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Mar 28, 2018 7:44 am
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Abdul Masre and Marian Alrashid, with theirs — each of the school’s 200 plus kids received a take-home copy.
Kids at the West Rock STREAM Academy are accustomed to hearing from authors. After all, until this year the inter-district magnet was officially called West Rock Authors Academy.
Until Tuesday, they had never heard from an author who also happened to be a professional football player.
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Mar 20, 2018 3:09 pm
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Marlene Pratt updates management team on plan.
A Career High School biology teacher whose son was shot and killed 20 years ago has a new site in mind and new support from a local architecture firm and forestry nonprofit in her long-running quest to create a public reflection garden in honor of all New Haven victims of gun violence.
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Mar 13, 2018 4:41 pm
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Honda Smith and Mike Dorsey on the streets during almost-storm moment.
When the promised snowstorm failed to arrive in New Haven Tuesday afternoon, Honda Smith and a city tag-and-tow team faced a dilemma on Valley Street: Place tickets on 60 cars illegally parked on the odd side of the street? Or let it slide?
Public Space Enforcement Officer Honda Smith had called for the tag and tow team hours before when the snow was flying and the visibility was low.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 19, 2017 8:10 am
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Brackeen walks Beverly Hills with LCI’s Rick Mazzadra & Driscoll.
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Airbnb-er Leventhal.
Amid growing complaints from neighbors, New Haven is looking to start regulating the mushrooming Airbnb business in town — in such a way that they won’t land the city in court.
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Sep 28, 2017 12:20 pm
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Valley Townhouses, slated for demolition in October 2018.
An isolated, flood-prone public housing complex in West Hills, which can look like a holding pen if you notice it at all, is set to be torn down and replaced with gleaming white, street-facing homes.
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Aug 25, 2017 12:10 pm
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Delgado gets some straight talk from senior Flemming.
Charlie Delgado didn’t enter the room and immediately start introducing himself and shaking hands. He didn’t pass out his campaign literature or deliver a polished campaign stump speech.
Charlie Delgado was there to seek votes. But, he told the crowd, he is not a politician.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Aug 22, 2017 9:13 am
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Sepulveda: back in the Ward 30 saddle, hoping to stay there.
Political newcomer James-Goldson.
Two of the three candidates running to be the next alder for Ward 30 are lifelong New Haveners with connections and histories that they hope will bridge both sides of the big rock on the west side of town.
They also hope to turn out enough voters to decide whether strong experience or new energy matters most in the next representative for the West Rock/West Hills section of the city.
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May 15, 2017 3:20 pm
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Westvilians make their top picks.
Before Westville and West Hills neighbors decided on how to spend an annual allotment of $10,000 from the city, they asked themselves a bigger question: Should they even accept the money?
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Apr 10, 2017 11:56 am
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DeLeo prepares to lead the tour.
With the first blue sky in days overhead and wind whipping all around, Frank DeLeo shared a vision of trails along the West River and people biking and hiking near the former Pond Lily Dam just a few feet from the hustle and bustle of traffic and parking lots.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 2, 2017 2:30 pm
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After-school STEM/Medical Arts crew: Evann Meyers, Hallena Bolden, Linda Torres.
“That’s a real dead body,” 15-year-old Evann Meyers recalled thinking during a recent trip to a local morgue.
It wasn’t a typical day in her after-school program at Common Ground High School, but it was memorable. And because of state budget cuts it could soon be a rare adventure.
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Dec 23, 2016 11:41 am
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The Ferry/Saltonstall lot looking east.
The city plans to sell four vacant lots to a not-for-profit in town at $1,000 a pop so affordable houses can be erected on three of them and an open community space maintained on the fourth.
The city turned around and became a purchaser, buying yet another vacant lot, for a buck. The plan is to sell it for a modest amount so another affordable house can be erected on it in the not too distant future.
Marjorie Bonadies prefers you don’t ask her about Donald Trump. She’d rather talk about how her experience as a nurse prepared her to tackle government.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Sep 14, 2016 8:19 am
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Arganese pleads case.
A pawn shop will not be coming to upper Whalley Avenue in the Beverly Hills section of the city, where neighbors and other businesses feared what kind of customers would come in.
For the fourth year, the officers from the Westville/West Hills district celebrated the first day of school by inviting kids to the neighborhood substation for backpacks and pizza.
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Jun 7, 2016 2:36 pm
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Mustakos, Esposito, Rivas, and Lawlor on paving season- opening day.
The public works crew gathered in the shade on South Genesee Street ready to make the road like new again. But they couldn’t get started: The asphalt truck hadn’t arrived.
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Markeshia Ricks |
May 17, 2016 8:04 am
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A student works at Common Ground High School, creating an educational wetland.
A project to restore a wildlife habitat and construct handicap accessible trails around Common Ground High School’s garden will get a $55,000 shot in the arm.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Apr 21, 2016 7:41 am
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The project would go up on a slope starting here on Whalley.
A long, contentious battle between the City Plan Department and a prospective builder of a new elderly housing complex in the shadow of West Rock came to a quick and quiet end.
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Nov 25, 2015 8:23 am
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Three months into an experiment in how to build the school of the future, New Haven’s Achievement First charter network is using real-life experience to work out some of the kinks.
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Markeshia Ricks & Paul Bass |
Oct 22, 2015 4:12 pm
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Water flowed anew through a a 30-foot wide opening in the Pond Lily Dam — along with visions of a reclaimed West River where fish and wildlife flourish alongside human recreation.
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Oct 7, 2015 7:45 am
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The developer interrupted the city staffer weighing in on his long-stalled project.
“I don’t know if you know how to read drawings or not,” Larry Waldorf declared. “But that is not … that is not…”
“Excuse me. I have over 20 years of experience as a professional landscape architect,” City Plan staffer Anne Hartjen shot back. “I know how to read drawings. Thank you very much.”
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Aug 27, 2015 11:49 am
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Dina Lara delivered 9,000 petitions to the police officers blocking the entrance of her former place of employment — after leading a protest demanding better treatment for workers.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 30, 2015 12:08 pm
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West-siders weren’t interested in pie-in-the-sky changes to the neighborhood in the next decade. They wanted practical changes, like the arrival of a neighborhood grocery store.
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Dec 24, 2014 9:33 am
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McCoy, one of four former public-housing renters spending a first Christmas in homes of their own.
LaShawn McCoy had been working and saving for seven years to buy her first house. She found a cute two-bedroom on Blake Street. As the closing approached this spring, two problems loomed, one huge, one small: Her credit report came back with a problem. And her son was shot.
