by | Feb 27, 2023 3:21 pm | Comments (45)
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Shots fired at Orange and Lawrence.
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Lawrence Street, where officers found 20 shell casings.
(Updated) Less than four hours after drive-by gunfire locked down 10 city schools, police made arrests they believe are connected to the case.
by | Feb 27, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (0)
“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.
by | Feb 24, 2023 1:44 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘New Principal Sets Sights High For Wilbur Cross’
by | Feb 24, 2023 12:31 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Wilbur Cross Celebrates $4.35M Sports Complex Overhaul’
by | Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am | Comments (0)
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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.
Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill.
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by | Feb 21, 2023 8:41 am | Comments (0)
Album Club flyer for February
Nearly everyone is familiar with the set up of a book club: a group agrees on a book to read and then gathers a month later to discuss that book after reading it. Apply that same dynamic to a classic record and you have Album Club, one of many monthly programs at Volume Two, the State Street linchpin of both literary and lyrical offerings.
Since August 2022 the queer and feminist-centric group has been gathering once a month to discuss a classic album chosen by the participants. This Monday evening, the platter being served up was Amy Winehouse’s already-classic Back to Black.
by | Feb 17, 2023 1:46 pm | Comments (13)
The 6 Black Catholics under consideration for sainthood.
Featured speaker and guide Shingai Chigwedere.
There are 11 white Americans — and 0 African Americans — among the 10,000 saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
“Zero Black American saints. Zero Americans-of-African-descent saints,” Shingai Chigwedere told a 20-person audience at Albertus Magnus College. “However you want to word it, there are zero.”
That number may soon change, as the local Catholic university shined a light on the six Black Catholics currently being considered for sainthood.
Continue reading ‘Albertus Charts Path To Black Catholic Sainthood’
by | Feb 13, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (10)
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9 years going strong: Peelin' & wheelin' on Mechanic Street.
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Domingo Medina picked up a green plastic bucket waiting for him on a Mechanic Street front porch, measured its weight, and dumped its wealth of food scraps into one of his four bike-towed containers.
Piled before him was so much more than just a colorful array of eggshells, lemon peels, onion skins, and hunks of bread. In that same pile lay the ingredients for a cleaner environment, healthier soils, and “greener” jobs.
“It’s a wonderful sight to see,” Medina said.
by | Jan 31, 2023 9:31 am | Comments (2)
City police have arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly starting a fire at an East Rock apartment building that ultimately led to the displacement of 20 residents.
by | Jan 24, 2023 12:53 pm | Comments (1)
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New Haven Reads Executive Director Kirsten Levinsohn practices word making with third grader Maliah at Bishop Woods at a recent tutoring session.
East Rock neighbors threw their support behind helping some of the most fragile people at the end of life to live in dignity, and rescuing some of the city’s youngest from a lifetime of illiteracy, in their latest management-team votes on how city government should allocate this year’s round of federal block-grant funds.
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by | Jan 23, 2023 12:48 pm | Comments (7)
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Maceo "Troy" Streater (center) with campaign supporters at King-Robinson.
(Updated) Maceo “Troy” Streater ended up on top of a four-way special election for Ward 21 alder, making him the next local legislative representative for a zig-zagged district that stretches across parts of Newhallville, Dixwell, and Prospect Hill.
by | Jan 18, 2023 5:37 pm | Comments (4)
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Maceo Troy Streater knocks on Ann Garrett Robinson's door Wednesday.
A team of formerly-incarcerated campaigners rally behind Streater.
Door after door, Maceo Troy Streater set out in the neighborhood where he’s lived his whole life to campaign for a newly vacant alder seat — and to convince neighbors that personal and political change is possible.
by | Dec 21, 2022 6:27 pm | Comments (9)
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Wilbur Cross's athletic complex: Ready for plastic repairs.
Synthetic turf prevailed over goose poop-laden grass — as high school athletes won not a football or soccer game but a civic debate against environmental advocates concerning the harms and benefits of replacing Wilbur Cross’s chronically muddy sports area with a field of plastic fibers.
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by | Dec 12, 2022 7:07 pm | Comments (8)
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Brown: Coming back to NHPS.
Former High School in the Community Building Leader Matthew Brown is heading back to the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district to become Wilbur Cross High School’s third principal so far this academic year.
Continue reading ‘Matthew Brown Tapped As Wilbur Cross Principal’
by | Dec 9, 2022 2:21 pm | Comments (48)
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Tripping hazards on Audubon St.
Dave Agosta: "It is not possible for people with disabilities to 'travel' in New Haven. They can only 'navigate hazards.'"
Spotting a loose brick on the Audubon Street walkway, David Agosta nudged it with the tip of his toe — then reached down and handily uprooted the cube.
That block could have caused a twisted ankle or worse, the downtown disability rights advocate said, especially for pedestrians who get around using walkers or crutches or canes.
Mobility hazards like these have led him to ramp up his broader critique of New Haven’s accessibility by filing a formal complaint with the federal Department of Justice.
Continue reading ‘Disability Advocate Pounds Pavement For Safer Sidewalks’
by | Dec 5, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Sarah Dunn and Kelly Kancyr.
On Saturday evening, four singer-songwriters — Sarah Dunn, Kelly Kancyr, Lisa Roberts, and Lys Guillorn — made Gather, the cozy coffee shop on State Street where just about anything and everything can happen, even cozier. They filled the eclectic space with their songs, stories, and a heavy dose of camaraderie and joy, each bringing their own unique sound and occasionally getting a little help from a friend.
by | Dec 1, 2022 11:32 am | Comments (15)
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Common Ground high school students, staff, and safe streets advocates at a sign-making workshop in November.
A few days ago, I made the mistake of crossing the street.
by | Nov 29, 2022 1:58 pm | Comments (7)
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COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell help out Ollie Cooper at crisis team's launch on Nov. 1.
New Haven’s new COMPASS team of social workers and “peer recovery specialists” has responded to 60 calls so far in its nascent effort to provide non-police help for people in crisis — and the city should know by this spring just how successful this intervention initiative has been.
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by | Nov 22, 2022 11:58 am | Comments (2)
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Alex Depavloff swirls Nan Rosa's oat milk chocolate cone.
Nan, Lux, Ben, and Gus Rosa with their dad, Evan, digging in on some Sunday afternoon East Rock ice cream.
As New Haven’s first wintery weekend settled over Orange Street, the sign outside Elena’s On Orange lit up — and welcomed a steady stream of families seeking solace from the acerbic wind in a sweeter kind of cold.
by | Nov 18, 2022 10:49 am | Comments (2)
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Volunteer Kevin McCarthy and Tusker Pickett at the Trowbridge Environmental Center Thursday.
Years ago when Anna Pickett was potty-training her boys, taking them walking outside could be a challenge because she was always on the look-out for a bathroom.
Back then if she was in the College Woods area of East Rock Park, she often could not find one.
No longer — thanks to a city effort to reopen long-shuttered public parks buildings and turn them into active community centers. With working bathrooms.
Continue reading ‘Book Club, Bathrooms Beckon At Reopened Park Center’
by | Nov 17, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (6)
Take a last look: Sign changes to "G Cafe" next week.
Keeping the joe flowing: Andrea Corazzini.
New Haven may still be part of a blue state, but it is no longer a safe space for Blue State Coffee.
by | Nov 9, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (18)
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A contingent of Wilbur Cross community members, including Board of Ed Student Representative Dave John Cruz-Bustamante, art teacher Melody Gallagher, and soccer captain Matteo Festa.
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A lightly muddy Blake Field on Friday afternoon.
Broken ankles. Used syringes. Mud-induced match cancellations. Low morale.
Those were just a few of the high school sports-related obstacles that Wilbur Cross coaches and students spoke out about having to surmount time and again, as they successfully urged alders to move forward with long-awaited upgrades to the East Rock Athletic Complex.
Continue reading ‘Student-Athlete Pleas Power Field Repairs’
by | Nov 4, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (2)
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Last glimpse of an autumn wonder.
You stumped me, you sly and courageous one.
by | Nov 2, 2022 1:48 pm | Comments (8)
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New sidewalk under construction on Pearl St.
Construction has finally begun on a new sidewalk along a perilous stretch of Pearl Street that connects Yale’s business school with one of East Rock’s main corridors.
by | Nov 1, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (5)
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John Martin: Soon off to his next wheeled adventure.
After eight years of building up the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, John Martin has purchased his first gas-powered vehicle — and is taking off on a six-month sabbatical via van while the shop he founded changes gears.