by | Oct 13, 2022 1:43 pm | Comments (13)
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Claudia Herrera at the 2019 Democratic Town Convention.
Fair Haven community activist, Democratic ward co-chair and professional dental assistant Claudia Herrera will be the next alder for Ward 9 — not because she especially wants the job, but because she couldn’t bear the thought of an “empty chair” representing her neighborhood.
by | Oct 7, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (8)
Thursday's City Plan Commission meeting.
Three city parks and a flood-prone west side road are slated to receive millions of dollars worth of upgrades thanks to a bevy of state and federal aid coming New Haven’s way.
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by | Oct 2, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (49)
John Tarka: It's been real.
Newly instated Wilbur Cross High School Principal John Tarka announced he is leaving his role as leader five weeks into the academic year.
Continue reading ‘Cross Principal Bolts After 5 Weeks Of Classes’
by | Sep 19, 2022 1:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Laverne Watts-Boatwright with shirt & grandson's last Facebook post.
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Balloons on raffle bicycles spell out Trequon Lawrence's nickname.
Jay Portee’s last conversation with his best friend, Trequon Lawrence, spanned three text messages in 2021. The pair dreamed up a back-to-school celebration they wanted to organize for local kids.
One year after Lawrence was murdered at the age of 27, the event he had once imagined came alive at the hands of his surviving friends and family — filling East Rock Park with an abundance of school supplies, family activities, and memories of a man who died too soon.
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by | Sep 12, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (0)
At the edge of Edgerton Park on Saturday, peeking from beneath the reddened cliffside of East Rock, a small stage on a winding path lined with pines held the final song of Moonrise Cartel’s set. Next to them, a field opened up to a man in a brown wizard hat, a circle of pastel yoga mats where children embodied woodland animals through yogic poses, people juggling, and long ribbon silk fans that got carried and lifted by the day’s wind. As Moonrise Cartel finished their last song, the sound of a bell was heard from somewhere off in the field as the voices of Goodnight Moonshine rose up from over the hill. The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo was back, after a two-year hiatus.
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by | Sep 8, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (0)
The walls of mActivity — like the walls of other New Haven-area businesses — keep getting a little brighter, thanks to an embrace of public art that is now transforming buildings outside and in. In the case of mActivity, the art is the result of series that began in 2017. Curated by Barbara Hawes, the series has hosted a wide array of New Haven-based artists, from public art maestro Kwadwo Adae to graffiti artist Michael Deangelo, from photographers Phyllis Crowley and Sean Kernan to painters Vienna Hinkson and William McCarthy.
For the rest of the month of September, visitors can now see the works of artists Esthea Kim and Eliza Shaw Valk, whose work mirrors the mood of the hottest season and, in keeping with the fitness center’s mission, captures some of the renewed spirit many have found in exercise during the pandemc.
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by | Sep 4, 2022 12:26 pm | Comments (32)
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You can drive here Sunday. Not Monday.
Drivers can steer their cars to the summit of East Rock Park again for now — on Sundays, from only the Davis Street entrance on the Hamden side.
Continue reading ‘Cars Allowed Again In East Rock Park -- On Sundays’
by | Aug 31, 2022 3:23 pm | Comments (9)
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Charles Decker, center, during 2017 Local 33 protest fast.
Charles Decker is moving out of Ward 9 — and therefore resigning as the ward’s alder.
by | Aug 31, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (0)
After a two-year Covid hiatus, CT Folk returns this year with a changed Folk Festival and Green Expo. It’s still at Edgerton Park, and it still combines a music festival with a dedication to furthering environmental causes. But it’s now a two-day event — Sept. 10 and 11 — featuring its most diverse lineup yet, from solo singer-songwriters to R&B and jam bands to hip hop artists. If the shift seems abrupt, it shouldn’t; rather, it’s the fruition of an intention CT Folk stated years ago to expand its musical boundaries, exploring what folk music means and what it can be in 2022. For its organizers, the hope is that the festival can reach more and more people, in New Haven and beyond, and help turn the festival into a larger regional tentpole end-of-summer event.
Continue reading ‘For Upcoming Festival, CT Folk Goes Beyond Borders’
by | Aug 22, 2022 8:55 am | Comments (1)
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L. Peter Callender as Prospero and Sarah Bowles as Ariel.
The play has just begun, and it’s as if the set is already being torn apart. There’s the sound of wind and thunder, the sight of sails fluttering in high wind as sailors struggle to maintain them. The people at the wheel of the ship are shouting to each other and to the crew. They don’t know what’s going to happen to them. But the man in the front and center of the stage does. Standing silent and serene, he’s controlling the storm, controlling the boat and the people on it. In the beginning, he controls everything.
by | Aug 2, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (8)
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A young couple held a tag sale in East Rock that stopped this bargain hunter in his tracks.
by | Jul 27, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (14)
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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.
The Yale Divinity School plans to build a dormitory that recycles its wastewater and generates all its own energy — aiming to create the first residential building to meet “Living Building Challenge” standards for sustainability.
by | Jul 26, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (11)
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“Where did you get that hat?” I asked Mitchell Daniels.
As I learned on a sizzling sidewalk in East Rock, I was apparently about the 3,000th person to ask that question since this veteran New Haven mailman bought it at a flea market several years ago. He hauls it out of the closet for use whenever there is Fahrenheit inflation.
by | Jul 19, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (5)
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“This is your park,” Gemma Joseph Lumpkin of the New Haven Public Schools reminded middle schoolers gathered Tuesday in Edgerton Park, over and over again.
by | Jul 5, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Sign of the future? East Rockers gathered last November for their one-shot in-person CMT meeting before returning to the metaverse.
Elena Grewal peered into her camera at her virtual neighbors and made a request: anyone up for making cupcakes next month, when we’ll all be in the same room again?
by | Jul 5, 2022 8:57 am | Comments (2)
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New Haven photographer Chris Randall has a unique perspective on fireworks — as you can see from these photos he took at Sunday evening’s city East Rock display.
Continue reading ‘Through A Lens, Brightly: Chris Randall's 4th’
by | Jul 5, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (10)
Maybelle, 5, lights a sparkler at Monday celebration.
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Monday fireworks show.
Explosions of colors burst into the sky, lighting up East Rock and beyond, as hundreds of families gathered on the Wilbur Cross football field Monday evening for the city’s annual Fourth of July display.
by | Jun 27, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (1)
Refugees & descendants honor past, future at World Refugee Day picnic.
Families who now call New Haven home gathered in East Rock Park to remember their journeys from Kenya, Burundi, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan — and to build a community ready to welcome newcomers from all over the world.
by | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."
A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as “The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.
by | Jun 21, 2022 9:29 pm | Comments (8)
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Bradley Street Co-op's John Martin picks mulberry to share with neighbors.
A mulberry tree that was purportedly planted by George Washington at the intersection of Bradley and State Streets will soon going to find itself in the midst of a summer home-improvement project.
Continue reading ‘“Mulberry Jam” Crew Gets The Bucks To Build Their Park’
by | Jun 17, 2022 2:57 pm | Comments (5)
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Principal Johnson, at center, at her final Cross commencement.
A day of goodbyes commenced at Wilbur Cross High School for the graduating Class of 2022 and their beloved principal, Edith Johnson.
Continue reading ‘Beloved Wilbur Cross Principal Says Good-Bye Along With Grads’
by | Jun 9, 2022 1:36 pm | Comments (3)
Zero-emission on-site roasting: inside Poppy's Coffee + Kitchen.
After sampling three “amazing” drinks, Lily Kitfield-Vernon knew she had found that “new local spot” within walking distance she’d been waiting for.
by | May 25, 2022 2:10 pm | Comments (19)
Cover of the Frews' presentation.
Robert and Susan Frew said they know what amount of living space graduate students in New Haven crave: just about 400 square feet.
by | May 6, 2022 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
The following item was submitted about Teacher Appreciation Week.
by | May 6, 2022 8:30 am | Comments (10)
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141 Ogden: Soon home to single-family house?
The owner of a long-vacant Prospect Hill lot won permission to construct a new five-bedroom single-family house and attached garage on the site of a former wetlands.