by | Apr 1, 2023 11:36 am | Comments (27)
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Goffe Terrace looking west towards Winthrop Saturday.
Two men were shot and killed in a parked car on Winthrop Avenue Saturday morning, becoming the city’s seventh and eighth homicide victims so far this year.
by | Mar 31, 2023 12:23 pm | Comments (6)
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Sayed Taha at NHPS career fair: “Students here also need a lot of help, love and support, and I hope I can give them that as a teacher.”
After teaching English in his home country of Afghanistan as recently as nine months ago, new New Haven resident Sayed Taha hopes to pick his educator career back up as a New Haven Public Schools teacher.
Taha was one of roughly 150 interested candidates to pursue that potential job opportunity at the district’s career fair — all as he continues to work with NHPS on moving up from his current role as a Hillhouse tutor by first receiving his teacher certification.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Tutor Works Toward Teaching Dream’
by | Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am | Comments (1)
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Warren Leftridge, Finn Crumlish, Amelia Tamborra-Walton.
Seymour, who works in a flower shop, has found an unusual plant. He stumbled across it during a total eclipse and has brought it to the store, where it’s attracting customers. His boss, Mr. Mushnik is pleased. But Seymour has discovered a terrible secret: the plant only grows by being fed human blood, and is ever hungry for more. Plus, it seems to be able to talk. What is Seymour going to do? And how will all of this affect the relationship he hopes to have with his co-worker, Audrey?
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Drama Opens Little Shop Of Horrors’
by | Mar 8, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Kiomi Williams hopped into his Ford F150 truck Wednesday morning to head to class — then discovered he needed to call his friend Ed.
Again.
by | Mar 3, 2023 1:41 pm | Comments (1)
SCSU Prez Joe Bertolino, heading back to home state.
Joe Bertolino plans to step down from his role as president of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) this summer to take up a new role leading a university in his home state of New Jersey.
by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Mar 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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BOMUS second graders in cup-stacking competition.
Special education teacher Rebecca Smith shows off hula hooping skills.
Hula hooping, dance parties, coloring, and team cup-stacking competitions helped the students and staff of the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) decompress mid-school year.
by | Feb 17, 2023 2:13 pm | Comments (8)
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At Friday's Black History Month celebration at Barack Obama School. "What Black history means to me is that I get to celebrate the Black people who made the world a better place," said one student.
Students honored after "caught being STRONG."
Perfect attendance, Black trailblazers, and the ability to gather in-person as a school again were all causes for celebration Friday, at a student-and-staff-led Black History Month event hosted by Barack H. Obama Magnet University School.
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by | Feb 16, 2023 4:34 pm | Comments (12)
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Attendees at Wednesday's superintendent search community meeting. Top row, left to right: Robert Gibson, Sean Reeves, Margaret Mary Gethings. Middle row: Kim Rogers, Rev. Joseph Champagne, Kelvin Rutledge. Bottom row: Shafiq Abdussabur, Shannon Mykins, and Leslie Blatteau.
Troup School reading instructor Pamela J. Tonge needs the next superintendent’s help in bridging the divide separating administrators and parents from teachers like herself, who work daily to help young students catch up to grade-level literacy despite a lack of classroom resources and respect.
by | Feb 16, 2023 3:52 pm | Comments (9)
An illustration of the upcoming Stone Street senior housing.
A Branford-based developer won permission to replace four single-family homes with 65 new apartments in Beaver Hills, following site plan approval for a project seeking to bring more income-restricted housing for the area’s elderly.
by | Feb 3, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.
by | Feb 1, 2023 5:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Beth Ewing left home Wednesday morning with a purpose.
by | Feb 1, 2023 3:45 pm | Comments (13)
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Metropolitan Business Academy students left their smoke-scarred high school Wednesday and assembled in Hillhouse’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse to shoot hoops and play Four Square volleyball — and come together as a community at a time when it’s tough to be a teacher or a student.
by | Jan 27, 2023 11:00 am | Comments (5)
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State Treasurer Erick Russell with PROUD Academy board member and former city Corporation Counsel John Rose at SCSU event on Thursday.
The nation’s first Black openly gay state official met the organizers of what hopes to become the first LGBTQ-centered private school in Connecticut — and one of only a handful in the country.
Their message about being “firsts” in an era of anti-gay backlash was identical and impassioned: Don’t just be your authentic self. Celebrate that self, too.
by | Jan 23, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (0)
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Cabrera.
With something like a gambit, New Haven Symphony Orchestra music director candidate Donato Cabrera scored a pedagogical victory, showing the audience a wide range of sounds with a selection of pieces designed to show off different sections of the orchestra before bringing a full symphony orchestra at the close.
Continue reading ‘Guest Conductor Strides To Success In NHSO Concert’
by | Dec 8, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Ashley Stockton (center) at "Tell Me Why It Works" panel.
The stakes of learning the wrong way to read are more than just academic for Ashley Stockton.
The Wexler-Grant teacher saw firsthand how her son with dyslexia struggled in school when following a now-outdated method that prioritizes looking for clues and guessing at words — and she saw how his literacy improved when, with the help of a costly private tutor, he began to sound words out.
Stockton shared that story of her shift in understanding about how reading can and should be taught during a panel discussion called, “Tell Me Why It Works: The Science Behind Reading.”
by | Dec 7, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (15)
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Blake St. tenants union members winning official recognition from Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Wildaliz Bermudez (center).
A group of Blake Street renters delivered a 31-name petition to City Hall — and officially became New Haven’s first legally recognized tenants union.
by | Dec 6, 2022 2:20 pm | Comments (1)
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The engine was running. The baby was bundled up.
Stephen Jones was ready for the call.
by | Dec 5, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Models walk the runway at 42nd annual Arts Awards.
The red carpet rolled out. An endless stream of apizza flew in the door straight from Big Green Truck’s ovens. DJ Cookie filled the room with tunes to get everyone on their feet.
And New Haven’s artists, designers, and fashionistas — some professional, some amateur, and a few still in strollers — gathered for an only-in-the-Elm-City celebration.
Continue reading ‘42nd Annual Arts Awards Put Fashion First’
by | Nov 29, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (7)
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Stone St. houses, slated for demolition ...
... to be replaced by 65 new apartments.
A Branford-based developer plans to knock down four rented single-family houses and build 65 new apartments for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, according to a new 17-year local tax break application for a project slated to go up in the shadow of West Rock.
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients’
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
Continue reading ‘"Abstinence," Not Methadone, Set For CVS Site’
by | Oct 10, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Beaver Hills neighbors Nan Bartow and Rebecca Cramer advocating for a new Crescent St. sidewalk in February.
Approximately 550 feet of new sidewalks should soon be coming to an oft-traversed stretch of Crescent Street thanks to the pedestrian safety advocacy of Beaver Hills neighbors.
by | Oct 6, 2022 10:06 am | Comments (20)
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Asst. Chief Ettienne at Black and Brown Male Empowerment Conference: "Who knows someone who has died from gun violence?"
Street outreach worker William "Juneboy" Outlaw.
Surround yourself with people who help you thrive — and watch out for those around you who are up to trouble.
Marshawn Moore first learned that lesson three years ago soon after his older brother was shot and killed. The 13-year-old New Havener learned that lesson a second time during a college-campus panel discussion with city cops.
Continue reading ‘Teen Conference Message: "Stay Around The Right People," "Away From Guns"’
by | Oct 3, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (5)
Jonathan Cortez, center: How's $160,200?
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Ken Johnson prepares to up the ante, at Saturday's Bellevue Rd. auction.
“One-seventy-five,” Ken Johnson whispered into his cell phone.
That’s how much a rival bidder had just put down at a foreclosure auction on Bellevue Road. Johnson needed to know from his corporate contact if he could go even higher to buy the foreclosed single-family house before him.
Continue reading ‘Investors Vie For Foreclosed Bellevue Home’