by | Jun 18, 2020 4:11 pm | Comments (2)
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A mobile stage dripped Cross Pride with red and white flower bouquets, balloons, and banners to celebrate the graduation day for 363 Wilbur Cross High School seniors — and a beloved administrator who is retiring after nearly four decades.
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by | Jun 17, 2020 8:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Rowan Huber and Stephen Hankey at Wednesday’s commencement.
Cowbells rung, gold glitter was thrown, prom dresses were worn after all, and students were riding large (in limos and party buses) to graduation for Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School drive-through commencement ceremony for its 150 graduates.
by | Jun 17, 2020 8:39 pm | Comments (2)
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Seventy-five Engineering and Science University Magnet School students walked the stage at Lighthouse Point Park to receive their diplomas in the last of six drive-by high school graduations held over two days.
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by | Jun 17, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Career Regional High staff arrived an hour and a half before the school’s drive-by commencement exercises at Lighthouse Point Park Wednesday morning. They put up purple and yellow balloons (the school colors). Using grant money, they had also hired a photographer so each senior could receive an 8‑by-10 photo in the mail.
As each of the 145 graduating seniors stepped off stage, they were handed a single, yellow rose.
“We wanted to make this day special since it’s not the traditional graduation ceremony,” said Principal Zakia Parrish. “We wanted to make sure the students know we appreciate them and wanted to celebrate them. There were also seniors who participated in the planning. We wanted to make sure they got the send-off they deserve.”
by | Jun 16, 2020 6:02 pm | Comments (5)
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Paolo Cepeda’s family cheers as he takes the stage.
Metro grads Jaylin Davis (top); Kayla Green, repping her college; Howard-bound aspiring attorney E’moni Cotten.
(Updated) New Haven’s graduating high school seniors got to walk onstage after all to receive their diplomas — even if they needed a lift to get there.
by | Jun 11, 2020 6:16 pm | Comments (3)
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High school seniors in Thursday’s “reverse parade.”
Banner flown over city.
A pandemic necessity may have just birthed a new tradition for city schools.
by | May 24, 2020 6:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Jose Resto was fishing alone on the breakwater at Lighthouse Point Park at 8 a.m. Sunday. He was the first one out of approximately 20 people to show up by noon for the park’s official reopening in honor of celebrating Memorial Day weekend.
by | May 18, 2020 9:58 am | Comments (1)
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Lyman greets Matteo at the drive-by party.
Because of the Covid-19 lockdown, Matteo Santell couldn’t invite his friends over for his seventh birthday party. But a visitor did show up, with a “Super Mario” surprise.
by | Mar 23, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (30)
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Tweed-New Haven Airport.
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down the state attorney general’s latest appeal in a decade-long lawsuit regarding Tweed-New Haven Airport’s planned runway expansion, thereby clearing a major legal hurdle for the East Shore airport’s bid to increase local airplane service.
by | Mar 12, 2020 4:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Management team members voting.
AnneMarie Rivera-Berrios wasn’t sure whether to accept $1,050 to restore the children’s playground at Peat Meadow Park. She’s been trying for four years to raise $25,000.
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Parent Francisco Pena (demonstrating sneeze gesture taught at Fair Haven School): Ready to teach his son at home.
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Mayor Elicker, announcing shutdown with Superintendent Tracey: “It’s at times like these that we define what kind of community we are.”
All New Haven public schools, senior centers, and libraries will close indefinitely beginning Friday as part of the city’s latest effort to stem the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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by | Feb 13, 2020 12:59 pm | Comments (15)
The city has started getting the word to neighbors about how to prepare for increased anticipating flooding in areas near the water.
by | Jan 14, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (11)
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American Airlines cut its daily round-trip Tweed flights this month from three to two on most days — and to one on others.
by | Dec 12, 2019 9:02 am | Comments (66)
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Sean Scanlon: Don’t blame me for what happened 10 years ago.
Claudia Bosch asks about the plan’s economic assumptions at Wednesday’s meeting.
The new director of Tweed-New Haven Airport asked for East Shore neighbors’ trust after two decades of feeling hoodwinked.
by | Oct 25, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (0)
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Hundreds of New Haveners did their hair, dressed to the nines, and turned out in style to celebrate half-a-dozen locals who have worked tirelessly — in some cases, for decades — to build community and support their neighbors.
That was the case Thursday night at Anthony’s Ocean View in Morris Cove, where over 500 New Haven politicos filled the waterfront dining room for the eighth annual Board of Alders Black and Hispanic Caucus Fall Gala.
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by | Sep 23, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Alicia Caraballo and Pura Delgado.
Alicia Caraballo spoke of her mother and her role as one of the founders of Junta for Progressive Action and so much more as she stood proudly by her side on the deck of Amarante’s Saturday evening for the pioneering Latinx agency.
“She is one of the activists who in 1969 at the height of civil unrest helped create services that provide for our community. I grew up with this,” Caraballo said of her mother, Pura Delgado.
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by | Sep 10, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (20)
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Marty Looney played coy Tuesday morning after casting the 175th vote at Nathan Hale School, the polling place for the 18th Ward, at 10:20 a.m.
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by | Aug 8, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (2)
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Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers at Lighthouse Beach.
One week after a statewide tax on plastic bags came into effect, 35 volunteers celebrated at Lighthouse Point Park by making the beach a little more plastic-free.
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:54 am | Comments (1)
Linderoth at Lighthouse beach with Garcia, the proud first member of the public to receive a printed copy of the new report.
Wendy Garcia’s husband cringes whenever she takes the kids to Lighthouse Point Park’s beach.
She hopes he won’t cringe any longer when she shows him a new report that gave the waters around New Haven’s most popular ocean swimming spot an excellent grade for water quality as pertains to human health.
by | Jul 26, 2019 8:10 am | Comments (8)
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Emcee Kica Matos: “Beautiful” transfer of power on the island.
In the hours after Ricardo Rosselló resigned as governor of Puerto Rico, the spirit of the protests that led to his fall from grace echoed inside Amarante’s Sea Cliff in Morris Cove on Thursday night, where Puerto Ricans United (PRU) honored four local residents and organizations.
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by | Jul 16, 2019 1:38 pm | Comments (18)
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Skimpy arrivals schedule at Tweed. To expand soon?
New Haven’s leading elected officials are staking out opposing positions on the future of Tweed-New Haven Airport in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling.
by | Jul 11, 2019 11:46 am | Comments (3)
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Stacy Leng (pictured), unexpectedtly found herself packing a blanket for herself and her three daughters on Wednesday evening when she heard the band Local Honey performing across the street from her home at the Pardee-Morris House.
by | Jul 9, 2019 4:16 pm | Comments (58)
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Mayor Toni Harp heralds Tweed decision.
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Mayor Toni Harp and a host of local economic development staffers, business people, and elected officials took a victory lap at Tweed New Haven Airport to celebrate a federal court decision effectively overturning the state’s prohibition on expanding the airport’s runway.
by | Jun 19, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (1)
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Despite the heavy Tuesday rain, seniors from New Haven senior groups and homes were offered a “Welcome Celebration” to start their summer’ off right with lunch and a carousel ride.
by | Apr 1, 2019 6:41 pm | Comments (37)
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Tweed Interim Executive Director Matthew Hoey delivers the news.
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A second airline has all but committed to fly out of Tweed if the airport extends its current runway — which a bill before the state legislature would allow the airport to do.
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