by | Dec 2, 2024 8:14 am | Comments (1)
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Classmates Robina, Faryal, and Ghofran, at Troup's annual multicultural luncheon.
Sitting around a lunch table draped in an aquamarine cloth and topped with festive fall ornaments, Robina, 10, Faryal, 12, and Ghofran, 12, giggled and cracked jokes, translating them into English after the fact, in between bites of fried chicken, bread rolls, and rice.
by | Nov 13, 2024 8:34 am | Comments (2)
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Nike Bonhomme: "This is a huge achievement for me."
Bonhomme celebrates her award with her former teacher, Da'Jhon Jett.
When Troup School eighth grader Nike Bonhomme got on stage and her school auditorium filled with cheers to celebrate her surpassing her math goal last year, she was filled with motivation to do it all again this year.
by | Nov 8, 2024 9:05 am | Comments (4)
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Da'Jhon Jett magnetically unlocks students' phones during Wednesday dismissal at Troup.
Troup School has officially kickstarted its phone-ban rollout, and saw that throughout the day, students participated in class more and were less distracted — even if students said it was “awkward” and even “scary” to be without their phones.
by | Nov 6, 2024 10:05 am | Comments (2)
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1294 Chapel: Auctioned, but not yet sold.
A certified public accountant hoping to move his business back to New Haven ended up on top at a Chapel Street foreclosure auction — for an office building that the current owner hopes to hold onto by regaining its nonprofit status and clearing three years of tax debt.
by | Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Robert Cardone, out on bail: Fighting object-discarding"felony."
Robert Cardone pushed a shopping cart filled with black plastic crates and an orange traffic cone along Elm Street — killing time during another day out of jail, out of work, and still shrouded by a “bullshit” bomb-suspect criminal case.
by | Oct 11, 2024 3:51 pm | Comments (24)
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A sidewalk memorial to Kenneth Mims, who died in the Oct. 6 fire at 516 Elm St.
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Firefighters on the scene of the fatal fire.
City housing code inspectors hadn’t been back inside 516 Elm St. for more than a year before last Sunday’s fatal fire — but not for lack of trying.
by | Oct 11, 2024 2:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Are these prairie dogs wondering what makes them prairie dogs?
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Jeff Cibulas, with Jenny Trujillo at last NHDoc screening: “I’d rather see the truth and know how horrible it is.”
Prairie dogs have a word for “human.” They talk about us in a language with nouns, adjectives, and variable dialects — even though, to most of us, their words sound like unintelligible squeaks.
I learned that delightful fact at the last-ever film screening by NHDocs, from a vegan advocacy film about what it means to be human in a world of other animals.
by | Oct 11, 2024 1:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Godslove Ampah (right), with math teacher Tonya Howard: "Whenever I look at an equation, I just want to use my brain to figure it out."
Time to math! The standard algorithm way, at Troup.
Troup fifth-grader Godslove Ampah used to struggle most with math, back when she was still living in her home country of Ghana.
Now, three years later, that’s completely changed — and Godslove finds multiplication challenges fun, thanks to the help of a local teacher working to make sure students know more than one way to solve a problem.
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:57 am | Comments (7)
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Tracking the GDDC's progress over the years ...
... at 30th anniversary celebration.
Community leaders and city officials gathered at the Canal Dock Boathouse to celebrate the Greater Dwight Development Corporation’s (GDDC) three decades of supporting affordable housing, shopping, and early childhood education in and around Dwight — now that that neighborhood nonprofit has turned 30.
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:02 am | Comments (11)
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At the scene of Sunday's fatal fire.
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Outside 516 Elm Monday morning.
(Updated) One man died and nine people were displaced after a two-alarm fire at a house on Elm Street.
by | Sep 12, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (5)
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Ranisa Sweat teaching English class at Troup.
Troup seventh grader Lizmarie Hernandez eyed the word “consume” in her English workbook.
Instead of looking it up on her phone, she flipped to the book’s glossary to learn its definition — and then wrote that down by hand to help herself remember.
Continue reading ‘No Yondr Pouches (Yet), No Phone Problems’
by | Sep 6, 2024 3:02 pm | Comments (46)
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City transit director Sandeep Aysola: This is "the single largest grant the city has received for transportation" in a long time.
Coordinated traffic signals, raised intersections, safer pedestrian crossings and two directions of car traffic will be coming to a 1.6‑mile stretch of Chapel Street by 2029 — or, maybe, sooner — thanks to an $11 million federal grant newly received by the city.
by | Aug 29, 2024 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Eighth grader Yabsira, third grader Amanbuen, and dad Yemiamrew Teferi, on the first day of school.
Yemiamrew Teferi and his two sons Yabsira and Amanbuen showed up to Augusta Lewis Troup School on Thursday for their first first day of classes with New Haven Public Schools (NHPS), after moving from Ethiopia to the Elm City two months ago.
by | Aug 29, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Knox and Kenzl Ellis: Used to uniforms in New York preschool, ready for uniforms in New Haven kindergarten.
Eighth graders Nike, Kaylee, and Aaliyah with Principal Eugene Foreman (back right) and Troup Culture and Climate Specialist Da'Jhon Jett. As Kaylee said, "Nobody is going to want to be disrespectful with Mr. Jett. He's everyone's fave."
Troup kindergarteners Knox and Kenzl Ellis showed up to the first day of classes Thursday wearing matching green polo shirts and khaki pants — in line with the return of uniforms to the Edgewood Avenue public school.
After a pandemic hiatus, Troup’s administration has brought back its uniform requirement with the goal of encouraging higher levels of attendance by reducing the number of clothing decisions, and purchases, students and their families have to make.
by | Jul 16, 2024 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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Yusuf Gürsey at a pro-Palestinian rally in April, before his death.
At a memorial service for 70-year-old local peace activist Yusuf Gürsey, friends and colleagues joined in person and over Zoom from all over the world — California, Puerto Rico, Turkey — to share stories and poems for the hit-and-run victim.
All knew him as a lover of languages, a beach fanatic, and a seemingly shy but loyal friend who had a fierce commitment to the liberation of all oppressed people.
Continue reading ‘Killed Peace Activist's Memory Kept Alive’
by | Jul 10, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (12)
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The recent decision by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) to deny financing for Seabury Cooperative Housing’s capital improvement project raises a crucial question: Why would CHFA favor dissolving the limited equity cooperative model, which empowers its members, in favor of a tax credit property model that leaves members powerless to govern themselves?
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Keep Limited Equity Cooperatives Alive’
by | Jun 25, 2024 12:23 pm | Comments (8)
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Whitmore: "The devil is right there trying to nick at my tail every second."
“Do you know the way to Stop & Shop?” Luke Whitmore asked.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Elm Street: Luke Seeks (Bottle) Redemption’
by | May 22, 2024 11:52 am | Comments (4)
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St. Raph's ambulance drop-off area: Closing for construction. Temp drop-off area to be built next door.
How do you double the size of a hospital’s emergency department without displacing ambulances from a construction zone?
Yale New Haven Hospital is seeking to solve that riddle by shutting down a portion of Orchard Street for 18 months — and paying the city an extra $150,000 for the inconvenience — as it builds a larger emergency department for its St. Raphael’s campus.
Continue reading ‘YNHH Seeks Orchard Lane Closure During Construction’
by | Apr 10, 2024 2:46 pm | Comments (3)
Magarvey Josie was on the ball Wednesday.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Elm: Magarvey Kicks Into Shape’
by | Mar 6, 2024 4:26 pm | Comments (5)
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The fire at 390 Orchard.
A two-alarm fire interrupted renovations at Dwight’s Kensington Square apartments while sending two firefighters to the hospital.
by | Mar 6, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Hip-hop superstar Jadakiss joins the party.
Quick: Name the New Haven location where a platinum-selling Grammy-nominated hip hop superstar and coffee entrepreneur joined an award-winning cupcake maker, an up-and-coming cigar collective, and a community-minded lemonade company.
That was Dwight Street’s Cambria Hotel last week, where area entrepreneurs showcased their wares before 100 people in a coffee-tasting event featuring Kiss Cafe and sponsored by Gorilla Lemonade in celebration of Black History Month.
Continue reading ‘Cigars, Cupcakes & Lemonade: Black Entrepreneurship On Display’
by | Feb 23, 2024 12:44 pm | Comments (6)
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Biree Andamarian, James Rawlings, Cece Calhoun at Thursday evening's gathering.
A panel of doctors lauded the recent approval of CASGEVY, a gene therapy for sickle-cell disease, but called for advocacy to make the treatment affordable, especially for people on Medicaid.
Continue reading ‘Sickle-Cell Breakthrough Hailed; Affordability Push Comes Next’
by | Feb 14, 2024 5:00 pm | Comments (26)
Collage of Firebird memories presented at Tuesday's BZA meeting.
An affordable housing group has spotted space for nine new nests to accommodate Firebirds and lower-income renters on Orchard Street — but hopes the city will find room in its zoning regs for the dense development.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Project Pitched For Firebirds, Families’
by | Feb 8, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (18)
(Updated with corrected video; apologies for initial version, which repeated crashes and left some out.)
The corner of Dwight Street and Edgewood Avenue has become car-crash central since the traffic light stopped working right.
by | Jan 30, 2024 3:13 pm | Comments (8)
X'Nique suggests to City Engineer Giovanni Zinn that city prioritize shade and sensory play.
A tire swing. A skate park. “A lot of butterflies.” And toys promoting “sensory play.”
Neighborhood children eagerly offered those visions for a planned redesign of Kensington Playground, following years of adult-dominated debates over the future of the park.