• At Martinez, Hillhouse, & Conte. • For Youth & Rec-led swim programming. • Cross, Career pools to stay closed for maintenance. Maya McFadden reports.
• But he can rap. • Along with local hip hop artist Sketch tha Cataclysm (pictured) and fellow Chicago touring artists • At 3 Sheets concert. Brian Slattery reports.
Ex-Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons was keeping Black cowboy music alive, too — his way. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports from a stop on his “American Songster” tour.
Thirty four percent of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students have missed at least 10 percent of school days — a slight decline from the district’s January peak, but still above the district’s end-of-year chronic absenteeism goal of 27.5 percent.
Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story, along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1. What was happening in the above photo? A. Hill Central student was competing a “Squeeze & Guess The Veggie” contest sponsored by Gather New Haven B. Neighbors were contributing written “prayers for a peaceful world” into a bowl for a project sponsored by the Sweet Dream Society C. A lottery conducted by municipal government’s Livable City Initiative to choose a buyer for a two-family home on Howard Ave. D. A trust exercise conducted by Up With People at a community cookout held on Spring Street
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Dereen Shirnekhi
| Apr 26, 2024 10:05 am
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“I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.”
It was a refrain I’d heard maybe hundreds of times at that point, the croon of Katie Crutchfield’s voice and the banjo backing her committed to memory. But Thursday night, as I heard it live and sang along with a crowd filling up Waxahatchee’s sold-out show at Toad’s Place, the song felt new.