by | Mar 9, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (31)
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Money up front: Torres gases up the shuttle.
Shakira Rodriguez Torres spent $90 filling half her tank with 19 gallons of gas Wednesday at the Long Wharf Mobil — and she wasn’t pleased.
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Jay Pallotti: Sales are up, but profits are down.
Lamberti’s Italian Sausages President Jay Pallotti saw his grandfather’s 1946 Long Wharf business threatened after more than 70 years of business when two of the company’s refrigerated trucks broke down — and no replacement vehicles were available for purchase.
by | Feb 23, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (13)
Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón: leading Long Wharf into a new era.
Long Wharf Theatre is leaving Long Wharf — but not New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Theatre Leaving Longtime Home, Going Mobile’
by | Feb 18, 2022 10:04 am | Comments (1)
Beonce Fraser learns about SPRINT intern program at Thursday's fair.
Business and marketing student Beonce Fraser, 20, didn’t consider working in the bioscience industry until she learned about a search for summer marketing interns in the field.
Continue reading ‘Bioscience Careers Beckon At Internship Fair’
by | Jan 27, 2022 2:24 pm | Comments (10)
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Anne Wyllie, a microbiologist who helped create the saliva testing, at Thursday's press conference.
A new PCR saliva-based test has made its way to New Haven.
by | Jan 24, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Looking from Long Wharf towards the industrial port in the Annex: Federal funds to be used to deepen the channel to allow for more, larger ships.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Monday's presser.
Look for more room for bigger ships carrying steel, cement, and oil to New Haven’s industrial waterfront — and less room for climate-change-exacerbated storm surges to inundate the streets and highway on Long Wharf.
Continue reading ‘$220M+ In Harbor-Boosting Fed Funds Celebrated’
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:33 pm | Comments (5)
Lyman pies: Soon to be "made in New Haven."
Lyman VP John Lyman.
A Middlefield-based apple orchard company is moving some of its pie-baking business to New Haven, after purchasing three industrial buildings in Wooster Square and Long Wharf for $3 million.
Continue reading ‘Farm-To-City: Pie-Baking Biz Moving To Town’
by | Jan 21, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (3)
As she moves from one side of the stage of Long Wharf to the other, actor Cloteal L. Horne transforms herself 25 times, from Jewish preschool teacher to Black playwright, from a girl in middle school to a minister in the Nation of Islam, from a rabbi to a Guiyanese immigrant. It’s a feat of performance in the service of a now-classic play — Fires in the Mirror, running at Long Wharf now through Feb. 6 — that tries to get at the deeper truths in an incident of racial violence that happened 30 years ago, the roots of which lay in centuries of prejudice, and the specter of which still hangs over us today.
by | Jan 19, 2022 2:34 pm | Comments (4)
The feds are all in.
Continue reading ‘Feds Come Through With $160M For Coastal Climate-Change Plan’
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
Maliik Tinney waits online outside the Cornell Scott center on Dixwell.
From Long Wharf to Dixwell, people lined up for hours to get tested for Covid-19 as the Omicron variant continued to rage.
Continue reading ‘Test Message Received; Vax Message Muddled’
by | Dec 22, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (6)
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Mase (in car) finally makes it to front of the line.
James Mase waited for 45 minutes in a line of cars on Long Wharf Wednesday for the chance to spit in a tube — and then find out if the Omicron variant got him.
by | Dec 14, 2021 9:51 am | Comments (3)
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Lisson Brown ducks and dodges virtual disc in VR game.
The metaverse is being built 3D block by block at Riverside Education Academy.
by | Dec 7, 2021 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
Connecticut National Guard Major General Francis J. Evon, Jr., Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz, and Gov. Lamont at Tuesday's wreath-laying ceremony.
Connecticut National Guard Sgt. Fatou Toure and Sfc. Tristan Johnson on Tuesday.
Calling on Americans to stand “arm in arm to fight an invisible enemy,” Gov. Ned Lamont commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks by urging a new Greatest Generation to step up for their country in the fight against Covid.
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by | Dec 1, 2021 9:19 am | Comments (2)
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Daniel Mowerman passes flame to Jessie Pearl and son Levi Pearl.
A bright and symbolic flame of “tradition” and a “brighter day” was passed among generations during rush hour at Union Station at the onset of the third night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Continue reading ‘Light Of Hope, Miracles Spreads At Station’
by | Nov 16, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (10)
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Rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
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Monday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Alders unanimously approved plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf after arguing that the city’s waterfront should be developed and protected — not abandoned — amid climate change.
by | Nov 12, 2021 3:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Owner Anthony Antonakis at his now-shuttered Long Wharf restaurant: “It is what it is.”
The doors are shut, the chairs are coming out, and a “for lease” sign now stands on a grassy strip of Sargent Drive — as The Greek Olive, a diner that for two decades doubled as a local political deal-making hangout, has shuttered for good.
by | Nov 11, 2021 5:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Vietnam vet Reginald Jackson makes the first trek to the Long Wharf monument.
Reginald Jackson is a Vietnam Marine Corps vet whose birthday also happens to be on Nov. 11 — aka Veterans Day.
On Thursday afternoon Jackson came for the first time in his life to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Long Wharf and placed his hands on the names of his friends, fellow Wilbur Cross High School classmates who served in Vietnam but never made it back, engraved on the stone beneath the V.
Continue reading ‘Vietnam Vet Traces The Past At Long Wharf Veterans Day Commemoration’
by | Oct 28, 2021 1:23 pm | Comments (18)
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City Engineer Zinn, City Plan’s Woods: We can do this safely.
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Design rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
Plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf won a key aldermanic approval — after two city department heads made their pitches for why New Haven should not have to wholly abandon waterfront development, even amid climate change.
Continue reading ‘Harbor Plan Advances; Climate Fear Tackled’
by | Oct 25, 2021 5:50 pm | Comments (32)
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Vinny Rosarbo betting on the Saints …
… as Gov. Lamont (far right) and other state officials cut the ribbon on legal sports betting at Sports Haven.
Sliding five new $100 bills into a self-serve kiosk at Sports Haven, Vinny Rosarbo bet on more than just the New Orleans Saints beating the Seattle Seahawks.
He was also throwing his support behind a statewide wager that newly legalized gambling options will help Connecticut more than it will hurt by promoting the kind of addiction that led a state representative to resign his position the same day.
by | Oct 21, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (36)
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Rendering of Fusco’s proposed waterfront apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.
Continue reading ‘Harbor Plan Advances, Against State Advice’
by | Oct 18, 2021 8:34 am | Comments (0)
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Shannon Tyo.
On the bare stage of Long Wharf Theatre is one of those huge packing crates used for shipping props or sets. A man comes out of the shadows and pushes it further back, then opens its doors to reveal a theatrical space with a curtain and graceful designs on the wings. If you’re a regular theater-goer who hasn’t been in a theater since the Covid-19 lockdown began — and certainly not at Long Wharf Theatre’s stage at Sargent Drive, which has been closed since the spring of 2020 — that simple act of opening the crate to make theater on stage is striking, thrilling, magical.
by | Oct 13, 2021 1:18 pm | Comments (8)
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Herb Johnson: Ran to the rescue.
A car-jacking spree turned into a tractor-trailer-jacking that resulted in 10 crashed vehicles, a rush-hour traffic jam, and a fight with an ex-assistant police chief who happened to be on I‑95 and rushed to the rescue.
Continue reading ‘Carjacker Ties Up Highway Traffic, Crashes Into 10 Vehicles, Fights With Cops’
by | Oct 11, 2021 8:27 am | Comments (5)
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Discovering Amistad leader Paula Mann-Agnew at return event. In background, CT Freedom Trail Chair Charles Warner, Jr.
Paula Mann-Agnew looked across the waters of New Haven Harbor at the 78-foot Baltimore Clipper replica of the Spanish schooner, La Amistad, docked, in all its majesty, at Long Wharf Pier.
“Sankofa,” Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, told a gathering Saturday of 50 people in the cool autumn air. “It’s a West African concept that focuses on the fact that in order for us to move forward in a positive way, we need to look back on our history.
by | Oct 7, 2021 8:49 am | Comments (49)
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Developer Lynn Fusco: Back with a round-two plan for Long Wharf.
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A rendering of the planned new apartment towers on Long Wharf.
Imagine picking up lunch at a food hall, picnicking as kids play in a sculpture park, and viewing New Haven Harbor up close as residents move in and out of two new apartment towers.
A developer offered that pitch at a hearing about plans to build up to 500 apartments on Long Wharf.
by | Oct 5, 2021 2:44 pm | Comments (3)
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United Way President Lisa Tepper Bates: “The work isn’t easy.”
United Way of Connecticut is proposing that businesses help people “get back to work” with an equity approach.
Continue reading ‘United Way Makes Flexibility Pitch To Lure Back Workers’