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Housing Plan Dropped Amid Parking Dispute
Apartments that won't be built on Hamilton St. A Hamilton Street parking lot will remain a Hamilton Street parking lot for the time being, now that a local landlord has withdrawn a housing application...
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Last Warming Center Closes For Summer
Christopher lines up for the 180 Center's final night as a warming center. At 6:15 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, Christopher ambled over to the 180 Center on a crooked foot.It was the last night that the last...
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Industrial District Tour Eyes Mixed-Use Future
Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ... ... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street...
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Squatters Set Up In Almost-Sold Factory
Franklyn Gallo: RV is "better than living on the street." The clock company's latest tenant. Inside the nearby shed. Housing has finally come to the old Hamilton Street clock factory — in the form of a...
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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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