by | Sep 4, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
Make that the “Morris Cove Airport,” as our flying field was called back in the late 1920s, before it was formally dedicated in 1931 as the New Haven Municipal Airport.
It became Tweed-New Haven Airport, named for a manager and renowned local flyer John Tweed, only in 1961.
by | Aug 13, 2015 7:17 am | Comments (1)
Sal DeCola is asking people to help him clean up and “beautify” Fort Hale Park this weekend.
by | Jul 20, 2015 4:30 pm | Comments (10)
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Mark & Luz Colville.
The Amistad Catholic Worker House — the hungry-feeding, injustice-fighting oasis on Rosette Street — usually celebrates its anniversary with a block party with a moon bounce, popcorn, and water sprayed from a fire hydrant on their tight-knit block in the Hill. Sunday the group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a blow-out at Lighthouse Point Park.
Who footed the bill? The New York Police Department.
Continue reading ‘After 20 (And 25) Years, Amistad Vows Renewed’
by | Jul 2, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (0)
“Everyone’s from everywhere,” said frontman Erik Elligers of Goodnight Blue Moon from the stage last Wednesday, as the band kicked off the Twilight Concert Series on the lawn of the historic Pardee-Morris House in Morris Cove. The sounds of light traffic beyond the hedges were the only reminder we were not in the country. The lawn filled with fans on picnic blankets and folding chairs. Encouraged by Elligers, young and old took to their feet, clapped, and danced. The lawn crowd swelled with passersby and neighbors who joined concertgoers, whether they boogied down or lounged in the dying light and the plentiful shade of a nearby tree.
Continue reading ‘Goodnight Blue Moon Brings It All Back Home’
by | Jun 30, 2015 1:28 pm | Comments (15)
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A day after the Obama administration celebrated a new era in civil rights for the LGBT community, bathing the White House in luminous rainbow-colored hues, a crowd gathered at Morris Cove’s Pardee Seawall in New Haven to witness the marriage of Mischa Johnson (left) and Betty Baisden (right), pillars of the local community who also happen to be a transgender couple.
Continue reading ‘Mischa And Betty Cross The Next Threshold’
by | Jun 18, 2015 2:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Gull’s third- grade class with Father Carter.
At a school that has followed centuries-old Catholic tradition for six decades, an update has been put in place.
by | Jun 11, 2015 3:57 pm | Comments (25)
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A city official tried out a new argument to seek to convince East Shore neighbors to support paving more of Tweed-New Haven Airport’s runway: It will mean less noise.
by | Jun 8, 2015 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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On July 4, 1779, regiments of English regulars, Hessians, and Tories landed at Lighthouse Point near Fort Black Rock/Fort Nathan Hale.
Ben Greenleaf, age 14, spent Saturday night camping at the same spot with his East Haven-East Shore Boy Scout Troop 401.
by | Jun 2, 2015 8:58 am | Comments (14)
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The New Haven Board of Alders Monday night unanimously approved adding Stratford to the regional water authority, though a legal fight could be brewing with residents of that town.
Continue reading ‘New Haven OKs WPCA Takeover Of Stratford Sewer Plant’
by | May 21, 2015 8:14 am | Comments (45)
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Larson: Modernization, not expansion.
City and Tweed-New Haven Airport officials pitched plane-weary Morris Cove neighbors Wednesday night on a plan to pave another 1,500 feet of runway to boost air service into town — and received a ritual chorus of angry opposition from an overflow crowd.
Continue reading ‘“We Don’t Want It!” Tweed Neighbors Declare’
by | Apr 15, 2015 3:24 pm | Comments (18)
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Mayer: We are being “singled out.”
Chris Smarz and Diane Zorich photographed their neighbor’s front yard, gathering evidence that they were illegally parking more than two cars in their driveway.
When she found out, neighbor Lisa Mayer retaliated with photos of her own.
by | Apr 1, 2015 12:32 pm | Comments (4)
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When Laura Cross was asked to put together an after-school program for Nathan Hale School just before the fall semester, she got on the phone and started building a coalition of parents to help run it.
by | Mar 12, 2015 1:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Second through sixth-graders at Nathan Hale School interviewed 93-year-old local historian Doris Townshend for their school newspaper, The Patriot Times. Following is the story they published
It’s a cold, Tuesday night and Mrs. Townshend (also known as Doris or Deb), warmly greets us at the giant front door.
by | Jan 2, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (1)
“Hello. You guys are all out of your minds.”
So said Dean Falcone of the Shellye Valauskas Experience to welcome the souls who were about to brave the 2015 Polar Bear Plunge at Lighthouse Point Park on New Year’s Day.
Continue reading ‘Pig Man, Shark, And Squid Take The Polar Plunge’
by | Dec 30, 2014 2:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Navigating the sidewalk to the train station in a 2012 flash flood.
In the next two to three years, New Haven could be awash in green infrastructure projects, rather than flood water.
by | Oct 27, 2014 3:28 pm | Comments (1)
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Bob Megna shifted into drive for his reelection campaign — on decidedly mellower wheels.
by | Oct 24, 2014 12:02 pm | Comments (13)
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Cicarella: Use data better.
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Rau: “No excuses.”
To figure out how to better support and evaluate teachers in and outside of the classroom, ask the teachers what they need.
by | Oct 22, 2014 2:47 pm | Comments (23)
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East Shore politicians told a crowd of asthma, pollution, and noise-weary Morris Covers what they wanted to hear about the future of Tweed-New Haven Airport‘s runways: that they should not be lengthened to accommodate more air traffic.
Still, the crowd wasn’t entirely convinced. Its message: You say no. Now what are you going to do about it?
by | Sep 8, 2014 8:05 am | Comments (0)
A reporter dumped on a politician Sunday.
So what else was new?
by | Sep 5, 2014 8:11 am | Comments (1)
Police responded to a call Thursday night about a “partial carcass” found in the harbor attached to “a foot.”
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Waiting for New Haven Republicans to emerge from the shadows and vote Tuesday, Nancy Ahern had lots of time to catch up on her reading.
by | Aug 11, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (0)
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Students work on site at an earlier event at Common Ground high school, creating an educational wetland as part of the urban oases program.
Common Ground High School sent in these photos and the following write-up about the creation of urban wildlife refuges in New Haven, announced at an event Friday morning featuring kids, environmentalists, politicians and the United States Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS).
by | Aug 5, 2014 11:43 am | Comments (11)
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Tony Sacco presses the governor and Sen. Blumenthal for the seawall during a 2012 post-storm visit
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Morris Cove has been approved for federal money to build a seawall where temporary Jersey barriers protect three houses now and for another seven houses beyond that.
A longstanding and controversial request to build a 500-foot-long seawall along Morris Cove, approved as infrastructure funding, could be years away from implementation. The project faces serious hurdles that could make meeting grant-imposed deadlines a race with the clock.
by | Jul 29, 2014 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
Goad (left) and Barile.
A wooden crucifix adorns the wall of this eighth-grade history classroom at Saint Bernadette Catholic School — with a web-connected touch-controlled electronic white board hanging directly below the cross.
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by | Jul 28, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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Gilvarg (left) shows Klee an eroded stretch of Long Wharf.
Let’s fix that pier — and give the fisherman who climbed around that chain-link fence more places to catch snapper.