by | Apr 24, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Terry Hughes started the week making sure his 2002 Volvo will be ready for an important trip north.
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by | Mar 30, 2023 12:30 pm | Comments (13)
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A rendering of the rehab clinic that could be at 215 Whalley...
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...vs. what's there now: An abandoned CVS.
The planned conversion of a former CVS pharmacy on Whalley Avenue into an abstinence-focused drug rehab clinic moved ahead, as the project’s backers seek approval to keep using an adjacent fenced-off asphalt lot for surface parking.
by | Mar 23, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (20)
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WASSD board members hear out Carol Martin at annual meeting.
Still vacant after all these years: the Whalley-Winthrop lot.
Build on prime property that has stubbornly remained fenced-in dirt for 20 years? Not so simple.
Get rid of panhandlers, double-parkers, burglars, not to mention smoke shops? Not so simple.
Revive struggling Whalley Avenue, New Haven’s main west-to-downtown commercial corridor? That was the overall question. The answer was … not so simple, but worth the effort of pulling together, piece by piece, lot by lot.
by | Mar 17, 2023 3:02 pm | Comments (27)
Rendering of planned apartment complex situated next to St. Luke's.
St. Luke's — and Papa John's — hanging out together on Friday morning.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church received a final OK to demolish Papa John’s pizza to bring 55 new affordable apartments to the holy gateway of Whalley Avenue.
by | Mar 9, 2023 4:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Lieblich: Whalley needs help.
Security footage of burglar seeking to open cash drawer.
Police said they have a suspect in a string of commercial burglaries and are buttressing patrols to help business owners like Benny Lieblich avoid needing to pay to replace any more broken windows.
by | Mar 6, 2023 1:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Alexander McWilliams: "Fentanyl is killing everybody."
Alexander McWilliams gave his friend Perry Flowers a ride in his 2014 Honda Civic to the state pre-trial jailhouse and juvenile court Monday morning so Flowers could show up for his nephew.
by | Feb 16, 2023 5:05 pm | Comments (5)
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A white Kia pulled up to the curb. Kenta Wilson’s plan for the morning was about to change.
by | Feb 14, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (9)
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CAANH's Prez Amos Smith (center): “It’s still cold, it’s gonna be cold for a while.”
Symone Wilson was taking a walk along Whalley Avenue last fall when she found a way to stay warm come winter, in the form of one-time emergency utility assistance and an energy matching payment plan.
The 28-year-old New Havener connected with those programs to keep her heat pumping and lights shining thanks to the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH).
That’s the 419 Whalley Ave. social services organization where Wilson now works — and where local leaders gathered to help get the word out about how a growing number of those in need can find a way to lower their energy costs and consumption as prices soar.
by | Jan 31, 2023 3:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Jack Deyo (above) drills hole for Wingstop sign (below, with colleagues Evan Curtin and TJ Telesco).
Six-foot-wide aluminum incarnations of the words “WING” and “STOP” rested on the Sherman Avenue sidewalk as three seasoned sign-installers scoped out the scene.
by | Jan 23, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Four deliveries down. Eight to go.
by | Jan 17, 2023 2:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
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by | Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm | Comments (18)
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The view from the soon-to-be-replaced Mid Bridge.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.
A dance venue. A community garden. A set of lights for the skate park. A … West Rock-bound gondola?
Those were a few of the ideas that made it onto a community-built wish list for $800,000 worth of improvements for Edgewood Park, as put together by roughly 100 parkgoers.
by | Jan 10, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (37)
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Tony Negron -- who used to go to 1351 Whalley to work at Tommy K's video -- returns as a customer to wait for a dispensary's official opening there.
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Rick Woods lights up on the ride home to North Haven.
As Tony Negron stood in line to become New Haven’s first customer of fully legal recreational weed, the 40-year-old recalled sharing a first joint with his boys at 12 years old and then eating boxed mac n’ cheese.
How did he plan to celebrate his more grown-up purchase of adult-use marijuana on Tuesday? By taking his dispensary flower home and smoking it from the comfort of his jacuzzi on a paid day off from work.
by | Jan 4, 2023 12:57 pm | Comments (4)
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Officer Ashley McKernan was two hours into her second consecutive shift Wednesday morning when she finally found a moment to fuel back up for the next hours on the beat.
by | Dec 22, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Fred White Thursday outside the Whalley Wells Fargo.
A retired tool-and-die maker named Fred White kept moving Thursday, hopping on his music-amplified Kent Cruiser two-wheeler to navigate the busy Norton-Whalley intersection.
by | Dec 19, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (7)
Commercial kitchen El Amigo Felix to get new neighbors.
A plan to build six new apartments atop the former El Amigo Felix restaurant on Whalley Avenue won its final needed city approval — marking the first new development OK’d for that recently rezoned “commercial gateway” corridor.
by | Dec 14, 2022 4:03 pm | Comments (0)
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First in line: Terry Barrett at American Muffler.
AAA flatbed tech Terry Barrett was behind AAA Pizza Wednesday watching someone else complete a task he has done himself thousands of times — replace brakes on a vehicle.
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by | Nov 23, 2022 12:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Groom at work in the Whalley Stop & Shop lot.
Bruce Groom plans to divide his Thanksgiving Day between Stop & Shop and the Veterans Administration hospital.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Groom Plans Hectic Holiday, Needs Car Back’
by | Nov 7, 2022 10:37 am | Comments (18)
A 27-year-old New Havener named Shanice Reyes was struck and killed by a car Friday evening on a deadly stretch of Whalley Avenue.
by | Nov 1, 2022 9:23 am | Comments (2)
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Alfonse Purcell on the Chevy hunt.
Alfonse Purcell took a bus from Farren Avenue across town to Whalley Avenue early Monday in search of independence, in the form of four wheels he could call his own.
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
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by | Oct 12, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (4)
Someone stabbed 29-year-old Southern Connecticut State University student Nico Saraceni to death on Whalley Avenue Monday night.
by | Oct 3, 2022 12:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Marc Criscio: Application submitted for heating help.
Approps Chair DeLauro: "As long as I have the gavel and pen, we're going to increase funding in this area."
Low-income Connecticut residents like Marc Criscio who need help covering their heating bills this winter can now tap into a state energy assistance program newly infused with an extra $20 million.
by | Sep 14, 2022 4:09 pm | Comments (26)
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The former CVS site at 215 Whalley. Future home of MCCA outpatient clinic.
CFO Connan: Will "better serve" community.
A Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit plans to move its local outpatient clinic to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street, after purchasing that recently shuttered ex-pharmacy property for $2.5 million.
by | Aug 16, 2022 1:55 pm | Comments (6)
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Ma's House owner Cherisa Lloyd at new restaurant at former Lena's spot.
Ma's Favorite.
When Cherisa Lloyd enjoys the “Margie Special” at her new Westville soul food restaurant, she’s reminded of the love, strength, strong family values, and passion for cooking of her late mother, and best friend.
