by | Apr 15, 2019 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Elvin Perez fouls off before laying down crucial bunt.
When your big bats aren’t hitting, you’ve got to learn to win in other ways — like taking advantage of your opponents’ mistakes.
And like remembering to read the darn bunt sign!
by | Apr 12, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (19)
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Elicker at East Rock Brewery campaign stop on Thursday.
Over slices from Modern and locally brewed lagers, Justin Elicker promised a roomful of public school teachers that he’ll bring a homegrown corrective plan to the school system if elected mayor.
by | Apr 11, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Pearl-Lincoln intersection, where a car recently hit a pedestrian. Cattanach, below at left.
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Katherine Cattanach survived getting hit by a car at Pearl and Lincoln streets — and then joined neighbors in winning a new stop sign for the intersection, over the objection of the city’s transit chief.
by | Apr 3, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (6)
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Jones and Gormany.
Elicker.
Mayor Toni Harp’s budget roadshow pulled into Goatville’s mActivity center Tuesday night to face a crowd of East Rockers curious about the state of the city’s finances and what the future might hold.
Continue reading ‘Budget Road Show (Down) Lands In Goatville’
by | Apr 3, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (3)
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Doria, after his big hit, being congratulated at third by Coach Ramos.
Fernando Doria, or “Nando,” as his teammates kept cheering him on at the plate, connected for two towering hits, driving in four of 14 runs to power the Wilbur Cross Governors to win their season opening baseball game.
Continue reading ‘Cross Crushes Beacon Falls 14-1 In Season Opener’
by | Mar 29, 2019 11:56 am | Comments (7)
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Seniors Fernando Doria hitting and Darlyn Flete at practice.
The two shortstops: Melendez and son Cal.
Pablo Melendez was the troubled child of suddenly divorced parents back seeking a father figure when a Wilbur Cross High School coach put his arm over his shoulder and said, “You’re on the team.”
A generation later, the firefighter is on a mission to upgrade Cross’s playing field and change the culture of the sport that changed his life.
by | Mar 29, 2019 7:59 am | Comments (27)
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East Rock Record’s Isabel Faustino grills Pendragon.
Mayoral candidate Urn Pendragon has personal experience getting bullied: as a nerdy student, as a transgender woman, as someone who has struggled through homelessness and unemployment.
Pendragon told two middle school reporters she considers that experience not a liability, but an asset in her bid to represent the city’s “underrepresented.”
by | Mar 28, 2019 12:42 pm | Comments (4)
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Cops slam & injure unarmed protester Nate Blair last year; no officers were disciplined.
Ann Tramontana-Veno wanted to know just what this phrase means: “Have the ability to pass ethics commission review for conflicts of interest.”
That is the fifth of five qualifications noted on the official nomination form for those people interested in tossing their hat in the ring to be chosen to join the evolving new version of the city Civilian Review Board (CRB) aimed at monitoring allegations of police misbehavior.
After Tramontana-Veno spoke, there was a moment of silence around the table.
“That’s a loaded sentence,” she said.
Continue reading ‘East Rock To CRB: Please Parse This Sentence’
by | Mar 28, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (10)
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Martin with Atelier Cue’s Ioana Barac beneath the overpass.
These old grey concrete and frequently graffitied highway underpass walls won’t remain that way much longer.
That’s thanks to grants that the Upper State Street (Business) Association (USSA) and other neighborhood partners just received to spruce up the concrete with light and color, design and art, and remind folks of how it used to be before the highway sliced the area in two.
Continue reading ‘Art, Light, Life Coming To State/Trumbull Overpass’
by | Mar 18, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (0)
St. Patrick’s Day evening, East Rock’s mActivity saw another installment of Fernando Pinto’s wide-ranging and ever acoustically minded East Rock Concert Series, this evening featuring a double billing of New Haven’s Goodnight Blue Moon and Ithaca, N.Y.‘s Richie and Rosie, that is, Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton.
by | Mar 7, 2019 6:48 pm | Comments (7)
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Mayor Harp answers student reporters’ questions Thursday.
When a reporter for the East Rock Record asked Mayor Toni Harp her thoughts on the anti-vaxxer movement, he got more than a policy answer — he learned about her own childhood, when she battled polio.
by | Mar 5, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Power Figure.
There’s a body in the hallway of the Yale Divinity School. Maybe it’s a mummy wrapped in linen, or a cast with a form inside it. Whatever the case, it’s on an ironing board, and it’s hard to miss the spikes driven into the spot where its sternum would be. Look again, and you see that a cable is wrapped around the body. One end goes to an outlet in the floor. The other to the iron itself. It is, in a sense, the embodiment of domestic violence — and standing next to it, it feels like a rebuke. Could you have done something to stop it?
by | Mar 4, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (2)
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Ducks drifting in the current below the dam. Photographers out with their cameras. Joggers in bright orange jackets.
Even in winter after a snowstorm, East Rock Monday remained as much a part of the fabric of the city as ever.
by | Mar 1, 2019 8:26 am | Comments (1)
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It’s another Sunday in church, which means another day for the nuns to rip it up.
The pews fill in front and around them as the musicians start up the beat. The nuns burst into song and dance, habits billowing. The smiles on their faces are radiant.
And then, just for a moment, they leave the ground and take flight.
by | Feb 27, 2019 6:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Downed branches ready to go, curbside on Orange Street. According to city rules, they should be tied.
Homeowners are responsible for clearing snow from their sidewalk in front of their houses within 24 hours. If not, they are liable to be ticketed — although the city has precious few staffers to notify violators and to enforce.
What about fallen branches? Who’s responsible to clean those up, especially if they’re too large for an individual homeowner to handle?
by | Feb 27, 2019 8:44 am | Comments (13)
Looking west on Pearl at Lincoln
Would a Yale School of Management student have been struck last week by a vehicle near the intersection of Lincoln and Pearl streets if the speed limit were below 25 miles per hour?
That question was more than academic when neighbors described it this week, because the state is considering a bill to allow cities to drop limits below that 25 mile-per-hour threshold.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Wants State To Allow Lower Speed Limits’
by | Feb 26, 2019 5:08 pm | Comments (6)
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A rendering of the redesigned Peabody Museum, viewed from the intersection of Sachem and Whitney.
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Yale Community Affairs Associate Karen King at last week’s City Plan Commission meeting.
The City Plan Commission has signed off on Yale’s proposed renovation of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, paving the way for significantly more exhibition space, bus parking, and pedestrian connections to Yale’s Science Hill.
The new design doesn’t include a cafeteria, so visitors made hungry by the insects and dinosaurs on display will still have to find lunch elsewhere — to the disappointment of some commissioners.
by | Feb 26, 2019 3:19 pm | Comments (6)
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Cops throwing unarmed protester Nate Blair to ground at protest; he got a concussion. Police officials saw no problem with the police actions, one of many that spurred calls for a strengthened CRB.
Having a legal background is a lot less important than a commitment to serve — and show up at meetings.
by | Feb 22, 2019 2:00 pm | Comments (7)
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The former East Rock Pharmacy at 763-767 Orange St.
Common Grounds Co-Owner Dena Jara and local attorney James Perito at Tuesday’s meeting.
The cafe owners and managers taking over the shuttered East Rock Pharmacy are promising not only more coffee and baked goods for the neighborhood, but also fewer parking headaches for the cafe’s immediate neighbors.
by | Feb 21, 2019 6:05 pm | Comments (37)
East Rock neighbors Rob Narracci, Bruce Johnson, Marion Coleman, Mary Johnson testify.
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177 Lawrence.
What matters more: Housing density? Or neighborhood character?
Zoning commissioners had to decide between the two in an East Rock test case of where and how best to encourage the creation of more housing.
by | Feb 20, 2019 5:42 pm | Comments (13)
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100 Howe St.: $10 (not a typo) in 1994; $11 million in in 2019.
New Haven’s apartment market continues sizzling:
• Developer drops over $15 million on six Dwight properties, including apartment tower and surface lot near Yale.
• Feldman brothers shell out $6 million-plus on two East Rock apartment complexes that hadn’t changed hands in over three decades.
by | Feb 19, 2019 3:15 pm | Comments (15)
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Pearl-Lincoln intersection, where a car recently hit a pedestrian.
A Yale business school student was hit by a car recently while crossing Pearl Street and Lincoln Street.
People who work and live near the busy East Rock intersection were surprised — that such collisions don’t happen more often.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (17)
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Boxcutter-wielding landlord Xie Meiqiang flees a reporter Thursday outside his Orchard Street property.
68 Mechanic St.: Condemned.
The city condemned a two-family home that two Guilford-based landlords had illegally converted into a five-unit rooming house. Four tenants were displaced.
The landlords’ — and their citywide tenants’ — problems may have just begun.
by | Feb 11, 2019 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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Kinobe.
As Kinobe Herbert of Uganda looked out over the expectant Sunday evening crowd at mActivity on Nicoll Street in East Rock, he allowed himself a small smile.
“I feel like I’m in a classroom,” he joked.
As it turned out, he had a lot to teach.
by | Feb 7, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (14)
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Park’s northern wall, minus copper flashing.
Over $150,000 of lead-covered copper flashing was stolen from the north wall of Edgerton Park, leaving the century-old stone structure exposed to the destructive influence of freezing and thawing water for the remainder of the winter.