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Sep 15, 2016 2:52 pm
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Nydeliz at home in her library.
Some of the reasons a crowd Thursday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Hill’s Courtland S. Wilson Branch Library: • Its blazing fast Wifi and reliably cool air conditioning. • Its spacious meeting rooms booked from morning to night by civic groups ranging from the Pride Project to the Food Policy Institute. • How 4‑year-old Nydeliz Torres love to come and read her most favorite book, Pete the Cat.
In the last two years at Hill Central, Lillian Fontan has overseen climbing test scores, decreasing student absentee rates, and a jump off the state list of troubled schools.
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Aug 30, 2016 8:14 am
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Tour hits George Street.
A commercial building instead of a police station in at 1 Union Ave. Another one in the historic former New Haven Railroad building. A now half-empty Church Street South razed and reborn as a 900-unit, mixed-use and ‑income development.
City officials asked U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to envision all those changes — and to help them make them happen — on a one-mile walking tour from Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ 100 College St. headquarters to Amistad Park.
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Aug 23, 2016 8:17 am
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Gomes: Hire Brown.
Hill Central Music Academy teachers asked the Board of Education to approve their favorite candidate for the school’s assistant principal, instead of the candidate Superintendent Garth Harries chose.
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Aug 19, 2016 8:11 am
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Lemar: Thanks, but no thanks to 1950s suburban-style garage.
Community activists, bicycle advocates and New Haven politicians vowed Thursday night to fight Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s demand that the city accept his old-urbanist design for a 1,000-car garage at Union Station.
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Aug 10, 2016 3:56 pm
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A new raised obstruction slows a Chapel Street motorist.
Instead of zooming by as usual, drivers approached with caution a new square island in the middle of the street just a few feet away from the intersection of Chapel Street at Alden Avenue.
That new driving pattern is just what the city’s engineer, traffic chief and nearby neighbors had in mind.
Salvatore, pictured Monday night: Loves New Haven again.
A developer who had vowed to storm out of New Haven for good will now instead begin spending “tens of millions” of dollars bringing new life to 11.6 fallow acres in the Hill neighborhood, thanks to a vote Monday night by the Board of Alders.
The federal government is sending New Haven $20 million to help stitch downtown’s Temple Street back together with the Hill neighborhood and make fallow land available for new development.
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Jul 19, 2016 3:23 pm
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Three new battalion chiefs: Keilly, Vendetto, and Ricci.
Frank Ricci didn’t crash the latest fire promotion ceremony. This time he was invited. He sat quietly this time, his head slightly bowed, watching the meeting unfold in front of him.
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Jul 13, 2016 7:30 am
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Sensing fresh lanolin on your hand. Feeling that wool is “jagged” yet smooth at the same time. Spinning yarn and making felt. Learning that to shear is to leave some hair above the skin and to shave is to cut it all off. Just getting outside on a sunny day and appreciating nature’s creatures.
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Jun 23, 2016 7:37 am
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Salvatore prepares to exit.
Holmes: Please stay.
Protesting that New Haven’s political leadership had “betrayed” him, a developer looking to build hundreds of new apartments and offices in New Haven stormed out of City Hall Wednesday night — and, he said, out of doing business in the city, period.
Shannon Steed has lived at the crumbling Church Street South public-housing complex for 22 years — and came to a meeting looking for a guarantee that she can move back when the complex is rebuilt. She didn’t get it.
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May 27, 2016 2:35 pm
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Mermelstein and Karmasin trip the light fantastic.
Herbert Mermelstein and Pearl Karmasin’s romance started the way so many do: Girl meets boy at a party.
Like many budding romances, it built up to an unforgettable swinging night at the senior prom — in this case for seniors, like Mermelstein and Karmasin, in their tenth decade of life.
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May 17, 2016 8:09 am
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Neal-Sanjurjo pitches plan Monday night to Hill Alders Colon and Dave Reyes.
The Harp administration has decided to team up after all to try to rebuild the crumbling Church Street South housing complex with the company that destroyed it.
