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Court Dates

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I’m as likely to indulge in “golden age thinking” as any mortal, and I admit, I’ve always harbored a desire to time-travel to the early days of the New Haven Colony. (more…)

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Trials by Fire

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Arson is among the most dangerous and destructive crimes. On Christmas Day 2019, an arsonist set fire to the historic Walter Camp house on Chapel Street, destroying its third floor and damaging the rest. Earlier that year, a fire set at the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue was also determined to have been set intentionally. […]

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Trials by Fire

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Arson is among the most destructive and deadly crimes. On Christmas Day 2019, an arsonist set fire to the historic Walter Camp house on Chapel Street, destroying its third floor and damaging the rest. Earlier that year, a fire set at the Diyanet Mosque on Middletown Avenue was also determined to have been set intentionally. […]

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Criminal Records

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Numerous historians have asserted that, during its heady first decades starting in 1638, the colony of New Haven was the purest of all the Puritan theocracies established in the New World.  (more…)

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