by | Dec 22, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (20)
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East Rock’s English Drive, soon to reopen to car traffic.
The city plans to reopen East Rock’s English Drive and a section of Orange Street to car traffic starting in early January in order to ease Cedar Hill residents’ concerns that closings dangerously bottled up their isolated neighborhood.
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (1)
Musician Robert Messore sat in front of the camera, surrounded by cozy blankets and colorful Christmas lights. It was already an hour into the latest installment of Live From the Blanket Fort, with Sunday turning into Monday. Eager listeners filled the chat box in his livestream as he did a sweet rendition of “Dream A Little Dream of Me,” then a straight-faced, low-register take on “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” After chatting with listeners about everything from the bridge in the Aretha Franklin song to Star Trek to television writer Joss Whedon, he unfurled a delicious version of Jerry Douglas’s and Russ Barenberg’s “Hymn of Ordinary Motion.”
As he moved it was as though, for a moment, the internet was actually quiet.
by | Nov 17, 2020 2:20 pm | Comments (12)
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Officers retrieving guns from house Tuesday.
New Haven and Yale police suited up to search an East Rock home early Tuesday and emerged with a “large number” of firearms belonging to a man who was involved in a psychiatric episode.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Nov 3, 2020 11:50 am | Comments (0)
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Mayor Elicker, with daughter April, casting his vote at Wilbur Cross.
Mayor Justin Elicker voted in person, including for the Democrat who currently helms the city’s voting process, as he and his family turned out to Wilbur Cross High School Election Day morning.
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:48 pm | Comments (8)
Still from security camera video, with cyclist and driver involved in pushing incident.
Someone cut the line at P&M Orange Street Market. A pushing incident ensued.
Across the street, a security camera attached to a neighbor’s house caught the action. The neighbor saw officers investigating the incident. So he approached them and offered them his security footage.
Continue reading ‘Police Renew Appeal For “Neighbor” Surveillance Video’
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Some of last year’s visitors: There was no such thing as buying too much candy.
As we face a challenging night of trick-or-treating and modified celebrations, I offer a few reflections to chew on with your excess Snickers bars.
Continue reading ‘Haunted History: Will Trick-Or-Treaters Retrn?’
by | Oct 22, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (0)
A play by a coalition of theater professionals, based on a Brazilian legend, is arriving just in time to make sure Oct. 31 feels like Halloween.
Continue reading ‘Theater Community Comes Together For Halloween’
by | Oct 20, 2020 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Paraprofessionals Albert Alston and Hyclis Williams at recent protest.
The Board of Alders all-but-unanimously approved a new four-year paraprofessionals union contract that will see entry-level members get a roughly $1,000 raise by 2023.
Continue reading ‘Paras Contract Approved; Sidewalk $ Accepted’
by | Oct 19, 2020 6:07 pm | Comments (13)
Officer Javier Montalvo photographs blood at the scene.
An elderly man was taken by ambulance to the hospital Monday afternoon after a driver hit him on Orange Street.
by | Oct 19, 2020 11:06 am | Comments (3)
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At the Trowbridge learning hub.
When sixth-grader Erielle Wright needed help with remote school, she used to call her mom at work. Now she asks one of the staff members at New Haven’s East Rock Park learning hub instead.
by | Oct 14, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (3)
(Opinion.) Voters in Connecticut deserve a competent state elections system and contemporary voting options available elsewhere, like early voting and absentee ballot tracking.
Continue reading ‘Connecticut Not Ready For Coronavirus Voting’
by | Oct 14, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (1)
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En route: poison ivy alert.
On a Sunday morning in early October, with the weather too reasonable to allow another day frittered away watching the televised politics of aggravation, my wife Sue suggested we improve our sense of well-being with a walk to the top of East Rock.
In other local households, such an urging would not make news. But this was a first for us, filled with unexpected encounters and revelation.
by | Oct 13, 2020 4:40 pm | Comments (22)
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Registrar of voters candidate Rodriguez campaigns in Morris Cove.
Anthony Gagliardi had three questions for Sergio Rodriguez when Rodriguez showed up at his Kneeland Road door asking for his vote.
One: “What exactly does a registrar do?”
Two: “And you’re elected?”
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:27 pm | Comments (7)
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The team at Claire’s Corner Copia: Putting safety first.
New Haven restaurants won permission to fill their indoor spaces to 75 percent capacity, but for now most are holding back.
by | Oct 8, 2020 9:15 am | Comments (45)
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Activists confront mayor in College Woods.
East Rockers pelted the mayor with demands to address deadly driving — before the sky pelted them all with thunderstorms that sent them scurrying.
by | Oct 2, 2020 11:54 am | Comments (9)
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New sidewalk coming soon to north side of Pearl Street (on right).
A new sidewalk slated to be built along a perilous stretch of Pearl Street is one step closer to becoming a reality, after committee alders unanimously endorsed letting Yale University foot roughly half the bill.
by | Sep 28, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (2)
Police are investigating an early morning shooting on Lawrence Street that left an 18-year-old New Haven man with a gunshot wound to the buttocks.
by | Sep 28, 2020 9:25 am | Comments (31)
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Writing to swing-state voters from the sidewalks of Loomis Place.
On a quiet, tree-lined Prospect Hill block, several dozen New Haveners gathered at pandemic-safe distances to listen to cello music, enjoy the picture-perfect autumn afternoon — and write letter after letter after letter, desperately encouraging swing-state voters to do their part to ensure that the United States remains a functioning democracy this election season.
by | Sep 11, 2020 3:48 pm | Comments (2)
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College Street’s Jacobson hustles to keep up with repair demand.
New Haven’s bike shops can’t get bicycles in fast enough, as the pandemic has brought more demand to their doors than suppliers can meet.
Continue reading ‘Bike Shops Hustle To Meet Pandemic Demand’
by | Sep 8, 2020 2:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Jessica Reid passes the flame to freshman Zaporia Satterfield.
Albertus Magnus’s Class of 2024 was passed a virtual torch from the senior class as the college found a way to continue its traditional convocation candle-lighting tradition to kick off a school year marked by a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Albertus Continues Convocation Tradition, With A Twist’
by | Aug 25, 2020 6:19 pm | Comments (0)
New Albertus Magnus College students began moving into their residence areas Tuesday with the goal of “not letting Covid stop my life,” as freshman Avlin Mayers, 17, put it.
by | Aug 25, 2020 11:49 am | Comments (4)
Forget the door-to-door trick-or-treating and the accidental sidewalk clustering of ghosts, demons, ballplayers, and Beyonces. Covid-19 may not allow for those traditions.
Here’s an alternative idea: Invite small groups of socially distancing trick-or-treaters and their families to four different garages to watch four groups of actors perform a story of a giant Brazilian snake that saves the forests and the world.
Continue reading ‘Garage-Based Pandemic Halloween Alternative Pitched’
by | Aug 14, 2020 10:38 pm | Comments (22)
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Youth leader Jeremy Cajigas urges Mayor Elicker (right) to defund the police.
A “Defund the Police” rally held outside Mayor Justin Elicker’s house turned into a wide-ranging conversation about City Hall’s policy priorities amidst the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.
Continue reading ‘Police Protest Sparks Dialogue At Mayor’s House’
by | Aug 13, 2020 6:07 pm | Comments (21)
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The Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op yard sign in its tomato, mint, mustard greens, and pepper garden.
A community campaign for safer streets is calling on drivers to drive no more than 20 miles per hour throughout the city, to create a New Haven “where walking and biking are the norms and our streets are intentionally designed as enjoyable public spaces that connect us to our community.”