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‘Rocket Café’ Nears Takeoff In Westville
The owners of an East Haven restaurant are looking to open a sports bar in Westville Village.

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The owners of an East Haven restaurant are looking to open a sports bar in Westville Village.

The closing is “bittersweet,” a longtime customer said. She’s very happy for the owners, but also said it's “miserable for the rest of us.”
The shop's manager said she felt “hurt and blindsided” by the news.
The barbershop issued its last haircut on Saturday in the building that it has operated out of for more than a century.
The police chief’s message to people committing these crimes: “We’re going to find out who you are and prosecute you and arrest you.”
Fans gathered for a tribute concert in honor of Fatman Scoop, one year after he collapsed onstage in Hamden and later died.
Westville residents are demanding that city officials and police officers step up enforcement against rule-breaking smoke shops.
The decision came more than a month after he was first picked up by immigration authorities as part of a workplace raid of a car wash.
The North Haven native is opening a shop where musicians can not only buy, sell, trade, & get repairs, but also hang out & chat about music.
As a result of the city’s escalating enforcement actions, at least five tenants have been forced out of their homes.
An auto repair shop came up short in its proposal to serve alcohol to members of a soccer club after a vote by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
The officer had been placed on administrative leave after being accused of faking extra-duty shifts at Tweed New Haven Airport.
An 18-year-old rising Wilbur Cross High School junior was detained by ICE in a workplace raid in Southington last week.
After a local backlash, the road race's board has severed ties with Avelo Airlines after initially accepting a sponsorship from the company.
Yale's pediatric gender program has announced that it will no longer prescribe gender-affirming medications for patients under 19.
The mother of two was allegedly shackled by her hands, feet, and waist, and flown down to Brownsville, Texas.
A developer is facing some pushback over a plan to build 70 apartments and 18,000 square feet of commercial space along the Quinnipiac River
The Hamden Democratic Town Committee endorsed a candidate from a crowded field of challengers headed for a primary election in September.
The state legislator officially announced his campaign for governor on Monday.
The prominent attorney is being remembered as “a man of character and decency who cared not a whit about material gain or wealth.”