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Karen Ponzio |
May 27, 2021 12:26 pm
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District Arts and Education turned their bi-weekly DAE Presents livestream into a live, on-site event Wednesday night as they invited a small number of guests in and added a food truck and outdoor musical entertainment — as a prelude to their indoor performance, that would be broadcast on Facebook Live.
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Brian Slattery
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May 26, 2021 8:42 am
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The cast of A Light in the Dark — the showcase from Lights Up Drama Club at Wilbur Cross High School, which will be broadcast June 4 and 5 — assembled in a rehearsal room at the school that would also serve as the beginning scene for the number “I Feel So Much Spring,” from the William Finn-penned musical A New Brain.
As the music began, and music director Matt Durland conducted, all the voices behind the masks sprang to life.
The students glided across the floor as co-director Salvatore DeLucia weaved among them with a camera. It would all be edited together into a final product, with 17 other songs, in time for broadcast.
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John Hinrichs & Lisa Rodriguez |
May 26, 2021 8:34 am
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After two years of pandemic-induced cancellations, the James Hillhouse High School Army JROTC was back at a leadership camp.
This time, instead of lasting two weeks, the camp was one day long. And it was at Stone’s Ranch Military Reservation in East Lyme instead of Massachusetts.
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Carmen Rodriguez |
May 25, 2021 11:38 am
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(Opinion)—As both a healthcare worker and a member of the New Haven Board of Alders, I have seen the enormous impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our communities.
The Board of Education approved the hiring of two top educators — after debates on the right time to hire administrators, and whether New Haven is being proactive enough for English learners.
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Brian Slattery |
May 25, 2021 9:27 am
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There was already one message written on the large black circle with the prompt “I hope,” written in several languages. That first inscribed message read “that our memories will not all be of darkness.”
The disk was located at the entrance to the Wooster Square Farmer’s Market this past Saturday morning. A woman with a child in a stroller approached the disk with a white marker. She knelt and added her own message. Within the hour, many more would follow.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 24, 2021 8:52 am
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When Suzannah Holsenbeck and Robb Blocker were organizing a party for their children this year, they knew exactly where to turn to provide the entertainment: The International Festival of Arts and Ideas Arts On Call program.
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Thomas Breen |
May 21, 2021 2:54 pm
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Alders have fast-tracked approval of city plans to spend the first $26 million-plus in federal pandemic-era aid to bolster lost municipal revenue and build up a host of summer youth programs moved ahead.
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Thomas Breen |
May 19, 2021 1:44 pm
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Summer camp scholarships. Free student access to museums. Tens of millions of dollars to address learning loss. Hundreds of millions more in direct aid to local education boards — including $79.9 million, not $94 million, for New Haven schools.
A state official came to town to dangle those possibilities.
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Lisa Reisman |
May 19, 2021 11:34 am
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It was a few minutes past 11 on a recent Wednesday on Cedar Street, and Christopher Chialastri was digging into an aluminum container of spicy fried shrimp.
Hillhouse sophomore Jazmin Townsend leaned forward in her desk to whisper an observation from the text into her microphone.
Half the class was sitting in the room with her. Half was online. They all contemplated how to keep the virtual conversation going after they heard her say: “I think one interesting fact is that after it was cooked, the dumpling became alive.”
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Madison Hahamy |
May 18, 2021 8:36 am
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More than 20 percent of childcare centers across Connecticut have closed since the start of the pandemic, leaving an industry that struggled to meet demand pre-pandemic increasingly threadbare.
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Thomas Breen |
May 17, 2021 6:31 pm
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Come Wednesday, fully vaccinated people will be able to leave their masks in their pockets — even when going indoors — in most settings across the state.
City Hall, meanwhile, is sticking with a “status quo” approach to local mask-wearing recommendations, as city officials push to get more New Haveners inoculated against Covid-19.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 17, 2021 8:24 am
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Sunday afternoon offered a few hints of another city summer on the horizon: a short burst of rain followed by a sunny break in the sky, the sound of music blasting from open car windows, and two International Festival of Arts and Ideas programs coming together to celebrate.
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Thomas Breen |
May 14, 2021 5:08 pm
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Veronica Cassis turned to the city for emergency pandemic help paying bills — and so far has been turned down because … she hasn’t been able to pay her bills.
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Emily Hays |
May 14, 2021 10:18 am
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After a year of sitting at their computers, King/Robinson fourth graders were ready to move. Their teacher, Michelle Romanelli, realized she could harness that energy to help them learn math.
This led to one of Romanelli’s takeaways from hybrid school — cutting up worksheets makes them way more fun.
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Kevin Maloney |
May 14, 2021 8:41 am
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Connecticut Speaker of the House Matthew Ritter helps pick which bills make it to his fellow legislators for a final vote. What he’s looking for in those bills is investment in long-term growth.
Ritter talked about his priorities in an appearance on WNHHFM’s “The Municipal Voice,” hosted by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHH, as the legislative season draws to a close.