New Haven Register back issues from December 2006:
Man faces charges in stabbings of 2 people
Dec 01, 2006; ... A Waterbury man faces multiple charges after he allegedly attackedhis sister and her neighbor with a knife Wednesday evening followingan argument over the heat level inside a home, police said. WilliamP. Sampieri, 46, of 321 Congress Ave., Waterbury, was charged withfirst-degree assault, ...
Police blotter
Dec 01, 2006 ... Police say elderly man committed suicide NEW HAVEN -- A man in his80s fell to his death at Bella Vista senior housing complex Thursdayand police are treating it as a suicide. At least one suicide note was found inside the man's seventh-floor apartment, police said. The victim ...
2006 New Haven Register All-Area Boys' Cross Country Team
Dec 01, 2006; ... MVP WESLEY HALSTEAD Amity-Woodbridge This two-time All-Area performer helped lead Amity back to the NewEngland Championship meet after the Spartans won it in 2005. He tiedthe course record of 16:12 at Fitzgerald Trail to win the meet overCheshire and Shelton and help the ...
Death notices
Dec 01, 2006 ... NOTE: See microfilm for death notices Beauvais, Gloria B. Elliot, Owen W. Ferraiolo, Mary A. (photo) Garofalo, Mark R. (photo) Harper, William Thomas (photo) Hjort, Donald A. Hopper, Warren B. "Hop" (photo) Hurd, Donald R. "Bob" ...
REGISTER NORTH: Helping others
Dec 01, 2006; ... Jeanne Maurer of North Haven separates food during an evening ofvolunteer work at North Haven ...
DEEP DISH: THE REAL RESTAURANT REPORT; ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO EAT; IN PART ONE OF TWO, TODD LYON DISHES ON RESTAURANT GOSSIP
Dec 01, 2006; ... I'm getting a little dizzy. The gossip has been swirling, swirlinglike a white-sky blizzard, howling down the streets and filling thesills and stoops of New Haven with stories. Stories about restaurantsopening and closing, buildings bought and sold, chefs coming andgoing. Stories about ...
IN OTHER BUSINESS
Dec 01, 2006 ... Conflicting reports leave stocks flat NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Streetended an erratic session little changed Thursday as strength inenergy stocks offset weak manufacturing data and a disappointingforecast from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Stocks found some leadership from Chevron Corp. and ...
REGISTER NORTH: Pets get holiday treatment at shelter benefit
Dec 01, 2006 ... A holiday fund-raiser to support the new town animal shelter willbe held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the M.L. Keefe Community Center,11 Pine St. Sponsored by the Happy Tails Foundation and Hamden AnimalControl, there will be pet photos with Santa. Cats need to come tothe event in ...
REGISTER NORTH: 'Tis the season ...; Hamden nursery marks 60 years of custom wreath, tree sales
Dec 01, 2006; ... When it comes to holiday wreaths and trees, you can have it yourway at the 60-year-old Broken Arrow Nursery. Owners Dick and SallyJaynes and their employees are spending these days in their very ownholiday workshop, putting together boughs of green, berries of redand adornments of all ...
ALBUM REVIEWS: Santa ruins things - a lackluster week for original material
Dec 01, 2006; ... Incubus -- "Light Grenades" (Epic): The good news is that "LightGrenades" is Incubus' finest offering to date. But with good newsalways comes bad news. The negative part of this glowing complimentis that the band's sixth record really only lengthens a discographyfilled with mediocre rock ...
CHRISTMAS ZONE; Kenny Loggins gets into the holiday spirit with touring show
Dec 01, 2006; ... It's not everyday a celebrated musician releases a holiday albumand then in the liner notes says Christmas is "bitter-sweet." Butthat's exactly what Kenny Loggins wrote in the booklet to 1998's"December," one of the most subdued and melancholy seasonal recordsyou'll ever hear. "It's not ...
ON TELEVISION: Family-friendly fare comes to cable with 'Christmas Card' and 'Samantha'
Dec 01, 2006; ... The Hallmark Channel, TLC and National Geographic Channel havereally stepped up production on first-run stories and documentarieswhile the old networks are indulging in crime procedurals, realityshows and serial dramas. As for "family-friendly shows," there are afew on cable. A list just ...
CLEARING THE DESK: Be Quiet; New London band at Toad's, New Havenites come together
Dec 01, 2006; ... Don't mock Sean and Ryan Spellman because the brothers couldn'tget enough pop-punk years ago. Is it right to laugh at the New Jersey-born, New London-based guys just because Good Charlotte used to takeup room in their CD players regularly? "You can't print that," laughsSean, the ...
MAKING A MIX: Towers of New London
Dec 01, 2006 ... Who: The new compilation "Towers of New London, Volume Four:Eminent Domain." The first "Towers" compilation came out in 1985 as away to showcase the Whaling City's finest artists. The second editionhit the streets of Connecticut in 1987, but then it took another 17years for "Volume ...
REGISTER NORTH: Library program mixes rhythm, reading
Dec 01, 2006 ... The next "Rhythm and Reading" program with musicians from the NewHaven Symphony Orchestra will be Dec. 11 at Miller Memorial CentralLibrary in Hamden. They will be using "Max Found Two Sticks" by J.Brian Pinkney as the springboard for music-making. Please call 230-3770 to ...
REGISTER NORTH: 125 attend turkey dinner served by Hamden police
Dec 01, 2006 ... The Hamden Police Department held a community Thanksgiving dinnerfor families Nov. 16 The dinner, which was funded through a grant bythe federal Department of Housing Urban Development, was held in theold Hamden Middle School cafeteria. Police officers served residents turkey and ...
REGISTER NORTH: Silverbells: It's Christmastime in Hamden
Dec 01, 2006 ... The annual winter holiday festival, Silverbells, will be Saturdayin the center of town. The celebration will include a musical theaterproduction for families, a tree lighting ceremony and visits withSanta after he arrives by firetruck. Coordinated by the Hamden Arts Commission, the ...
NAMES AND GAMES
Dec 01, 2006 ... Church signs extension The New Haven County Cutters have re-signed manager Mike Church to a two-year contract extension. Church,a Berlin native, has led New Haven to the playoffs in each of his twoseasons as manager. "I am very excited to call New Haven home for the next two ...
Todd Lyon's latest Deep Dish reports
Dec 01, 2006 ... Taste of Jamaica : Jerk and More, 1012 Dixwell Ave., Hamden ,(203) 752- 9818. Classic Jamaican cookery, spicy yet mild, is servedin a bright red dining room with tablecloths, marble floors, a grandpiano and white columns. Chef Glen Campbell offers familiar favoritessuch as jerk chicken ...
Best of Weekend
Dec 01, 2006 ... Get it NEW HAVEN -- Sit back, listen to a few stories and sip aglass of wine at Get Lit, the literary cocktail series at CHOW DimSum Wine Bar, 966 Chapel St., right behind ZINC. Douglas Rae and PaulBass will read from their book, "Murder in the Model City: The BlackPanthers, Yale, and ...
REGISTER NORTH: UI sparks students' interest in energy efficiency with program
Dec 01, 2006 ... The United Illuminating Co. visited Clintonville Elementary Schoolrecently to present fun, hands-on activities about energy efficiencythrough the "ee smarts program." UI thanked Principal ClaudiaGrantham and all 24 teachers who have completed the ee smartsworkshop and teach the ...
REGISTER NORTH: Masonic names Wallingford woman as new director of nursing
Dec 01, 2006 ... Melinda J. Schoen has been named assistant director of nursing forMasonic Healthcare Center. Schoen was clinical nurse manager for oneof the center's three short-term rehabilitation units before gettingpromoted. She oversees nursing care in her new position at MasonicHealthcare ...
Letter to the Editor: Hold hearing on property revaluations
Dec 01, 2006 ... When I read the results of the revaluation on my condominium onWoodward Avenue, I thought it was a mistake or a bad joke. There wasa whopping 258 percent increase in my assessment. That's not what thefederal government recently released as the cost of livingadjustment, which was around ...
Letter to the Editor: Reject mall's bid to change liquor permit rules
Dec 01, 2006; ... Once again, the Westfield mall in Milford is trying to alter thecity's liquor permit regulations. This is the second attempt thisyear after it was met with stiff opposition from the city's schoolboard, small business owners and residents. I do not know which isless believable regarding ...
Renee on display: Montgomery makes grand statement
Dec 01, 2006; ... It became her team by silent acclimation on Oct. 13, the momentthe first ball of 2006-07 was rolled out at Gampel Pavilion. Nothinghad to be said. Nobody had to be told. It was a simple understandingby everyone involved that Renee Montgomery was the best player, themost indispensable ...
Gridiron glory does Stratford proud
Dec 01, 2006; ... The 7,000 or so fans formed a seemingly endless caravan of bodiesen route to the parking lot on a brisk, rainy late November evening.The scene on the field was even more chaotic. Deliriously ecstatic parents could be found by the handful, armedwith omnipresent grins to say nothing ...
New Haven's Chaney making immediate impact
Dec 01, 2006; ... Rarely does a freshman emerge as a team leader in men's collegebasketball. And hardly ever does it happen before the calendar yearchanges. But that's exactly what has happened at the University ofNew Haven with personable forward Cassius Chaney. The 6-foot-6, 230-pound Chaney is ...
THUMBS DOWN: DEP spill inspections
Dec 01, 2006 ... A state oil and chemical spill inspector, who was the subject offive investigations including a federal corruption probe, is back atwork. A federal investigation was closed without any charges beingbrought against Erik M. Gothberg for having contractors perform workat his Southington ...
MEN'S HOCKEY GAMEDAY
Dec 01, 2006; ... CLARKSON, ST. LAWRENCE AT NO. 15 YALE When: Tonight at 7, Saturdaynight at 7. Where: Ingalls Rink, New Haven On the air: WYBC-1340. Records: Clarkson 8-5-1 (2-2 ECAC); St. Lawrence 7-4 (4-0); Yale 6-2-1 (3-1) Did you know? Cheshire's Matt Generous, a 7th-round ...
THUMBS DOWN: Bush attacks birth control for poor
Dec 01, 2006 ... The Bush administration has made plain its contempt for theestimated 98 percent of women who at some point in their lives usebirth control. If it can't ban contraception, it is determined toundermine government programs that support it. There is no otherexplanation for its appointment of ...
From where misery dwells, it's only a few steps to where the soul can soar
Dec 01, 2006; ... From the sad to the sublime: My work assignments Thursday took meinto distinctly separate places symbolizing the two worlds of NewHaven. At midmorning I was encased in your basic concrete, theSuperior Court building on Church Street, a place where pain, anguishand misery are common. Two ...
Shopping center planned for 110-acre tract in Cheshire
Dec 01, 2006; ... A Newton, Mass.,-based developer has presented town officials witha plan for a shopping center of roughly 500,000 square feet nearInterstate 691 in the north end of town. The plan proposed by W/SDevelopment is still in its formative stages and would also includean undetermined amount of ...
Teachers to get 3% raise in No. Haven
Dec 01, 2006; ... Teachers will get a 3 percent wage increase next year, accordingto an arbitration award received this week. North Haven EducationAssociation President John Guido on Thursday declined comment on thearbitrated settlement until after it is approved by the generalmembership in a few weeks ....
$300M will boost student housing; Quinnipiac to add 2,197 beds
Dec 01, 2006; ... Quinnipiac University officials Thursday night unveiled a $300million plan to ameliorate the effect university students living insingle-family houses have on residents of the Mount Carmel and WestWoods neighborhoods. Officials presented the York Hill Campus, an1,867-bed enclave off ...
Nurses get help with careers
Dec 01, 2006; ... Nearly 800 aspiring registered nurses descended upon the Aqua TurfClub Thursday for a glimpse at the job opportunities in the health-care profession at the Connecticut League of Nursing's 26th annualStudent Day. The goal of the event is to help the student nursesprepare for the ...
New Barnes & Noble to open
Dec 01, 2006; ... The new Barnes & Noble Inc. bookstore at the Milford CrossingShopping Center will open Dec. 13, the company said Thursday. Thestore at 1375 Boston Post Road will comprise 28,000 square feet,twice the size of the Orange store, which is just four miles away onBoston Post Road. The ...
Home sales down 24.7% in Sept. from year ago
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sales of single-family homes in Connecticut plummeted 24.7 percentin September when compared with the same month a year ago, The WarrenGroup in Boston reported Thursday. It was the biggest drop in the 12straight months sales have fallen in Connecticut, said CEO TimothyWarren ...
State losing competitive edge
Dec 01, 2006; ... Hindered by job loss, a slow-growing and aging population,struggling urban centers and an exodus of young people, Connecticutis losing ground when it comes to economic competitiveness, accordingto a study released Thursday. The study, titled "BenchmarkingConnecticut 2006: Determinants of ...
City teens get another chance to voice opinions to aldermen on youth curfew
Dec 01, 2006; ... The city curfew debate moved to Wilbur Cross High School Thursdayevening, with a few students supporting the measure but the majoritytelling aldermen that requiring teens to be off the street by 10 p.m.would backfire. Students at James Hillhouse High School spoke beforethe board ...
Cheshire joins group to get power price break
Dec 01, 2006; ... The town has joined an electric power purchasing consortium run bythe Connecticut Conference of Municipalities in an effort to get thebest possible price in the volatile energy marketplace. The TownCouncil voted unanimously to join the consortium at its Tuesday nightmeeting. Andy Merola, ...
Christmas tree lights up city Green
Dec 01, 2006; ... With the flick of a switch Paul McGuilton sent 400 amps through20,500 lamps on a towering Douglas fir Thursday night, officiallyturning an oddly warm November night into the Holiday Season. "Oohs,""ahhs," and an "awesome" or two rustled through the crowd gathered onthe New Haven Green to ...
State hopes to thwart growth of meth use
Dec 01, 2006; ... If your neighbor's house stinks of cat urine and you see piles ofempty Sudafed packages in their trash, state and federal lawenforcement officials want to know right away. Although it may soundbizarre, those are two of the indicators that the occupants of thathouse could be running an ...
Dodd proposes restoring rights for terrorism suspects
Dec 01, 2006; ... Christopher Dodd, Connecticut's senior U.S. senator, has proposedrevamping the newly authorized military commissions to restore habeascorpus protections for terrorism suspects, as well as to curbexecutive interpretation. U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expectedto co-sponsor the ...
State cancels $700G cleanup deal; Firm loses contract following corruption plea
Dec 01, 2006; ... A North Haven-based company that pleaded guilty to a federalcorruption charge has now seen its state environmental cleanupcontracts - worth about $700,000 - cancelled. State AdministrativeServices Commissioner Linda J. Yelmini said in a letter releasedThursday that her agency has decided ...
2nd dispatcher fired over 'joke' about ill suspect; Officials insist exchange did not impede care
Dec 01, 2006; ... As Nicholas Brown became ill from a fatal cocaine overdose in apolice holding cell last month, the dispatcher who called paramedicssaid Brown was "doing the funky chicken," according to transcripts ofthe call police released Thursday. The exchange got civilian policedispatcher Steven ...
Job permit had expired at site of cop's death
Dec 01, 2006; ... A construction company's work permit had expired when a policeofficer was fatally injured while directing traffic at the work sitein October, prompting an internal review of city protocol. AndrewRizzo, the director of the city's Livable City Initiative, saidofficials from the Police ...
Dulin is likely to go to trial; His attorney says ex-Milford coach will probably reject plea deal
Dec 01, 2006; ... The clock is ticking on whether former youth basketball coachRobert Dulin will accept a plea deal to settle the sexual assaultcase against him, but his lawyer says the matter will probably go totrial. Dulin, 48, of Weeping Willow Lane, on Thursday was given anaccept-or-reject date of ...
All the Right Moves; UConn's defense puts clamps on Purdue
Dec 01, 2006; ... On a night when University of Connecticut women's basketball coachGeno Auriemma had his two Hall of Fame banners unveiled at GampelPavilion, his best coaching move happened about six hours before tip-off. Fully aware of the challenge posed by Purdue senior forwardKatie Gearlds, Auriemma ...
Yale Art Gallery gets major face-lift, reopens to rave reviews
Dec 01, 2006; ... It was three years in the making and cost $44 million, but LouisKahn's temple of art, the Yale University Art Gallery, was open forreview Thursday for a nearly daylong stream of media members andluminaries. The real critics - the public - will get their first viewof the renovation Dec ....
UNH runs past Mercy
Dec 01, 2006 ... Senior Alanna Zahora led all players with 17 points and added 10rebounds, as the the University of New Haven women's basketball teamcruised in the second half for an 85-60 East Coast Conference winover Mercy College at the Westchester County Center on Thursdaynight. New Haven (2-1, 1-0 ...
Event will benefit animal shelter
Dec 01, 2006 ... A holiday fund-raiser to support the new animal shelter will beheld from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the M.L. Keefe CommunityCenter, 11 Pine St. Sponsored by the Happy Tails Foundation andHamden Animal Control, there will be pet photos with Santa. Cats needto come to the event in ...
Derby votes to ban dogs from trail
Dec 01, 2006; ... Man's best friend hasn't been a good friend to the Derby Greenwayand that means Fifi and Fido aren't welcome there for the next sixmonths. The Board of Aldermen Thursday voted to ban dogs from thepopular walking trail on Division Street for six months due toexcessive dog waste on the ...
ACROSS THE BOARD: Base of glory: Russell now tied for the top
Dec 01, 2006; ... Russell Baze is a blue collar, lunch-pail kind of jockeythoroughbred racehorse owners, trainers and bettors respect, yearnfor and admire. Baze, 48, isn't a household name like Jerry Bailey,Laffit Pincay Jr. and Billy Shoemaker, guys who have had famous ridesin the elite races of the ...
Track clinic today
Dec 01, 2006 ... The New Haven Athletic Center will play host to a track and fieldcoaches clinic today. High school and junior high school coaches areinvited to attend the clinic, which features lectures from collegecoaches. Cost is $10 per session. Call Gary Moore at 946-5807 for ...
Banner night for Geno
Dec 01, 2006; ... Sometimes, the impossible does indeed happen. Earlier this week,the always quotable University of Connecticut women's basketballcoach Geno Auriemma looked up to the string of banners hanging abovesections 208 and 209 at Gampel Pavilion and struggled to find theproper words for the ...
Police policies vague if suspects eat drugs
Dec 01, 2006; ... After Nicholas Brown was shocked twice with a Taser stun gun andarrested outside the Red Roof Inn on Rowe Avenue on Oct. 19, heallegedly told police he had swallowed only two partially burntmarijuana cigarettes, or "roaches." It turned out to have been alethal volume of cocaine, ...
Hearing to air views on Griffin cancer center plan
Dec 01, 2006; ... Residents will have a chance to voice their opinions on GriffinHospital's proposal for a new Ambulatory Care Pavilion and CommunityCancer Center at an upcoming public hearing. The Planning and ZoningCommission has received an application for a special exception forthe project. The ...
Last chapter of Firn era may come today?
Dec 01, 2006; ... Today could be Gregory A. Firn's last day as superintendent ofschools. The Board of Education will hold a closed door meeting,which Board of Education Chairwoman Cindy Kopazna, R-3, said Thursdaycould conclude the school chief's stormy tenure. "I'm just hoping after Friday's ...
Quarterback will visit UConn
Dec 01, 2006; ... Tyler Lorenzen, a first-team Junior College All-Americanquarterback at Palomar (Calif.) College, will make an official visitto the University of Connecticut this weekend. Lorenzen, a 6-foot-5,220-pound sophomore, threw for 2,960 yards, 26 touchdowns and justthree interceptions in 11 ...
GETTING TO KNOW ...
Dec 01, 2006 ... CASEY HUGHES YALE Hughes is a 6-foot, 195-pound senior forward from New Haven whois in his third year as a starter for James Jones' Yale men'sbasketball team. Jones, a former standout at Hamden Hall, isaveraging 10.7 points and 4.7 rebounds for the Bulldogs, who travelto ...
Wags sought to name Clinton Husky
Dec 01, 2006; ... It's probable that "Bowser" won't make the cut, and neither will"Rex." Forget about "Killer" or "Fluffy." But otherwise, townspeopleare being asked to take their best inventive shot at picking a namefor the town's entry in the Husky Trail of dog statues that areappearing in communities ...
LOOKING BACK: Today in History, Dec. 1
Dec 01, 2006 ... 1966 State Welfare Commissioner Bernard Shapiro is moving to meetthe pay demands of some of his employees in an effort to ward off astrike. Shapiro said he sympathizes with the 350 case workers andsupervisors who want adjustments in their salary scales. 1976 Environmental ...
'More than nuts'
Dec 01, 2006; ... Owner Kelli Marcucci stands in "More Than Nuts," a store at 60Skiff St. in Hamden that she and her husband, Joe, recently bought.Since becoming owners, the couple has made several changes to the2,300-square-foot candy store, including ...
Developer proposes another large hotel
Dec 01, 2006; ... A 90-room hotel is being proposed for 55 West Woods Road by thesame developer who was turned down by the Inland Wetlands Commissionand is challenging that decision in court. The new proposal byWestwoods Properties of Stratford calls for a 1,500-square-footconference center and a ...
Flu clinic set in Milford
Dec 01, 2006; ... The Health Department will offer another flu clinic Monday from4:30 to 7 p.m. in conference room A at the Parson's Complex, 70 W.River St. Health Director Dr. A. Dennis McBride said the city hasheld several flu clinics, but there is an adequate supply of thevaccination. "We ...