by | Jul 3, 2014 1:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Mom Troutman revisits the murder site along with cousin Ogman.
Danielle.
Danielle Monique Taft didn’t make it to her 21st birthday. Or to her first. Her family, her friends, and New Haveners startled by her murder will celebrate her birthday anyway.
Continue reading ‘2 Decades Later, Danielle’s Spirit Moves Dixwell’
by | Jun 16, 2014 8:15 am | Comments (0)
Jennifer Nelson’s three kids got a start on summer reading Saturday — as well as a spot in a weekly skateboarding program.
by | Jun 11, 2014 1:04 pm | Comments (25)
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New restaurants may be coming to these vacant storefronts.
The UPS store near the corner of Dixwell and Goffe is packing up and shipping out.
by | Jun 2, 2014 6:16 pm | Comments (3)
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Just days after her death, Maya Angelou disappeared from outside an Orchard Street corner store — then reappeared to “wake up” and inspire the Dixwell neighborhood.
by | May 29, 2014 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
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For five years Maya Angelou has been speaking to Jill Herring. Walking home on Henry Street Thursday morning, Herring heard her for the first time.
by | May 29, 2014 2:56 pm | Comments (2)
Citywide Youth Coalition’s Rachel Hereema sent in this write-up and these photos about a recent Youth Summit.
by | May 23, 2014 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Two three-foot-high books made of purple and orange stainless steel have been added to Stetson Branch Library’s collection.
You can’t take them out. Ever.
by | May 23, 2014 2:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Freddie Fixer Parade Chairman Maurice Smith sent in this note about this year’s event. (Click here for coverage of the event.)
by | May 20, 2014 12:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Hillhouse IDEA Academy Principal Fallon Daniels: Excited to be “back home.”
After the last principal left abruptly mid-year, Westville’s Edgewood School will now have a permanent replacement.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood, Hillhouse “Academy” Get New Principals’
by | May 19, 2014 12:43 pm | Comments (0)
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Floyd LeSane (foreground) showed that it wasn’t only energetic youngsters in drill teams who could go high-steppin’.
In white gloves and tassled fezzes, LeSane and his colleagues from New Haven Shriners’ Arabic Temple No. 40 were one of the crowd stoppers Sunday afternoon among more than 30 teams, bands, small businesses, and organizations participating in the 52nd annual Freddie Fixer Parade.
by | May 8, 2014 11:57 am | Comments (6)
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Art classes. A history museum. Computer labs.
by | Apr 28, 2014 8:22 am | Comments (1)
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Hare and Davis.
She sent a group of Dixwell kids from the old Elm Haven projects to Paris to study ballet. For others she obtained scholarships to local dance schools.
She taught African-American kids to square dance and do the hokey pokey, and most of all to dream big, structure their lives with steps and order, as in a dance, and to believe in themselves.
by | Apr 25, 2014 3:47 pm | Comments (1)
A New Haven birthday party turned into a real-life food-in-politics lesson Friday at Wexler-Grant School.
by | Apr 21, 2014 8:01 am | Comments (2)
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Nine-year-old Joshawn Martin (foreground) talked about how to resolve a “beef” without fighting.
“How many have seen or know someone who was murdered?”
Six of nine hands went up.
“How many have a family member who’s spent time in jail?”
Three of nine hands went up.
Continue reading ‘Graves Brings “Obama Scholars” Back To The Classroom’
by | Apr 18, 2014 12:05 pm | Comments (1)
Sylvia Hare and Principal Barry Herman with Winchester students, circa 1975.
A reunion’s coming up, as a beloved stalwart of the old Winchester School (now Wexler/Grant) returns to town.
by | Apr 15, 2014 3:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Dr. Gold-Dworkin and Sultanya combine vinegar and baking soda.
Learning how baking soda and vinegar combine to make carbon dioxide gas to blow up a balloon was a hit with Sultanya Hamid. So was the kick ball.
The cheese pizza wasn’t bad either.
by | Apr 15, 2014 11:30 am | Comments (0)
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Bryant Terry and Tagan Engel.
In the same church where hundreds recently mourned another murdered young man, a more hopeful appeal for survival rang out — from a superstar African-American vegan chef.
Continue reading ‘“Afro-Vegan” Author Sings, Cooks, Inspires’
by | Apr 10, 2014 3:23 pm | Comments (5)
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Bethea jokes with Henderson during Wednesday’s canvas.
A probation supervisor came to Gary Henderson’s door on a mission — not to throw him back in jail, but to prevent him from becoming the next young New Havener shot to death.
by | Apr 2, 2014 5:23 pm | Comments (4)
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No shooting, no beatings, no drug dealing, no violence of any kind from now until Easter: A call for that two-week moratorium emerged from an emotional farewell funeral ceremony for Taijhon Washington, the 17-year old who was killed in gun violence on the evening of March 24 near Butler and Lilac streets near the Lincoln-Bassett School in Newhallville.
Continue reading ‘Time-Out Proposed At Slain Teen’s Funeral’
by | Mar 28, 2014 8:15 am | Comments (5)
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Hillhouse senior Raiquan Clark was back at his old middle school delivering a message to younger versions of himself — study hard and plan out your future, or else — when all of a sudden the intercom blared.
“Code red!” a voice called. “Code red!”
Continue reading ‘Shots Fired; School Locked Down; Message Sent’
by | Mar 20, 2014 9:16 am | Comments (1)
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New housing is coming downtown. New stores and apartments for the elderly are coming to lower Whalley. And West River is getting some spring cleaning.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Housing, Whalley Retail & Elderly Housing, & W. River Clean-Up OK’d’
by | Mar 18, 2014 5:14 pm | Comments (20)
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New Haven is getting $1 million to plan the rebirth of the Dixwell Community “Q” House — and, along with it, a neighborhood’s dreams.
by | Mar 14, 2014 5:45 pm | Comments (11)
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Consultant Simone, far right, with neighbor Ann Boyd and city officials Jackie James and Steve Fontana on Congress Avenue this week.
After touring four of New Haven’s neighborhood commercial districts this week, two out-of-town experts unveiled their main suggestion Friday afternoon: Form a task force.
Continue reading ‘Retail Gurus’ Conclusion: Neighborhood Districts Need A Task Force’
by | Mar 13, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (1)
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A group of middle-aged men and women from outside the neighborhood walked into Sean Reeves’ RHR Printing & Graphics on Dixwell Avenue. They said they were studying how to improve the neighborhood. Reeves said he appreciated their presence — but would have liked to see more local, younger faces.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Fact-Finders Urged To Include Youth In The Picture’
by | Mar 10, 2014 3:21 pm | Comments (8)
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“This area have a name?” John Simone asked from the second of four rows of seats in a van cruising up Kimberly Avenue.