New Haven Register back issues from June 2006:
Firm cleanses scenes after violence?, trauma
Jun 01, 2006; ... James Cheyne wishes there was no need for his services and that hewould go out of business. That may sound absurd, but Cheyne is theowner of TraumAway Bio Recovery Services, which provides professionalcleaning services at the scene of violent deaths or accidents. Theyear-old company ...
YALE BASKETBALL IN SPAIN
Jun 01, 2006 ... The Yale men's basketball team is on a 10-day trip to Spain.Periodically, players will file diaries about their experiences.Today, Ed White shares his thoughts. Tonight marks the end of ourstay in the third city, Barcelona. We stayed in probably our nicesthotel yet, the Hotel Majestic, a ...
STATE BOYS' LACROSSE TOURNAMENT
Jun 01, 2006; ... DEFENDING CHAMPIONS: For the first time in the history of theboys' tournament, the CIAC has decided to go to a Class L, M and Sformat as opposed to a Division I-II format. Schools are placed intoeach division based on class enrollment. In 2005, the Division Ichampion was Darien, the ...
LOOKING BACK: Today in History, June 1
Jun 01, 2006 ... 1966 The Lincoln Theater in New Haven will build a $850,000 "twin"movie house in the Audubon Street cultural center. The theater willseat 700 and be used for foreign and domestic films. The othertheater will accommodate 300 and be used for foreign and educationalfilms ....
Janangelo plays like a pro
Jun 01, 2006; ... Liz Janangelo's domination of the Connecticut Women's Opencontinued Wednesday. The only difference this time was she couldactually accept the winner's check. Janangelo shot her secondstraight 2-under-par 70 to win her fourth consecutive state Women'sOpen title by 4 strokes over Elizabeth ...
MAMES AND GAMES
Jun 01, 2006 ... Pilot Pen tickets go on sale today Daily tickets for the 2006Pilot Pen Tennis tournament go on sale today for the Aug. 18-26combined men's and women's professional event at the ConnecticutTennis Center. Daily prices begin at $15 for the first day of the main draw onAug. 20 and ...
Firn plans $1.2M cut in budget
Jun 01, 2006; ... Superintendent of Schools Gregory A. Firn presented $1.2 millionworth of budget cuts Wednesday night, including plans to institute acontroversial pay-for-play program. However, programs that werethreatened with the ax, including the gifted/enrichment program andfreshman and junior ...
Letter to the Editor: Eliminating job just the same as firing
Jun 01, 2006 ... Isn't eliminating one's job the same thing as firing him? TheHamden Legislative Council seems to have a unique way of twistingwords. Bob Gaultieri has done a fine job as Hamden library director.There must be more than meets the eye ...
IN OTHER BUSINESSsorely needed boost
Jun 01, 2006; ... Investors give stocks Wall Street closed out an uneasy May with asolid advance Wednesday, even after minutes from the last FederalReserve meeting indicated that inflation pressures raised the chanceof another interest rate boost in June. The major indexes ended themonth broadly ...
Celebrating success
Jun 01, 2006 ... A "Celebrate Success" breakfast was recently held to honorbusinesses and individuals who have helped town public schoolstudents. There have been more than 500, 10th-graders who have spenta day shadowing an employee in a career that interests them. Anotherprogram provides 45 mentors who ...
Ansonia eyes change in youth football
Jun 01, 2006; ... Pop Warner weight limits may be too restricting You might notthink being big would hurt a child's chances on the football field,but city officials are worried about just that: Pop Warner's youthfootball weight restrictions are excluding too many players from theprogram. The city ...
University honors donor
Jun 01, 2006 ... ABOVE: Deborah Rose, a Yale-educated scientist in the Washington,D.C., area, shows off a Yale police jacket given to her by YalePresident Richard C. Levin, left, during the dedication of the RoseCenter this week. The center was made possible by a donation fromRose. It is the new ...
LIFE WITH WENDY; If you do it right, Mondays can be a highlight of the week
Jun 01, 2006; ... Monday. First day of a new week. It should be like spring "birthof a new week and all that, but no. How many of us truly look forwardto Mondays? "It's rainy days and Mondays always get me down" or"Monday, Monday, can't trust that day-" The Carpenters and The Mamasand The Papas had it ...
Amazin' start as June looms
Jun 01, 2006; ... The baseball season is ripe with artificial mile markers, pointsin the year when standings actually mean something, or at least givean indication of the season to come. The first of June-essentially athird of the way through the year-tends to be the first of thosemarkers, and this year ...
YALE BASKETBALL IN SPAIN
Jun 01, 2006 ... The Yale men's basketball team is on a 10-day trip to Spain.Periodically, players will file diaries about their experiences.Today, Ed White shares his thoughts. Tonight marks the end of ourstay in the third city, Barcelona. We stayed in probably our nicesthotel yet, the Hotel Majestic, a ...
Stumbling Block: Mosley's injury curtails Amity's chances in Class LL track championships
Jun 01, 2006; ... Halfway through the meet, a state team title looked promising forAmity-Woodbridge and its coach, Thom Jacobs. Before the sun evenbegan to descend behind Manchester High, though, an unfortunateseries of debilitating events erased the notion. The lead Amity heldover host Manchester and ...
Derby OKs $34M for schools
Jun 01, 2006; ... The Board of Apportionment and Taxation on Wednesday approved a$33.95 million budget for 2006-07, including a 1.5-mill tax increase.Tax board Chairman Henry Domurad, a Democrat, read off the budgetline by line before the board approved it in an 8-1 vote. DemocratFrank E. Lazowski Sr ....
Day 2 of cops disciiplinary hearing runs late
Jun 01, 2006; ... Day 2 in the disciplinary hearing for Officer Jack Harkinscontinued late Wednesday evening, and the Board of PoliceCommissioners was not expected to issue a decision until a laterdate. Testimony had not concluded as of press time. The veteran officer is charged with two counts of ...
Marital discord outlives slain wife, dead husband?
Jun 01, 2006; ... The estate of an Albanian woman strangled by her husband last yearin a murder-suicide in Ansonia is suing the estate of her killer,according to a lawsuit filed at Superior Court in Milford Wednesday.Urime Ceku, 23, had been in the United States for just about a yearwhen her husband, ...
Letter to the Editor: Let armed forces join 401(k)
Jun 01, 2006 ... The Thrift Savings Plan, which is a 401(k) plan, is available tofederal employees, including congressmen, senators and members of thearmed forces. All participants receive matching funds from thegovernment, except members of the armed forces. Members of the armedforces should be ...
Student-athletes may have to pay to play
Jun 01, 2006; ... Superintendent of Schools Gregory A. Firn presented $1.2 millionworth of budget cuts Wednesday night, including plans to institute acontroversial pay-for-play program. However, programs that werethreatened with the ax, including the gifted/enrichment program andfreshman and junior ...
Cabaret Wednesday will help buy mammogram van at Y-NH
Jun 01, 2006; ... The Yale-New Haven Hospital Auxiliary will hold a fund-raiser tohelp purchase a new mobile mammography van featuring state-of-the-art digital technology. From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the New HavenLawn Club, "Cabaret for a Cause: Great Music of Broadway and Tin PanAlley," will feature ...
Miami's Smith new UNH boss?
Jun 01, 2006; ... After five years as an assistant women's basketball coach at Miami(Ohio) University, Jessica Smith found herself scanning the collegetransactions list six weeks ago. When she saw that Daynia La-ForceMann was leaving the University of New Haven to become the coach atNortheastern, it ...
Missing stories
Jun 01, 2006 ... EDITION: BYLINE: Arnold Gold DATELINE: HEADLINE: KIDS DAY AT THE OLD BALLPARK SECTION: Main News COLUMN: ART: Photo caption PAGE: a1 NOTES: Alma E. Pagels School thrd-grader Jansia Brooks, 9, of WestHaven and other NEw Haven area ...
Drive-by shooter sent to prison
Jun 01, 2006; ... A former West Haven man who committed a slew of violent crimes inthe Naugatuck Valley, including a drive-by shooting in Ansonia and apolice chase in Derby last year during which he struck and injured anofficer with his car, was sentenced Wednesday to serve seven years inprison. Superior ...
Recording legends lined up for city concerts
Jun 01, 2006; ... Boys II Men, Temptations, Rogers to appear on Green NOTE: Storyalso ran Page B2 Milford, Valley editions About 70,000 people made the trip to the New Haven Green last Julyfor the Free Concerts on the Green. Market New Haven Chief Marketing Officer Anne Worcester hopes ...
Walk-off in style; Chavez plates game's lone run in 13th
Jun 01, 2006; ... Another walk-off win for the New York Mets, something that'sbecoming surprisingly commonplace. Outfielder Endy Chavez was thehero this time, singling in Jose Valentin from third base with oneout in the 13th inning, giving the Mets a 1-0 win over Arizona atShea Stadium Wednesday night ....
Legislators blast cuts in funding
Jun 01, 2006; ... The baseline Homeland Security grants for Connecticut dropped thisyear -- by nearly half -- with increased money expected to go towardareas deemed at elevated risk of a terrorist attack. In 2005,Connecticut received $24.1 million. This year, answering criticism that the grants ...
Budget cuts force Town Hall to curtail hours
Jun 01, 2006; ... Deep budget cuts forced town officials Tuesday to approve closingTown Hall one day a week, among various other reductions that willhave residents "feeling the pinch" of reduced services. A day afterresidents shot down a proposed $46.3 million budget for 2006-07, theBoard of Finance and ...
Letter to the Editor: Government intrusion extends to many things
Jun 01, 2006 ... I heartily agree with the position taken in the letter by JosephFerraro that"unchecked governmental intrusion" is unacceptable, yetmost Americans seem to tolerate invasion of our rights and privacy asa matter of course. I am particularly incensed at the massivedatabases and snooping of ...
Eliminate troubled state agency
Jun 01, 2006 ... Work forgotten as rights agency tied up in internal feuding Theturmoil at the state's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunitiesshould prompt lawmakers to ask if it should be abolished and its worktransferred elsewhere, perhaps to the attorney general's office. Some affirmative ...
FORUM: Hooker rulkng disappointing but backers will persevere
Jun 01, 2006; ... WHILE the parents and staff of Worthington Hooker School aredeeply disappointed with the court's ruling against our new schoolsite, we are united in our decision to persevere through the upcomingappeals process. There are many reasons for our convictions. The siteselection process was ...
Walk-off in style; Chavaez plates game's lone run in 13th
Jun 01, 2006; ... Another walk-off win for the New York Mets, something that'sbecoming surprisingly commonplace. Outfielder Endy Chavez was thehero this time, his single driving in Jose Valentin from third withone out in the 13th inning, giving the Mets a 1-0 win over Arizona atShea Stadium Wednesday ...
Amity topples Cheshire; Spartans win in 4
Jun 01, 2006; ... Amity boys' volleyball coach Dave Cypher glanced through the finalstatistics and shook his head. It was not the host Spartans' bestperformance, but with a balanced effort, they were able to hold offfeisty Cheshire 23-25, 25-21, 25-22, 25-21 in Wednesday's first roundof the Class L state ...
No verdict yet in Wallingford murder case
Jun 01, 2006; ... A Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict Wednesday in itsfirst full day of deliberations in the murder trial of JulianLockhart, who is accused of the May 9, 2002, bludgeoning death of 22-year-old Robert Glidden of Wallingford after test driving a 1996 FordMustang that Glidden had ...
Queach Road tract a $3.7 million done deal
Jun 01, 2006; ... With a round of signatures and a $1 million contribution fromKaren Pritzker and Michael Vlock of Stony Creek, the Branford LandTrust has secured the Queach Road property, the "crown jewel" of townopen space. After 10 years of proposals, meetings and oft-heateddebate, the land trust, the ...
Rev. Cofield to be honored for contributions to city
Jun 01, 2006; ... If the Rev. Curtis Cofield II preferred a smaller, low-keygathering to honor his 80th birthday, he shouldn't have let hisdaughter plan it. After all, Bonnye Cofield doesn't do anythingsmall. This weekend, family, friends and dignitaries will gather at theNew Haven Field House to ...
8th-grade Shelton speller trips over a dance at national bee
Jun 01, 2006; ... She survived "lycanthropy." "Succussatory." Even "scopolamine."And that was just on the written test. After "stichomythia," the first word she knocked out on stage atthis year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, Shelton eighth-graderDhanya Tadipatri was brimming with ...
STATE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MM TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Jun 01, 2006; ... Today, 2:30 p.m., at Willow brook Park, NEw BRITAIN BOYS Last year's overall team champion: Branford Returning area state champions: Vin Nastri (North Haven) 100meters; Jay Koloseus (Guilford, Class L) 3,200 meters. Area outlook: Nastri and Koloseus both have ...
Veterans' phone numbers, addresses also stolen
Jun 01, 2006; ... Personal information on 26.5 million veterans that was stolen froma Veterans Affairs employee this month not only included SocialSecurity numbers and birth dates, but in many cases phone numbers andaddresses, internal documents show. Meanwhile, VA Secretary JimNicholson said Wednesday ...
Boyz II Men, Rogers, Temptations to appear on Green this summer?
Jun 01, 2006; ... NOTE: Story also ran Page A1 Sports Final, Shoreline, Metroeditions More than 70,000 people made the trip to the New Haven Greenlast July for the Free Concerts on the Green. Market New Haven Chief Marketing Officer Anne Worcester hopes tooutperform that number this year. At ...
Looney urges managed care to release data
Jun 01, 2006; ... A top Democratic legislative leader called on Gov. M. Jodi RellWednesday to apply financial pressure to force Medicaid Managed CareOrganizations to make public information on rates and prescriptionpolicies. State Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven,said the state should ...
Letter to the Editor: Sacred Heart parents 'received every courtesy'
Jun 01, 2006 ... In a letter, J. Joyce Sanseverino, the mother of a 2005 SacredHeart Academy graduate, suggests the school follows a policy of"ignoring concerned parents." The charge is based partly on anallegation that I broke my promise to investigate why her daughterhad not been elected a captain of ...
'Cat lady' avoids jail time by giving up 16 pets
Jun 01, 2006; ... The woman police say kept about 16 cats in squalid conditions ather Savin Court apartment last year finally agreed to give up all ofthe animals that were seized, clearing the way for a plea agreementthat spared her jail time when she was sentenced Wednesday. LynnBodnar, 50, of 11 Savin ...
Sikorsky to close W. Haven operation; All 70 employees will be transferred
Jun 01, 2006; ... Sikorsky Aircraft plans to close its operations here by the end ofthe year. All 70 employees at the Morgan Lane complex will betransferred to either Shelton or Stratford, said Sikorsky spokesmanEd Steadham. "We told the employees last year we would be moving out of thatfacility ...
Police blotter
Jun 01, 2006 ... Mailman suspended following accident WEST HAVEN -- A U.S. postalworker has been suspended after his mail truck went out of controlthough an Allingtown neighborhood Tuesday, hitting a mailbox,telephone pole and fences, WTNH-TV reported Wednesday. Francisco Bonilla, 51, has not been ...
No. 7 Trum;bullk ends Hamden's surprising run
Jun 01, 2006; ... As the lowest seeded team left in the Class LL state tournamentfield, the Hamden softball team was gunning for another upset againstNo. 7 Trumbull Wednesday. But it didn't take long for the Eagles toprove why they are a high seed and the runner-up in the very toughFairfield County ...
Bespuda gets Amity off to a perfect start
Jun 01, 2006 ... Sophomore Lauren Bespuda threw her second perfect game of theseason to lead second-seeded Amity-Woodbridge to a 3-0 win over NewBritain in the Class LL softball second-round Wednesday atWoodbridge. Bespuda struck out 15 and drove in a run with a sacrificefly. Shannon Sansone, Sylvia ...
Lead dust casts doubt on Foran rehab
Jun 01, 2006; ... Saying there are too many questions concerning the presence oflead dust at Joseph A. Foran High School, top officials saidWednesday that planned renovations at the school are likely to bepostponed and that the money may instead go toward renovatingJonathan Law High School. The lead dust ...
Man, 19, to get at least 30 years in prison for shooting death
Jun 01, 2006; ... Showing no emotion in the courtroom, Jose Jusino, 19, pleadedguilty to murder Wednesday in the shooting death of David Gerald.When he is sentenced July 28, Jusino faces from 28 to 35 years behindbars, based on an agreement worked out between prosecutors, Gerald'sfamily, Jusino, his ...
Kids help keep dream playground alive
Jun 01, 2006; ... The fund-raising efforts of some 70 Milford kindergartners hashelped a handicapped girl's dream stay alive -- and allowed thepupils a few hours of fun Wednesday at an expansive New Havenplayground. Four kindergarten classes from Milford's John F. KennedyElementary School visited Hannah's ...
Goal-oriented nursing home staff rewarded with $25 for gasoline
Jun 01, 2006; ... As a reward for having significantly reduced worker's compensationclaims in the past year, Harborside Healthcare Madison House treatedall of its employees to $25 worth of gas Wednesday. "We do a numberof things to show our appreciation when employees meet goals," saidAnne McCarthy, ...
Cop in DUI was over limit, 2 tests show
Jun 01, 2006; ... A city police officer who was charged with driving under theinfluence in 2004 after he got into an off-duty car crash had a bloodalcohol level of 0.19 or 0.20 percent, according to the results oftwo separate urinalysis tests. The legal limit is 0.08. The officer, Sgt. Stephen Shea, ...
Big crowd watches Cutters' bats go silent
Jun 01, 2006; ... One week into the season, New Haven County Cutters manager MikeChurch is still waiting for his hitters to snap out of the funk thatseems to have taken over the entire clubhouse. A Wednesday matineecrowd of 4,137 at Yale Field -- almost exclusively children fromvarious area schools on ...
DeStefano stumps for health care; Pushes plan to ease burden on state
Jun 01, 2006; ... Standing across from the Wal-Mart on Flatbush Avenue, Mayor JohnDeStefano Jr. challenged the marketing giant Wednesday to offeraffordable health care plans to keep its employees off stateassistance. DeStefano, who is seeking the Democratic Party'snomination for governor in an August ...
Man arraigned in Old Saybrook police hunt
Jun 01, 2006; ... A man who triggered a police hunt in the woods off Bokum Road inearly May is scheduled to appear in Superior Court on June 6 toanswer to multiple charges -- including threatening and recklessendangerment -- stemming from the incident. Richard Harbour, 34, of90 Bokum Road, was arrested by ...
AREA PEOPLE OF NOTE
Jun 01, 2006; ... Stephen Majoros of New Haven, a magna cum laude graduate of BostonCollege where he majored in philosophy, made his first oath ofcommitment to Society of African Missions May 21. He was previouslymanager of a restaurant in New Haven. He was a parishioner of St.Thomas More Chapel in New ...
Highway joibs halted; DOT pulls contracts in MIlford, West Haven
Jun 01, 2006; ... The state Department of Transportation has terminated five highwayconstruction contracts held by L.G. Defelice Inc. of North Haven,including those in Milford and West Haven. DOT officials said theagency took action after the company's troubled finances apparentlycaused it to abandon or ...
After 60 years,'The King'will hang up his cleats
Jun 01, 2006; ... Eddie Feigner has spent every summer since 1946 barnstorming thecountry with a four-man, fast-pitch softball team known as "The Kingand His Court," a slice of self-produced Americana that hasentertained crowds in countless outposts such as Spartanburg, S.C.,and Wautoma, Wis. Feigner and ...
Job well done
Jun 01, 2006 ... In honor of Community Action Month and Older Workers Month, theCommunity Action Agency recognized workers in the Senior AIDESprogram, who are ages 55 and older, who fit income guidelines and arelooking for employment. Funded by Senior Service America, the programat Community Action ...
Musical launch
Jun 01, 2006 ... Musician Paul Winter, left, Mercy Center board President DonnaGregory and Mercy Center Executive Director Jim Emswiler, right,gather at Mercy Center in a celebration of the launch of the Madisoncenter's ecospirituality ...
Milford plan to redistrict may incite parents' suit
Jun 01, 2006; ... Some Meadowside pupils might attend West Shore A group ofMeadowside Elementary School parents are angry about the prospect oftheir children being forced to attend to West Shore Middle School andmay file litigation against the school system in response to proposedredistricting, the ...
Streisand gown causes a dilemma
Jun 01, 2006; ... Orten Pengue Jr. is best known in the area as "Ort from CostumeBazaar," the guy who designs costumes for stage and screen showslocally and nationwide. Now, he's also known in certain circles asthe guy who owns a black tulle strapless designer ball gown once wornby legendary star Barbra ...
Man faces drug charges after raid
Jun 01, 2006; ... Police raided the residence of an alleged Perry Avenue drug dealerWednesday afternoon, seizing cocaine and drug paraphernalia fromvarious locations throughout the home, including the room of twoyoung children, police said. Mariano Vargas, 24, of 49 Perry Ave.,was charged on three ...
Milford Democrats concerned about pay raises?
Jun 01, 2006; ... Whoever is mayor and city clerk after the municipal election inNovember 2007 is expected to receive a 2.5 percent pay increase, araise that is igniting concerns from top Democrats. The Board ofAldermen is scheduled to discuss and possibly approve the pay raisesat 7:30 p.m. Monday at City ...