New Haven Register back issues from March 2006:
Seniors push lawmakers for energy reforms
Mar 01, 2006; ... Bob Mohr, 69, does what he can to keep his ailing wife, LabonMohr, comfortable in their Madison home, but rising electricity costsmake it a constant struggle. Labon Mohr, who is on a feeding tubebecause tongue cancer has rendered her unable to swallow or eat, hasundergone multiple ...
Udenze helps Hamden girls pull first-round stunner
Mar 01, 2006 ... Justine Udenze scored 16 points in her first start this season asthe 27th-seeded Hamden girls' basketball team upset host and No. 6Westhill-Stamford 45-36 Tuesday in the first round of the Class LLstate tournament. The Green Dragons (10-11) outscored the Vikings (18-6) 34-15 in the ...
Rell's apology is not enough
Mar 01, 2006 ... Commissioners may pay for her chief of staff's order to breakcampaign law. Gov. M. Jodi Rell needs to show a little moreleadership in resolving the wholesale violation of state campaignfinance laws by her department heads and their deputies. Anotherapology and a call to move on at a ...
ICE CHIPS
Mar 01, 2006; ... Highlights of the week in hockey: THREE STARS -David Kraus, Hand-Madison: Had two goals and an assist in an 8-0win over Guilford on Feb. 22 and four goals in an 8-1 win overBranford Saturday. -Connor Antisdale, Fairfield Prep: Scored the Jesuits' only goalin 5-1 loss to ...
Police blotter
Mar 01, 2006 ... Man to serve jail time before 3rd deportation NEW HAVEN -- AMexican national who had returned to East Haven after twice beingdeported was sentenced to 46 months in prison Monday by a federaljudge. Adalberto Arteaga-Rodriguez, 29, pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United ...
Free tax services offered to low-income workers
Mar 01, 2006; ... Six weeks into the tax season, a coalition of volunteer tax formpreparers have provided free services to more than 750 low- tomoderate-income individuals and families. But they know there aremore who need help. The Coalition for Working Families, made up of 24churches, businesses, ...
Apartment complex proposed at vacant lot
Mar 01, 2006; ... The Main Street Development Corp. wants to build a 28-unitapartment complex across from City Hall on a lot that has been vacantfor seven years. The Planning and Zoning Commission heard apresentation on the plan Monday night. The building, designed by architect John Martin of ...
MY VEGETARIAN KITCHEN: The hull story; Many of the healthful benefits of whole grain barley reside in its outer bran
Mar 01, 2006; ... The FDA now allows barley products to carry the same claim thatmade oats famous for its heart-healthful benefits. It's rich insoluble fiber, and barley also contains important minerals such asselenium, niacin, phosphorus, copper and magnesium. All good news foryour heart. This whole ...
W. Haven taps 2 new City Hall workers
Mar 01, 2006; ... Mayor John M. Picard is nearly surrounded by a fulladministration. Picard said two new faces will grace the corridors ofCity Hall as the municipality's finance director and city planner. Picard confirmed Tuesday that Orange resident Nalini Srinivas, aformer Yale University business ...
Frailty in elderly can be treated early
Mar 01, 2006; ... The frailty that often accompanies old age can be slowed,prevented and in some cases reversed, if action is taken early,according to a study of Greater New Haven residents by a group ofYale researchers. "People assume that everything is downhill, butthat's a fallacy," Dr. Thomas M. Gill, ...
SUPERMARKET SAMPLER: Bear with us while we discuss the benefits of Naked Juice
Mar 01, 2006; ... Naked Juice Antioxidant. Pomegranate, and Pomegranate Blueberry.$3.19 per 15.2-ounce bottle. Bonnie: Pomegranates are those red-skinned fruits with sweet flesh and an overabundance of seeds thatkids (and probably Carolyn) love to spit out. They've been celebratedin mythology as a symbol ...
Letter to the Editor: VA day-to-day functions underfunded in budget
Mar 01, 2006 ... President Bush wants to pump up spending on defense and homelandsecurity, but has a deficit to deal with. So, he turns once again tothe slice of pie in the federal budget that is called discretionarydomestic spending. One slice of that pie is the Department ofVeterans Affairs ....
Letter to the Editor: Bush uses fears, doesn't address them
Mar 01, 2006 ... There has been no more prolific, self-serving and dangerous mythsurrounding this administration than that it ever could or would keepus safe. It proved to be competent in frightening people andmaintaining electoral control of this country - and nothing more.Consider, this group could see ...
Tourney brackets three times the fun
Mar 01, 2006; ... Perhaps around the time the Northford Ice Pavilion clock hits 11tonight, the Fairfield Prep and Hand-Madison hockey teams will bringan end to the regular season. Then the fun really begins - unless youhappen to a member of the CIAC Hockey Committee, which has to startcrunching seemingly ...
Geno's not pulling punches; Coach openly questions team's toughness
Mar 01, 2006; ... Geno Auriemma likes to equate a basketball game to a boxing match.When the bell sounds, one fighter charges into the ring and throwsthe first punch. Then, whether or not the opponent has acounterattack usually determines the outcome. Monday's 48-42 loss at Rutgers was one more ...
Simple Survival; Hand, Hillhouse survive scares, advance to SCC title game
Mar 01, 2006; ... Jordan Russell hadn't scored a point in the entire game. He hadn'teven taken a shot since the first quarter. But with Tuesday'sSouthern Connecticut Conference tournament semifinal on the line,Russell buried two free throws in double overtime to help sixth-seeded Hand-Madison edge Career ...
Anderson returns to sun and fun; Senior guard ready for homecoming as UConn faces South Florida
Mar 01, 2006; ... Rashad Anderson came to understand his celebrity status here inPolk County two years ago, when he returned home a couple of daysafter helping the University of Connecticut men's basketball teamclaim its second national championship. He walked to a nearby park,where he watched from a ...
Reporter packs it in; all of 2 1/4 paczkis
Mar 01, 2006; ... I've been advised to steer clear of professional eating. Mystomach was still woozy, my fingers were still covered in sweetsugared slime from the doughnuts I had just wolfed down. I had justfinished a disappointing last place in the 8th annual paczki-eatingcompetition at Eddy's Bake Shop ....
W. Haven mayor wants all capital projects delayed
Mar 01, 2006; ... Just a day after Mayor John M. Picard predicted the city isheading toward a $10 million budget deficit, he delivered "bad news"again Tuesday, saying at a Board of Education meeting that he wantsall capital improvement projects to halt so the city can salvage itsfinances. "I'm going to ...
Milford school redistricting plan expected to draw a crowd
Mar 01, 2006; ... Hundreds of parents are expected to attend a much anticipatedmeeting tonight where a bulk of the discussion will center on theinitial proposals behind a comprehensive redistricting plan. Public schools spokeswoman Kathryn Bonetti said parents who attendthe meeting should not ...
Officials seek to overhaul lead statutes
Mar 01, 2006; ... A day after supplies containing lead shut down art classrooms atall city schools, local and state officials announced a plan tooverhaul state statutes to prevent childhood lead poisoning. StateSen. Gayle Slossberg, D-Milford, and Milford Health DepartmentDirector Dr. A. Dennis McBride ...
Drug abuse declining among Valley teens
Mar 01, 2006; ... The rate of overall substance abuse by some Valley teens hasdropped in the last three years, though alcohol abuse remains aproblem, according to the results of a teen survey released Tuesdayby the Valley Substance Abuse Action Council. Other issues also havecropped up since students in ...
Navy to send 3 subs to West Coast
Mar 01, 2006; ... After surviving last year's round of Pentagon closures, the Navy'sGroton submarine base may lose three of its 17 submarines to WestCoast bases. The submarines expected to depart include the USSConnecticut, which will head to Naval Base Kitsap in Washingtonstate, along with the USS ...
City taxes will rise under new budget plan
Mar 01, 2006; ... Taxes would climb by 4 mills under the 2006-07 budget proposalMayor John DeStefano Jr. will send to the Board of Aldermen today.DeStefano introduced his $413 million spending plan to the Register'seditorial board Tuesday ahead of its formal submission to aldermen.The budget proposal ...
Teachers ask pension guarantees
Mar 01, 2006; ... Connecticut's largest teacher union launched a television andradio ad campaign Tuesday seeking a constitutional amendment to forcethe state to pay what it owes the teachers' retirement fund. Thetheme of the campaign is a call for Connecticut "to keep the promise"to provide secure ...
Southington ousts Cheshire in Ferraro's finale
Mar 01, 2006; ... SOUTHINGTON -- Cheshire girls' basketball coach Jim Ferraro hasasked his teams for one main thing in the 23 years he has coached thesport -- effort. The Rams gave him all the effort he wanted in theirfirst-round game of the Class LL state tournament Tuesday againstSouthington, albeit in ...
Higgins provides glimpse of potential
Mar 01, 2006; ... As Chris Higgins skates around the rink the morning before a game,his movement can only be described as slow and methodical -- maybeeven sleepy. But when the puck comes to him and he makes his waytoward the goal, Higgins comes alive as a whirlwind of activity,doing his best swerving and ...
GOP council members meet with developers
Mar 01, 2006; ... Republicans on the Town Council have been quietly meeting withfive developers who are seeking to redevelop a 2.9-acre, town-ownedtract near the heart of Wallingford's business district withoutincluding the governing body's Democratic members, the councilchairman said Tuesday. Republican ...
Wolves claw way back to nationals
Mar 01, 2006; ... A place in USA Hockey's Junior B national finals was slipping awayfrom the Connecticut Wolves on Feb. 19. "It seems like it has beenplayoff hockey for the last few weeks," Wolves coach John Poapst saidthat day. "We could have been six points ahead by now, but two losses(to Portland and ...
DeLauro, 54 other Catholics in House detail moral aims
Mar 01, 2006; ... With the Democratic Party seeking to redefine the political notionof "values" and wrest it from Republicans, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3,and 54 fellow House Catholics have a signed a joint statementoutlining their "moral purpose" as legislators. The Catholictradition, according to the ...
There ought to be a law
Mar 01, 2006; ... State House Speaker James A. Amann, D-Milford, spent his 50thbirthday Tuesday speaking to elementary school pupils in his hometownabout how a bill becomes a law. Amann even got a group of MathewsonSchool fifth-graders to participate in a mock legislative session. The pupils floated ...
Henrici gets 3.8% pay raise
Mar 01, 2006; ... Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Henrici said the Board ofEducation's decision to give him a 3.8 percent raise is evidence thathe is doing a good job, even though the panel is refusing to releasethe findings of an inquiry into a dispute regarding the district'sspecial education budget ....
McCain to campaign for Rell
Mar 01, 2006; ... Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell has made it clear that she neitherexpects nor wants President Bush to campaign for her. But she has avery different attitude about U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "I am thrilled to have a leader of Senator McCain's staturesupporting my campaign," Rell ...
Hamden nears deal to buy pond
Mar 01, 2006; ... The town is one step closer to acquiring a privately owned parcelit has been after for more than five years. Johnson Pond, located offThornton Street, has been used by generations of residents foreverything from ice-skating to bird-watching. The LegislativeCouncil's Planning and ...
Derby's grand list hits $905 million
Mar 01, 2006; ... The city's net grand list of taxable property was $905 million for2005, according to figures the assessor's office released Tuesday. Ofthis figure, approximately $805 million was real estate, $39.9million was personal property, and $60.5 million was motor vehicles. In contrast, the ...
Shelton school board headed for TV
Mar 01, 2006; ... The Board of Education may not be quite ready for prime time, butits meeting should soon hit the airwaves on a trial basis as itrecently agreed to allow students to videotape and broadcast meetingson local cable television. The board concurred with a recommendationby Superintendent of ...
LOOKING BACK: Today in History, March 1
Mar 01, 2006 ... 1966 A court inquiry is ordered into the affairs of the StateMotor Vehicle Department as a result of information that suspendeddrivers' licenses are being returned for monetary payments. 1976 New Haven Corporation Counsel Thayer Baldwin Jr. says CivilService Commission ...
Queach Road hearing tonight in Branford
Mar 01, 2006; ... Townspeople have their chance to sound off tonight on thecontentious 159-acre Queach Road property. The Board of Selectmanwill hold a special meeting to hear from developer Alex Vigliotti,preservationists, and residents from 7-11 p.m. at the WalshIntermediate School. Later this ...
Mayor, USRAC parent meet; DeStefano sends letter with list of concerns to owner in Belgium
Mar 01, 2006; ... Mayor John DeStefano Jr. met Tuesday with officials from U.S.Repeating Arms Co. and its parent company, the Herstal Group ofBelgium. Neither side would discuss the meeting in detail, but cityand company officials said the mayor is sending a letter to theHerstal Group via the Herstal ...
Family sues truck company in December crash
Mar 01, 2006; ... A North Haven landscaping company that came under fire from Gov.M. Jodi Rell last year for causing a head-on collision in Hamden isbeing sued by the Ansonia mother and son injured in that crash.Valerie Chieppo and her son were injured Dec. 8 after a Winter Ridgedriver failed to secure an ...
11 states oppose bill on toxins
Mar 01, 2006; ... A House committee is set to consider legislation that would allowthe United States to enter into an international treaty restrictingair pollution, but state attorneys general, including Connecticut's,argue the bill would forbid states from enacting their own, stricterlimits. The House ...
Yale's Koh tells Senate panel NSA's domestic surveillance program is illegal
Mar 01, 2006; ... Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh testified Tuesday that theNational Security Agency's domestic surveillance program is"blatantly illegal" in that it violates all three constitutionalstandards of the Fourth Amendment. Koh, speaking before the SenateJudiciary Committee in Washington, ...
PZC rejects Chinese eatery
Mar 01, 2006; ... The Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday unanimously denied abid to allow a Chinese restaurant, because the applicant failed tofollow notification procedures, and commented on theinappropriateness of the project for the area. Planning and ZoningAdministrator Rick Schultz said that the ...
Public works account gains $18,000 infusion
Mar 01, 2006; ... The Board of Finance Tuesday approved an $18,000 transfer to thePublic Works Department, which got financially buried by nearly 2feet of snow that Mother Nature dumped on the region last month. Themoney, which will come from the town's snow contingency account, willcover $10,000 in ...
Coke deal on agenda
Mar 01, 2006; ... Top school and city officials will meet this morning for thesecond time in 10 days over the Board of Education's exclusivecontract with Coca-Cola, but this time the meeting will include aphone call with an auditor. About two weeks ago, Board of Aldermenleaders met with top school ...
Texas Roadhouse chain will open restaurant on Sawmill Road
Mar 01, 2006; ... A Kentucky-based restaurant chain that boasts "legendary food,legendary service" plans to open its second state eatery by November.Texas Roadhouse, popular in the South and West, plans to open onSawmill Road on a parcel that will also be the site of a Hampton Inn& Suites ...
Missing stories
Mar 01, 2006 ... EDITION: Final BYLINE: Peter Hvizdak DATELINE: HEADLINE: Civics lesson (part 2) SECTION: Local News COLUMN: ART: Photo caption PAGE: b1 NOTES: Secretary oif the State Susan Bysiewicz talks about howgovernment works, civics and voting to ...
Letter to the Editor: No corporation should be running ports
Mar 01, 2006 ... The outrage of the year is to permit an outside corporation of anystripe to operate any of our seacoast ports. The powers-that-be mustbe out of their minds. That is not a job for a corporation at all. If this situation stands, what is to prevent the communistgovernment of China ...
People's passes $1B milestone
Mar 01, 2006; ... Just 20 years after entering the highly competitive trust andwealth management arena, People's Bank has hit a major milestone,passing the $1 billion mark in assets under management. And thePeople's Wealth Management & Trust department did it primarily in oneof the industry's most ...
Mardi Gras NEW HAVEN STYLE; Big Easy librarian raising awareness of ruined facilities
Mar 01, 2006; ... With destruction so pervasive and the needs so many, it'sunderstandable if New Orleans city leaders don't have the publiclibraries at the top of their agenda. But like most everything elsein the battered city, Katrina devastated most of the city'slibraries. Just five of the city's 13 ...
Vice principal's post surfaces again
Mar 01, 2006 ... The high school needs an assistant principal, school board membersagreed at a budget workshop Tuesday. But at a price tag of $90,000,they're not sure how to sell the position to voters who defeated fourproposed budgets last year. "The assistant principal (position) was one of the ...
Platt Tech gets $100G for upgrades to equipment
Mar 01, 2006; ... Members of the city's state delegation recently secured $100,000in state funds for equipment upgrades to Platt Technical High School,which officials hope will help students continue to train and soonenter the manufacturing sector. State Sen. Gayle Slossberg, and HouseSpeaker James A ....
Lynch leads Southern; Sophomore scores 21, lifts Owls into NE-10 semifinals
Mar 01, 2006 ... NEW HAVEN -- Kate Lynch scored 21 points to lead the SouthernConnecticut State women's basketball team to a 71-42 victory overAssumption in the quarterfinals of the Northeast-10 Conferencetournament Tuesday night at Moore Fieldhouse. Heading into thecontest, Lynch had been averaging 12.9 ...
Police probing claim of sex assault in school
Mar 01, 2006; ... The female East Haven High School employee who accused AthleticDirector Fred Balsamo of sexual assault and sexual harassment filed acomplaint with police Tuesday and police opened a formal criminalinvestigation in response. "The detective division did in fact openup a criminal ...
Nature center searching woods for owl nests
Mar 02, 2006 ... Join Maria Stockmal and other bird lovers at 8 a.m. March 11 foran early morning survey of the Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center'sRaptor Woods to look for owl nests. Great horned owls are known tonest in Raptor Woods where tall pine trees provide concealed nestingand ...
Elm City rain forest
Mar 02, 2006 ... Easter Seals Goodwill Industries Greenbrier Program will hold itsannual "A Taste of the Tropics" from noon to 4 p.m. March 12 atEdgerton Park in New Haven. Admission is free. The event will includerain forest exhibits, animals and children's activities. There willbe experts on hand to ...
River Rats sink Sound Tigers
Mar 02, 2006; ... It will likely take much more than a two-game losing streak tosink the Bridgeport Sound Tigers' playoff chances, but that won'tstop them from getting just a bit nervous heading into the finalmonth of the regular season, particularly with the way they haveplayed these last two games. The ...
Ask the Planners
Mar 02, 2006 ... The New Haven Register is teaming up with the Greater New Havenchapter of the Financial Planning Association to answer readers'questions about financial issues. The Register is starting two newfeatures in its Business section -- Ask the Planners, a question-and-answer column in which ...
A free family concert by the Irish balladeers, [Derived Headline]
Mar 02, 2006 ... A free family concert by the Irish balladeers, The Kerry Boys,will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Stratford Library LovellRoom. The Kerry Boys are Mark James, right, and Pierce Campbell,state men who formed the group 13 years ago. They will be joined byTony Pasqualoni on bass ....
Letter to the Editor: Politicians' appearance on picket line hypocritical
Mar 02, 2006 ... What a bunch of hypocrites! Here we have Rosa DeLauro, JoeLieberman and Chris Dodd, our esteemed congressional representatives,standing in front of Sikorsky cheering on the fight for good healthcare. These are the same people, with the rest of their dysfunctionalpeers, who have had the ...
Marshals thwart Milford suicide try
Mar 01, 2006; ... A New Haven man who was being held on larceny charges tied hisshirt into a noose and tried to hang himself at the Milford SuperiorCourt lockup Tuesday, but quick-thinking marshals grabbed his legsand cut him down in time to save his life, authorities said. AngelSanchez, 27, had recently ...
A LIFE remembered: Teacher, coach was concerned about others
Mar 01, 2006; ... Steven L. Johnson Sr. was very involved with the people in hiscommunity. An assistant public school teacher, Johnson also coachedbasketball at two schools and for several community programs. "He was always helping people out in the community from the timehe was very young," said ...
Curriculum takes on a new beat; 1st-grade teacher at St. Thomas' gains grant for jazz appreciation class
Mar 01, 2006; ... Naptime, recess and now jazz are all part of the first-gradecurriculum at St. Thomas's Day School. "Jazz in the Classroom,"created by first-grade teacher Craig O'Connell, teaches pupils how toappreciate jazz music. O'Connell, 58, from Hamden, said he was inspired to create ...
IN OTHER BUSINESS
Mar 01, 2006 ... Weak outlook sends stocks plummeting NEW YORK -- A mixed economicpicture sent stocks tumbling Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrialsfalling more than 100 points after investors were unnerved byweakness in home sales, consumer confidence and manufacturing. An upward revision in the ...
IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2006 ... Workshop offered on foreign adoptions NEW HAVEN -- Jewish FamilyService of New Haven will offer a workshop Tuesday on adoptingchildren from other countries. The workshop, co-sponsored by Spence-Chapin Services of New YorkCity, will take place from 6:45 to 9 p.m. at the JFS office ...