by | Aug 22, 2021 1:16 pm | Comments (2)
Inside the emergency shelter Sunday.
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Magro at Career Sunday.
Ginnette Magro and her husband normally sleep on the New Haven Green. With a tropical storm predicted to be on its way, they made other plans. Quick.
by | Aug 18, 2021 3:52 pm | Comments (8)
Rendering of new campus plan.
An historic church and an historic school building will be renovated, and a crumbling former rectory and convent will come down to make room for new athletic fields and a basketball court, under a plan to build a new campus for St. Martin de Porres Academy.
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by | Aug 16, 2021 8:13 am | Comments (8)
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Duke Dennis (center left), Amari Caple (left), Kai Cenat (right), and Sirraya Pratt.
Duke Dennis scored a few baskets and scored new friends Saturday afternoon in the first Gone But Not Forgotten Memorial Basketball Invitational.
Continue reading ‘Basketball Tournament In The Hill Honors Lost Lives’
by | Aug 13, 2021 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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Campers show off art master pieces.
The Hill’s Trowbridge Square Park has been filled this week with aspiring artists, mathematicians, and athletes.
by | Aug 3, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (6)
Board Prez Tyisha Walker-Myers: Vaccinated, back in the chair.
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That’s not Zoom: Alders in City Hall Monday night.
New Haven’s Board of Alders returned to in-person public meetings for the first time since the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic — then voted to protect lives of pedestrians on “Death Boulevard” and to push D.C. lawmakers to save lives with universal health insurance.
by | Jul 30, 2021 11:14 am | Comments (13)
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Donna Thompson at Wednesday’s event.
Donna Thompson — along with several dozen fellow New Haveners currently working part-time, short-term jobs — showed up at Career High School with a goal in mind: To find a new career.
by | Jul 28, 2021 10:00 am | Comments (10)
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Outside the Democratic Town Convention Tuesday night.
Karen DuBois-Walton’s sudden departure from the mayoral race left supporters crestfallen, critics relieved, and many local Democratic Party stalwarts dismayed at the effective end to a hotly contested bid for the city’s top elected office.
by | Jul 27, 2021 6:20 pm | Comments (10)
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Mayor Elicker, accepting the endorsement Tuesday.
Elicker supporters outside Betsy Ross.
(Updated at 8:58 p.m.) Mayor Justin Elicker unanimously won the local Democratic Party’s endorsement at Tuesday’s town convention — a key step on his path to reelection for another two-year term.
by | Jul 27, 2021 6:06 pm | Comments (28)
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Karen DuBois-Walton, on her way into the Democratic Town Convention.
(Updated at 10:14 p.m.) Karen DuBois-Walton has ended her campaign for mayor, leaving the path to reelection all but assured for first-term incumbent Justin Elicker.
by | Jul 26, 2021 4:56 pm | Comments (7)
City police are investigating a nonfatal shooting and a nonfatal stabbing that took place on back to back days in the Hill this weekend.
In a separate incident, police arrested an 18-year-old New Havener in the East Shore for allegedly stealing a car and possessing a semi-automatic handgun without a permit.
Continue reading ‘32-Year-Old Shot, 43-Year-Old Stabbed In The Hill’
by | Jul 20, 2021 1:08 pm | Comments (13)
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Union Station: Final details of next iteration being hammered out.
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Hausladen at Monday meeting: Details ready by September.
A planned new 55-year accord between the city and the state over the future of Union Station is in the final stages of negotiation, with formal submission of a detailed “lease and funding” document expected within two months.
by | Jul 16, 2021 3:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Ciera Jones’s mother Darlene Galberth, with floral gift: “I’m going to name it CeCe.”
Truman Street grew just a little bit greener Friday — as neighbors gathered to weed out the trauma from a recent homicide on the block, and plant new life.
by | Jul 16, 2021 3:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Here’s a clue: Her feet know how to pray.
Here’s another possible clue: She once pointed a .357 magnum at a cop — who had a gun pointed back at her — and survived.
by | Jul 14, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (0)
In her new video for “Paradise,” New Haven-based rapper Snowsa — formerly Snowprah — stares down an adversary over the mysterious contents of a duffel bag. Her antagonist accosts her. There’s an argument. He throws a punch. Snowsa ducks it and throws a punch back. She makes contact, and he staggers. She grabs the bag and runs, out into the streets of the Hill, toward friends, toward safety.
by | Jul 7, 2021 9:53 pm | Comments (13)
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Ciera Jones, at right, with brother Carl Jones and mentor/teacher Demetria McMillan at the siblings’ 2017 Hillhouse graduation.
A 22-year-old woman shot Monday on Truman Street, named Ciera Jones, has died from her injuries.
“CeeCee” Jones had been shot in the head Monday between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. while gathered with a group of young adults on a walkway at the side of her family’s house across the street from a neighborhood community garden. Jones lived in the house with her mother and brother. She was also a close relative of a young man shot to death last year in Hamden.
by | Jul 6, 2021 3:17 pm | Comments (4)
When the cops kicked in his front door just before dawn Friday morning, a 30-year-old New Haven man allegedly threw a loaded semi-automatic handgun out of a third-story window.
The police found the weapon anyway — along with two other loaded guns hidden in his apartment.
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by | Jul 5, 2021 9:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Police Monday at shooting scene.
A daylight shooting in the Hill Monday sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.
by | Jul 1, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (27)
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City Plan Director Aicha Woods (left) with neighbors on Greenwich Ave.
Parking problem on Howard Ave. sidewalk.
Cars, cars, cars, houses, and cars, on Howard.
City Plan Director Aïcha Woods walked past a car parked in the middle of the sidewalk on Howard Avenue.
She paused, turned around, pulled out her phone, and took a picture.
“This,” she declared, “is what I call a parking problem.”
by | Jun 22, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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The Huneebee Project — a regional beekeeping project maintains beehives in a community garden on Arthur Street in the Hill — was part of the experience tours connected to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which runs through June 27
For those who participated in the visit to the Huneebee Project Saturday and Sunday, it was a fascinating dive into bee biology, plant sex, and the big wonders that can come from small green spaces in a city.
by | Jun 19, 2021 10:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Solar Power and community at Dixwell festival’s dance party.
Tracey Massey at Hill fest: “We’re building another Wall Street.”
From the Hill to Dixwell, New Haveners celebrated Juneteenth with dance, soul food, and investments in Black businesses.
by | Jun 17, 2021 3:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Hill South CMT, back in person outside Betsy Ross School.
Team stalwart Angela Hatley: “Getting back to life.”
The wind whipped. Flyers scattered. A generator roared from Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe. Passing engines vroomed.
Some news under discussion was good news. Some, like rising gun violence, cause for concern.
None of it could dampen the mood of celebration Tuesday night as 40 people gathered on the grounds of Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School. They were doing something they hadn’t done in more than a year of Covid-19: hold a Hill South Committee Management Team meeting in person. Not on Zoom.
Continue reading ‘Quality Of Life Tackled Back In Real Life’
by | Jun 16, 2021 4:32 pm | Comments (18)
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Mayor Elicker, LCI Director Samuel, Randy Salvatore, and DECD Commissioner Lehman cut the ribbon on more Hill housing.
The newly renovated “49 Prince St.” apartments.
An empty school building is about to fill up again on Prince Street — this time with tenants, not students, in one the fastest-changing blocks in town.
by | Jun 16, 2021 9:47 am | Comments (8)
Dayshon Smith and Richard Whitaker at Richard’s Eli Whitney graduation; Tuesday Richard became city’s 15th homicide victim in 2021.
Richard Whitaker Jr. watched a gunman shoot his brother dead in the Hill. Tuesday night, he, too, was shot dead on the neighborhood streets.
Continue reading ‘Slain Boxer’s Brother Shot Dead In The Hill’
by | Jun 13, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Painting by numbers is no longer the home crafts fad that it once was, but two New Haven artists dusted off and rejuvenated the practice for a socially-conscious mural project in the Hill neighborhood on Saturday.
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Superintendent Tracey at Friday’s commencement.
After balancing school work, a custody battle for her 7‑month old son, and a job as a manager at KFC, 18-year-old Kayla Folk walked side by side with her best friend Rea’gean Oakley, bright smiles on both their faces. Together, they picked up their high school diplomas.