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.
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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.”
by | Aug 13, 2020 9:30 am | Comments (2)
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Clinard.
Statues stand together, a small family of them, somehow radiating both fear and total resolve. A pair of shadows huddle under rafters. Another group stands together, bearing witness, demanding to be counted. The pieces are all part of a larger exhibit by New Haven-based sculptor Susan Clinard focusing on refugees, migrants, and border crossings, for a new journal seeking to use groundbreaking ways of representing art to perhaps change hearts, minds — and policy.
Continue reading ‘Sculptor’s Work Crosses Borders, Breaks Ground’
by , , and | Aug 11, 2020 10:28 pm | Comments (18)
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Oliver Augustine and Kanesha Crenshaw staff the Ward 25 Republican check-in table at Edgewood School: 16-hour shift, only 22 actual Republicans showing up.
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Top row: Alder Adam Marchand, Democratic Co-Chair Janis Underwood outside Edgewood School Ward 25 polls; inside, poll worker Trish Welfare came prepared with PPE. Bottom row: Rose DeMatteo, Andrea Offutt-Miller and Selina Hobby begin tabulating absentee ballots at 200 Orange St. after noon on Tuesday.
(Updated) Joe Biden and Donald Trump will have to wait at least two days to find out precisely how many votes they won in New Haven Tuesday against candidates who aren’t running against them for president.
Meanwhile, platoons of poll workers spent 16 hours at 40 polling stations in town where they mostly outnumbered the people who entered to vote — when any voters were present at all.
Continue reading ‘Poll Workers Outnumber Voters; 4,700+ Vote Absentee; Some Ballots Never Came’
by | Aug 3, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (1)
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Todd Lyon get a leg up on the big move.
Like the vintage wares it has been selling for over 15 years, Fashionista Vintage and Variety will be continuing on in a new way and space: 85 Willow St., to be exact.
The beloved shop closed its doors at the corner of Whitney and Trumbull last week. It will be moving its abundance of top hats, taffeta, and everything else to its new home in the MarlinWorks building in East Rock this week.
by | Jul 30, 2020 2:51 pm | Comments (6)
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Reyes with Alder Honda Smith at community anti-violence event.
Otoniel Reyes began his police career as a young beat patrol officer keeping in touch with the pulse of the neighborhoods.
Twenty-one years later, as chief, he’s repeating those steps — hitting community management team meetings over the past week in Dixwell, East Rock, and Newhallville to check in with neighbors on his department’s response to a crime uptick and demands for change.
by | Jul 17, 2020 2:08 pm | Comments (31)
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Four of Xu’s local rental properties: 113 Ivy St., 761 Winchester Ave., 126 Sheffield Ave., 50 Nash St.
Dr. Xu.
A prominent Bethany-based doctor has slowly rebuilt his poverty-landlord business four years after he dumped many of his rundown, code-defying local rental properties.
So far, he appears to be staying out of trouble this time with the city and his tenants.
by | Jul 16, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (2)
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The Whitney Avenue Fire Station.
A New Haven firefighter lost his job Thursday after allegedly committing domestic violence and stealing over $10,000 in firehouse funds.
Continue reading ‘Firefighter Fired After Alleged Theft, Domestic Violence’
by | Jul 16, 2020 12:44 pm | Comments (34)
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Pearl Street looking west toward Yale SOM.
A perilous stretch of Pearl Street may finally get a sidewalk between Orange Street and the Yale School of Management campus.
Continue reading ‘Sidewalk On Way For Perilous Pearl Street’
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (21)
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Dead fish floating down the Mill River in East Rock.
The water at Lighthouse Point is safe to swim in again, and the acute crisis of Monday’s two million-gallon sewage spill appears to be mostly over — even if dead fish can still be found floating along the Mill River.
But, local environmentalists cautioned, the threat of more sewage flowing into fresh water remains, thanks to the region’s old and decaying infrastructure and its combined sewers that mix storm runoff and sewage.
Continue reading ‘After Spill, Concerns Turn To Infrastructure’
by | Jul 9, 2020 3:38 pm | Comments (18)
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Dan Barvir, who is retiring as East Rock Park ranger.
Dan Barvir has noticed chipmunks and bunnies scampering around these days like never before in his 35 years as guardian of East Rock Park.
by | Jun 30, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Zhi Yong Wang, tends to customer at Million Asian Market.
For a week now, more than a dozen customers have asked Tom Zhang when the kimchi will arrive.
Continue reading ‘Asian Grocers Roll With Virus Disruptions’
by | Jun 25, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Recaffeinating, on East Street.
Six days after the state of Connecticut commenced Phase 2 of reopening the economy during the pandemic, allowing coffee shops and restaurants to resume indoor dining at 50 percent capacity, Michael Sakelarakis had just finished taking the final exam for his pediatric advanced life support certificate. He decided to head to The Coffee Pedaler, his favorite neighborhood coffee shop.
by | Jun 23, 2020 1:58 pm | Comments (1)
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In another continuing sign that the pandemic is easing its grip on our area, officials announced that the Blake Field Drop-In Center—a pop-up facility (pictured) providing on-site Covid-19 testing and other services for the homeless amid the pandemic— will soon fold its flaps.
The shut down date is scheduled for Friday.
Continue reading ‘Blake Field Covid Drop-In Center To Close’