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Thank you, water, on Whitney Ave.
Part architectural stunner, part essential public utility, the silver and glass structure of the Regional Water Authority’s water treatment plant was even more impressive up close than seen from Whitney Avenue across the street from the Lake Whitney Dam.
Just as impressive, as it turned out, were the inner workings of that plant and how it provides water to the city and elsewhere — as a group of 30 participants learned on a tour of the facility, guided by Jesse Culbertson, RWA water treatment team lead, as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Eitan Hochster: Sale changes only "where the profits go."
A 37-unit East Rock apartment complex changed hands for $11.5 million — because a Long Island City lighting company’s land value kept rising while its manufacturing business kept slowing down.
How are those two real estate phenomena two states apart connected?
Through a federal tax deferral provision called Section 1031.
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Jun 14, 2024 9:34 am
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Mission accomplished, at Cross’s graduation ceremony.
Aspiring electrician Nakarie Wills, pediatric nurse to-be Nathalie Hiraldo, and future music producer CheMi “CJ” McGee all walked across the Wilbur Cross graduation stage — taking big steps closer to their post-high school dreams.
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Jun 11, 2024 9:11 am
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Lake Whitney Dam: Ready to be improved for “the next 160 years.”
The Lake Whitney Dam on the border of New Haven and Hamden has been going strong since 1860, when Eli Whitney and the city built it. But it’s in need of rehabilitation — a major construction project — to prepare it for the climate challenges of the next century and beyond. That can be done while also keeping an eye on the community and environmental concerns of the present.
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Jun 7, 2024 3:30 pm
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Hilarie Alden: Now, officially, a "life changing" teacher.
“She pushes you to be your best self.” “She’s always positive.” “She makes school fun.” “Her good mood in the classroom influenced me to do better things outside class.”
Those words of praise and so much more were offered by Worthington Hooker parents and students on Friday as they shared testimony about this year’s “Life Changing Teaching” awardee and Hooker second grade teacher, Hilarie Alden.
Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters: "A natural beauty" to the Mill River underpass (pictured below).
Among the weeds and overgrown vegetation of a highway underpass off of State Street, Achievement First Amistad High School juniors Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters couldn’t help but see potential.
The soil, still damp and moist from a recent downpour, could make fertile land for a community garden in the future. What type of foods they would grow is still up for debate.
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Jun 5, 2024 10:21 am
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Bonsai appreciators Zahra Ashe-Simmer and Oliver Egger: “There's something so pleasing about [the trees] being miniature.”
In order to maximize its access to air and light, Peter Hlousek’s blue spruce has branches far enough apart for a bird to fly through them.
That’s one of the guiding principles of bonsai, the art of growing and shaping tiny trees — which Hlousek has been doing for nearly three decades as a member and former president of the Bonsai Society of Greater New Haven.
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Jun 4, 2024 9:14 am
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Biliteracy ceremony honoring the superpower of knowing more than one language.
Cross seniors Fernando Aroca, Paola Velasquez, and Anthony Perez: All recognized for Spanish proficiency.
During the school day, Paola Velasquez often pauses in the Wilbur Cross hallways to help out fellow students whose first language is also Spanish. She helps her peers know where their classes are, what the school bells mean, or what a teacher is asking of them.
Those skills were honored by the city’s public school district at a recent ceremony uplifting 176 “biliterate” graduating seniors who are proficient in languages ranging from Spanish to German to Pashto to Mandinka.
Cross Principal Brown: "The job of the teacher has never been harder."
Wilbur Cross Principal Matt Brown has a math problem to solve:
How do you lead a school where the building’s capacity is for 1,300 students, its enrollment tops 1,700, and the number of students who actually show up to class each day is somewhere in between — given the district’s persistent struggles with chronic absenteeism?
Brown’s answers: Get creative, share classrooms, celebrate student diversity, and encourage a sense of belonging and school pride among students and teachers alike at New Haven’s largest public school.
At Cross Friday morning: Education Justice Organizer Megan Fountain and Cross staffers Mia Comulada Breuler, Cordell Wallace, and Gwendolyn Bright.
(Updated) “What do we want? Fully-funded schools! When do we want it? Now!”
Those chants echoed down Mitchell Drive Friday morning as New Haven students, teachers, and paraprofessionals kicked off a day of action to rally support for increased funding for the city’s public schools.
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May 6, 2024 5:33 pm
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Alexandra Daum highlights new landscaping and more sustainable energy ...
... as part of Science Hill development projects.
Yale is seeking to build up its scientific campus by digging down into the earth, as revealed during a presentation on future buildings with a massive underground presence.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 30, 2024 12:16 pm
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Jimmy Apuzzo and Joseph "Pino" Ciccone at the meat counter.
Ex-business owners make the best employees, according to P&M Orange Street Market meat department manager and ex-business owner Jimmy Apuzzo, who’s retiring on May 15.
“I have almost a photographic memory,” Apuzzo, 69, said on a recent morning in the basement storeroom of the East Rock market where he began his working life on Dec. 6, 1967. He was 13. “I can walk into the cooler, look around, and instantly know what’s there and what’s not.”
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Apr 29, 2024 11:03 am
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Upper Westville Alder Amy Marx (right) with daughter Esther at Rock to Rock.
More than 600 cyclists took to the streets and trails Saturday for the 16th annual Rock to Rock event, which started in East Rock and ended with a “green fair” filled with food, folk music, and calls to environmental action.
Jailene Ramos (right) and Supt. Negron at Cross-hosted budget talk.
Will next year’s schools budget have enough money set aside to fix bathrooms with no sink handles and school buildings that get too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer?
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn (right): Goal is to keep everyone safe.
Upper Orange Street’s parking spots will all stay put. The city will build no new dedicated bike lanes.
But! The city will “slow” the street and make room for cars and cyclists alike by narrowing the road, trimming the speed limit, improving signage and sightlines, coloring the street, and putting in a median.
Such are the details the Elicker administration has put together after years of debate over a new design for a nine-block run of Orange Street between Humphrey and Cold Spring Streets.
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Apr 8, 2024 9:06 am
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Voices filled the space of Bethesda Lutheran Church on Sunday afternoon, raised in song. But the harmonies weren’t what many may have been used to in a church; they were sharper, more angular, provoking of thought. Nor was the text from the Bible; it was a dispatch from halfway around the world, from the present day.
“We sense something grave is happening around us. We don’t know what the future holds,” the choir sang. “The land we tilled for generations is shrinking; salt water poisons what’s left of our fields. Many people have gone, displacement and death everywhere.”
Cross GSA: Zulaikha Khan, Alejandro Zacatelco, Levi, Jaime Soares, Gema, and Mikey.
Pins made by Cross GSA for teachers to wear and put up in classrooms.
More “You Are Safe With Me” pins and “This Is A Safe Place” stickers are popping up around Wilbur Cross High School hallways thanks to the efforts of the school’s recently revived Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA).
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Apr 2, 2024 8:45 am
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The Earth Is Breaking Beautifully.
Susan Hoffman Fishman’s painting seems at first to be an abstract, full of brilliant colors and bold lines. Soon, though, one can see how it’s derived from natural forms — but at what scale? It could be a cross-section of a tree or a landscape viewed from space. It turns out that it’s more the latter.
“As a result of climate change, the extraction of minerals and the damming of the Jordan River, which once provided a source of new water to the Dead Sea, over 8,000 sinkholes have developed along its shores. Seen from above via satellites and drones, the sinkholes are brilliant cobalt blue, lime green, white, yellow ochre and rust red,” the artist writes. “The Earth is Breaking Beautifully emphasizes the contrast between the horrifying destruction around the Dead Sea and the beauty of that destruction.”
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Apr 2, 2024 8:45 am
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Janae Nelson, right, conducting a class at Cross.
Instead of English educator Akimi Nelken being at the head of her Wilbur Cross High School classroom, a trio of students took a turn leading the day’s lessons.
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Mar 6, 2024 9:30 am
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June Lanpher, Zara Baden-Eversman, Erin Palmer.
Ariel keeps disobeying her father, Triton, king of the ocean, who tells her not to try to explore the world above the waves. But she can’t resist. She sees the passing ships, collects the artifacts they drop in the water, clambers onto rocks to gaze at the land beyond. And in time, she sees a prince — and the prince hears her singing — and suddenly both feel a tug, binding them together, that no injunctions from parents can dislodge.
Depictions of geothermal temperature control in both warm and cool months.
Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
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Feb 14, 2024 1:03 pm
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Wilbur Cross' 2023-24 basketball team.
After a season of growth, resilience, and bonding the Lady Governors said goodbye not just to the basketball season but to three of their beloved Class of 2024 seniors.
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Feb 6, 2024 12:14 pm
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Cross senior Kiara Cabassa: "It feels great anytime I can contribute to my team with points or motivation."
Although her team was down, Wilbur Cross senior guard Kiara Cabassa kept spirits high on the court with shouts of encouragement and reminders that the team must always stay together.
