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St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School at the ice rink in February 2020.
The city has tapped a Bridgeport-based management company with three decades of experience operating ice rinks to help turn the renovated Ralph Walker Skating Rink into a “wonderland of ice” starting this October.
Continue reading ‘City Pitches 5-Year Skating Rink Contract’
by | Jul 28, 2021 6:43 pm | Comments (6)
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Tarrell Stafford on Wednesday’s group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
Heading down the canal greenway, with a police escort.
Budding bike mechanic Tarrell Stafford, 12, found a potential new home to hone his craft — and teach others the importance of bicycle safety — as part of a summer camp group ride from Newhallville to East Rock.
by | Jul 19, 2021 9:54 am | Comments (21)
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Bike co-op-turned-committee space for existentialist rumination.
East Rock and Downtown Democrats voted — then wondered why.
Continue reading ‘Ward Wonders: Why Bother With Committee Votes For Mayor?’
by | Jul 15, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Pescatore: Bringing the public onto the water.
Here is some of what you see while gliding through lily pads on a kayak trip down the Mill River: Turtles dipping their heads out of the water. Deer wandering the shores. A roaring waterfall by Goose Dam.
by | Jul 13, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (18)
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Qinxuan Pan (right) in court Tuesday with attorney William Gerace.
A North Haven cop was with Qinxuan Pan when the officer received a New Haven police broadcast that an alleged murderer was on the loose — someone driving a dark-colored GMC Terrain SUV.
by | Jul 12, 2021 3:58 pm | Comments (4)
(Opinion) I’m sorry to show you the above, which I noticed just a day ago on an otherwise politics-free sidewalk on Orange Street. It’s enough already. Enough of him.
I would rather tell you in this space about an act of kindness – a minor miracle, really. Yes, an uplifting story about people helping people, the kind of act that can restore peace of mind.
Continue reading ‘The Case Of The Former Guy & The Missing Wallet’
by | Jul 8, 2021 10:26 am | Comments (10)
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Nina Silva (pictured at right, with Pat Solomon) presses paraprofessional living-wage concern at mayoral forum.
New Haven’s “upstairs-downstairs” divide was on display at a Democratic ward committee meeting Wednesday night in both a vote taken and an exchange about low-wage workers.
by | Jul 5, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (3)
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Their interpretations of the holiday varied, but the crowd that returned to East Rock for the resumption of the city’s Independence Day fireworks shared a sense of post-pandemic safety — and awe at the explosions of color in the sky.
by | Jul 2, 2021 10:48 am | Comments (7)
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Pillsbury & Perry at Thursday gathering: “A politically open marriage.”
Another mayoral election has divided an influential married couple in Prospect Hill — and once again has not prevented them from welcoming all points of view into their home.
Continue reading ‘Peace Couple Peacefully Splits On Election’
by | Jun 29, 2021 4:33 pm | Comments (3)
Outgoing CMT Chair David Budries; incoming Chair Elena Grewal.
The leadership baton — or is it the Zoom account? — of the East Rock Community Management Team (ERCMT) passed a longtime chair who is retiring to California to a New Haven native returned from the golden state to resettle in East Rock.
by | Jun 23, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
Carla Garzón, 19, pencils out her desk design.
Look out IKEA —these desks only take a minute to build and take apart.
And they’re compostable.
Continue reading ‘Free Cardboard Desks Help Kids Learn At Home’
by | Jun 21, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (3)
Last week, as always, a diversity of pedestrians paraded up and down Orange Street.
by | Jun 21, 2021 9:20 am | Comments (3)
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Refugees and friends in East Rock Park Sunday.
Jane and Rahab Kinity at Sunday’s gathering.
Arabic salad, vegetable biryani, Sudanese white beans, and Afghani qabili palau were passed around Sunday to the beat of African drumming — and the tales of more than 35 refugees from eight countries who are now part of one community in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Refugees Gather: “This Is Now Our Family”’
by | Jun 15, 2021 8:54 pm | Comments (1)
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The fire up above: Scene from the 2019 display.
The city will resume its annual July 4 fireworks display from the top of East Rock this year.
by | Jun 15, 2021 7:08 pm | Comments (23)
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Black Lives Matter New Haven Co-founder ala ochumare: The board chose white supremacy.
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Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton (center): Roblee investigation must be transparent.
Parents, protesters, and political leaders called for a transparent investigation and a public apology from the former Brennan-Rogers School principal, one day after the Board of Education narrowly voted to demote her for using the “n‑word” in an antiracism workshop.
Continue reading ‘Critics Protest Principal’s Use Of N-Word, NHPS Opacity’
by | Jun 14, 2021 7:50 pm | Comments (2)
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Tony Coleman, one of 49 New Haven Academy grads Monday.
“You can do better,” Tony Coleman’s aunt told him.
by | Jun 11, 2021 5:47 pm | Comments (15)
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Qinxuan Pan (right) with attorney William Gerace in court on June 1.
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Whyte: Why shoot my house?
• Runs 96 pages.
• Blood evidence cited to support murder charge.
• Pan linked to other, nonfatal shootings in town, including of deputy school superintendent’s house.
• North Haven cops let Pan go — even though they knew license plate on his car was stolen.
• New Haven dispatcher later sent out incorrect bulletin for “Black” suspect.
• New details of Jiang murder revealed.
Continue reading ‘Warrant Ties Pan To Other Local Shootings; North Haven Cops Ran Stolen Plate’
by | Jun 11, 2021 9:06 am | Comments (4)
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Elicker: City now in “position of strength.”
A night after heralding a big win for the city on state aid, Mayor Justin Elicker won a resounding endorsement for his reelection from his neighbors in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘Buoyed By PILOT Win, Elicker Earns Unanimous Ward Endorsements In East Rock’
by | Jun 7, 2021 1:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Alexandra Daum: Raising bar at the zoning board, cashing in on real estate market.
A top state economic development official and local zoning board member is also a city landlord on the move — actively buying, renovating, managing, and selling rental properties in New Haven’s red-hot housing market.
by | Jun 4, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (9)
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Superintendent Iline Tracey leads hikers up East Rock.
Principals Edith and Joseph Johnson, with one of their sons, Jacob.
The prospect of an almost vertical climb 366 feet up East Rock didn’t faze New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
The students, staffers and parents alongside her?
“If I can do it,” the 66-year-old vegan educator declared, “they can, too.”
by | May 28, 2021 10:56 am | Comments (23)
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Police take suspect into custody on Livingston Street on May 6.
“I want all of Biden’s family in a body bag!” a Livingston Street tenant calling himself “NEWPOTUS” allegedly posted on social media.
In response, agents swarmed in, nearby homes were evacuated, and a standoff ensued.
by | May 26, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (2)
The cast of A Light in the Dark — the showcase from Lights Up Drama Club at Wilbur Cross High School, which will be broadcast June 4 and 5 — assembled in a rehearsal room at the school that would also serve as the beginning scene for the number “I Feel So Much Spring,” from the William Finn-penned musical A New Brain.
As the music began, and music director Matt Durland conducted, all the voices behind the masks sprang to life.
The students glided across the floor as co-director Salvatore DeLucia weaved among them with a camera. It would all be edited together into a final product, with 17 other songs, in time for broadcast.
Continue reading ‘Wilbur Cross’s Drama Club Shines “A Light In The Dark”’
by | May 20, 2021 8:49 am | Comments (0)
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Rendering of the planned new “East Rock Center” painted sign at 285 Nicoll.
Land-use commissioners unanimously signed off on a new 175 square-foot painted sign for a Nicoll Street factory-turned-commercial complex.
by | May 17, 2021 2:59 pm | Comments (4)
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Young people headed, at last, for school.
Some weeks ago, I came across a woman of advanced age on the sidewalk. She used a cane and wore a backpack, and was walking down Orange Street toward East Rock Park. When she stopped to greet me, she noticed the pup on my leash, and, as most foot travelers, was eager to pet little Lucca.
While she did so, I resumed my digging for New Haven gold, defined here as a pedestrian’s daily discovery and illumination.
by | May 11, 2021 2:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Fair Haven School Principal Monica Morales.
Quinnipiac School Principal Monica Morales and West Rock Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette will head up Fair Haven School and Celentano Magnet School, respectively, starting this July.
The New Haven Board of Education voted for their transfers on Monday evening, alongside the promotion of Marisol Rodriguez to principal of Columbus Family Academy.