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Apr 18, 2018 3:38 pm
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Newhallville/Prospect Hill Alder Steve Winter follows up with St. Martin’s Townhouses residents two days after the rainstorm.
Two days after a torrential rainstorm flooded eight families out of their Goffe Street apartments, all eight are back home, and five of the eight apartments have been completely cleaned, cleared of water, and dried, according to interviews with residents and the management company.
The other three affected units still have wet kitchens, which the management company said it is currently working to finish drying out.
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Christopher Peak |
Apr 17, 2018 12:16 pm
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Renderings for the Q House, under review by the zoning board.
At its grand opening, the Q House’s visitors might take up 260 parking spots — the same on-street parking that Dixwell United Church of Christ’s congregation was eyeing for its upcoming bicentennial.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 17, 2018 8:05 am
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Nineteen people were flooded out of their Goffe Street apartments Monday when heavy rainfall and a blocked water drain resulted in up to two inches of water seeping into eight different familes’ homes.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 17, 2018 8:04 am
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Spirite and Aneissa with the book that would have been read to the little kids, had the van not broken down!
All 40 of the preschoolers and their teachers from the Harris and Tucker School in Newhallville were dressed in their going-on-trip shirts.
The were waiting for the van to arrive to take them all to the Stetson Branch Library. They were going there not just to have a reading program, which they often do, but also to fulfill an important mission.
However, beneath the onslaught of torrential squalls the van refused to start.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 12, 2018 7:49 am
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On Wednesday night at Stetson Branch Library on Dixwell Avenue, Ife Michelle was explaining the plot of Crowns, the upcoming play at Long Wharf Theatre, and how it continued to relate to mentoring in the community today.
Retrieving salt at DPW headquarters during recent snowstorm.
Pescosolido testifies Monday.
The Middletown Avenue building that houses the city’s snow plows, street sweeping trucks and most public works staffers is crumbling under years of sustained exposure to salt, propped up by an “aluminum forest” of temporary support beams, and desperately in need of a $10 million comprehensive redesign and rehabilitation.
The Stetson Library narrowly avoided a “double helping of hamburgers” on Wednesday night when city planners nixed, for now, a proposal to put up a second McDonald’s ad panel alongside the Dixwell Avenue bike share station.
A year and a half after coming to town, Fire Chief John Alston Jr. is already stepping into one of the black community’s honored roles: serving as grand marshal of the annual Freddy Fixer Parade.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 26, 2018 7:56 am
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The inside of the Elks Lodge on the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Webster Street was already nearly full when Mo Pleasure and friends — Morris Pleasure himself on keyboard, Rohn Lawrence on guitar, Ralph Rolle on drums, Dave Livolsi on bass, and Brent Carter on vocals — hit an energetic take on Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
What was going on was a party to raise money for the Stetson branch of the New Haven Free Public Library as it prepares to move to its new home in the new Q House, soon to be built across the street from the library’s current location on Dixwell Avenue.
Or as Diane Brown, Stetson’s branch manager put it, what was going on was a reunion.
Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett at Thursday night’s budget workshop.
Two years after the city planned to open a youth activity center and homeless shelter on Orchard Street, the director of the project said that the new open date is just three months away.
Well, three months away from a date in the near future.
If the project receives some new cash in this coming year’s capital budget.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 13, 2018 12:51 pm
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Hllhouse students Makayla Dawkins and Ti’Juana Gibson, in first row, with coordinator Darrell Brown and Principal Worthy.
If each of the 950 students at James Hillhouse High School puts just a quarter in the three wooden boxes fashioned by the young carpenters in wood shop, that would add up to more than $200 for books, technology, data bases, and furniture for the new Stetson Library.
New electricity, new plumbing, new kitchen, new bingo board and sound system.
Add to that new noise-attenutating ceiling-borne panels that look like flying sculptures.
Throw in new flooring, windows, lights, furniture, carpeting, and a paint job of such bright wall colors that Margie Staggers, who is partially blind, can take delight in them.
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Aneurin Canham-Clyne |
Feb 22, 2018 9:54 am
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Tom Talbot at Wednesday’s meeting.
Plans to build affordable housing on two Munson Street lots are on hold, following a City Hall meeting Wednesday of the Livable City Initiative’s Property Acquisitions and Disposition Committee.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 12, 2018 8:43 am
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Jsuan, Sharayah and Cappericnae Midgette enjoy a game of Uno at Stetson Saturday.
Sean Reeves of S.P.O.R.T. Academy plays a game of Sorry!
During a Black History month 10 years ago, Dixwell’s Stetson branch library was almost … history. Ten years later, on Saturday, it was, as usual on a weekend, a hub for families to play chess, craft, and read together — as the booming branch plans to move into larger quarters across the street.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 2, 2018 8:37 am
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Standing in front of a movie screen on Thursday night at ConnCAT in Science Park, filmmaker Frank Mitchell recognized a lot of familiar faces in the small but attentive crowd who had come to see Unsung Heroes, his movie about New Haven’s jazz scene.
“There are folks in the audience who can tell the entire story themselves,” he said.
And soon enough, Allen “Rubbs” Williams, former bartender at the Monterey Club on Dixwell Avenue, would watch a slightly younger version of himself on the screen talk about the history and legacy of New Haven jazz — and offer some insight about how that history might shape the city’s future.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 16, 2018 8:44 am
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AME Bishop W. Darin Moore at New Haven Rising’s MLK Day rally at Varick Church.
On the day that slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 89 years old, hundreds of New Haveners gathered to celebrate his legacy of racial and economic justice, and to extend that legacy to the current fight for immigrant rights.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Jan 16, 2018 8:43 am
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Troy Turner, co-owner of Bladez Barbershop, cuts 11-year-old Dyrell’s hair.
Hillhouse Guidance Counselor Olafemi Hunter teaches the art of stepping.
In one room, dozens of children learned martial arts techniques, while children in an auditorium rhythmically clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they tried to get the hang of stepping. In yet another room, people learned about local government and voter registration.
In these ways, New Haveners at Wexler-Grant School honored what would have been the 89th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 20, 2017 3:11 pm
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Ashley with great niece Deserie (Ish) Brown and two fifth-generation descendants.
Cora May Sayles-Ashley made it to her 100th birthday with some secrets to how she got there: traveling, cooking, church-going faith, love of gospel music, and a glass of grapefruit juice and rum — preferably of the darker variety.
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MIcaela Valentin |
Dec 20, 2017 3:10 pm
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Graduates of the program with advisors.
The city’s Small Business Resource Center graduated a small but intimate class of 13 participants Tuesday from an entrepreneurial development class at the New Haven Opportunity Center, at 316 Dixwell Ave.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 16, 2017 8:38 am
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Zone change supporters (clockwise from top left): Foskey-Hill, Williams, Solomon, Winter.
A plan to turn a vacant former factory site in Newhallville into a complex with nearly 400 apartments cleared a regulatory hurdle with the help of supportive neighbors.
