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Calling All Type Os

Here's a secret: The New Haven Independent is not part of a multinational media conglomerate with a billion-dollar budget that has room to pay for proofreaders. (Actually, trying to get multinational media conglomerates to spend change on proofreaders these days isn't always easy, anyway.)

So we need your help!

Any time you find a misspelling or other typographical error in a story on our site, please let us know by e-mailing us with the form below.

Ever grateful for the help, we will keep track of how many typos each reader catches. To say thanks, we will periodically award the leading typo-catcher a free New Haven Independent coffee mug. We may not have a budget for proofreaders. But we do have a line item for "thank you" gifts.

Typo-Catcher Standings

Here are the most recently updated figures for Independent typo-catchers:

Dennis Kelly 121
John Oksanish 36
Juli Stupakevich 12
Naomi Morduch Toubman 7
Eva Geertz 6
Bruce Crowder 6
Leslie Kuo 5
Lindsay Foster 5
Hunter Smith 3
Beth Stenger 3
Claire Morduch 2
Kim Stoner 2
William Kurtz 2
Kathleen Cei 2
Laura Davulis 1
Tony Cappiello 1
Mark Abraham 1
Holly Grossetta Nardini 1
Peter Stein 1
Joshua Mamis 1
Anstress Farwell 1
Doug Hardy 1
Alex Karman 1
Laura Davulis 1

Round Ending Sept. 15, 2008

Hunter Smith 224
Dennis Kelly 32
Jeffrey Kerekes 18
Bruce Crowder 15
Nestor Makhno 10
Eva Geertz 8
Deborah Marcuse 7
Nathalie Alegre 6
Jonathan Boulware 6
Kyle Dugdale 6
David Streever 4
William Kurtz 3
Mark Abraham 2
Margaret Middleton 2
Liz Holt 2
Peter Stein 2
Meghan Quinn 1
Victoria Metaxas 1
Cyn Savo 1
Johnny Scafidi 1
Charles Riley 1
Nicole Licata
Kristine Anthis 1
Michael Soares 1
Avital Silverman 1
Elizabeth Hess 1
Nancy Thompson 1
Chris Gray 1
Michelle Turner 1
Yair Minsky 1
Katharine Weber 1
Ali Parmalee 1

Our Past Winners:

Hunter Smith
Christian Pettker
Keith Johnson
Chris Lewine
Heather Locklear
Dave Kysela
Jonathan Boulware
Deborah Marcuse
Mark Abraham
Karen Wood
Alex Karman
Joe Jolly
Bruce Crowder
Jon-Jay Tilsen
Keith Malloy
Peter Stein

Arts & Entertainment

City-Wide Open Studios Turns 10 in Style

Motivations Murky

Health Care

Clinics Short On Kids' Flu Vaccines

Breast Cancer's Beaten Path

Neighborhoods

Sliver Lots Up For Grabs

Laundromat OK'd; Dominos Dumped

Black History

A Principle On Display

A New Civil Rights Era

Branford Eagle

Atlantic Wire Pleads Guilty to Polluting the Branford River

Branford Moves to Evict Stony Creek Quarry Tenants

Breaking News

Power Outage Hits City

"Now Cracks a Noble Heart"

Business/Labor/ Economic Development

Simkins Packs Up; WPCA Makes Move

35 Cents An Hour = Cleaner Dishes

Castaway

Castaway #8: West Rock Avenue, UNCENSORED

Prozac Nation, Elm City Edition

Citizen Contributions

Local 3144 Gives Back

Scenes From A Wreath-Making

City Hall

Email Option Ok'd For Tax Bill Notification

Aldermanic Slate Approved

Compost

Recession Resilience

Environment

A "Win, Win" For Environment & Taxpayers?

A Tree Grows in the Hill

Food

New School Lunches Face Toughest Critics

Teens Are Eating String Beans

Gina Coggio

Everyday An Adventure

Lucky Sevens

Gone Dishin'

Gone Dishin' At The Grad Club

Jammin' For Whirled Peas

Higher Ed

Casey Opens The Higher Ed Gateway

Yale Nursing School Gets A Permanent Home

Hometown Heroes

This Round Was In Honor Of "Buddy"

"Independent" Journalist Perseveres

Housing

Carpenters Hammer Home a Warning

WPCA Urged To Tackle Marshal Fees

How To Help

How You Can Help

Relief Sought For Flood Victims

Immigrant Tales

Feds To Be Grilled In FOI Case

Pastor Decries Guadalupe Surprise

International

Prayers Of Peace for Mumbai

Bike Crackdown Snares African Peacemaker

La Voz Hispana

Lines Opened

La Voz Reports

Legal Notices

ALDERMANIC NOTICE -- NEW HAVEN

ALDERMANIC NOTICE - NEW HAVEN

Legal Writes

Dwight Mugging

Terror Case Convict Appeals To Judge

Media

5 Potential
Buyers Emerge

Register Closes Weeklies

Obituaries

Florence Schorske Wald, 91

Dennis Hamilton, 1942-2008

Opinion

Silly Season Starts

Divine Gay Rights

Parental involvement

Move, Stakeout Fail To Land Prized School Spot

Literacy Coalition Forum: Early Reading, Community Action, and Catalytic Philanthropy

Politics

DeLauro Applauds Selection That Went To Someone Else

Rosa Salutes Choice

Presidential Campaign

The Pollsters Won

America's Ideals, Triumphant

Public Events

The Challenge Is On

"Unsilent Night" Rings Out

Recession

Tweed Seeks $160G Bailout

35 Cents An Hour = Cleaner Dishes

Reel News

Safe Space Found

School Reform "DOA"?

Religion

Dinner & Mass On Rosette Street

John 3:16 Delivers The Turkey

Schools

A Rookie Becomes A King

2008 New Haven Teacher-Developed Curriculum Units Online, 2009 Seminars Set

Science

Recommended: Extra Smiles, & Exercise

He Skirted Death, Now Heads To Altar

Serials

Chapter 7: Inauguration Day

Chapter 6: Precinct 24 Turns Out

Social Services

"Two-Generation" Approach Pitched

Hear, Here

Solar Youth

Teens' Videos Reflect Real Life

East Meets, Crushes West

Sports

Steelers Seek National Championship

Betting Decline Blows $500K Budget Hole

State

Rell: Scale Back Rail Project

Blumenthal Might Stop Suing

Transportation

Cyclists' Relief: Whitney Ave. Redo Set

Tweed Seeks $160G Bailout

Wedding Announcements

Sally Connolly & Semeon Tsalbins

Belzer, Schuch To Wed

January 5, 2009 4:12 PM

A Rookie Becomes A King

by Allan Appel | January 5, 2009 4:12 PM

As a fourth-grader at Hill Central, Miguel Rosado received a Three Kings Day present, his very first. Monday, in full regalia as Melchior, one of the three magi, the rookie firefighter became the gift giver to Lincoln-Bassett third-grader Harold Tinsley.

Continue reading "A Rookie Becomes A King"

35 Cents An Hour = Cleaner Dishes

by Paul Bass | January 5, 2009 11:33 AM

As one of 65,000 minimum-wage workers about to collect a raise, Kim Clark already knows how her life will change: She'll start using dishwashing liquid instead of laundry detergent on dirty dinner plates.

Continue reading "35 Cents An Hour = Cleaner Dishes"

Lance Williams Inspires Day Of Heart Talk

by Melinda Tuhus | January 5, 2009 9:02 AM

two%20boys.JPG Bernard Risco had a "heart to heart" with his buddy during a day dedicated to saving black lives in New Haven, held in memory of a favorite son who dropped dead on a Hillhouse basketball court.

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January 2, 2009 3:44 PM

Murders, Property Crimes Shoot Up

by Melissa Bailey | January 2, 2009 3:44 PM

After the annual city murder rate rose from 13 to 22 in 2008, Mayor John DeStefano sought to focus on a different statistic: The number of ex-cons involved in violent crime.

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Recession Doesn't Scare Them

by Paul Bass | January 2, 2009 11:28 AM

Curtis Packer and Bill Readey bought a struggling downtown coffee shop with plans to pump money into an expansion.

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Polars Take Coldest Plunge Yet

by Leonard J. Honeyman | January 2, 2009 8:54 AM

The wind chill hovered near zero with gale-force winds. Temperatures barely made it to a dozen degrees below freezing. The sun shone meekly over fresh snow. Even the gulls had a better place to be.

Calling All Type Os

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