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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
Rosa DeLauro (second from right) Friday at Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence with parent-survivors (from left) Michael Song, Marlene Pratt-Miller, Pamela Jaynez, Celeste Robinson Fulcher
“This brick represents my son,” Pamela Jaynez said Friday as she and other moms whose lives were changed by gun violence guided their U.S. Congresswoman down a path of remembrance — and campaign issue-framing.
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May 25, 2022 5:32 pm
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Neighbors welcome: Clancy Emanuel begins compost demonstration at expanded operation.
A heap of discarded orange peels, eggshells, peanuts, and vegetables of every hue came one step closer to becoming reusable compost — by way of long shovels, animal poop, dead leaves, a group of committed community members, and an influx of federal funding for Common Ground High School’s urban farm.
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May 17, 2022 8:48 am
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West Rock/West Hills Alder Honda Smith with Monica Clark, Iva Johnson, and Von Robinson at City Hall on Monday.
A new music studio, a washer and dryer, a pottery kiln, and more programming for west side youth and seniors alike are one big step closer to coming to a reborn Valley Street community center — now that the alders have formally accepted a $550,000 state grant for “The Shack.”
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At Thursday's ceremony honoring the one-year anniversary of Firefighter Ricardo Torres, Jr.'s line-of-duty death.
“Rico was a hero.”
With those words, New Haven Fire Department Capt. Kendall Richardson remembered his former Dixwell station colleague Ricardo Torres Jr., at a ceremony held on the one-year anniversary of a Valley Street fire that took Torres’s life.
Albert Hargrove would like to lock his door to keep safe at night — but the door doesn’t lock. So he sleeps with a metal pole besides his bed and hopes for the best.
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Jan 2, 2022 10:53 am
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Honda Smith, Nijaya Brown, Barbara Hawke-Lopez, Rhieanna Rubertone, Nashali Nieves, and Rebecca LeQuire by new mural at spruced-up Shack.
With the help of four high school students who found a fun way to spend part of their Christmas break, the late New Haven rapper known as Stēzo has been brought back to life on his home turf of West Rock/West Hills.
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Smith with neighbors Saturday outside New Haven Inn: City is working with us.
West Hills neighbors called off a protest Saturday after hearing the city has granted their requests for additions to a plan to begin sheltering homeless people at a winter “warming center” in their neighborhood.
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn talks Valley Street improvements with neighbors at the Shack.
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Reconstruction plans to sharpen up Valley Street’s wide curves and slow down drivers have come into focus — and met with agreement from West Hills neighbors at a community meeting.
Brenda Fulcher: “All they want to do is put a band-aid on a gunshot .”
Plans to house homeless people overnight during the winter at a West Hills hotel sparked opposition from longtime neighbors who fear more crime and drug use in an already burdened area.
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Nov 8, 2021 9:02 am
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Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.
This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka.
Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 27, 2021 12:07 pm
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Site of planned new construction at McConaughy Terrace.
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Elm City Communities Vice President of Development Edward LaChance.
The public housing authority’s ongoing transformation of the far west side of the city took another step forward, as City Plan commissioners unanimously approved plans to construct 26 new apartments at McConaughy Terrace.
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Oct 4, 2021 8:25 am
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Ward 30 Harvest Festival vendors.
A hundred West Hills residents gathered Saturday to participate in a Ward 30 Harvest Festival on at West Rock Stream Academy.
The event was launched by West Hills officials and the board of “333 Valley Street: an Intergenerational Organization, Inc.” to raise money towards reviving an after-school program held in the building widely known in the area as “The Shack,” a community service center up the street that that was last open decades ago.
Latasha Brown at Saturday’s event at the Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.
Latasha Brown’s wails tore through a quiet, sun-dappled Saturday morning as she cradled a red brick bearing the name and age of her son, Tashawn Eddie Brown.
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Oct 1, 2021 1:06 pm
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The brick path that curves through the Valley St. gun violence memorial.
Park co-founders Celeste Fulcher and Pamela Jaynez: Preparing to put down 10 more bricks.
A day before a group of moms plans to lay 10 more bricks in honor of recent homicide victims, city officials and community partners gathered at a Valley Street memorial to detail plans for a new city office dedicated to violence prevention.
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A pothole on Seneca Road.
Old potholes are plaguing Seneca Road. New bike lanes are popping up on Yale Avenue. Persistent wood smoke is clouding over Cleveland Road. And gunfire is rattling South Genesee Street.
That street-level snapshot of life in Westville and West Hills came into focus during the latest monthly meeting of the neighborhoods’ community management team.
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Aug 2, 2021 2:57 pm
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The current Valley Street Townhomes.
City planners advanced a proposed 39-year tax break to help with the housing authority’s redevelopment of the mold-wracked, 40-unit Valley Street Townhomes.
