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This Deck Was Legit. Now It’s Not

by Thomas MacMillan | May 14, 2012 9:47 am | Comments (15)

With neighbors up in arms about late-night noise and Cinco de Mayo drink specials, the city’s zoning board decided a long-time social club has to stop using its new outdoor deck—even though it had been built with city permission.

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Dots Connected

by Staff | May 7, 2012 12:43 pm

Global warming. Tropical Storm Irene—and three other freak killer weather events in one year in Connecticut.

See a connection?

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Without Blossoms, Festival Still Blooms

by Staff | Apr 16, 2012 3:01 pm

Most of the blossoms were gone, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from flocking to Wooster Square Sunday for the neighborhood’s annual festival.

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Palm Sunday Meets The Big Easy

by Allan Appel | Apr 2, 2012 7:33 am

Parasols joined the traditional palm fronds along with a tuba and a tap dancer as New Haveners marked Palm Sunday with a full-throated New Orleans-style jazz parade.

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Cherry Blossoms Arrive Weeks Early

by Melissa Bailey | Mar 30, 2012 11:02 am | Comments (1)

When Dagmar Moore saw Wooster Square’s cherry blossoms pop weeks earlier than usual, she popped the question: Could it be “global warming”?

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Dog-Poop Scofflaw Sends Little Girl To Hospital

by Andy Ross | Mar 27, 2012 12:23 pm | Comments (13)

A family that decided to go to Wooster Square Park on Saturday for a picnic (from out of town) noticed their daughter had a smelly substance under her fingernails when they returned home. Upon further inspection, the 4-year-old had some of the same substance in her mouth and ears.

Yep, you guessed it. The substance was dog feces. They cleaned her up but overnight had to take her to the emergency room because she was vomiting.

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Sohu: Don’t Make Us Wooster Square!

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 22, 2012 12:04 pm | Comments (7)

As aldermen moved forward with a once-a-decade redrawing of ward maps, they heard an urgent appeal from a concerned constituency: People afraid they’ll lose their neighborhood identity in the voting boundary shuffle.

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State Pledges Relief From Highway Din

by Melissa Bailey | Mar 16, 2012 12:01 pm | Comments (6)

Sara Jamison is hoping for more peaceful days and nights with her 1-year-old son now that the state has found a way to answer neighbors’ pleas to block noise and pollution from I-91.

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$30M Farnam Redo Evolves

by Allan Appel | Mar 9, 2012 9:11 am

A 72-year-old woman had an idea for how the housing authority should replace the 70-year-old Farnam Courts complex at Grand and Hamilton: Put up a new building set aside for seniors.

The answer from the authority: Sorry, no can do, but please apply anyway. We’ll have room for you.

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$30M Sought To Raze, Rebuild Farnam Courts

by Allan Appel | Feb 28, 2012 4:03 pm | Comments (10)

If the housing authority succeeds with a plan to demolish and redevelop the World War Two-era townhouses at Farnam Courts, Nezzie Ransom plans to return to plant a backyard garden of tulips, daisies, and roses.

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