by | Feb 28, 2014 5:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Murphy Friday with the Greater New Haven Peace Council’s Henry Lowendorf.
As Ukraine slid toward a possible civil war amid fears of Russian military intervention Friday, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, in a New Haven stop, took a stance of wait-and-see — while watching very closely.
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by | Feb 24, 2014 5:59 pm | Comments (10)
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Adrian Jackson knew she needed to get health insurance. She didn’t know there was an office in downtown New Haven where she could get help signing up.
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by | Feb 17, 2014 9:42 am | Comments (10)
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S. Christian Mullins, 7, and Nora E. Mullins, 10, accompany the candidate.
Steven R. Mullins took his kids to church in New Haven Sunday. Four churches, in fact.
by | Feb 10, 2014 5:19 pm | Comments (3)
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Cordelia Thorpe won an election this week — without anyone casting votes.
by | Jan 27, 2014 10:43 am | Comments (10)
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Stratton records ideas from the crowd at Saturday’s convening.
New Haven has a long history of divisive ethnic and machine politics, a leading political scientist told supporters of the “People’s Caucus.” He told the group he believes it could be one of the few to overcome that history.
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by | Jan 20, 2014 1:45 pm | Comments (2)
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Medical student Kumba Hinds celebrated the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday by guiding middle-schoolers onto the path she forged.
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by | Dec 23, 2013 2:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Amy Walker with kids Rondell, Shawanna, Jayquan, and Tatianna.
Maybe Tatianna Walker will grow up to be a doctor because way back in Christmas 2014, when she was 6 and times were tough for her family, Tatianna was able to get a Doc McStuffins doctor dress-up toy and begin to perfect her bedside manner.
by | Dec 23, 2013 1:18 pm | Comments (11)
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Morrison sees “pillar of hope.”
The revival of Dixwell’s beloved Community “Q” House has a price sticker: $13.4 million and change. Now its backers plan to take a bus trip to Hartford, to lobby state officials to help pay.
by | Dec 19, 2013 8:27 am | Comments (2)
Two major development plans got the thumbs up from the City Plan Commission, and now head back for approval from the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Continue reading ‘City Plan OKs Star Supply, St. Luke’s Plans’
by | Dec 17, 2013 1:43 pm | Comments (11)
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In the quest to revive the long-shuttered Dixwell Community “Q” House, the next step may be to tear it down.
by | Dec 16, 2013 5:15 pm | Comments (5)
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As he contemplates closing up his sprawling 80-year-old family-owned engine repair business, Pete Nizen III pointed out some of the patients awaiting attention — a 1938 Mercedes crankshaft, a 1939 Mack truck engine, a 1954 firetruck engine.
Nizen’s shop, increasingly inhabited by these remnants of another time, has itself become an anachronism, out of place on what was once New Haven’s “automotive row.”
by | Dec 16, 2013 12:45 pm | Comments (4)
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Childhood friend Carolyn Jenkins (right) met Brown at the fabled Bowen-Peters dance school; they hoofed it again 50 years later.
Diane X. Brown’s surprise birthday party was to begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday
At 11 a.m. an email went out to attendees to show up on time despite to the weather.
Brown sent the email out herself.
by | Dec 11, 2013 3:48 pm | Comments (11)
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Papa John’s might not be making pizza next to St. Luke’s Church for much longer. Instead, someone’s grandpapa might live in a new building there.
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by | Dec 6, 2013 9:25 am | Comments (1)
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Fast-food strikers rallied outside St. Luke’s Church as the local event in a nationwide strike, though it was unclear how many, if any, New Haven workers actually went on strike.
by | Nov 27, 2013 11:00 am | Comments (5)
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Beverly Gary, 70, picks up a turkey at Believe In Me.
This Thanksgiving, people getting by on food stamps are being hit by a double whammy: On top of recent cuts to the federal assistance program, the holiday comes late in the month, so people have fewer dollars left to get a turkey for their table.
Continue reading ‘Double-Whammied, Hundreds Come For Turkeys’
by | Nov 22, 2013 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Brooks, Stetson’s Diva Book Club prez, speaks Wednesday night.
Black fathers of the 1950s may have experienced such pain they never said, “I love you,” but at least they supported their children, even those born out of wedlock. Young men today just puff out their chests at how many babies they make, and take a walk.
Sharon Brooks made that real-life argument as she and others at Dixwell’s Stetson Branch Library applied a play’s lessons to their community’s real life.
Continue reading ‘A New Generation Revisits Black Fathers’ Love’
by | Nov 15, 2013 7:59 am | Comments (0)
Dixwell volunteers, in conjunction with the cops, are gearing up for a massive distribution of meals to hungry people on Thanksgiving, in memory of recently departed community leader Mae Ola Riddick.
by | Nov 2, 2013 8:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Shanterra Ortiz wearing a shirt style designed by Robinson.
As hundreds gathered to mourn Erika Robinson, they honored her not just in memory and words of praise. They wore the designs and styles she created before a mass shooter’s stray bullet cut her life short.
Continue reading ‘“Hoppy” Robinson Laid To Rest In A Fitting Fashion’
by | Oct 30, 2013 4:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Toni Harp stood Wednesday with black female 9/11 responders who broke the glass ceiling — and vowed to break her own glass ceiling next week.
Continue reading ‘Firewomen Arrive On Scene To Help Harp Blast Through Ceiling’
by | Oct 28, 2013 3:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Davis with “The Inspirational Experience,” aka “The Wall of Wood.”
Erich Davis showed eight cords of wood piled high into a maze set in a sun-lit drill hall. David Thompson evoked absence in a darkened Room 319 where long-gone officers once filled the lockers with their gear. Roxane Crane hung her drawings in a stall shower, above the medicine cabinet and across the lid of a long-broken toilet.
by | Oct 25, 2013 11:22 am | Comments (0)
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In memory of a matriarch of Dixwell, volunteers are gathering provisions to keep 1,000 families warm and fed this Thanksgiving. They need your help.
by | Oct 24, 2013 3:50 pm | Comments (13)
After cops chased him down, a 17-year-old pointed a loaded .38 special at a cop.
by | Oct 21, 2013 2:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Honored officers Baker and Hayden, proud to serve and awaiting being served dinner.
“What we do off duty makes it easier to approach us on duty,” said Officer James Baker.
A nearly 90-year-old church community in Dixwell agreed.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Church Honors The Men & Women In Blue’
by | Oct 21, 2013 8:17 am | Comments (4)
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A bunch of athletes, cooks, gardeners and doctors began hanging behind Stetson Library this weekend. They were the very picture of health — literally.
Continue reading ‘Health Is In The Picture On Stetson’s Wall’
by | Oct 18, 2013 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Rev. Frederick “Jerry” Streets is about to assume a new pulpit from which to preach in favor of changes New Haven hasn’t seen since the Civil Right era.