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Delayed Youth Shelter 
Receives $500K Boost

From alders, for $7.5M facility on Grand Ave.  Nathaniel Rosenberg reports. 

Yale Gifts Cornell Scott $500K

For new Recovery and Wellness Center.  Staff reports. 

Esther Lavache, 55

Esther loved a good meal, her inner circle of sisters,” and spending time with her kids — no matter where they took her.  Obit. 

Oy! Bring On
The Holiday Tunes

Nu Haven Kapelye gets klezmer busy as Hanukkah approaches.  Paul Bass reports. 

Jazz Raindrops Fall

Jamil Ragland reports.

4-Alarm Holiday Joy

Santa meet sup with 100 kids at 10 city firehouses.  Staff reports. 

Rosa Dishes
Red State Red Meat

Congresswoman charts billions red states could lose in disaster aid after Trump and President Musk” kill gov’t-funding resolution.  Paul Bass reports. 

Wreaths Across America 
Stops By Hillhouse

On the way to Arlington National Cemetery.  Lisa Rodriguez reports. 

UFO Spotted In 
Library’s Local History Room

The truth is out there — not necessarily about flying saucers, but definitely about New Haven’s past.  Allan Appel reports. 

Cross Environmental
Club Keeps Cleaning

Maya McFadden reports.

John Waters Survives

… fame and fortune, with soul intact. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood catches his Xmas stand-up tour.

NHPS Office Update: Still Empty

Maya McFadden reports.

That’s A Lot Of Green $

Feds send city $20M thru EPA’s Community Change Grants Program.  Staff reports. 

Missing Person

Staff reports.

Narcan Pouches,
AI Reports Cleared For Cops

Thanks to aldermanic approvals.  Nathaniel Rosenberg reports. 

Sorry, Jia Tolentino

Sweetgreen’s fast-casual salad bowls coming to vacant storefront at Shops at Yale.  Staff reports. 

Constance LaPalombara retrospective at CAW covers New Haven, Maine, and the Southwest.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Torn & Splattered

Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood encounters a new perspective on distressed fashion.

Ignore The Pans

Kraven is worth the hunt.  Jamil Ragland reports. 

Man Found Dead In YNHH Office

Circumstances still under investigation.  Dereen Shirnekhi and Paul Bass report. 

Dr. James Williams, 80

Dr. Williams was a Vietnam War veteran who was passionate about education and a member of the Knickerbocker Golf Club.  Obit. 

David George Conte, 78

David was a motorcyclist and public school teacher who was passionate about supporting students.  Obit. 

Tree Jazz

Firehouse 12 gets festive, with the help of the Christmas Tree‑O. Brian Slattery reports. 

Wait -- Is That Jalen?

Review Crew’s Emily Cohen reports on the celebrity lookalike contest phenomenon.

66 Songs On Route 66

Review Crew’s Matt Carney joins fellow middle-aged dads to catch Wilco’s double-night decades-spanning new tour.

NHPS Fills Recruitment, 
Retention Vacancy

Maya McFadden reports.

Betty Lucile Bell James, 89

Birmingham-raised Betty loved watching soap operas, mall shopping, & sitting on her porch in the summer.  Obit. 

1 Injured In Road Rage Shooting

• Plus, church receives bomb threat hoax;
• 41-year-old arrested for carjacking;
• Weekend police roundup.  Thomas Breen reports. 

Watch Out For Max Hysteria

& the return of the New Haven Ravens, at Punxmas fest at The Cellar.  Karen Ponzio reports. 

A Holiday Tree-dition

New & old takes on trimming, at the Wadsworth.  Jamil Ragland reports. 

Grand’s Beginning To
Look A Lot Like Xmas

As neighborhood crew works to clean, brighten up the busy business corridor.  Allan Appel reports. 

Frosty Fights Back

Inside a climate-controlled gallery, Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood discovers what’s really behind that smile.

Jazz Heads Take Over

As the weekend gets going. Review Crew’s Ryan Patrick Hooper reports from Motor City.

Or only just begun, as viewed in new City Gallery exhibition.  Brian Slattery reports. 

“Black Cake & Sorrel”

& the sound of the steel drum, at Caribbean-influenced Q House Xmas concert. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Homeira and Julia Bring 
Ukraine, Afghanistan To New Haven

At latest event put on by Elena’s Light.  Asher Joseph reports. 

Bathroom Behavior

Can be pretty revealing, and intriguing, especially as photographed by Merik Goma.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Legal Notice

Orchard St. traffic safety improvements meeting on Jan. 7.  Read more. 

A Hard Nutcracker

Review Crew’s Nora-Grace Flood reports on a dad-joke spin on the holiday classic.

The Gloved One

Jamaal Fields-Green captures the King of Pop onstage in MJ. Jamil Ragland reports. 

Look Closely, & You'll Hear New Haven

Brian Slattery photo

A true New Haven circuit board melds music and apizza.

Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.

Continue reading ‘Look Closely, & You’ll Hear New Haven’

Teen Homicide Victim Mourned As "Beautiful Spirit"

Nathaniel Rosenberg photo

Daily Jackson, loved for his heart and his humor.

Tiny footprints in concrete and a Daily knock” at the door helped bring Daily Jackson’s memory to life Thursday morning at a crowded funeral service for the 17-year-old Riverside student who was shot and killed in Newhallville earlier this month.

Continue reading ‘Teen Homicide Victim Mourned As Beautiful Spirit”’