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 | 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.
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Mary Ann Frank and Lauren Pinkza with Willow on Thursday's walk.
The word on Cliff Street Thursday was: Female friendships.
As in long-haul female friendships, nurtured on morning strolls. They can get you through a pandemic — and help you grapple with mortality.
They can even get you through a disappointing morning sandwich.
by | Nov 21, 2021 10:07 pm | Comments (15)
Quinton Jones.
Firefighters found a man who’d been shot dead in a car Sunday in the Prospect Hill section of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
Seekers at opening of Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life.
Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart.
Unable to find a convenient or affordable cave? Are the crazy schedules, noise, and constant challenges of New Haven life playing havoc with your quest for solitude and purpose?
Don’t fear. Albertus Magnus College’s new Meister Eckhart Center just may have a solution for you: Learn how to be an “urban mystic.”
You might start by having pizza with one.
by | Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.
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NHPS Student Enrollment Count by Race/Ethnicity.
Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.
by | Jul 8, 2021 10:26 am | Comments (10)
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Nina Silva (pictured at right, with Pat Solomon) presses paraprofessional living-wage concern at mayoral forum.
New Haven’s “upstairs-downstairs” divide was on display at a Democratic ward committee meeting Wednesday night in both a vote taken and an exchange about low-wage workers.
by | Jul 2, 2021 10:48 am | Comments (7)
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Pillsbury & Perry at Thursday gathering: “A politically open marriage.”
Another mayoral election has divided an influential married couple in Prospect Hill — and once again has not prevented them from welcoming all points of view into their home.
Continue reading ‘Peace Couple Peacefully Splits On Election’
by | Jun 7, 2021 1:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Alexandra Daum: Raising bar at the zoning board, cashing in on real estate market.
A top state economic development official and local zoning board member is also a city landlord on the move — actively buying, renovating, managing, and selling rental properties in New Haven’s red-hot housing market.
by | May 11, 2021 2:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Fair Haven School Principal Monica Morales.
Quinnipiac School Principal Monica Morales and West Rock Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette will head up Fair Haven School and Celentano Magnet School, respectively, starting this July.
The New Haven Board of Education voted for their transfers on Monday evening, alongside the promotion of Marisol Rodriguez to principal of Columbus Family Academy.
by | Apr 29, 2021 12:16 pm | Comments (0)
Dominican Hall: Internet speed-up planned.
Two new 5G antennae are being installed to keep the broadband up to speed at Albertus Magnus College and its surrounding area.
by | Mar 16, 2021 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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570 Whitney Ave., where Mandy Management recently purchased 16 condos.
For only the second time in two and a half years, the megalandlord Mandy Management purchased market-rate rental housing in East Rock — picking up 16 condos on Whitney Avenue as part of a monthlong, $4 million, 45-unit buying spree.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Sep 28, 2020 9:25 am | Comments (31)
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Writing to swing-state voters from the sidewalks of Loomis Place.
On a quiet, tree-lined Prospect Hill block, several dozen New Haveners gathered at pandemic-safe distances to listen to cello music, enjoy the picture-perfect autumn afternoon — and write letter after letter after letter, desperately encouraging swing-state voters to do their part to ensure that the United States remains a functioning democracy this election season.
by | Sep 8, 2020 2:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Jessica Reid passes the flame to freshman Zaporia Satterfield.
Albertus Magnus’s Class of 2024 was passed a virtual torch from the senior class as the college found a way to continue its traditional convocation candle-lighting tradition to kick off a school year marked by a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Albertus Continues Convocation Tradition, With A Twist’
by | Aug 25, 2020 6:19 pm | Comments (0)
New Albertus Magnus College students began moving into their residence areas Tuesday with the goal of “not letting Covid stop my life,” as freshman Avlin Mayers, 17, put it.
by | May 5, 2020 7:01 pm | Comments (11)
It was about 7:50 pm. The streets were empty. And the unlikeliest sound was wafting onto Sachem Street: a tenor saxophone playing pop.
by | Mar 5, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Aléwa Cooper.
The head of a Westport private elementary school will serve as the next head of school for The Foote School.
Continue reading ‘New Head Of School Tapped For The Foote School’
by | Feb 17, 2020 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Rendering of planned “Living Village.”
Soon you may be able to walk up Prospect Street — and enter utopia.
by | Dec 2, 2019 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Whitney Avenue, looking north from Sachem Street. Below: City Engineer Giovanni Zinn.
Speed tables. Bike lanes. Bumpouts. Traffic signals.
Those potential pedestrian safety improvements are all now possibilities for Whitney Avenue thanks to $1.2 million in state bonding the city is slated to receive for reimagining the East Rock/Prospect Hill corridor.
by | Nov 21, 2019 8:56 am | Comments (4)
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Yale Planner James Elmasry with rendering of Economics building proposed for 87 Trumbull (top).
Yale plans to move an historic two-story Trumbull Street building a few hundred feet down the block — and then build in its stead a new four-story building for the university’s Economics Department.
by | Sep 10, 2019 9:39 pm | Comments (2)
Three incumbent New Haven alders defeated challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, while a party convention-endorsed candidate also prevailed against a petitioning challenger.
Continue reading ‘Incumbent Alders Beat Back Primary Challenges’
by | Sep 9, 2019 11:11 am | Comments (3)
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Candidates Eddie Gist, Steve Winter, Troy Streater, Anais Nunez.
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The three neighborhood-spanning Ward 21.
A four-way alder race in the jigsaw-shaped Ward 21 pits a first-term incumbent focused on challenges ranging from street light improvements to affordable housing to climate change against a slate of challengers calling for more opportunities for neighborhood youth.
by | Sep 9, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (1)
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Amythyst Kiah.
The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo hit all the marks of a good festival on Saturday: great music, lots of things to do beyond the music, and a celebration of space and community built not just around the music, but the people and nature that make a special day possible.
by | Aug 28, 2019 7:24 am | Comments (0)
Jim Allyn plays with a right hand confident and sure. His singing voice is strong yet plaintive. “Tonight she lifts her flame, and history’s taking names,” he sings. “The mother of exiles prays her child will be found.”
Continue reading ‘CT Folk Fest Makes Changes On Solid Ground’