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.
Continue reading ‘In Upper Westville, Elicker Wins Another Ward Committee Vote’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Ward 27, 25 Democratic Committees Back Elicker’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘2020 vs. 2006: Mayoral Candidates Year-Check Each Other On Crime’
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.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Opens Pathway To Health Careers’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Police HQ Protest Inspired Mayoral Challenge’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Yale To Replace Old Tennis Courts With Grass Parking’
by | May 19, 2021 9:15 am | Comments (0)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
by | May 4, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (11)
After 41 years, music is back in the Westville Flats.
Continue reading ‘Music Bowl Brings Good Vibes Back To Westville’
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?
Continue reading ‘Landlord, Ex-Tenant Face Off In Court Over Trashed Garage’
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.
Continue reading ‘Update: Pedestrian Identified In Fatal Whalley-Ramsdell Crash’
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.
by | Apr 29, 2021 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Joe Hemingway, Melissa Saint, Adam LoPiano on walking tour.
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Planned riverfront patio to be included in 500 Blake development.
One hundred twenty-nine apartments are coming. Will the neighborhood be safe from all the extra traffic coming along with them?
Continue reading ‘Red Light Flashes On Builder Walking Tour’
by | Apr 23, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Hawkins greets birthday celebrants at Mountain Valley Place.
Hildreth Hawkins revealed a secret Friday: “Home cooked food.”
by | Apr 22, 2021 7:36 pm | Comments (27)
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Elm City Montessori fifth grader Jada Tucker (second from left): We are not dangerous.
Jada Tucker, age 11, wants African Americans to be seen as brave, not dangerous.
Yanalyse Rivas, age 11, wants Brown and Black people to have the same rights as white people.
Continue reading ‘Elm City Montessori Students Protest Police Brutality’
by | Apr 21, 2021 5:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Dozens of candles light up Whalley and Ramsdell corner.
More than 200 friends, family, and fellow motorcyclists gathered again at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Tuesday night to mourn the death of Revolucion motorcycle club (MC) President Daniel Velazquez Quinones in a crash last Friday.
Continue reading ‘200 Return To Crash Site To Promote “MC” Unity’
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:19 am | Comments (5)
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DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes: We need nature-based climate change solutions.
More trees planted in the Hill. Less pollution in the West River.
These are some of the ideas for what to do with $1 million now available from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a longtime cap-and-invest program for power plants in the northeast.
Continue reading ‘$1M Available For Tree Planters, Caretakers’
by | Apr 18, 2021 10:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Memorial Sunday for Danny Velazquez, pictured below on his ride.
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Memorial candles were lit, engines revved, and cries of “Revolucion!” rang out at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Sunday evening at the spot where an allegedly drunk driver killed the popular leader of a local motorcycle club.
Continue reading ‘Motorcyclists Mass After Crash Kills Leader’
by | Apr 15, 2021 1:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Main branch’s Sharon Lovett-Graff and Alana Delgado: Please come back! We missed you.
The doors were wide open again at the public library’s main branch — and two patrons were found browsing through the wide variety of nonfiction books in the stacks.
Staffers are trying to get the word out so more New Haveners come back inside.