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’
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)
Karen Ponzio Photos.
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.