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.
by | Apr 15, 2021 9:41 am | Comments (4)
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One neighbor’s plea posted on Central Avenue.
Mayor Justin Elicker told concerned Westville neighbors that he might not have to close their beloved library after all.
by | Apr 13, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (6)
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City Budget Director Gormany: Praised at Monday night’s hearing for police and fire OT realism, slammed for potential library closure.
Increase police and fire overtime? Realistic budgeting.
Close a library branch? Disastrous, disingenuous politics.
Those two takes about the city’s budget-making process emerged during the latest virtual workshop on Mayor Justin Elicker’s two proposed Fiscal Year 2021 – 2022 (FY22) general fund budgets — a $589.1 million “crisis” version and a $606.2 million “forward together” budget.
by | Apr 13, 2021 8:27 am | Comments (1)
Chris Ferguson
Blue Lights at Night.
The profile of the Q Bridge is unmistakable to anyone who lives in New Haven, but it rarely gets the treatment painter Chris Ferguson gives it. Under his eye and brush, the bridge feels hazy and gauzy, a distant mirage. Ferguson’s choice to highlight marsh and beach in the foreground adds to the sense of the bridge as an object to find beauty in. His generous eye, warm and inviting, is a thread that runs through all his work in “Looking Up!” a show he shares with artist Amanda Duchen at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, running now through May 9.
by | Apr 7, 2021 2:06 pm | Comments (6)
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rivers.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
Continue reading ‘Parents: Disrupt The “Good School” Narrative’
by | Mar 30, 2021 2:26 pm | Comments (29)
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Joshua Van Hoesen on WNHH FM.
Joshua Van Hoesen is determined to give Upper Westville voters a choice — about who represents them, and about how their city will stay solvent in the future.
by | Mar 26, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (18)
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New apartments on the rise at 87 Union St. …
… 104 Howe St …
& 9 Tower Ln.
Surface parking lots and piles of dirt have given way to rising cranes, skeletal assemblies of wood and steel, and even the occasional “Now Leasing” sign — as the city’s years-long building boom transitions into its next stage of development with over 1,700 new apartments coming online.
by | Mar 24, 2021 2:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Dani Cardenas, 4, definitely has that blue dish soap at home.
Westville Community Nursery School (WCNS) is heading into its next half century with the principle that has served it well for 50 years — listen to children and teach them what they want to know.
by | Mar 22, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
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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.”
Continue reading ‘West River Walk Reveals Work To Do, & Why’
by | Mar 19, 2021 5:58 pm | Comments (10)
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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.
by | Mar 18, 2021 11:59 am | Comments (5)
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A sign outside Parking Lot A of the new Westville Music Bowl.
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The updated traffic and parking plan for the 2021 season.
The operators of a new Westville outdoor-music venue plan to keep Yale Avenue open to through traffic this concert season, as they dramatically scaled back the site’s parking plan to correspond to a Covid-induced capacity cap.
Continue reading ‘Westville Music Bowl Drops Street Closure Plan’
by | Mar 15, 2021 8:09 am | Comments (15)
Digital rendering of the Westville Music Bowl.
Here’s a harbinger of both warmer weather and a post-pandemic future: An outdoor-music venue is set to launch in Westville beginning with an April 30 show by the jam band Gov’t Mule.
Continue reading ‘Live Concerts Set At Westville Music Bowl’
by | Mar 9, 2021 12:00 pm | Comments (12)
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One neighbor’s plea posted on a Central Avenue tree.
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Mitchell library: In City Hall’s crosshairs.
Teachers, parents, artists, and bibliophiles lined up to blast the mayor’s proposed shutdown of Mitchell branch library, decrying the “absurdity” of threatening to close a core community institution that makes up only 1/20th of 1 percent of the city budget.
by | Mar 1, 2021 7:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Lynn, Karl, and David Arezzini and Adam Boekman at Monday’s event.
Chapel Haven registered disappointment Monday with Gov. Ned Lamont’s updated statewide vaccine rollout plan, saying the agency’s off-campus residents and their families are dealing with mental anguish as a result of changed rules delaying their shots.
Continue reading ‘Chapel Haven Appeals To Lamont To Reconsider Vaccination Changes’
by | Feb 22, 2021 1:51 pm | Comments (20)
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Swingle and Saphira.
Kevin Swingle and his dog Saphira have been together for three and half years — and thanks to Westville neighbors who got to know them, they’re sleeping indoors for the winter.
by | Feb 19, 2021 12:45 pm | Comments (3)
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35-145 Cooper Pl.
A New Jersey investor has expanded his west side residential holdings by picking up a 137-unit Upper Westville apartment complex for $21 million — more than double the value the city places on the properties.
by | Feb 9, 2021 6:01 pm | Comments (9)
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Rogan Gopi (at right) with Sonny Patel back behind counter Tuesday.
Rogan Gopi didn’t want to hand over the Backwoods cigars.
by | Jan 30, 2021 1:27 pm | Comments (0)
Police found a dead man’s frozen body in the ice-covered duck pond in Edgewood Park Saturday morning after a dog discovered it.
Continue reading ‘Dog Discovers Dead Body In Edgewood Duck Pond’
by | Jan 29, 2021 4:23 pm | Comments (6)
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Mendel Paris (left), the new owner of the former “Paradise” property at and behind 86 Fitch (below).
Local landlord Mendel Paris has purchased the former west-side headquarters of a scandal-plagued landscaping company, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jan 27, 2021 3:23 pm | Comments (5)
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by | Jan 26, 2021 10:40 am | Comments (0)
Penrhyn Cook
Megaphone.
In some parts of the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville, there’s a child crawling into a giant sculpture while others look on. A meeting of Segways. A ruffle of clouds over an open city square. In other parts of the gallery, nudes recline in parlors, and walk with strength and determination through ruins. They catch the photographer’s glance and stare back.
Continue reading ‘Photographers Turn The Lens On Themselves’
by | Jan 13, 2021 2:33 pm | Comments (6)
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The New Haven Fire Department (NHFD) Wednesday “rolled in” a new fire engine, which promptly rolled out on a call.
by | Jan 8, 2021 4:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Westville complex: City taxes it as though it’s worth $38M.
A Westville apartment complex that last sold for $41 million has flipped owners again — this time for another $8‑plus million, and $12 million more than the value the city places on it.
by | Dec 23, 2020 1:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Seared Blackened Tuna Tataki.
Chef Nixon Sambuaga of newly opened kosher restaurant Fin and Scale on Whalley.
“You’re going to fall in love,” Chef Nixon Sambuaga promised, “after you try this.”
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Nixon’s Kosher Tuna Tataki’
by | Dec 18, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (16)
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Nicole Beverley, Natima, Marlou: Disconnected.
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Elsa Holahan and her mother, Erica: Web working just fine.
In a house in Fair Haven, Natima Adote dropped out of her virtual social studies classroom at Edgewood School as her internet failed.
In a house in Westville, Elsa Holahan finished her virtual class at James Hillhouse High School without interruptions.