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Aug 13, 2020 9:30 am
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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.
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Paul Bass, Ko Lyn Cheang, Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
Aug 11, 2020 10:28 pm
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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.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 3, 2020 10:15 am
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 30, 2020 2:51 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Jun 25, 2020 2:26 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2020 1:58 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2020 1:56 pm
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Bradley at State.
If there were a touch of poetic justice to street design in New Haven these days, Bradley Street, home of the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op, should have been given its own bike lane as part of the recent repaving operations conducted by the Public Works Department.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 19, 2020 10:53 pm
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Marching up Orange Street to East Rock park.
One of the youth leaders of Friday’s liberation march.
Over 500 people filled the streets of downtown and East Rock to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the end of slavery — and to lift up the movement for black liberation that continues to this day.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 17, 2020 5:26 pm
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Jaylen Edwards learned how much he loved going to East Rock Community Magnet School when, after the pandemic struck, he and his classmates had to stay home.
Organizer Vanesa Suarez protests on the mayor’s lawn Friday.
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Elicker tries to engage a crowd not interested in dialogue.
“Shame!” “Fire the officer!” “Black Lives Matter!” “We can’t breathe!”
Dozens of protesters shouted those words on the front lawn of the mayor’s house during a heated five-hour, late-night rally that sought to frame roiling nationwide outrage against police violence in a hyperlocal context.
Memorial Day came and went, and as this version was far different than those previous, it affected me in a new way. The change came through an encounter at Nica’s Market on Orange Street, where two generations met, where war and politics were discussed, and where I decided in the interest of harmony and respect to bury my own feelings.
Protesters outside Skull & Combs barber shop on State Street.
Standing shoulder to shoulder outside of a State Street barbershop, several dozen protesters waved American flags and “Don’t Tread on Me” signs as they decried what one Branford salon owner described as the “dictatorship” of Gov. Ned Lamont.
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Brian Slattery |
May 18, 2020 9:55 am
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Jungden.
Three concerts, 15 minutes each, in three different locations.
That was musician Jan Jungden’s assignment as the first performer in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas’s Arts on Call series, which allows patrons to support artists by booking them and having them deliver a short outdoor concert at their home.
Jungden made the rounds on Friday, from Orange to East Rock to downtown, leaving dozens of concertgoers swinging in her wake.
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Maya McFadden |
May 6, 2020 9:31 am
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Ruben Thompson Jr. gets a spray with hand sanitizer.
While on his daily stroll around East Rock, Ruben Thompson Jr., 61, found himself welcomed by on-site services for the homeless like food, a face mask, toiletries, hand sanitizer, and clothing at the new Blake Field Drop-in Center.
The sunshine earlier this week beckoned pandemic-weary East Rockers from their homes out to the park, where they worked to maintain a “social distance.”
Its purpose: To offer medical treatment, food, and, potentially, testing for Covid-19 symptomatic people and to serve as a triage point for those homeless folks who decline to come into one of the city’s sheltered environments.
