility closet into a check-cashing outlet.

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Foe Neighbor Takes Grocer’s Plan To The Edge

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments (6)

As grocer Peter Dodge gears up to expand his natural foods store, he’s run into an obstacle: The property owner with whom he shares a parking lot.

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Block Party Rocks

by Staff | Apr 30, 2012 1:05 pm

The Hillhouse High marching band led a parade down Sherman Avenue. But first there were three women to honor.

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After Years, 2 Eyesore Owners Pledge Progress

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 19, 2012 11:39 am | Comments (4)

New doors are en route to the boarded-up former Chuck’s Luncheonette, whose owner says he plans to reopen a diner five years after a debilitating fire. And the eight-year-old scaffolding on the house next to the little Hooker School may come down ... before winter.

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Pizza Joint Gets The Scoop

by Caitlin Emma | Mar 22, 2012 1:49 pm | Comments (2)

More Than Pizza on Whalley Avenue learned a lesson about serving more than just pizza after a city inspector showed up.

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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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Dr. Fasano’s Over Here. Here!

by Allan Appel | Mar 19, 2012 12:29 pm | Comments (1)

One of the few surviving residential pockets along Whalley Avenue is about to receive its first commercial sign.

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Westville Walkers Stake Claim To Whalley

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 1, 2012 9:14 am | Comments (8)

With help from a bill put forward by their state legislators, neighbors and visitors would no longer have to risk life and limb to cross Whalley Avenue to see a play at Lyric Hall or get their hair done at the Soho salon.

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7-11 Squeaks By 3-2

by Allan Appel | Feb 8, 2012 9:18 am

It appeared to be the bottom of the ninth with two outs and two strikes of community opposition against 7-Eleven in its bid to open a 24-hour convenience store at the long vacant corner of Whalley and Ramsdell. Then the corporation hit a home run. Now you’ll be able to buy a fresh banana, get Advil or baby formula, or even a Greyhound bus ticket at three in the morning—but not rolling papers.

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