by | Dec 19, 2024 9:25 am | Comments (3)
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Cross club takes out the trash.
The banks of the Mill River are now that much cleaner — thanks to a small but mighty group of Wilbur Cross Environmental Club members who braved the cold to clean up eight full bags’ worth of trash.
by | Dec 9, 2024 11:18 am | Comments (13)
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Wet desks make for optimal learning conditions?
Wilbur Cross English teacher Kim Anderson had hoped that her days of rearranging her classroom so that leaking ceiling water fell into a trash can instead of onto her students’ heads were over. Turns out, they weren’t.
by | Dec 4, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Alder Caroline Smith joins East Rock School's bike club.
As temperatures dropped and a bitter wind bore down on Tuesday afternoon, a few dozen cyclists suited up in jackets and gloves, and filled the streets leading to East Rock Park. Coursing down Livingston Street, they breezed past Willow and Canner, hooked right onto Cold Spring, and circled back to Eagle, where their three-mile journey had begun.
The ages of the speedsters? Nine and 10 years old.
by | Nov 18, 2024 2:39 pm | Comments (72)
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Assistant Principal Clarino and Principal Gethings: To be separated come January?
Worthington Hooker parents and teachers are looking for answers about the uncertain future of their school’s leadership — including at Board of Education meetings, where some have spoken out against potential plans to transfer the East Rock elementary and middle school’s assistant principal.
Continue reading ‘Hooker Crew Calls For School Leaders To Stay’
by | Nov 11, 2024 8:57 am | Comments (2)
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Cross's library: Back open, but still with old carpeting.
Wilbur Cross High School’s library is back open after a month-long mold closure — and new vinyl flooring will be coming soon to replace the room’s mold-prone carpeting.
Continue reading ‘Cross's Library Back Open; New Flooring Coming Soon’
by | Oct 30, 2024 8:29 am | Comments (19)
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269 Humphrey: 6 apartments now. 15 to come.
An East Rock landlord won permission to boost the number of apartments at a Humphrey Street house from six to 15 — after a local attorney pointed out that the existing building contains four floors, not three, and therefore has enough gross floor area to accommodate the higher unit count.
by | Oct 22, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (16)
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At the Cold Spring-Livingston intersection Tuesday.
(Updated) A Wilbur Cross early childcare staffer and a young child “sustained fractures” after two adults and three kids were hit by a car while on a walk near the school — leading the center to temporarily stop its neighborhood walks.
Continue reading ‘Teacher, Children Struck At East Rock Intersection’
by | Oct 21, 2024 9:28 am | Comments (1)
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Linda Lindroth.
Old boxes that offered a new perspective, companion paintings that presented an alternate version of freedom, glass beads that each seemed to encase their own miniature world, and a model of a home you could fit in the palm of your hand: all of this and more were available for viewing in the artists’ studios at Marlin Works on Willow Street this past weekend as they opened to the public once again as part of New Haven Open Studios.
Continue reading ‘Marlin Works Open Studios Contains Worlds’
by | Oct 16, 2024 3:51 pm | Comments (39)
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Xu (in the background) arguing with Brennan, and shouting at this reporter: "Don't take a picture!"
A fatal-fire-inspired inspection of another one of Jianchao Xu’s potential rooming houses came to an abrupt end when the landlord confronted the city crew on his building’s front porch.
“Why did you come here? Because I’m a colored person? Why did you single me out?” Xu asked, his phone’s camera pointing at Livable City Initiative (LCI) Executive Director Liam Brennan. “This is not a communist country.”
Continue reading ‘Landlord Standoff Stops Short Inspections’
by | Oct 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Shayel Rodriguez (center) with her parents at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.
On the lookout, at Cross.
Wilbur Cross tenth grader Shayel Rodriguez gathered with 12 other student dancers in the school’s gymnasium to perform Puerto Rican bomba, Colombian cumbia, and Brazilian samba – to help celebrate the cultural heritage of the school’s diverse and growing Hispanic population.
Continue reading ‘Cross Cumbias For Hispanic Heritage Month’
by | Oct 9, 2024 2:47 pm | Comments (31)
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More like Underpass Haven: By Exit 6 ...
... near State and James ...
It doesn’t have to be like this.
The Elicker administration and East Rock / Fair Haven Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith have asserted as much — well, not in those exact words — about the current state of neighborhood-slicing highways, as they seek $2 million in federal funds to help plan a brighter future for underused underpasses.
by | Oct 2, 2024 4:16 pm | Comments (46)
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Canna-future seen at 1041 State.
Plans to bring a cannabis dispensary — and not 75 new apartments — to an Upper State Street warehouse took one big step forward, after a Fairfield-based housing developer flipped the property for $3.15 million to a local bud entrepreneur looking to bring “Hi!” to the people.
by | Sep 9, 2024 8:38 am | Comments (1)
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Leyla McCalla.
A flurry of rainstorms throughout the afternoon on Saturday didn’t keep the CT Folk Festival and Green Expo out of Edgerton Park — nor did it keep stalwart listeners away, to hear from some of the finest voices of two different generations of artists upholding traditions and carrying them ably through the present and into the future.
by | Sep 4, 2024 5:33 pm | Comments (29)
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Vent trouble at Cross, the day before the start of school.
Wilbur Cross’s library will be closed for at least a week as the city’s public school district gets rid of air-borne mold spores — as part of its response to unkempt building conditions at the city’s largest high school at the start of the school year.
by | Aug 29, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (38)
Water-damaged tiles in Kim Anderson's English classroom.
Special education staffers Melissa Pellino and Lauren Pollio: "This is what we do for the kids."
Wilbur Cross teachers rushed to prepare their classrooms for Thursday’s first day of school by hanging up posters of Angela Davis, signs reading “be brave,” and world maps — and by cleaning mold from walls, covering broken floor tiles with rugs, and mopping the floors of classrooms and bathrooms alike.
by | Aug 26, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (2)
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Zine Fest set up inside Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op.
On Saturday afternoon and evening the New Haven Zine Fest expanded beyond its usual Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op location to the sidewalk outside, as well as other locations around East Rock, for artists and writers to share their zines, prints, creative activities, and more.
by | Aug 20, 2024 10:30 am | Comments (18)
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Anstress Farwell at Monday's meetup: Hadley Hall's replacement should prioritize "eyes on the street."
Yale plans to start the months-long process of demolishing a former graduate student dormitory at 420 Temple St. in February, while the building slated to replace it is still being designed.
by | Aug 19, 2024 9:17 am | Comments (2)
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Elm Shakespeare Company's Richard III.
Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard III — running in Edgerton Park now through Sept. 1 — opens on a scene of warfare, complete with smoke, red lighting, and clashing swords. Then it transitions into a party, with swirling ribbons and joyful dancing. The titular Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Lisa Wolpe) feels much more at home in the former scene than in the latter. “Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace / Have no delight to pass away the time,” Richard proclaims bitterly. This is the key to his entire character, and in some senses, the play itself.
Continue reading ‘Elm Shakespeare Kicks Off “Glorious Summer”’
by | Aug 9, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Abdul Osmanu, Steve Winter, and Tarolyn Moore after the debate.
“Like Abdul just said…”
“I do kind of agree with Steve…”
“Tarolyn’s exactly right…”
“My answer was what he said!”
Phrases like these were heard frequently at a political debate on Thursday evening, where three state representative candidates agreed more than they disagreed on issues such as tenants’ rights, income inequality, teacher pay, and the role of deep listening in politics.
Continue reading ‘State Rep Candidates Debate ... & Largely Agree’
by | Aug 9, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
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KP's serving of Ozzy's Apizza.
New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, indeed.
Ozzy’s Apizza, which started in the West Coast kitchen of CT native Chris Wallace and made its way from pop up to mainstay in Los Angeles is now a part of Goatville. Pies with names like The Liotta, The Swanson, and The Bada Bing are already hits on the other side of the U.S. Now co-owners Wallace and Craig Taylor are hoping to become an integral part of their home state’s scene.
by | Aug 2, 2024 10:46 am | Comments (2)
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Alders-For-A-Day Ada Akdağ and Melissa Rodriguez at work learning about Keiry Pena and Joseph Jenkins' deli dreams.
Two “alders” checked in on a couple’s revived East Street deli, talked street improvements with a development official, blasted the news to constituents — and dreamed about what they want to be when they grow up.
by | Jul 18, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (7)
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New lab building, new greenspace, OK'd for Science Hill.
A green, landscaped, public-welcoming entry point to Yale’s northeastern campus is coming to Science Hill — as part of a Yale Bowl-sized redevelopment project, including a massive new lab and classroom building, newly approved by the City Plan Commission.
Continue reading ‘Science Hill Build-Up Cleared For Takeoff’
by | Jul 15, 2024 3:52 pm | Comments (33)
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Joe Sabino and Rosa DeLauro: Good friends - pointing the finger in different places for high food prices.
Greedy corporations are to blame for high grocery prices.
Or maybe global supply chain disruptors like avian flu, drought in West Africa, and the war in Ukraine are most at fault.
Or maybe we should point the finger at too few workers willing to put in an honest day on the job.
by | Jul 5, 2024 8:35 am | Comments (8)
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Explosions in the sky ...
... as viewed thru the miraculous camera eye of Chris Randall ...
... thanks, Chris!
Jasmine Gormley, Melissa Tamarkin, and Madison Sanders arrived at Wilbur Cross High School around 7 p.m. on Thursday — not to stake out the seats closest to the fireworks, but to set up a hammock at the furthest corner of the field near the school’s athletic complex.
The trio graduated from Yale last month, but had never before stuck around long enough after classes ended to see the city’s annual Fourth of July fireworks. Back in New Haven together for one last time this summer, the three headed to East Rock for a holiday spectacle.
by | Jul 2, 2024 12:44 pm | Comments (40)
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Krystopher Linderman, Zach Postle, and Jesse Goldblum at 1455 State.
An alarm blared through a Cedar Hill apartment building at 1 p.m. sharp on Monday — as United Illuminating (UI) turned off the power in the common areas because of an overdue electricity bill.
Tenants union members and city, state, and federal politicians were already on site for an “open house” to showcase how poorly the Ocean Management complex is maintained. The sudden onset of afternoon darkness only fueled their frustration with what they alleged to be landlord malpractice.