by | Apr 9, 2025 11:03 am | Comments (1)
The New Haven Zine Scene was founded in 2023 by local zinester and trash artist Alice Prael to help people make and distribute zines. The group holds craft meetups two to three times per month around New Haven, including a gathering held this past weekend at Never Ending Books/ Volume II in East Rock where folks collaged, chatted, and shared zines with each other.
by | Apr 2, 2025 9:24 am | Comments (37)
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City Engineer Zinn: This project presents "a generational opportunity to create a first-class active transportation connection."
Looking north on Whitney, from Canner: Road diet en route.
The city’s Engineering Department plans to wrap up final designs for the northern section of a long-delayed, traffic-calming reconfiguration of Whitney Avenue this month — with construction expected to start later this year.
by | Apr 1, 2025 4:32 pm | Comments (8)
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Inside the Hamilton Street food pantry, kept alive to a nonprofit partnership.
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Community connectors: Winston Sutherland, Caroline Tanbee Smith, Ana Cardenas, Greg DePetris at WNHH FM.
A food pantry run by a budget-slammed agency for refugees gained a new owner Tuesday — and a new mission as a neighborhood soup kitchen.
Meanwhile, dozens of East Rockers responded to a call for new volunteers to help the refugee agency continue its work amid vanishing federal aid.
by | Mar 28, 2025 4:26 pm | Comments (20)
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Cross educator Brian Grindrod: Civics education is actively suffering due to Trump cuts.
The Trump administration’s recent termination of $600 million in teacher training grants nationwide — as part of a broader push to dismantle the federal Department of Education entirely — means that five New Haven educators cannot receive training this summer to teach their middle schoolers about the importance of democratic civic engagement.
It’s also caused Wilbur Cross senior Natalia Jacobs to reconsider her dream of one day becoming a public school teacher.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro, NHPS Push Back On Trump Ed Dept Cuts’
by | Mar 26, 2025 12:36 pm | Comments (0)
New women's locker room, coming to Ralph Walker.
With words of praise for “gender equality,” local land-use commissioners voted in support of a plan to build a locker room for Albertus Magnus College’s women’s hockey team that mirrors that of facilities already available to the school’s men’s hockey team, at a publicly owned ice rink in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘City Plan OK's Albertus Women's Hockey Locker Room’
by | Mar 13, 2025 3:16 pm | Comments (34)
Atticus expansion rendering, now rendered obsolete.
The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) unanimously rejected Atticus Market’s bid to build a second bathroom at its East Rock grocery and convenience store — citing concerns that the proposed 600-square-foot addition would be “incongruous with the neighborhood.”
by | Mar 10, 2025 4:30 pm | Comments (26)
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Lady Liberty sheds a tear: Former director Chris George (second from right) with the crew at Nicoll Street HQ before the dawn of a new era.
(Opinion) IRIS’s former director reflects on the “small-scale Ellis Island” that was 235 Nicoll St., as the storied refugee resettlement agency plans to leave its longtime East Rock office amid federal funding cuts.
by | Mar 10, 2025 9:46 am | Comments (2)
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Drawing partners Omar and Rosa Gonzales with finished renditions of Pikachu and Sonic characters ...
... in a class that brings Cross art students together with East Rock kindergartners.
Wilbur Cross sophomore Rosa Gonzales and East Rock School kindergartener Omar put pencils to paper to draw Sonic and Pikachu — as part of a monthly class-to-class collaboration focused on cartooning and literacy.
Continue reading ‘High Schoolers, Kindergarteners Bond Over Art’
by | Mar 5, 2025 5:06 pm | Comments (26)
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IRIS Executive Director Salem: Responding to vanishing federal support.
New Haven’s flagship refugee resettlement agency is closing its main doors at 235 Nicoll St. and shifting to remote work and satellite locations after losing millions of dollars in federal funding.
by | Feb 21, 2025 11:28 am | Comments (13)
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East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog's large intestines...
...while others check out the frog's tongue and teeth.
East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly suited up in gloves and eye protection to pierce through the unexpectedly tough skin of a frog — and discover, through hands-on education, what a real three-lobed liver looks like.
by | Feb 10, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (6)
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AG Tong (left): “Let us commit to each other as we run.”
Sasha Watson (center) and her family at Sunday's run.
Five-year-old Tristan Jones stood beside his dad and grandmother and held his rainbow-emblazoned sign high: “I am the descendant of immigrants! I love mom! Go moms!”
His mom, Sasha Watson, was one of more than 3,400 people who registered for Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)’s annual five-kilometer Run for Refugees, which raised more than $145,000. Around 2,500 runners took off from Wilbur Cross High School at noon on Sunday — undeterred by the four inches of snow from the storm the night before.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Run Thru East Rock For Refugees’
by | Feb 3, 2025 9:33 am | Comments (4)
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August has a snack while learning about Davis Academy, at the NHPS School Choice Expo.
Isabela Oliva and fam: "I didn’t go to school here, so I don’t know how to work it."
When parent Isabela Oliva arrived at Wilbur Cross High School, she brought her mother, husband, two kids, and dozens of questions about how New Haven public schools work — at an expo that took place as another magnet school application process is set to begin.
by | Jan 28, 2025 9:05 am | Comments (0)
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Albertus Prez Marc Camille (right), with Barbara Holden, Sandra McKinnie, Tonya Ricks, and Grant Ellis's face.
“His mother signed him up for the show!”
The Albertus Magnus College men’s basketball team, school president, basketball coach, and nearly 150 others gathered Monday night, clutching roses and blown up pictures of their favorite alum — now the star of the 29th season of a reality TV dating show.
Suddenly, there he was, on the Zoom screen and on their TVs: The Bachelor himself!
by | Jan 22, 2025 4:51 pm | Comments (19)
John Lugo and Kica Matos discussed the flyers on La Voz Del Migrante on WNHH FM radio.
Someone distributed dozens of anti-immigrant flyers around the East Rock neighborhood on Wednesday morning, in the wake of a blitz of immigration-restricting executive orders that newly inaugurated President Donald Trump set in motion.
by | Jan 15, 2025 1:46 pm | Comments (36)
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Alder Caroline Smith: Let's find a compromise.
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So long, 15 Edwards relief proposal.
The city’s zoning board unanimously rejected a local landlord’s plan to build 23 apartments atop a vacant former Edwards Street firehouse after a marathon hearing saw skeptical neighbors and pro-housing advocates debate over how much density should be allowed in this stretch of East Rock, and across the city at large.
Continue reading ‘Zoners Douse Edwards Firehouse-Apartment Plan’
by | Jan 15, 2025 12:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top left: Latrice Hampton, Kathy Bridges, Wanda Faison, and Alexis Terry.
At the front of the 55th Love March.
Latrice Hampton, Kathy Bridges, Alexis Terry, and Wanda Faison gathered at a Lawrence Street Baptist Church separately but for a common purpose Wednesday — drawn by a place of worship that has been in their families for generations, called by a civil rights icon-honoring “love march” that has been in their lives for decades.
by | Jan 9, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (11)
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Signs of community life beneath the Front Street I-91 underpass.
It’s official: the city has received $2 million to stitch up the neighborhoods sliced apart by highways.
Continue reading ‘Feds Grant $2M For Local Urban Un-Renewal Effort’
by | Dec 19, 2024 9:25 am | Comments (4)
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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’