New Haven Register back issues from September 2007:
NEW HAVEN ROAD RACE 2007: NCAA champ beginning pro career in New Haven
Sep 01, 2007; ... After a successful collegiate and high school career JoshRohatinsky is embarking on his next journey as a runner. Rohatinskywill now compete as a professional and his first stop is New Haven. Rohatinsky, who capped off an unbeaten senior season at BYU bywinning the 2006 NCAA 10K ...
Break-in, drug bust keep police hopping
Sep 01, 2007; ... Police had a busy and varied Thursday and early Friday morning asthey responded to a bow and arrow misfire, drunken students tryingto break into a school to steal supplies, illegal dumping, and asizable crack cocaine bust. Police said they received a report of a burglar alarm at 3 ...
Derby raises poop-scooper fines to $200
Sep 01, 2007; ... Failure to clean up after Fido does his business anywhere on cityproperty will land irresponsible pet owners a whopping $200 fine. That's the action the Board of Aldermen took this week, raisingthe poop-scooper fines to the maximum amount allowable under statelaw by a unanimous ...
Hamden woman named to state post
Sep 01, 2007; ... Hamden resident Raeanne V. Curtis has been named commissioner ofthe state Department of Public Works by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Rell announced the appointment Friday, saying that Curtis wouldreplace James Fleming of Simsbury, who is becoming commissioner ofthe Department of Public ...
Staff trying to understand boy's stabbing
Sep 01, 2007; ... The staff of the Children's Center is trying to understand thereasons behind a stabbing involving two boys in a residentialtreatment program late Wednesday. Police were called at 8:10 p.m. to the center at 1400 WhitneyAve. When they arrived at Brewster Cottage, they found a ...
Crazy creations
Sep 01, 2007; ... RIGHT: Julia Tirone, 87, sports a frog bonnet for "Crazy Hat Day"at the North Branford ...
Readers Say Thank You: Builder was 'sincere and kind gentleman'
Sep 01, 2007 ... Upon the recent passing of John Milano, founder of MJM Builders,we felt compelled to relay a personal story about him. In 1999, while our father was in the hospital and then sent torecuperate at Gladeview Nursing Home, we met with Milano in thehopes of building a home in Old ...
Readers Say Thank You: Care given at Camp Rising Sun is touching
Sep 01, 2007 ... We had recently attended the final-day ceremonies at Camp RisingSun in Colebrook. This is a camp designed for children 6- 18 yearsold who had been diagnosed with cancer. Children in treatment orremission attend free. We were so touched by the love, care and admiration ...
Letter to the Editor: Catastrophe accomplished, return troops
Sep 01, 2007 ... America invaded a country that has never harmed us. We havedestroyed the infrastructure of the land and killed thousands ofpeople. Millions of Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes andcountry out of fear. We have spent billions of dollars to accomplish this ...
Rell names 20 to serve on parole task force
Sep 01, 2007; ... Gov. M. Jodi Rell Friday announced the names of the 20 members inthe state task force she has asked to review state charging,sentencing and parole procedures in the wake of the July triple-homicide in Cheshire. The new task force will include Mary Galvin, former state'sattorney ...
Holiday begins
Sep 01, 2007; ... Interstate 95 was jam-packed Friday as ...
CORRECTION
Sep 01, 2007 ... A story Friday incorrectly reported that Derby currently has noadult-oriented establishments. There is a bar, Wild Irish ...
I scream, you scream
Sep 01, 2007 ... Andrew Coppola, 2, of North Haven buys a cool treat from FredGiovanni outside Larry's Playground in Hamden. Giovanni, who ownsthe ...
Mother of 4 awaits word on husband's deportation
Sep 01, 2007; ... For Wendy Guilavogui, the birth of her youngest daughter inAugust has been bittersweet. Her husband, Koikoi Guilavogui, 28, remains jailed inMassachusetts as an appeal of his case of deportation back to Africamoves slowly through the administrative process and the mother ofnow ...
City hits 98.6% tax collection rate
Sep 01, 2007; ... The city posted a record 98.6 percent tax collection rate for the2006-07 fiscal year that ended June 30, officials announced Fridayoutside the tax office at City Hall. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said the collection rate was at 86percent when he took office in the 1994-95 fiscal ...
Engineer testifies of oily waste unaccounted for in tanker's books
Sep 01, 2007; ... A Greekowned tanker ship had 967 tons of oily waste that wasunaccounted for in its records, a marine engineer testified Fridayin federal court. But a defense attorney for Ionia Management, the company thatowns the Kriton, challenged the engineer's credentials and noted hehas ...
State offers free ID theft coverage; Laptop computer stolen in N.Y. stored data on 106,000 taxpayers
Sep 01, 2007; ... The 106,000 state taxpayers whose names and Social Securitynumbers were listed on a state laptop computer stolen Aug. 17 willbe offered free identity-theft coverage by the state. A state spokesman estimated Friday that the overall cost ofproviding the identify-theft coverage could ...
Cutters ride 5-run 1st to win
Sep 01, 2007; ... It was Football Night at Yale Field on Friday night, and MelvinFalu made like Kordell "Slash" Stewart. Falu played all nine positions for the Rox in the team's 8-7 lossto the New Haven County Cutters. The 27-year-old Puerto Rican nativebegan the game behind the plate then made his ...
Signs that summer is waning include birds and traffic
Sep 02, 2007; ... A NICE WOMAN from Hamden named Mad called the other day to askwhere all the birds had gone in her yard. They are normally a sourceof entertainment for her, and she puts out lots of bird seed. She watches the birds hover and flutter as they nervously lookover their shoulders for ...
Locals get fresh; Roadside stands continue long tradition at harvest time
Sep 02, 2007; ... Every day that John Olszewski sits at his weatherbeaten whitetable, chomping on a stogie and tapping his cash box, is another dayof summer. It's another chance to sample his ample tomatoes, all fat, juicyand red like a middle-aged man's new convertible. Another chance tosnag some ...
THE NATURALIST: Horrors! The secret life of a single worm
Sep 02, 2007; ... I have never felt warm about a worm. At least not untilyesterday. True, I've always loved the scent of earthworms risingfrom the soil after the first warm rains of spring. But that wasfrom worms, plural. And I know plenty about worms, plural. But neverbefore have I felt the wonder of an ...
ELM CITY CLARION
Sep 02, 2007; ... THE REST OF THE STORY A few years back I wrote of a young mother willing to give up herunborn baby for money to reclaim five other offspring taken from herby the State of Connecticut. The woman placed a tiny advertisement in the classified sectionof the Register which ...
Burnses' 50th
Sep 02, 2007 ... Donald and Anne Burns of Milford have celebrated a golden weddinganniversary. The former Anne Flaherty and her husband were marriedJune 1, 1957, at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church in New London. Aparty in their honor at The Playwright in New Haven was hosted bytheir children and ...
Frederickses' 50th
Sep 02, 2007 ... Former Seymour residents Gene and Barbara Fredericks ofGoldsboro, N.C., have celebrated a golden wedding anniversary withfamily and friends at Madison's of Goldsboro. The former Barbara Brinson and her husband were married July 21,1957, in ...
Hofmanns' 50th
Sep 02, 2007 ... Former Orange and Hamden residents Franz and Charlotte Hofmann ofPort St. Lucie, Fla., will be celebrating 50 years of marriagetoday. They were married Sept. 2, 1957, at St. Mary's Church inNorwalk. They raised their family in Orange, where they ...
Iacobellises' 50th
Sep 02, 2007 ... Dante and Margaret Iacobellis of Branford celebrated their goldenwedding anniversary at a party hosted by their children at theWallingford Country Club. The former Margaret Hoben and her husbandwere married July 20, 1957, in Cheshire. Their ...
Weddings and Engagements
Sep 02, 2007 ... NOTE: See microfilm for wedding and engagement announcements ENGAGEMENTS Kristen Marie Gonzalez to Frank Joseph Tommaselli Shelli Lynn Cewe to Justin Eric Blomberg Karyn Lynn Hall to Dr. George John Koullias Angela DePino to ...
SENIOR MOMENTS: Aging, disabled travelers need to plan in advance
Sep 02, 2007; ... Now is an excellent planning time for seniors or those intrepidadventurers, who despite a disability, still love to travel and hopeto make a trip in the late fall or early spring. More than 21million disabled people traveled in the past two years, butaccording to reader and world ...
Yale museums open doors for family fun on First Thursday
Sep 02, 2007; ... It's that time of the year, when the Yale students are back intown, area kids have returned to school and the brain starts to getout of vacation mode-perfect time for the university to host itsthird annual Yale Art Museums' Open House, which happens Thursdayfrom 5:30 to 8 ...
Concert bus will be hopping all the way to Lighthouse Point
Sep 02, 2007 ... Hopping on the bus is going to have a whole new meaning Sept. 9when the Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents "Music onWheels," a concert by Silas Meredith and the Outbound Brass Bandaboard a city bus, that will indeed be hopping. The concert will take place on the G bus to ...
ART REVIEW: Picture health; The master Norman Rockwell and his successors examine medicine in Florence Griswold Museum illustrators' exhibit
Sep 02, 2007; ... Against a background of ever-changing attitudes, perspectives andinformation that swirls around the subject of health care and well-being in American society, the current exhibit at the FlorenceGriswold Museum checks in just in time to add to the discussion. "Picturing Health: ...
ARTS NOTES
Sep 02, 2007 ... QUIN PROF EDITS BOOK ON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS Quinnipiac University communications professor Sharon Kleinman ofNew Haven is the editor of a new book, "Displacing Place: MobileCommunication in the Twenty-First Century," released this month byPeter Lang Publishing. Kleinman ...
Plan far ahead for chance to visit the White House
Sep 02, 2007; ... Unless you're a visiting dignitary, it isn't easy to get a tourof the White House these days. The Sept. 11 attacks effectively shut the doors to a practiceinstituted by the country's third president, and second to live inthe mansion, Thomas Jefferson, in 1805, when he opened the ...
Speaking volumes; Audiobook publisher expands as industry grows
Sep 02, 2007; ... AVID READERS still enjoy curling up with a good book, but anincreasing number of busy Americans are opting to listen to thespoken word rather than peruse the printed page. An Old Saybrook company, Tantor Media Inc., is riding this newwave of audio entertainment. The company has ...
Already No. 1 on paper, SCSU set to take the field
Sep 01, 2007; ... Rich Cavanaugh will get an early look at how good his SouthernConnecticut State football team really is today. The Owls are thepreseason favorite to win the Northeast- 10 and are hoping to earntheir third straight trip to the NCAA playoffs. "We had a great camp. We came out of it ...
UConn foes wary of the Donald; RB Brown poised for breakout season
Sep 01, 2007; ... Donald Brown has been the main target of an opponent before. As asenior at Red Bank (N.J.) Catholic, defenses knew Brown was the oneand only weapon. He still rushed for 2,032 yards and 27 touchdowns in just 10games. Comparing high school and Division I-A college football is ...
Papa's store still in family, 90 years later
Sep 01, 2007; ... In 1917, when customers could buy three dozen oranges for $1 anda watermelon for less than 50 cents, John Papa opened a producestand next to a supermarket, aiming to launch a business by sellingitems the grocery store did not. "He knew we were going to go on for a good many years," ...
Cheshire to buy 2nd hybrid car
Sep 01, 2007; ... The town will add a second hybrid vehicle to its fleet of cars. The Town Council this week voted 7-1, with Republican CouncilmanDavid Schrumm casting the lone dissenting vote, to give Town ManagerMichael Milone the authority to combine money from the town'sgeneral fund with two ...
Hamden receives funds for upgrades
Sep 01, 2007; ... State Sen. Joseph Crisco, D-Woodbridge, was in town this week fora ceremonial check-passing to signify that the state will be givingHamden $10,000 to purchase laptop computers for the Fire Department. Crisco will be doing the same thing soon when the state comesthrough with another ...
Mosquito larvicide available to residents
Sep 01, 2007 ... The East Shore District Health Department has free mosquitolarvicide available for residents of East Haven, Branford and NorthBranford. The doughnut-shaped "dunks," which are made of bacteria, areplaced in stagnant water and kill the larvae when they feed on it,according to James ...
A LIFE remembered: W. Haven home builder was generous
Sep 01, 2007; ... Home builder Rocco Gargano Sr. really doted on his kids. "When we were little, our mom did all the shopping, but for somereason, on one occasion, my dad wanted to go shopping and took mewith him," said a daughter, Loraine Gargano Pennick of West Haven."Whenever we went with Mom, ...
Death notices
Sep 01, 2007 ... NOTE: See microfilm for death notices Alu, Josephine "Topsy" Carta, Joseph (photo) DeMesquita, Douglas ...
Letter to the Editor: Congratulations to West Haven
Sep 01, 2007 ... Save the Sound, a program of the New Haven-based Connecticut Fundfor the Environment, would like to congratulate West Haven MayorJohn M. Picard, the Land Trust of West Haven and the entire CityCouncil for the decision to grant a conservation easement on 39acres of city land on West ...
Letter to the Editor: Keillor insane, or wants to 'bring down' U.S.
Sep 01, 2007 ... Columnist Garrison Keillor believes that Jose Padilla wasimprisoned by an overzealous government led by Dick Cheney simplybecause Padilla completed an application form to attend an al- Qaidatraining camp! This is a stunning example of either utter stupidityor the misrepresentation and ...
Readers Say Thank You: Work program can turn life around
Sep 01, 2007 ... Kudos to reporter William Kaempffer for an honest and indeptharticle on the New Haven Street Outreach Worker's program. It getssickening when all you see is negative press pertaining to youth.How do we expect the children to have hope and aspirations when themedia portray them as ...
'Movie night' gives Newhallville kids something safe to do
Sep 01, 2007; ... About two blocks from the notorious - and closed, for now -Taurus Cafe on Winchester Avenue in Newhallville, three young menwalked into a cinderblock building and stood against the wall. "You want to come inside, or are you too cool to come in?" askedNew Haven Police Sgt. Rebecca ...
Police blotter
Sep 01, 2007 ... State takes infant from W. Haven mother WEST HAVEN- An infant is in the custody of the state Departmentof Children and Families after her mother took her from her home andsmoked crack cocaine at an acquaintance's apartment, police saidFriday. Wendy R. Traynham, 32, of 469 ...
2 men 'stable' after shooting outside nightclub
Sep 01, 2007; ... Gunfire erupted on a crowded sidewalk outside a popular nightclubearly Friday, minutes after hundreds of customers flooded out ontoHamilton Street at closing time. Two men were seriously wounded, and police theorize that both mayhave been struck by the same bullet. Johntae ...
Blue screen creates more static in Madison; School board chairman accused of yanking heated session from cable channel
Sep 01, 2007; ... The mysteriously missing tape itself doesn't feature a soapopera, but the latest controversy to rattle the Board of Educationin the embattled school district could be worthy of an Emmy. This time the lead is played by school board Chairman Bob Hale,who some parents believe ...
SMART GIFTS
Sep 01, 2007; ... First-grader Timothy Fields looks at a dictionary that came withhis new book bag Friday. The ...
IN OTHER BUSINESS
Sep 01, 2007 ... Wall Street ends week with solid gain NEW YORK Wall Street closed out another erratic week with a biggain Friday after investors took comments from President Bush andFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as reassuring signs WallStreet won't be left to deal with problems in the ...
3 North Haven cases continued
Sep 01, 2007; ... Three town officials who were arrested in April appeared inSuperior Court in Meriden this week but their cases were once againcontinued. William Bloss, lawyer for Finance Director Vincent E. PalmeriJr., said he asked for a continuance because he had to go to NewYork Wednesday for ...
2 Ansonia schools fail to make the grade; But neither receives federal dollars, so no major changes required
Sep 01, 2007; ... Mead School and Ansonia Middle School have again failed to meetfederal No Child Left Behind targets, but because neither schoolreceives federal Title I dollars, the district is not compelled tomake major changes. This year marked the fourth year Mead School has been on thefederal ...
AREA BRIEFS
Sep 01, 2007 ... Keltic Kick performance to benefit parade fund HAMDEN - The popular band Keltic Kick will perform at Dunn's Pub,2345 Whitney Ave., at 8 tonight. Pub owner Charles Lubowicki announced that the $5 cover chargewill be given to the St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee for its ...
DOWN TO BUSINESS: Cooperative economic development effort blazes new path
Sep 02, 2007; ... WEST HAVEN Mayor John W M. Picard deserves a lot of credit forbringing six area cities and towns together for a joint corporatemarketing campaign. In Connecticut, regionalism is like the weather-everyone talksabout it but no one ever does anything about it. Until now. Picard ...
Venture capital association schedules series of workshops
Sep 02, 2007 ... The Connecticut Venture Group's Entrepreneurs' Association willhold a series of seminars and events throughout the state inSeptember and October, beginning Sept. 11 in Stamford. "Accessing Capital to Grow Your Business" will take place from4:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Sheraton ...
SCSU to host conference on work-life balance for women
Sep 02, 2007 ... The second annual Women and Work-Life Balance Conference willtake place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 21 at Engleman Hall atSouthern Connecticut State University. Carol Evans, CEO and president of Working Mother Media, will bethe keynote speaker. She founded the New York-based ...
THE PERFECT JOB: A personalized cover letter sells you
Sep 02, 2007; ... SENDING a generic cover letter is one of the worst mistakes jobseekers make. A generic cover letter not only fails to sell you, itactually unsells you, because it says you don't care enough aboutyour career, the company, or what they think of you to spend timewriting a letter ...
DOLLARS AND SENSE: 529 tax plan makes college saving more attractive
Sep 02, 2007; ... SAVING for college is not so simple. The cost is rising fasterthan are household incomes. According to the College Board, the average cost for a four-yearprivate college in 2006-07 climbed 5.9 percent from the previousyear. The increase in each of the three prior years ...
Real estate roundup
Sep 02, 2007 ... Midori Inc. has leased space at 3000 Whitney Ave. in Hamden,where it plans to open a Japanese and Korean restaurant. Marty Ruffof Levey Miller Maretz represented the tenant. Vin Engingro ofWeichert Realtors represented the landlord, Kaplan Enterprises. RS Development LLC has bought ...
In a little Italian village, the kindness of strangers outfoxed the Nazis
Sep 02, 2007; ... THE VIVID MEMORIES still fill Giorgina Vitale's head and heart:the German soldiers with their machine guns pointed at her father,but also the kindness and courage of an entire Italian village thatnever betrayed a family of Jews living amongst them. It might seem odd that ...
On the move
Sep 02, 2007 ... George D. Maynard has been appointed vice president of earlydevelopment at Neurogen Corp. in Branford. He joined the company in1997 as a senior research fellow and was named executive director ofchemistry in 2006. John T. McKenna, CEO of Ashcroft Inc. in Stratford, has ...
Get your buzz on; Caffeine-packed drinks are making everybody j-j- jittery
Sep 02, 2007; ... Caffeine has long been an American drug of choice, but coffee hasa lot of competition these days as a delivery system for our dailyjolt. Would you believe caffeinated soap? Or how about chewing sunflower seeds for a quick bit of energyduring that mid-afternoon lull? Red Bull ...
New state education czar focused on achievement gap
Sep 02, 2007; ... State Education Commissioner Mark K. McQuillan has a bashfulsmile and a rumpled suit. Don't let that fool you. McQuillan meansbusiness. He means to close Connecticut's achievement gap, the largest inthe country, where low-income urban students often lag severalgrades behind their ...
Report cites decline in wages; State's minorities hit hardest; change linked to education
Sep 02, 2007; ... Whether you're rich, middle class or poor, your wages have beendropping since 2002, according to the report "The State of Workingin Connecticut." The report, which is disputed by some, is released annuallyaround Labor Day by Connecticut Voices for Children in conjunctionwith the ...