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May 26, 2023 2:05 pm
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At Friday's presser: Alder Herrera, Mayor Elicker, public works union President David Lawlor, public works Superintendent of Streets Steve Mustakos, acting public works Director Bombero, City Engineer Zinn.
Another season of grinding up and repairing roads kicked off on Friday, as the mayor and top public works officials gathered on Edwards Street to celebrate $3 million worth of milling and paving to come.
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Maya McFadden |
May 24, 2023 9:01 am
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Kindergartner and classroom chef Aylanais learning with the help of local apizza.
After East Rock School kindergartener Aylanais cooked up a freshly illustrated “cheese pizza,” she topped it with broccoli, pineapple, pepperoni, and mushrooms for a tasty and very New Haven-spirited class lesson.
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May 22, 2023 11:32 am
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Albertus Magnus College President Marc Camille (right) at Sunday's commencement.
Dressed in caps and gowns and with new diplomas in hand, 440 Albertus Magnus students graduated from the Prospect Hill Catholic college on Sunday — marking the school’s 100th such ceremony.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 5, 2023 6:53 pm
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Smith signs up with City Clerk staffer Michelle Lee Rodriguez.
As East Rocker Caroline Tanbee Smith filed papers to make official her first aldermanic run, Fair Havener Claudia Hererra readied to hand over the local legislative baton — to a candidate she says will build bridges between those neighborhoods and across the broader city if she’s elected to be Ward 9’s next representative.
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Thomas Breen |
May 1, 2023 9:02 am
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Larry and Taylor King, ready to ride, even in the rain.
Staying not-dry-at-all on Valley St.
A cold spring morning downpour couldn’t keep father-son cycling duo Larry and Taylor King from riding for a good cause — to raise money to help keep their home city green, sure, but also to spend some quality family time outdoors and on two wheels, rain or shine.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 25, 2023 8:58 am
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Tiger Squad News crew Alae Aboutalib, Shayla Black, and Nima Safdari, with the first issue of their school's reborn newsletter (below).
The ink is dry on the first issue of the recently revived Tiger Squad News — as Celentano School reporters-in-training Nima Safdari, Alae Aboutalib, and Shayla Black return to the beat for a second newsletter that they hope will inform their classmates about just how much work goes into being a student reporter.
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Apr 24, 2023 10:43 am
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Dr. Nancy Stanwood with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal on Monday: "The reprieve is only temporary."
Connecticut patients seeking an abortion can continue to access — for now — a safe, legal, and decades-old medication that is commonly used across the country to help end a pregnancy in its first trimester.
But the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of mifepristone’s federal approval is only temporary. And an ideologically motivated attack on the drug’s legitimacy could still prevail.
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Apr 24, 2023 8:41 am
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Team Popcorn Colonel leader Ariel Unger with designer ball and gifts of floss.
The tension was mounting (well, sort of) late Saturday afternoon at East Rock Park: Team Popcorn Colonel — dressed in matching Orville Redenbacher outfits, complete with red suspenders and bow ties — were busy jumping on a trampoline while trying to sink a beachball-size papier-mâché popcorn kernel into a bucket.
Nearby across a blanket strewn with bike look-alike food (Cheetos and toothpicks in the shape of a two-wheeler?), Team Bicycle were forming themselves into a human velocipede.
Schools Supt.-to-be Madeline Negrón greets Lincoln-Bassett students Thursday morning.
New Haven’s first-ever Latina schools superintendent greeted Ecuadorian-born student Bryan Panata with an “Hola,” made a Puerto Rican geography connection with Wilbur Cross junior Lunaa Omar, and remarked on how bilingual education has advanced since her childhood days working to learn English in a basement classroom.
Dave John Cruz-Bustamante: CT schools should look like "palaces."
Teacher-protesters defining vocab.
Connecticut is the wealthiest state in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Wilbur Cross junior Dave John Cruz-Bustamante told a crowd of educators gathered across the street from their school.
“But you wouldn’t know that from looking at our desks.”
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Allan Appel |
Apr 18, 2023 4:30 pm
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(l-r)Edward Dunar, Lee Osorio, Molly Johnson, Steve Winter, Chris Schweitzer
Imagine this: a completely electrified municipal vehicular fleet – all 600 cars and trucks; replacement of hugely polluting oil burners with high efficiency heat pumps in many of the poor homes that most need low cost and healthier energy; and the green day when composting kitchen scraps will be as routine and revenue-producing as recycling.
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Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm
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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
The sky was overcast and the temperature already dipping into the high 40s, but the chill didn’t stop Maria Tupper and her volunteer gardening friends from using a cool new dibble to put in cold-resistant leeks.
Edward Bouchet, as painted on Henry St. by artist Kwadwo Adae.
Robert Lucas: "My main point is rethinking Eli Whitney."
Should Whitney Avenue hold onto the name of the cotton-gin inventor who played a key role in the expansion of slavery?
Not according to a Yale business student, who’s pointed to the university’s first African American doctorate holder as an alternative namesake for the East Rock corridor.
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Mar 10, 2023 8:50 am
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Perennial at Gather.
Four acts packed the room Thursday night at Gather, from coffee counter to chalkboard walls to bookshelves lined with everything from Eric Carle to Descartes. The lineup included Square Loop from Worcester, Mass., touring in support of their latest album, as well as local acts Perennial, Snowpiler, and Tj Redding.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 8, 2023 9:56 am
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Fair Haven/East Rock Alder Claudia Herrera (center) with NHPS Asst. Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans (right) on multilingual classroom visit.
Three alders got a firsthand look at the classroom needs and experiences of students who enter school speaking a language other than English, as they joined district leaders on a three-stop tour to talk with multilingual learners and their teachers.
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Mar 2, 2023 9:47 am
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At Celentano School's final Black History Month celebration of the year.
Eighth-grader Akiellea Gooden honored her Jamaican roots on stage in front of her Celentano School classmates by sharing a quotation from a Black political icon and historical Caribbean compatriot, Marcus Garvey: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
Police Chief Jacobson (right), with Asst. Chief Ettienne and Mayor Elicker, offering arrest update Tuesday.
A likely miscommunication between police dispatch and the school district’s security team caused 10 schools to go into some form of lockdown during an East Rock drive-by shootout — which, thanks to quick police work, has led to two arrests and the confiscation of four guns, one of which has now been connected to the crime scene.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2023 9:13 am
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“O my dove, thou art in the cleft of the rock, in the secret crevices of the cliff.” The words from Song of Songs, poetic as they are, could be interpreted any number of ways. But in artist Margaret Shepherd’s hands, that interpretation tilts in a certain direction. The gracefulness of the letters themselves, the sensuousness of the details, the flower seemingly on the verge of opening a little wider, all suggest that, whatever other meanings the passage may have, one meaning is right on the surface, and not to be ignored.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 24, 2023 1:44 pm
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Wilbur Cross Principal Matthew Brown on Friday.
One month and one day into his new job as principal of New Haven’s largest high school, Matthew Brown hopes to help make Wilbur Cross “the premier urban comprehensive high school in the state of Connecticut” — even as he, his colleagues, and the school’s 1,642 students face head on the challenges presented by pandemic-era disruptions to public education.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 24, 2023 12:31 pm
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Cross football captain Giovanni Melendez (right) with fellow student-athletes at Friday's presser.
Wilbur Cross athletic fields and track, now under construction.
Wilbur Cross student-athletes like football captain Giovanni Melendez looked forward to firmer synthetic-turf footing and a home-field setting to be proud of next season — at a press conference marking $4.35 million in mostly state-funded renovations to the East Rock school’s athletic complex.
