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Kelcey Perez loves to dance. So much so that she once learned and mastered a dance routine with a broken arm.
Continue reading ‘Once-Shy “It Girl” Becomes Youth Of The Year’
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Fire broke out on Ella Grasso Boulevard Tuesday — on purpose. So firefighters could put it out.
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After a week of community outcry, John Cesaroni heard the city’s reasoning for seeking to fell a beloved neighborhood tree in front of his house — and embraced the inevitable.
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by | Apr 9, 2015 11:15 am | Comments (6)
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New Haven’s Jorge Perez sailed to approval Wednesday as Connecticut’s new banking commissioner.
by | Mar 31, 2015 9:15 am | Comments (7)
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Tagan Engel supported hiring a city food-policy director.
Susan Samuels’ grandchild’s school has a full-time nurse, who helped save his life. She said all city schoolkids should be that lucky.
Most New Haven kids go to schools with nurses on premises only part-time.
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by | Mar 27, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Unit G-2, aka “The Submarine,” before last week’s raid.
When I first came to Daggett Street Square in 2007, I was taken by its rambling hallways, its pulley-operated elevator. The building may not have been insulated, but it was insular. By that time, few live-work spaces remained in New Haven. There had been others — on River Street; in the Munniemaker cigar factory on State Street; at Chapel and Church, above what is now Gotham Citi — all now shut down.
Now we can add Daggett Street Square to the list: Last week officials ordered it cleared out.
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David Lasala.
by | Mar 26, 2015 12:39 pm | Comments (1)
Don’t bully.
And kiss those you love every day.
Those were among the concluding messages that child Holocaust survivor Endre Sarkany delivered to a rapt of audience of 60 fifth-graders at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy.
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by | Mar 24, 2015 7:13 pm | Comments (31)
Nine days after a police officer slammed her to the ground in handcuffs, a 15-year-old girl received a visit from New Haven’s police chief — along with an apology.
by | Mar 18, 2015 3:36 pm | Comments (20)
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Artists illegally living in Daggett Street Square packed up their belongings Wednesday after a crackdown by authorities on the former factory building that has been a warren of studios for artists and musicians, and a linchpin of the New Haven underground arts scene, for decades.
by | Mar 11, 2015 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
Friday night in New Haven, and the Sabbath was about to begin. For Jon Stone, so was some serious music.
Continue reading ‘Underground Scene Welcomes “Acoustic Shabbat”’
by | Mar 10, 2015 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
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“I saw that he was laying in the doorway with a bullet wound in his head. Then he went into convulsions. and then he was out.”
Continue reading ‘The Organic Truth, From Trayvon To “Tray”’
by | Mar 3, 2015 9:26 am | Comments (0)
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Harries with the kids at Strong.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So they brought Seuss to Strong School this cold, cold Monday.
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by | Feb 28, 2015 8:15 pm | Comments (0)
A Saturday afternoon fire left a halfway house in the Hill uninhabitable.
by | Feb 13, 2015 12:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Miller, at right, at the Boys & Girls Club.
While there are some perks to being a New Haven police officer, free donuts and free gas are not among them.
by | Feb 12, 2015 5:45 pm | Comments (0)
City snow removal operations will be trying to clear piles from some residential streets Friday. Temporary parking bans are in effect for several streets in The Hill neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Parking Restrictions For Friday Snow Removal’
by | Feb 11, 2015 9:27 am | Comments (0)
Noel Mitchell walked to the middle of the bright, white entertainment room at Casa Otoñal, sucked in a deep breath, and prepared to make an announcement. As one of Music Haven’s three high school fellows, it fell to him to bring the “Legend of Zelda” back. And he was going to bring it back strong, through the singing, shrill belly of his violin.
It was another quiet evening, the room filled with about 20 of the center’s elderly inhabitants, speaking quietly to each other in Spanish. A number of pink and red hearts, mounted just in time for Valentine’s Day, glinted as they twirled and bounced from the ceiling.
“Zelda,” Mitchell explained before he began the theme-song-cum-duet with Music Haven director Tina Lee Hadari, “is a very, very, very old video game.”
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A 48-year-old woman was shot dead in the Hill early Saturday.
by | Feb 5, 2015 9:28 am | Comments (51)
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Parent Stephen Poland (right) at Hill session.
Career High School biology teacher Terrence McTague said he is “frustrated” by seeing “such great things” happen in his underfunded school go unappreciated while the “billionaires’ boys club” throws money to charter schools.
Continue reading ‘Teachers, Parents Organize Against Charter Deal’
by | Jan 29, 2015 3:04 pm | Comments (4)
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The city condemned a Hill building after an early Thursday morning fire, and reported discovering two “bedrooms” crammed into the storage area of a Chinese restaurant on the first floor.
by | Jan 27, 2015 9:23 am | Comments (7)
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As Ray Willis and Joe Canzanella finished giving out tickets on State Street, a bartender ran out of JP Dempseys to her car yelling, “No, no, no, no, no, no!”
by | Jan 16, 2015 7:08 am | Comments (6)
A 43-year-old man lunged at a cop with a knife. The incident could have ended ugly.
by | Jan 13, 2015 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
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It’s Karaoke Day, owner Greg “Chanz” Simpkins announced in his Headz Up Barber Shop: Everyone should take turns singing — now that someone had made off with the surround-sound system.
by | Jan 9, 2015 2:17 pm | Comments (0)
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As Domingo Lopez Juarez shoveled a spatula-full of carne enchilada onto the grill in his new food truck, a smoky haze of jalapeno shot up his customers’ noses and into their lungs.
“Spicy,” Juarez said to a chorus of coughs, “is good for your health.”
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The latest train traveler to get mugged at Church Street South couldn’t remember much about his attackers — at first.
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Val Macri’s daughter at Friday’s ribbon-cutting on Frank Street.
For Nelson McLaughlin, homelessness meant sleeping on a bench, seeing someone from your past life walk by and hoping the person doesn’t see you.
“I didn’t want him to see me, to know that it was me,” recalled McLaughlin (pictured at left).