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Hill Holiday Bash Brightens Kimberly Square

by | Dec 6, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (1)

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Nova and Zora Zanders at Sunday's Hill holiday fest.

Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for. 

I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”

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Choices Narrowed For Schools' Reading Pivot

by | Dec 1, 2022 11:13 am | Comments (30)

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At NHPS's recent "reading expo" at Betsy Ross Parish Hall.

The city’s public school district is now down to five choices for which state-sanctioned program to adopt as it builds out an enhanced K‑3 literacy plan that is required to follow the science of reading,” which emphasizes learning how to sound out words instead of looking for other clues.

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"Human Rights Zone" Grows In Hill Backyard

by | Nov 18, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (54)

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George Ashline: Preparing to winter-proof his tent on Rosette Street.

Fried onions, crispy potatoes and buttered bagels filled the kitchen of the Hill’s Amistad House — and spread a warm, starchy scent along Rosette Street and into the tents of neighbors camped out in the Catholic Workers community’s backyard.

That was the scene on a residential block of the Hill where a crew of economic refugees” is currently camping out together on a tenth of an acre of land as a means of both fighting for housing justice and seeking sanctuary from shrinking shelter and increasingly harsh and unpredictable New England weather.

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Coliseum Redo Promise: Park Will Be Public

by | Nov 18, 2022 12:28 pm | Comments (10)

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Thomasine Shaw, Ernest Pagan, and Alder Carmen Rodriguez at Thursday's meeting.

The public space at the new Coliseum site redevelopment will be a true gateway to the city” that is open to all — and not a fenced-in private courtyard like what currently sits one block away in front of the Knights of Columbus tower.

City officials and a Norwalk-based redevelopment team made that promise during the latest community meeting about a mini-city’s worth of rebuilding now underway in New Haven’s Tenth Square.”

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Record Donation Supports Hill Health Center For Women In Recovery

by | Nov 16, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (1)

Dr. Ece Tek, Chief Medical Officer, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold’s grandson Ari Kroop; Michael Taylor, CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold, President of the Amour Propre Fund and recently named Chair of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Foundation board; and local attorney Keith Bradoc Gallant, who assists with the Amour Propre Fund.

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has received the largest donation in its 55-year- history, a $1 million infusion that will support a wellness center within a new facility for women in recovery from addiction.

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Neighbors Celebrate Candidate Next Door

by | Nov 8, 2022 7:19 pm | Comments (0)

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Jackie Randolph and Treasurer hopeful in Westville Tuesday.

Alder Carmen Rodriguez and State Rep. Juan Candelaria with Holly Jiang and Betty Fludd outside Clemente in the Hill.

When Jackie Randolph arrived at Davis Street Magnet School Tuesday, she wasn’t expecting to see her neighbor Erick Russell.

But she was expecting to vote for his hometown candidacy for statewide office.

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Race Finds A Place In The Classroom

by | Nov 4, 2022 12:02 pm | Comments (24)

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Robinson leads a junior class book talk Tuesday ...

... about Stamped, a "present book" about race and America.

Should former presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson have their faces on America’s paper currency? 

Sayvion Saley asked himself that question for the first time in English class as he and his Career High School classmates grappled with this country’s long, painful, sordid and complicated history of racism — with the help of a present” book that seeks to set the record straight.

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Ville, Hill Bring The Art For Open Source Fest

by | Oct 31, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (0)

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Artist Arizona Taylor.

On Friday evening, the small park between Shelton Avenue, the Farmington Canal Trail, and Hazel Street bloomed into a small arts festival that warmed the cool evening with an explosion of color, sound, and good conversation. It was the beginning of the Artspace-organized Open Source Festival’s weekend of making visual art appear across New Haven, not only from downtown, Westville, and East Rock, but from Newhallville and Dixwell to the Hill and Mill River. 

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Hispanic Heritage Takes Center Stage At Career High Fest

by | Oct 24, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (1)

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Erika Zelocuatecatl: "When we get together as diverse as we are, we come as a united chorus."

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Career students perform "Latino Moves" at Friday's fest.

The sounds of salsa, bachata and merengue filled Hill Regional Career High School alongside a host of Spanish-language pride as staff and students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Newhall, Sylvan "Convenience" Plans Contested

by | Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (7)

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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.

One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house. 

That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.

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At Towers Visit, DeLauro Boosts Drug Price Savings

by | Oct 13, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (2)

Lois Jason fought for unionization at Yale and is now fighting for medical marijuana Medicare coverage.

Only medical marijuana helps Towers resident Lois Jason’s pain after spinal surgery — and that medication costs her $600 every six weeks. 

It’s also not covered by Medicare because the state-permitted substance is still federally illegal.

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Demolition Stirs Hopes, Fears On Davenport

by | Oct 11, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (18)

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Dina and Angeley Guadalupe: "Everything is so expensive."

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326 and 348 Davenport, slated for demolition.

Dina and Angeley Guadalupe aren’t opposed to a California-based developer knocking down their Davenport Avenue home and replacing the block with 194 mostly high-end apartments.

But they are worried about rushing to find a new place to live where they can afford to pay the rent.

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City Eyes Hill Factory Sale For $350K

by | Oct 11, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (17)

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Vacant Grant St. factory building: Future home of 140 apts?

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McCollum (right): Looking to "reposition" derelict industrial property.

The city plans to sell the publicly owned portion of a vacant Grant Street factory building to a local developer who is looking to build up to 140 new apartments, mostly for renters over the age of 50.

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Hill Pushes Back On New 194-Apt Plan

by | Oct 6, 2022 3:08 pm | Comments (62)

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Valerie F. Boyd: "Is $2,000 a month affordable for a child to get started?"

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New apartment design rendering, as seen from Davenport.

A California-based developer plans to knock down six industrial buildings and two houses on Congress and Davenport Avenues and build a 194-unit luxury apartment complex in their stead — prompting pushback from Hill residents concerned about rising rents.

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Hill Makes 911 Call -- To 911

by | Sep 28, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (15)

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City 911 director Joe Vitale: "Trying to repair what is happening."

The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.

We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. Nobody ever answered.”

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