Board member Darnell Goldson: Mayor should return to donors any funds raised on this incident.
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Elicker: My opponent started it.
Two Board of Education members blasted Mayor Justin Elicker for sending a campaign fundraising email claiming a slur-uttering principal’s demotion as a victory for “accountability” and “transparency” — while withholding information about what really happened in the incident behind it.
Elicker responded that he is pushing behind the scenes for public release of the full investigatory report leading to the demotion.
West Rock and West Hills Democrats voted Sunday to endorse mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton, Alder Honda Smith, and Town Clerk Michael Smart for the approaching municipal primary elections after a spirited conversation with the candidates about the future of the ward’s parks and the city budget.
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Apr 27, 2021 4:38 pm
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William MacMullen outside the cemetery.
The new sign.
There’s a broad, sunny, rectangular field in a seldom visited corner of New Haven where kids inadvertently used to play baseball on the graves of the dead.
That’s because most of the nameless granite markers with metallic numbered plates have over the decades sunk invisibly beneath the soil.
Trailbazer Team uses hedge shears to officially open trail.
Solar Youth’s Trailblazers celebrated Earth Day by cutting the official opening ribbon on a new trail that connects West Rock’s Westville Manor and Rockview developments.
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Apr 20, 2021 9:16 am
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Retired Lt. Raymond Hassett, Acting Chief Renee Dominguez, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday press conference.
The police department is preparing for protests gatherings this week after a verdict is announced in Minneapolis’s George Floyd case, as well as working on longer-term in-house training to avoid dangerous cases of officers’ use of force here at home.
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Board member Tamiko Jackson-McArthur: This is not the path to healing.
The assistant principal has been running Brennan Rogers School this week after the principal was based on leave pending an investigation into an alleged use of a racial slur.
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WRWC walking West River Greenway.
“Nature is a work in progress. Nothing is complete,” Frank Cochran said. “Stop thinking, ‘I’m going to complete this task.’ You’re not, and that’s good.”
Pet store co-owner Reinaldo Capetillo with one of the puppies that didn’t get stolen during the recent burglary wave.
Rosa displays the grate he’s pitching to storeowners.
Amid a spike of overnight burglaries, top west side cop Elliot Rosa is trying to convince wary business owners like Reinaldo Capetillo to install roll-up metal grates — and he’s touting a friendlier new model.
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Mar 15, 2021 3:05 pm
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Tom Ebersold at work Saturday.
Eleven West Rock Ridge Park Association volunteers spent three hours removing invasive plants from the South Overlook of West Rock Ridge State Park on Saturday.
All in: DuBois-Walton backers Tamiko Jackson-McArthur a member of the Board of Ed; street outreach workers Len Jahad and William “Juneboy” Outlaw, and activist Germano Kimbro at Monday’s exploratory committee launch.
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DuBois-Walton with ConnCORP’s Erik Clemons, who introduced her at Monday’s event.
With the city’s most dramatically transformed neighborhood landscape as a backdrop, Karen DuBois-Walton launched her quest for the mayor’s office by challenging New Haveners to dream “big ideas” and take “bold action.”
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Birna Bermudez gets her first delivery from Lucina Capuano.
A visitor came to Birna Bermudez’s home from New Haven’s public schools and dropped off a new form of pandemic assistance: 14 meals’ worth of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Solar Youth Trailblazers on the trail.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, as Robert Frost once wrote — but they are sometimes also knee-deep in trash and in need of a major clean-up, new trails, bridges, and sustained TLC.
West Rock and Quinnipiac students who want to start learning in-person will have that option on Feb. 17, one month after other New Haven elementary schoolers.
Administrators Tuesday evening revealed those and other details to families at two schools set to shutter permanently after this school year: West Rock STREAM Academy and Quinnipiac Real World Math STEM School (Q‑STEM).
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“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the unnamed trail,” Deamonte Godley announced to a group of 15 at a trailhead just off Wayfarer Street near the Westville Manor complex.
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Stacy Spell with a 2020 Project Longevity Award.
“It’s not just the New Haven Police Department, it’s not just parole or probation, and it’s not just certain community members,” Stacy Spell said. “We are about saving lives. I know it seems that we are undergoing some challenges right now, but let us do what we always do — brush ourselves off and get back in the fight!”
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New and returning residents of Rockview Circle phase ll were welcomed home Wednesday and reminded to “keep out the violence” by West Rock Alder Honda Smith, as a ten-year long redevelopment journey nears completion.
