Int’l Investor Bets On Whalley Eyesore
by | Jul 10, 2021 11:00 am | Comments (8)
Joseph Shilon is plunking millions into New Haven real estate.
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Lifestyle Boutique Springs To Life In Westville
by | Jul 8, 2021 6:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Alisha Crutchfield-McLean cuts the ceremonial ribbon.
Sending the aroma of essential oils, flowers, and bath products out into the surrounded Westville neighborhood, Alisha Crutchfield-McLean officially opened the doors to her new store BLOOM on Thursday.
The lifestyle boutique, marketplace and community center at 794 Edgewood Ave. celebrated its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by 50 city and state officials, staff, and Westville residents. The community gathered to sample an array of health products, get to know one another, and ponder the role of BLOOM in their city.
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Parks Hero Gets His Due
by | Jul 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (7)
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David Burgess at work.
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David Burgess in the park Tuesday with citation from the Connecticut General Assembly.
David Burgess has worked five days a week since the days of the first George Bush Administration to clean debris out of New Haven’s waterways, sweep up trash in Edgewood Park, and plant shrubs around the city — and people noticed.
Kehler Liddell Group Show Has Good Genes
by | Jul 5, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (0)
Kate Henderson
Mitochondrial Eve.
Kate Henderson’s Mitochondrial Eve stands in Kehler Liddell Gallery like an altar, a place to make an offering to art, science, and perhaps a higher power all at the same time. The figure in the middle, holding aloft a shape that evokes an egg, partakes of past representations of religious figures and fertility goddesses. The plants growing up around her suggest fecundity. But the letters floating around her give it away; it’s the protein sequence of DNA, the building blocks of life, that turn a double helix into a celebration of life.
Community Oasis “Blooms” in Westville
by | Jul 2, 2021 1:03 pm | Comments (10)
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Alisha Crutchfield-McLean at her new lifestyle boutique.
A “community oasis” is blossoming on the corner of Edgewood and Central Avenue — where handmade birdhouses hang from the ceiling, flowers spring from shelves, and a garden sprouts lavender.
Candidates Spin 2-Year Term Question
by | Jun 28, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (29)
Brackeen and Elicker at joint campaign event Sunday in Westville.
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DuBois-Walton, at right, at Saturday’s house party.
Should mayors get two years or four years before having to run for reelection?
That question echoed in Westville over the weekend as two campaigners for the position — the incumbent and his top challenger — fished for votes.
Crash Xing, “Dead Man Curve” Fixes Floated
by | Jun 25, 2021 12:02 pm | Comments (27)
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Scene at one of Yale-Chapel’s 50+ crashes in recent years.
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Proposed peanut rotary.
Help is on its way for a crash-prone intersection in the form of a roundabout — shaped as a peanut.
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In Upper Westville, Elicker Wins Another Ward Committee Vote
by | Jun 24, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (12)
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Ward 26 Democratic Co-Chair Sharon Jones reads aloud votes (center) alongside Co-Chair Amy Marx (at right) as Marx’s son Jacob keeps tally.
Upper Westville Democrats voted in favor of a second mayoral term for incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker in a ward-level straw poll Wednesday evening.
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Fire Chief Fires Up Mauro-Sheridan Grads
by | Jun 17, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (1)
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Soon-to-be graduates of Mauro-Sheridan “become firefighters” and thank their families.
Fire Chief John Alston Jr. addressed a new group of “firefighters” Wednesday — 51 eight-graders about to obtain their diplomas from Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School.
Ward 27, 25 Democratic Committees Back Elicker
by | Jun 13, 2021 8:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Ward 25 Democratic committee members Nicholas Neeley and Malcom Welfare tally results as James Berger reads out the votes.
Mayor Justin Elicker picked up two more resounding votes of support this weekend in straw polls held by Democratic ward committees.
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Lake Street Dive Bowls Over Westville
by | Jun 11, 2021 12:29 pm | Comments (2)
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Rachael Price and Lake Street Dive performing Thursday evening at the Westville Music Bowl.
For Lake Street Dive, concerts in New Haven this Thursday and Friday night mark the end of an era of musical magic.
For New Haven, they mark the beginning of a new one.
2020 vs. 2006: Mayoral Candidates Year-Check Each Other On Crime
by | Jun 4, 2021 11:50 am | Comments (0)
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Shooting scene on Lilac Street Thursday night.
During a night when two more New Haveners got shot, two mayoral candidates invoked different years to criticize each other’s handling of violent crime.
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Hillhouse Opens Pathway To Health Careers
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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Principal Glen Worthy pitches health pathway to eighth-graders.
Starting this fall, Hillhouse students will be able to take enough biology, terminology and lab courses to skip a year of college — or enter the workforce right away in high-paying jobs.
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1963 Children’s March Commemorated
by | May 28, 2021 9:46 am | Comments (0)
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Gammy Moses leads Elm City Montessori drummers at Thursday’s protest.
In 1963, kids marched for desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as police officers attacked them with dogs and fire hoses.
In 2021, kids in New Haven remembered their predecessors’ bravery with the hope that they too could spark change.
Police HQ Protest Inspired Mayoral Challenge
by | May 24, 2021 9:48 am | Comments (10)
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Mayoral challenger Karen-DuBois Walton at Sunday night’s online candidate forum.
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Police, protester confrontation on May 31, 2020.
It all started, Karen DuBois-Walton told a skeptical Democratic ward co-chair, outside police headquarters on “a very painful night” when city police pepper sprayed protesters — and Justin Elicker remained inside, out of sight, for hours.
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Candidates Make Retail Sales
by | May 24, 2021 8:54 am | Comments (8)
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Elicker on the stoop: “New Haven is not Minneapolis.”
DuBois-Walton on Cleveland Road: Time for true leadership.
Two mayoral candidates won “leaning” voters one at a time through retail politics — making sales pitches with different leadership visions to small clusters of New Haveners a mile away from each other.
Yale To Replace Old Tennis Courts With Grass Parking
by | May 20, 2021 2:31 pm | Comments (2)
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The former tennis courts (in yellow) to be removed and replaced by grass.
So long, tennis courts that haven’t been used in years.
Hello, a new grassy plot for sports-related parking.
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Two Artists Thrive On Lines And Color
by | May 19, 2021 9:15 am | Comments (0)
Hank Paper
L.A. Life.
The two shows at Kehler Liddell Gallery — “Parallel Worlds,” by Robert Bienstock, and “L.A. Color, East Coast Weather,” by Hank Paper, up now through June 20 — hang well in the gallery together, unified by a love of strong lines and bold color. But Bienstock’s pieces are paintings and drawings, while Paper’s are photographs. Bienstock’s pieces chronicle the past year and a half. Paper’s are the documents of a lifetime of work.
Where The Sidewalk Mends
by | May 14, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (2)
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Tammy Chapman and fellow safe-streets advocates on Thursday’s “Safe Routes” for All walk on Whalley.
Susan Harris and Aaron Goode surveying the area around the West River.
Safe-street advocates walk, cycle Whalley in search of cracks to fix, danger spots to calm.
ArtWalk 2021 Brings Out The Community
by | May 10, 2021 9:01 am | Comments (0)
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Thabisa’s band, augmented by members of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, was in the full flower of the music it was making. Thabisa herself took a moment to pause in her singing and instead turn and dance intricate, powerful steps on the Edgewood Park stage set up for ArtWalk.
The people on the ground in front of her followed suit.
Friday night’s concert, uniting two institutions of New Haven’s music scene, kicked off the annual ArtWalk fest in Westville. It set the mood for Saturday’s events, a celebration of the ability of people to gather again, as the weather warmed, vaccinations continue, and masks were ubiquitous.
Regicides Kick Off ArtWalk 2021
by | May 5, 2021 8:53 am | Comments (0)
A visit to a gynecologist’s office that may or may not be under siege. How copulation might resemble the objects you might find in your attic. And the travails of a child maligned by his shallow parents, seeking May 4‑appropriate, Star-Wars-themed revenge. On Tuesday night the Regicides — the improv troupe from A Broken Umbrella Theatre Company — started ArtWalk in Westville, which returns to live, in-person, yet still social distanced activities this year.
Music Bowl Brings Good Vibes Back To Westville
by | May 4, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (11)
After 41 years, music is back in the Westville Flats.
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Landlord, Ex-Tenant Face Off In Court Over Trashed Garage
by | May 3, 2021 3:02 pm | Comments (9)
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An exhibit in court showing the trash strewn around the garage.
What’s the cost of a trashed garage?
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Update: Pedestrian Identified In Fatal Whalley-Ramsdell Crash
by | May 3, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (9)
(Updated) A 70-year-old pedestrian died after getting struck by a driver on a perilous stretch of Whalley Avenue.
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So Long, Tennis. Welcome Back, Concerts!
by | Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm | Comments (28)
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Keith Mahler at the entrance to his latest live-music venue.
Michael Ulrich puts finishing touches on a wall inside the arena Thrusday as officials cut the ribbon.
The center-court net was gone. Along with the court. Monster amps rose from a new concert stage.
And a new era officially began for the Connecticut Tennis Center — as an outdoor concert venue called Westville Music Bowl.