by | Feb 17, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Pink or red or salmon-colored cards up in Westville.
Westvillians raised their pink cards — or were they salmon-colored? or red? — to give the thumbs up to support for a local longtime after-school program and a job training program that has been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
Continue reading ‘After-School Care, Job Training Supported in Westville/West Hills’
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:40 am | Comments (14)
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Proposed plaza location at Central between Whalley and Fountain.
Hay bales and rubber duckies might sprout in Westville, as city planners ponder closing the short block of Central Avenue between Whalley and Fountain to create a one-block pedestrian plaza or piazza.
by | Feb 13, 2020 12:57 pm | Comments (0)
Daniel Eugene
The lines are so close together and so meticulously drawn that they buzz by proximity to one another. The effect is disorienting, like an optical illusion, a trick, a puzzle. It gets that much more intense when you see that New Haven-based artist Daniel Eugene’s drawings can be interpreted as a maze — a series of patterns that invite you to take a closer look, and slowly but surely, have your vision rearranged just a little.
by | Feb 10, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (4)
The west side of town now has its own video report on weekly crimes, courtesy of top district cop Lt. Elliott Rosa.
by | Feb 4, 2020 9:05 am | Comments (1)
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Two firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries and three adults and three children were being temporarily relocated after a fire burned through an upper Westville home Monday evening.
by | Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm | Comments (0)
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The Lacys, Cathy Graves, Mayor Elicker, and Alder Richard Furlow.
Forty different glazes for chicken wings — ranging from mango habanero to garlic parmesan — are just not enough for fledgling and creative restauranteurs Lachelle and Linwood Lacy.
They have a still-secret 41st sauce coming, combining the best of the previous 40. It is still in the research stage, meaning only family members get to try it.
Glazes and wings galore will also be ready for upcoming Super Bowl weekend.
by | Jan 26, 2020 10:39 pm | Comments (2)
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Mayor Justin Elicker gets a tour of New Haven’s Holocaust memorial during Sunday’s commemoration.
New Haven faith and political leaders united Sunday evening to send a message of love and determination amid days of hate.
by | Jan 23, 2020 1:19 pm | Comments (4)
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Digital rendering of the future Westville Music Bowl.
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Langan Engineering VP Timonthy Onderko presents the parking plan for the Westville Bowl.
The operators of the planned new Westville Bowl outdoor music venue won permission to close down an adjacent block of Yale Avenue this summer on days when the former tennis stadium will host concerts.
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by | Jan 15, 2020 12:58 pm | Comments (0)
Lisa Toto
The Evolution of Wonder Woman, Student Movement, and Stevie.
Riotously elaborated watercolor sets. Animated creatures bursting from their frames. Cars balanced on their heads.
In their first show at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, the gallery’s new members each display, in their own way, a taste for the playful.
by | Jan 13, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
Marjorie Wolfe
In the lens of Marjorie Wolfe‘s camera, the wind roils air and water together, driving the clouds through the sky and whipping up peaked waves into foamy surf. Her image captures the moment forever. But if she’d come back the next day — or even a few hours before or after — maybe it wouldn’t be there at all.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Rosa (left) and Dell (right) with CMT stalwart Marge Wiener.
All that’s changing is … a vowel.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:28 pm | Comments (17)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city will soon go out to bid, again, for the long-planned and years-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack. Now the soonest cyclists can expect to ride the separated lane will be this summer.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
Continue reading ‘West Siders Back Quest For $$ To Help Kids, Families’
by | Dec 17, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (0)
Amanda Duchen
The Menagerie.
Amanda Duchen’s aptly-named artwork, The Menagerie, is alive with energy, comical and dramatic. It’s possible to imagine her creature creations all in riotous conversation with one another. Or maybe they’re individual frames in a reel of film. The only problem: One of the frames is missing, and the space is marked “sold” with a red sticker. There’s another empty space in the grid nearby, marked with another red sticker that reads “I’ve been adopted!” It’s an acute reminder that Kehler Liddell Gallery’s last group show of the year, “Deck the Walls,” is also a sale. The art looks great on the walls, but in time for the holidays, you also get to take it with you.
by | Dec 16, 2019 6:34 pm | Comments (38)
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Lopez: Shocked at shooting in such a “warm, safe neighborhood.”
Kenicha Lopez was at work Monday when she saw the text: Someone had fired bullets outside her child’s school.
“My heart was at 110 miles per minute,” Lopez said.
by | Dec 15, 2019 9:12 pm | Comments (3)
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843-845 Whalley.
A long unused building in the heart of Westville’s village will become the home for expanded office spaces for a small multi-service child service agency, with slightly more parking required than previously envisioned.
by | Dec 12, 2019 3:51 pm | Comments (10)
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Oxtail to go, with rice, beans, vegetables, and plantains
City’s Cathy Graves with Stone at opening.
Oxtail, curry goat already drawing loyal customers to Andrea Stone’s lifelong dream business. A spicy secret was revealed at the formal ribbon-cutting.
Continue reading ‘“Jamerican” Restaurant Debuts In Westville’
by | Dec 11, 2019 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Lt. Rose Dell at a recent community meeting.
Lt. Rose Dell is headed back to 1 Union Ave after a year building relationships with neighbors to tackle crime on the city’s west side.
by | Dec 9, 2019 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
A senior citizen withdrew $4,000 from the bank to pay two women who scammed her with a false promise of much more cash in return.
by | Dec 4, 2019 5:32 pm | Comments (2)
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Mrs. Mullins Shining Star panelists with siblings. Transatlantic Histories Program Director Thomas Thurston and teacher Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins in background.
The following article and photos came in from Davis Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins’ third grade students from the Davis Academy for Arts and Design Innovation let their academic light shine at the Harvard University Center for African Studies Association forum recently held in Cambridge, Mass.
Continue reading ‘Davis Street, South African Students Collaborate On Civil Rights History’
by | Dec 2, 2019 3:26 pm | Comments (3)
Three times in six days, drivers on the west side of town left keys inside their vehicles. All three vehicles were stolen.
by | Nov 27, 2019 9:03 am | Comments (0)
The piece is already playful enough, an energetic overlapping of fabric patterns and vivid colors. There are photographs of trees and what looks like a hotel room. There are also photographs of statues, but taken as if by a 12-year-old or someone with a fun sense of humor, because the cropping of the photos lops off the heads and draws the viewer’s eye to the statues’ naked posteriors. Then there’s the quote, emblazoned in white paint: “My stomach is the most violent of all of Italy.”
by | Nov 25, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (4)
Quick reflexes helped a cop grab an unpermitted black Taurus 709 slim firearm with six live rounds inside during a car stop at Chapel Street and Central Avenue; and a repeat thief made off with bottles of Natty Daddy and Jose Cuervo
by | Nov 23, 2019 8:53 pm | Comments (40)
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(Opinion) At a time when the social divide between the privileged class and regular people is growing ever wider, I decided to capture images of what it looks like when the elite are enjoying life in their natural habitat — in this case the 136th installment of “The Game” between Yale and Harvard football teams, which took place Saturday at the Yale Bowl.
Continue reading ‘Scenes From The Game: Protest & Privilege’
by | Nov 20, 2019 9:10 am | Comments (4)
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Woodbridge Avenue resident and meeting organizer Pamela Fahey.
Two messengers brought Westvilleans ideas for combating an uptick in neighborhood crime — community-powered ideas that don’t involve more cops, more arrests, or locking up young people.