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BRIDGEPORT — Joe Ganim is on the cusp of making local history — again. If re-elected, the city's Democratic mayoral incumbent will be within months of Jasper McLevy's record 24-year tenure in ...
BRIDGEPORT — Park Cemetery has allegedly been run into the ground by its former manager. The cemetery, the final resting place of former Mayor Jasper McLevy as well as veterans of every conflict ...
Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy fought school expansion, kept city salaries low (his own never topped $9,300), held down taxes as long as ...
Organizers tell News 12 that hip-hop is more than just a style of music – it represents life, art and culture in the city.
Let us not forget socialist Jasper McLevy, mayor of my hometown of Bridgeport, Conn., from 1933-57.
Sunday at McLevy Park served as a who’s who in local hip-hop history, including Tony Crush of the Cold Crush Brothers and a performance from The Skinny Boys.