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CCA's Juan Vega unveils the new street sign at Davenport and Ward...
...in honor of Rev. Bonita Grubbs, center, who turned 70 on Friday.
The corner of Davenport and Ward now officially bears the name of a cornerstone of New Haven’s fight against poverty.
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The proposed pedestrian arc for Downtown Crossing.
The highway exit separating Downtown from the Hill could someday sprout an arc-shaped pedestrian ramp in the middle of nine lanes of traffic.
The city hopes to secure grant funding to build that ramp as part of a plan to help New Haven become a future hub of quantum computing technology.
by | Apr 3, 2025 2:56 pm | Comments (10)
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Tony Evans and Zelinda Clerk get to work ...
... preparing food that Jerome Hauser, Jr. served up to guests like James Davis, in the Hill.
Jerome Hauser, Jr., Diamond Tree, Zelinda Clark, Tony Evans, and Rev. William Mathis had half an hour to go Thursday before the expected lunchtime rush at a newly opened soup kitchen in the Hill.
The fried chicken, beef, hash browns, and corn were hot. The takeout containers were stacked and stickered. Motivated by a commitment to feeding the hungry, the crew was ready to serve.
by | Apr 2, 2025 2:28 pm | Comments (3)
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Panelists Justin Farmer and Jennifer Heikkila Díaz at Tuesday's Big Read.
Four hundred and fifty one degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns.
Just transpose the number and word, and it’s also the title of an influential sci-fi novel born in the era of McCarthyism.
On Tuesday, that book was the subject of a spirited, two-alarm discussion on A.I., censorship and addiction to the internet and social media, that unfolded in the community room at the Wilson Branch Library in the Hill.
by | Mar 28, 2025 11:54 am | Comments (11)
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Reinvention team: LCI's Rosario, Brennan and Williams at WNHH FM.
Rosaly Rosario discovered that a rundown vacant house on Sylvan Avenue wasn’t so vacant after all.
by | Mar 24, 2025 11:36 am | Comments (12)
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50 Liberty: Another new owner, another sale way above tax appraisal.
A Fairfield County investor has purchased a three-family house on Liberty Street for $492,500, marking that property’s fourth sale in as many years.
The seller sold it for $182,000 more than he paid for it — while the city taxes it as if it’s worth half as much as the actual sale price.
Continue reading ‘Investor, Not City, Profits On 4th Resale’
by and | Mar 20, 2025 4:10 pm | Comments (8)
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Clemente Principal Adela Jorge: "Reaffirm that your child is safe and that your child is loved."
(Updated) Roberto Clemente Academy has lined up extra counselors and psychologists to help students process the loss of one of their second-grade classmates — two days after an 8‑year-old boy named Stacey Glasgow died from an apparently accidental gunshot wound at his home in the Hill.
Continue reading ‘Clemente Principal: "Allow Your Child To Grieve"’
by | Mar 17, 2025 1:20 pm | Comments (35)
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The Dewitt St. block where the fatal shooting took place.
(Updated) An 8‑year-old boy died from an apparently accidental gunshot wound Sunday night while at home on Dewitt Street in the Hill.
Continue reading ‘8-Year-Old Dies From "Accidental" Shooting’
by | Mar 14, 2025 12:02 pm | Comments (2)
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Meghan Currey.
Meghan Currey is stepping down from the helm of the Hill’s Wilson Library branch and headed to a new position in the Wallingford library system.
by | Mar 10, 2025 4:24 pm | Comments (8)
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Truman 7th graders Balal and Jovanni: Yondr is better than a lock box but not better than new sports teams.
As 5th-8th graders across New Haven locked away their cellphones for the official kickoff of phone-free schools Monday, many Truman School students did so knowing that it would help them in the long run — though some argued that the money could’ve been spent better, like on more school sports.
by | Mar 7, 2025 3:07 pm | Comments (1)
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At NHPS' mental health and first aid training session.
Rather than watch students present mid-year projects, 20 New Haven educators and school staffers stood at the front of the “class” to present their own research to their peers about what to look out for when it comes to student wellbeing and mental health.
Continue reading ‘Teachers Become Students Of Student Mental Health’
by | Jan 27, 2025 9:40 am | Comments (6)
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NICE Director Rasheed: “People know we’ll be here and won’t fail them.”
Sacred Heart University student Pavan Morla and his three roommates showed up to the Howard Avenue police substation just before noon — to pick up apples, tomatoes, cheese, and milk, at a food pantry that has been serving the Hill for nearly a decade.
Continue reading ‘Free Food Flies Off The Shelves At Hill Pantry’
by | Jan 9, 2025 7:10 pm | Comments (7)
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At 54 Meadow: "We are the union... the mighty, mighty union!"
Vereen: "I really didn't think it was going to take this long."
After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.
by | Jan 7, 2025 11:10 am | Comments (5)
Architectural rendering of Dewitt Street redevelopment.
The redevelopment of a former housing cooperative in the Hill will soon net 64 new (mostly) affordable apartments, with another 40 units set to be renovated over the next two years — thanks to a second alder-approved tax break.
by | Jan 6, 2025 9:17 am | Comments (0)
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School’s (BRAMS) darkrooms are now mold-free, thanks to an “urgent” cleanup completed during winter break.
by | Jan 3, 2025 11:43 am | Comments (2)
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Yours truly, proud inductee in the Lee High Hall of Fame.
New Haven’s Richard C. Lee High School (1964 – 1986) was an experiment.
by | Jan 2, 2025 3:32 pm | Comments (2)
The last stretch of 2024 in New Haven included a homicide, a stolen Amazon van, and two stabbings, including one at Union Station.
Continue reading ‘Homicide, Stabbings, & A Stolen Amazon Truck’
by | Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm | Comments (7)
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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."
Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
by | Dec 23, 2024 4:25 pm | Comments (4)
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King, Ivy, and Kiara show off their new toys.
“I don’t put up a tree,” said Paula Pouncey. “I stopped buying presents.” She wasn’t planning to do anything for Christmas.
Then Hill Alder Angel Hubbard left a flyer by her front door.
Continue reading ‘How Angel Brought Back Christmas In The Hill’
by | Dec 20, 2024 12:05 pm | Comments (4)
Yale New Haven Health announced on Friday a five-year, $500,000 unrestricted gift to Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, in support of the health center’s Recovery and Wellness Center and “advancing health equity.”
by and | Dec 17, 2024 2:19 pm | Comments (3)
(Updated) A 38-year-old man named Hassau Powell was found dead last week in a Yale New Haven Hospital office building, apparently from a medical problem.
by | Dec 9, 2024 3:25 pm | Comments (6)
The late Uzziah Shell, as shown in a photo shared by family members at Saturday's funeral.
Friends wore shirts that read Forever 16 with a photo of Uzziah Shell. Ushers handed out tissues to grieving classmates. Mothers wrapped their arms tightly around their kids. A portrait of Uzziah holding a sign reading “I’m Thankful For” and adorned with colored Post-Its smiled from the altar.
That was the scene on Saturday at Life-Giving Water Church on Howard Avenue, where a packed house of friends, family, and city leaders gathered to celebrate the life of Shell, the 16-year-old Riverside Academy student who was shot and killed on Goffe Street late last month.
by | Dec 6, 2024 10:46 am | Comments (9)
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Robert Harris: “When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable."
The tiny shelters (right) behind 203 Rosette.
A group of unhoused neighbors have taken to sleeping two or even three to a room inside unheated pre-fabricated tiny shelters that are still standing in a Rosette Street backyard.
“When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable being in there,” said Robert Harris, as he pointed at a row of white Pallet shelters. “But sometimes it’s colder in these because it can be like an ice box.”
Continue reading ‘As Temps Drop, Tiny Shelter Residents Double Up’
by | Dec 5, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (4)
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At Betsy Ross's Winter Fest: High school performers, coming soon.
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School (BRAMS) will have an inaugural ninth grade class next year — as the district works to transition the 5 – 8th grade middle school to a 7 – 12th grade high school in order to better accommodate students’ high demand for arts instruction.
by | Dec 3, 2024 10:05 am | Comments (3)
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Mr. Dye, holding court at the Hill South CMT.
Johnny Dye, a community activist known to many as the “Mayor of the Hill,” died early on Monday morning in his home. He was 84 years old.