Four years ago in Westville, there were 11 empty storefronts. This year, there’s only one. Westville Village Renaissance Alliance Executive Director Lizzy Donius proudly recited that statistic ...

Nearly a decade after losing his family’s former pizza restaurant to a bombing in Syria, refugee and culinary entrepreneur Mazen Saloumi has opened a new Middle Eastern pizza restaurant in Westville.

In the heart of Westville, the tempting smell and taste of smoky, wood-fired BBQ have made Big Swerve’s BBQ a local favorite ...

NEW HAVEN — It was only a few years ago, in 2015, that Mazen Alsaloumi and Rawan Oudeh and their children Ayman, 21, Ghena, 19, Jena, 13, and Eleen, 21/2, came to this country via Jordan as refugees ...