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Brown, Helliger, and KIEDC CEO Dillon, with photo of Mae Ola Riddick.
Santa’s uniformed helpers are out early this season, and this year they’ll include a whole class of new police recruits.
Continue reading ‘Recruits Recruited To Help Spread McSanty’s Bounty’
by | Nov 26, 2014 3:10 pm | Comments (0)
With Miss Mae Ola Riddick looking over their shoulders, members of the Dixwell community continued her legacy of feeding those in need for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
by | Nov 26, 2014 9:23 am | Comments (0)
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Every year just before Thanksgiving, LEAP has its annual Thankful Dinner. This year’s was held Tuesday at the Elks Club on Dixwell Avenue. Over 350 LEAP kids and their counselors came together to have dinner and share what they are thankful for over the last year.
by | Nov 21, 2014 8:53 am | Comments (2)
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With smooth sounds of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly jamming in the background, Private Troy Adams was busy stuffing plastic bags at the Dixwell Fire Station on Goffe Street with all the fixings needed for a stellar Thanksgiving dinner.
by | Nov 20, 2014 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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The late Riddick with Lt. Tony Duff.
For the second straight year, Dixwell neighbors and friends of the late Mae Ola Riddick are keeping her memory alive by running a Thanksgiving food giveaway.
by | Nov 14, 2014 2:05 pm | Comments (2)
“C.Y.N.,” Abiodun Oyewole advised a mostly-black audience: Control your (inner) “nigger” — except when you need to fight.
Continue reading ‘Black Nationalist Spits Rhymes And Revolution’
by and | Nov 5, 2014 2:04 am | Comments (6)
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Wilbur Cross High School junior Shauntasia Hicks helped produce an approximately 19,000-vote victory margin for Malloy in New Haven Tuesday.
It turns out the Dannel P. Malloy knew what he was doing when he practically camped out in New Haven this past year.
by | Nov 4, 2014 6:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy stopped in to New Haven’s busy Dixwell Avenue Democratic campaign headquarters at mid-day Tuesday for a quick pep talk.
by | Oct 23, 2014 4:42 pm | Comments (2)
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Cortes was one of 37 women receiving certificates Thursday.
Leticia Cortes often saw men with hard hats heading off to construction sites and longed to don a hard hat of her own, but she never thought she’d ever get that chance. That was until she saw a flyer about construction training for women.
Continue reading ‘Construction-Training Grads Are All Women’
by | Oct 20, 2014 11:21 am | Comments (3)
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Some of the scrapbook photos bore scratches, creases and frayed edges. The memories they evoked and the smiles they elicited, were as clear as the day the pictures were snapped.
Continue reading ‘“Homeboys” Who Made It Circle Back To Dixwell’
by | Oct 14, 2014 11:46 am | Comments (2)
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Fekieta’s Homeless & Hungry at Open Studios; 3,000 attended.
Jonathan Sun saw the abandoned Goffe Street Armory’s wide empty stairways and chipping paint as dynamic, and integrated loose and long-abandoned bricks into his work.
The it in question? The empty old
by | Oct 12, 2014 6:51 pm | Comments (20)
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Malloy (right) on Newhall St. with Clyburn (left) & Harp.
Returning to must-ignite turf for his reelection campaign, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Sunday pitched a new program to hire the hard-core unemployed and promised to consider granting cities new powers to seize trashed buildings from slumlords.
Continue reading ‘Seeking 2nd Miracle, Malloy Walks Newhallville’
by | Oct 2, 2014 1:42 pm | Comments (1)
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The artists on a scissor lift beneath the trusses.
Without having ever been inside, Andy Sternad and John Kleinschmidt (pictured) won a small commission to create a kind of organic cloud of a hanging installation at the old Goffe Street Armory.
Then they entered the building for the first time. Their eyes widened at one of the most magnificent indoor spaces in town.
They looked up at the array of riveted I‑beam trusses that vault across the wooden floor of the drill hall 40 feet below. Instantly they knew their plans had to change. The building’s history and geometries took over and became a kind of third collaborator in their new conception.
Continue reading ‘Armory Inspires As Citywide Open Studios Debuts 17th Edition’
by | Sep 15, 2014 5:14 am | Comments (4)
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Project organizer Al Marder addresses Saturday’s gathering.
Bikers riding the Farmington Canal Trail slowed Saturday morning to watch as the city dedicated a planned plaza to William Lanson, an 19th Century black leader once disparagingly called the “King of the colored race” of New Haven.
by | Sep 12, 2014 7:57 am | Comments (19)
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A two-story central atrium exhibiting community artwork and artifacts. Two “child development” activity rooms for young people. A teaching kitchen to host cooking classes. A rooftop patio with herb gardens for seniors. A music recording studio adjacent to a teen lounge. A half-court gymnasium.
by | Sep 10, 2014 2:25 pm | Comments (16)
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More than 400 people gathered at a rally to hear new data about how New Haveners are missing out on New Haven’s living-wage jobs — and to call for a change.
Continue reading ‘Rally Seeks Local Hiring For Living-Wage Jobs’
by | Sep 2, 2014 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
Ricky Draughn leaned into the microphone, members of his ensemble behind him poised at their instruments. “We gonna take it back to like … 1972,” he declared with a laugh as they launched into a soulful version of Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady.”
by | Aug 11, 2014 12:40 pm | Comments (2)
DJ Awesome stepped up to the turntable, laptop and mass of wires connecting the equipment to cheers from the audience of over 70 people.
DJ Awesome is 11 years old.
by | Aug 7, 2014 12:03 pm | Comments (2)
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The tennis ball flew high beyond the net, over the coach’s head, past the court baseline, as 7‑year-old Taylor Ward packed a strong forehand — perhaps too strong.
Continue reading ‘In Dixwell, Tennis Beginners Get Into The Swing’
by | Jul 15, 2014 3:06 pm | Comments (2)
“Strong is sexy! And I am sexy, baby!” shouted the women in Mubarakah Ibrahim’s early morning “boot camp” exercise class. By fall, more women may be shouting those phrases — in free classes at a new not-for-profit gym in Newhallville.
Continue reading ‘Women’s Fitness Mission Heads To Newhallville’
by | Jul 15, 2014 6:49 am | Comments (12)
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Six weeks before she is set to open an academy within Hillhouse High, Principal Fallon Daniels and her new assistant pondered a question: Would a first-period gym class lure kids to show up on time to school?
by | Jul 14, 2014 8:16 am | Comments (6)
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While other teens spend their summer walking to the park to play pickup basketball, 16-year-old Tremont Waters has been traveling the country to play hoops at Nike’s invitation — as his dad fields scholarship offers from basketball-powerhouse universities.
by | Jul 10, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (0)
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Nkomo, Chinyamakobvu, and Streater.
Cashmere Streater, who grew up in New Haven, had never met anyone from Zimbabwe, let alone an African businessman developing power plants there.
She asked Taurai Chinyamakobvu if there were internship opportunities in his country. Not many, he said, but it’s a good idea that should be worked on.
Then they traded contact info.
by | Jul 6, 2014 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Mom Shirley Troutman said she chose purple, pink, and white for the balloons because they were “the colors I laid her to rest in.”
With purple, pink, and white balloons, and a first birthday cake that she herself never saw, relatives and friends Saturday celebrated what might have been the 21st birthday of Danielle Monique Taft.
She was the infant child whose shocking death to drug and gun violence in 1994 helped inaugurate the policy of community policing that continues to change New Haven for the better.
by | Jul 3, 2014 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
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As the summer heats up, a violence prevention program has a new place to chill.