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Dec 14, 2016 1:12 pm
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Scott Schuldt with Skinner.
A controversial work of art by New Haven artist Gordon Skinner — a basketball hoop with a backstop that depicted a pig’s head with a police officer hat — was reinstalled on the grounds of the Goffe Street Armory on County Street, the site from which it had been removed earlier in the fall after complaints that it was offensive prompted its removal and placement in the Artspace Gallery on Orange Street.
On the first day of school an African-American boy looks about his spanking new classroom, at the shining, newly painted walls, at the neatly sheet-rocked ceiling, and says, “My daddy built this.”
Then the Latino girl next to him replies, “Yes, and my daddy did all the electrical work.”
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 22, 2016 9:16 am
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Bus drivers Marlon and Tamika Fernandez.
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Alleged attacker on bus.
Election Day may have been rough for a lot of people, but few had it as bad as CT Transit driver Tamika Walker-Fernandez — after a violent passenger refused to get off her bus.
Walker-Fernandez had driven a bus for eight years without incident. But when the passenger boarded her D bus on Dixwell Avenue between Lake Place and Bristol Street, she experienced terror.
One week after a nationwide wave of populist, conservative discontent helped Donald J. Trump win the presidency and Republicans retain majorities in both houses of the U.S. Congress, community leaders called for frustrated New Haveners to work together to protect abortion rights, protect immigrants, and prepare voters for the next election.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 4, 2016 2:04 pm
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Chris “Big Dog” Davis looked over the crowd of children in Santa hats in front of him, the adults sitting behind them, and led them through a sweet, traditional rendering of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” In that minute, it sounded like maybe Davis had put together a pretty standard set of Christmas favorites in his new album, Christmas in Connecticut.
Then MC Mike G picked up the mike, drummer Trevor Somerville dropped a beat, Davis switched his style from pop to funk, and “Rudolph” became anything but traditional.
New Haven dedicated a new school to a local leader who’s not only still living and breathing — but, in an unexpected twist, back at the helm of the system.
The dedication took place Sunday at the $51 million Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning School on Goffe Street.
Complaints about a painting of a pig with a police cap forced the artwork from an outdoor display — but not before sparking a public debate about where art belongs.
Gordon Skinner’s piece has moved from the Goffe Street Armory to Artspace’s Orange Street gallery after the city heard objections from law enforcement.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 5, 2016 8:51 am
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11th annual Home Boys reunion.
“We were blessed this past year. Nobody passed away — right?”
A burst of applause followed Jesse Hameen II’s comment as he addressed the 2016 Annual Home Boys’ get-together, the 11th such gathering of old-school Dixwell neighbors and classmates who lived in the old Elm Haven public-housing complex.
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David Yaffe-Bellany |
Aug 29, 2016 8:12 am
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A packed house for Morrison’s last sermon.
Morrison at the pulpit.
The Rev. Eldren Morrison said farewell to the congregation he helped raise from the near-dead by invoking a biblical message from Paul the Apostle: It’s not about me.
Morrison delived that message in his final Sunday sermon at Varick Memorial AME Zion Church, which the beloved and influential reverend is now leaving to assume a pulpit in a larger city down south.
New vs. old: Science Park Building 25 (left), 235 Winchester.
Kelley: Caught between two hovels.
From his seat on the front porch he has called home for 34 years, Sam Kelley has watched the world change across the street and one block over in either direction. Meanwhile, the abandoned properties on each side of his home have remained frozen in a state of purgatory.
Permits are now in place or on the way to start bringing that change closer to Kelley’s door.
The annual revived “Unity in the Community” festival filled Goffe Street Park on Sunday with musical performances, a dance contest, a bounce house for the kids, fresh food, and good vibes.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Aug 11, 2016 8:20 am
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Attendees vote “no-confidence” in chief.
Community members packed the Stetson Branch Library to decry what they allege is Mayor Toni Harp’s leniency toward embattled Police Chief Dean Esserman and his pattern of public misbehavior.
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David Sepulveda |
Aug 10, 2016 12:05 pm
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Jazmine Lucas.
Jazmine ( “with a ‘z’” ) Lucas, an 11-year-old student at Wexler-Grant School, was a little nervous, but also seemed to have a quiet reserve of confidence about her. In a short while she would be performing a song on her viola for world-class electric violinist, artist, and producer Jerald Daemyon and some of Lucas’s peers from Music Haven who had gathered for a master class at Dixwell’s Stetson Library.
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Aug 2, 2016 8:12 am
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Pittman: He didn’t give up.
He failed the first time. And then failed again. And again. And again.
But on his fifth attempt, after hours of daily preparation, Desmond Pittman finally passed the entrance exam for a place in the New Haven Police Academy.
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Jul 29, 2016 7:21 am
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Murphy, middle.
“Say we have a veteran, who came back and developed post-traumatic stress disorder, got in trouble with the law, was incarcerated and now has just come out” of prison, asked Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy. “How do you help him?”
