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Cody Uman, in Ward 21: Voting yes on 4-year terms.
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Outside the Conte West Hills polling place on Chapel St.
(Updated and corrected) Cody Uman, an undergraduate math major at Yale, was running late to class Tuesday after setting aside an extra hour to research the proposed changes to the city’s charter and bike over to King-Robinson School to cast his vote in Ward 21, which covers parts of Newhallville, Dixwell and Prospect Hill.
He said he was voting “yes” on the ballot measure in favor of four-year terms for all elected officials and increased salaries for the city’s alders to make sure they’re better “compensated for their time.”
Two dozen eager and antsy King Robinson School first graders joined the mayor in pouring bucket after bucket of water atop a newly planted lacebark elm tree — to help grow a federally funded canopy expansion program that will see an extra 2,500 trees take root in New Haven over the next five years.
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Oct 12, 2023 4:00 pm
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Regina Winters-Toussaint.
While a student at the Yale School of Architecture in 1992, Regina Winters-Toussaint created her own summer internship. As one of the first counselors for LEAP, then a new youth enrichment program in New Haven, she moved into Westville Manor public housing, where she mentored the young people living there.
That willingness to steep herself in the experience of those who would live and work in the structures she built is among the reasons for the induction of Winters-Toussaint, who died of cancer at 47 in April 2016, in the CT Women’s Hall of Fame, according to its executive director Sarah Lubarsky.
Mayoral hopeful Tom Goldenberg with Knickerbocker regular Willie Holmes and club Vice President Patty Newton-Foster.
The Knickerbocker's castle-like clubhouse at 715 Sherman Pkwy.
Willie Holmes stepped into the Knickerbocker on Wednesday night for the same reason that he’s been showing up to the Newhallville African American golf club’s events for the past 75 years: to relax with friends, talk about the pleasures of golf and the state of Black New Haven, grab a drink, and mix it up with local political power players and those looking to join their ranks.
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Legacy Foundation's Greg Jones and high school senior Devin James, with Morgan State AD Dena Freeman-Patton and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison after the event.
The occasion was a Friday evening conversation, moderated by ESPN’s Michael Eaves, on “Athletics & Academics at HBCUs” with Dena Freeman-Patton, the first female athletic director at Morgan State University.
Freeman-Patton was in town for Saturday’s NAACP Harmony Classic between her Maryland-based school’s Bears and Yale’s Bulldogs. Yale would prevail 45 – 3.
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Sep 18, 2023 9:00 am
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Silent Book Club New Haven selections for September.
Are you one of those people who grabs a book with all intentions of plowing through a decent number of pages and ends up not reading any — distracted by the phone, the TV or household chores? The Silent Book Club might be perfect for you.
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Surprised non-Democrat Anthony Carter, with Bella Vista moderator Patricia Solomon.
“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” said May, an 81-year-old Newhallville resident who said she’s voted at Lincoln-Bassett School every election since she bought her home in 1985.
Except she wasn’t a Democrat on Tuesday. She found out from a moderator that she had been re-registered as an “unaffiliated” voter, ineligible to vote in the primary.
May was one of at least dozens of people across the city to find out on Tuesday that they couldn’t vote because they weren’t Democrats. To many, including May, that news came as an inexplicable surprise.
Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.
Lance Thomas, on Winchester Ave: "There's too much gun violence."
414 Dixwell, one of many Ocean properties up for sale.
Ocean Management affiliates sold another nine local rental properties over the past month — while Mandy Management affiliates sold six buildings of their own and bought one anew — as “For Sale” signs continue to pop up on front lawns across Newhallville and Dixwell.
Brennan, in front of supporters, in front of "climate hero" parking lot.
One of the keys to curbing local carbon emissions amid an ever-worsening climate crisis might just lie in a Newhallville parking lot on Albertus Magnus College’s campus.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson on Monday: "This is a tragedy. This is a terrible incident."
(Updated) A 54-year-old New Havener named Sheila Harris died on Wednesday from injuries she sustained during a domestic-violence-fueled double shooting on Shelton Avenue that had already claimed the life of her alleged abuser.
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Kimbrough's supporters include her grandson Warren Kimbrough, local business owner Jesse Crespo (of ADT Auto-Body), her niece Sonya Scott-Campbell, Hamdenite Sonia Powell, and Newhallville resident Brother Born.
“I want a stop sign right there by that school,” said Lossie Gorham. “And a speed bump.” She pointed at Lincoln-Bassett Community School, which stands across the street from where she’s lived for two decades.
Addie Kimbrough, the alder candidate who had knocked on Gorham’s door, nodded and repeated a refrain she’s often voiced on the campaign trail: “Newhallville is being neglected.”
Liam Brennan (right) with Keith and Yolanda Harper talking through ...
... fewer empty lots, more housing, on Starr Street.
Keith Harper can still remember the three-family house that stood a few doors down from his own family’s Starr Street home. It’s now a vacant city-owned lot.
Mayoral challenger Liam Brennan visited Harper’s Newhallville block to make his pitch for why a house should be standing there again today — and what rules need to be changed to make that denser land-use vision a reality.
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Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm
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Omar Kh with Mohamad Hamasa on Saturday: Looking to flip or rent.
Three months after prevailing at a West Hills foreclosure auction for a house he had planned to move his family into — but which he now intends to rent or flip — Omar Kh came back to New Haven to help a close friend and fellow New Yorker try to get his own foot in the door of investing in rundown, tax-foreclosed local real estate.
Jeanette Sykes, center, to political hopefuls: "Sometimes you're gonna have to stand alone."
With gentrification and adult education on their minds, Newhallville Democrats endorsed a political newcomer for alder while casting their support with the incumbent mayor and splitting on a school board seat.
Remidy Shareef: White supremacy "is the root cause of all of our problems here in America."
Call out exclusionary suburbs. Stand up for undocumented immigrants. Help boost Black small-business contractors. And always “speak truth to power.”
New Haven’s four Democratic candidates for mayor offered those responses when asked on the debate stage about what they have done and will do to combat systemic racial prejudices that benefit people who are white and harm those who are not.
Brennan, Goldenberg, and Mayor Elicker on the debate stage Thursday.
Abddusabur: "If we're not prioritizing taking care of our own community, how the hell are we going to have housing for somebody else that just got here?"
A hypothetical “bus of immigrants” rolled up to a Newhallville school auditorium Thursday night — revealing a divide among the city’s four Democratic mayoral candidates over just how much of a haven New Haven should be for new arrivals in need.
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Jun 26, 2023 2:08 pm
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Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater with Madgalene Campbell and granddaughter Makayla on the campaign trail.
Maceo “Troy” Streater was on a mission.
To win his first full term in aldermanic office. And to gather enough support to rename a stretch of Thompson Street in Newhallville for a long-time former neighborhood English teacher.
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Jun 26, 2023 12:04 pm
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Doreen Abubakar (center) helping a senior attendee pot her plant.
“Everyone, be quiet! I want to know which one I got.”
A hush fell over the roughly 30 seniors gathered on the second floor of the Q House community center as the gardeners-in-training attempted to find the flower that corresponded to the leafy sprouts in front of them.
256 Shelton: Potential candidate for eminent domain?
A mayoral challenger embraced the idea of claiming blighted properties for city ownership by way of eminent domain, as part of a campaign push to use local government’s powers to support new housing and deter dangerous building decay.
Abdussabur (right) passing Dope N Delicious lunch ...
... as campaign supporters pass Black-business-boosting business cards.
As takeout containers filled with fried rice, mac and cheese, chicken wings, and salad changed hands — along with business cards promoting the work of New Haven-raised Black entrepreneurs — Shafiq Abdussabur detailed his vision for bringing back the small-business glory days of the Dixwell Avenue of his youth.
Key ingredients to the revival he pitched include collaboration, public safety, local hiring, and making sure City Hall supports locally sourced ventures as soon as they get off the ground.
Newhallville-Hamden Strong Chair Jeanette Sykes: APT pushback brought community together.
A hundred Newhallville and southern Hamden community members celebrated news that the APT Foundation methadone clinic nonprofit is still open to selling its recently-purchased Dixwell Avenue building to a local children’s mental health nonprofit.
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Hamden Academy of Dance and Music dancers ...
... and quads and motorcycles ...
.. help fill the streets for the Freddy's festive return to Dixwell Ave.
Thousands of people filled Dixwell Avenue to march and mingle in a revived Freddy Fixer parade, marking a moment of community celebration following an extended pandemic-prompted pause.
