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Ex-Clock Factory Has Another Fire
Firefighter Dan Kisluk on scene Tuesday. For the second time in a month, firefighters Tuesday raced to the abandoned clock factory on Hamilton and Wallace Streets.The latest call came at 12:30 p.m....
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The Word On Chapel & East: Swirling Colors Hit The Wall
Jessie Unterhalter at work Monday. “Beautiful!” a passing motorist called out while heading downtown Monday on Chapel Street.“Thank you!” Jessie Unterhalter said for the tenth? 20th? time of the...
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Kaleidoscopic Mural Unveiled On Chapel
Whoa! Payton, Ellis, and Anaya with muralists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn: “This is why we’re doing this.” The challenge was steep. To scour the globe for a muralist to lend such pizzazz to a...
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Concrete Co. Eyes More Trains, Fewer Trucks
Suzio truck rolls on out of the Chapel St. concrete plant. Expect 4,000 fewer truck deliveries per year to an industrial riverfront stretch of Chapel Street — as a Meriden-based concrete company plans...
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Alameda Animates Mill River District Visioning
Can the city help bring this vision to life? Oh, that's an alameda. Cool! Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand...
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Cop Raid, Shoot-Out Leave Renters Shaken
Mill River Crossing, where an early-morning police shoot-out left a suspect dead. Free counseling from area therapists. A new police officer in residence. And (hopefully) fixing the broken intercom...
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West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.5:30 a.m. at the Mill River Crossing housing complex. Police enter an apartment with a key. “My baby!” a...
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Zoners Nix Smoke Shop Next To Strip Club
Applicant Villanueva: Spot is a "gold mine" Landlord Marty Halprin: Time to look for another potential tenant. A new smoke shop won’t be able to open up next to a methadone clinic and a strip club —...
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Seal Checks Out Mill River District
Seals belong in the aquarium, right?One certain seal had other ideas Sunday. It showed up in the Mill River district.Police said they found the visiting seal at Chapel and East Streets. They called...
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Builder Plots Factory-To-Apartments Revival
Perlich, at 414 Chapel: "Somebody just has to do it." Former mill building. Future apartments? Jonathan Perlich walked down the vast, empty fourth floor of a 19th-century mill building — beneath wooden...
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