by | Oct 31, 2018 12:56 pm | Comments (6)
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722 Orchard St.
A faith-based nonprofit developer sold a rehabbed Orchard Street home to a low-income buyer, marking its fifth gut rehab and affordable housing conversion completed on a single block between Charles Street and Henry Street.
Continue reading ‘Latest Deals: Beulah’s 5th Rehab On Block’
by | Oct 26, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (0)
Hank Paper
Tourists 2.
In Hank Paper’s Tourists 2, we see two couples sitting on outdoor chairs and tables. We can barely see the faces of one couple; they look like they’re chatting amiably. Maybe they’re good friends. Maybe they’re on a date. The other couple looks tired, like they’ve been on their feet for a while. Maybe they’re carrying too much stuff around. But what really ties it together is the ridiculous gnome in the center of the photograph. Is the man sitting next to it staring it down? Staring past it? Has he almost forgotten it’s there?
by | Oct 17, 2018 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Organizers at the library opening.
This article was submitted by Bob Caplan.
The New Haven Police substation at 329 Valley St. is sandwiched between the West Hills school and the community center. And when school is closed the newest Little Free Library at the substation will still be open.
Continue reading ‘Little Free Library Comes to Valley St. Substation’
by | Oct 12, 2018 12:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top left: New Westville shop owners Gonzales, Angela Pullo, Della Ragione, Lorri Cavaliere.
When Melissa Gonzales began looking for a storefront for a new incarnation of her popular vintage store Vintanthromodern, Westville Village came calling.
No really: The creatives and young entrepreneurs who have had a hand in reenergizing the neighborhood’s commercial district reached out and said, “Come to Westville.”
by | Oct 11, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (11)
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Lt. Rose Dell fields questions from neighbors Wednesday night.
Garbriel Da Silva: Where’s the follow up?
Car break-ins, attempted child abduction, Roosevelt’s gunfire rattle neighborhood; Dell promises action.
by | Oct 10, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (4)
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Martinez 5th-graders try desks that can wheel around the room.
In one math class at John S. Martinez Sea & Sky STEM School, students no longer sit in neat, orderly rows. On new four-wheeled desks, they swivel around the classroom without a seating chart.
Continue reading ‘Scores Suggest Personalized Learning Pays’
by | Oct 8, 2018 2:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Salim Bendacha (above left) questions candidate Bysiewicz (below).
The founder of a New Haven tech start-up had one word of advice for Susan Bysiewicz: blockchain.
Continue reading ‘Techie Pitches Bysiewicz On Next Big Thing’
by | Oct 5, 2018 2:17 pm | Comments (2)
Friends of Edgewood Park Photo
The six friendly goats who have been eating away invasive species in Edgewood Park since May get lots of visitors and daily buckets of fresh drinking water provided by their sponsors, the Friends of Edgewood Park (FOEP), and other neighboring humans.
Apart from that, the animals are fairly self sufficient and probably find humans, as we find them, curious, yet hardly indispensable.
That changed last week when intense rains turned Edgewood Park into a true flood plain, rising so high as to cover most of the knotweed and poison ivy the goats require to live.
When the rains wouldn’t let up, the goats needed humans to rescue them.
by | Sep 26, 2018 7:38 am | Comments (0)
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Chapel Haven residents join Mike Storz in thanking the Schleifer Family Foundation Tuesday.
The future Schleifer Adult Independent Living, or SAIL, facility will open in December 2019.
Chapel Haven not only has a new physical campus near the corner of Emerson and Whalley Avenue. It now has a new name and will soon have a new program as well.
Continue reading ‘Call It The “Chapel Haven Schleifer Center” Now’
by | Sep 20, 2018 2:15 pm | Comments (20)
Thomas Breen photo
Inmates hammer a new split fork into old, repurposed gun parts.
Four New Haven Correctional Center inmates literally beat “swords into ploughshares” on Thursday as they forged new garden tools from donated and repurposed handguns, shotguns, and assault rifles.
by | Sep 20, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (47)
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Lost Generation memorial garden site on Valley Street.
Plans to build a new memorial park dedicated to New Haven victims of gun violence are one big step closer to becoming a reality now that the city’s Parks Commission has officially signed off on the project concept and location.
by | Sep 20, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (2)
Sven Martson Photos
A woman standing with a girl on a crowded street, the girl with her arms around the woman. Two kids on rafts in what looks like a canal, viewed through wire mesh. A row of columns holding up a portico, the last one crumbling, a soldier peeking out from the space in between the stonework. A child with a stick and a toy car striding by a sign that suddenly places us in history.
“You are entering the American sector. Carrying weapons off duty forbidden. Obey traffic laws,” the sign reads. The instructions are repeated again, in Russian and French. The last line is in German. The German text makes no mention of weapons or traffic laws, as if the Berliners reading it don’t need to be reminded.
Or is that the right interpretation? What does the omission mean?
by | Sep 17, 2018 12:34 pm | Comments (6)
Paul Bass Photo
Iyla Bhandary-Alexander, Betsy Nardini, and Elethu Rich completed a fire mission Sunday, using paintbrushes rather than hoses.
by | Sep 17, 2018 8:03 am | Comments (9)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
Banners promoting SCSU and Westville Village go up on Whalley Avenue.
The Whalley Avenue gateway to the heart of Westville just got a bit more eye-catching.
by | Sep 11, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photos
Artist Gar Waterman’s new exhibit at Kehler-Liddell Gallery in Westville, “Canaries in a Blue Coal Mine,” begins with a wry advisory warning.
by | Sep 7, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Jovon Ladson navigates skate park’s new concrete quarter pipe.
As hot, humid sunlight poured in, skaters whirred across the old asphalt and new concrete. They pivoted atop the quarter pipe and hopped over the lower ramps and obstacles. Some wrapped their T‑shirts around their foreheads to protect their eyes from the sun. Almost everyone sported ornate tattoos up and down their arms, legs, and backs.
This sometimes skeptical crowd had nothing but props to offer for the now-completed renovation of the Edgewood Skate Park, which will be celebrated with a formal dedication Sunday.
by | Sep 5, 2018 12:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Chance gets one last hug from mom on opening day.
They didn’t know it but Carolyn Seward’s kindergarteners became part of history just by walking into her classroom Tuesday with their parents and taking their first shy steps to find their seats.
On their first day of school, they were joining the ranks of people educated at the Davis Street School over the last 100 years.
by | Sep 4, 2018 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
Karen Ponzio Photo
Fountain Street’s Elm City Sounds.
Chris Della Ragione, owner of Elm City Sounds, recalled how he and Jeff Chamiac came to work together at the newest place to find old vinyl in New Haven, which has just opened on Fountain Street in Westville.
by | Aug 21, 2018 12:28 pm | Comments (0)
Kim Weston
Emitting.
The sky is clear in Emitting. A dancer, hair cast in every direction, enveloped in the ghost images of feathers, is moving, moved, and about to move in a long exposure. Photographer Kim Weston has collapsed a long moment into a map of this dancer’s heat and spirit.
by | Aug 17, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (0)
Shanda Ferrucci and daughters.
Shanda Ferrucci grew up on a farm in the South and likes eating fresh produce, preferably grown by her family. She also likes bargain prices on name brands for paper goods and cleaning products.
She’s going to have both close by at the new Family Dollar store at 1168 Whalley Ave. near the corner of Dayton Street.
The new Family Dollar, which replaces an old CVS, is marking its grand opening week with a partnership with the local Boys and Girls Club to grow veggies and then sell them at a grand farmers market day in front of the new store later in the year.
by | Aug 10, 2018 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
Molly Gambardella
Blossom.
A burnished ornate candle holder stands beside a small Buddha balanced on a saffron paperback titled Love. Behind it, a vase erupts with gentle orange tulips. A plastic orange basket supports a slab of hardwood with a small painted alligator’s head. More pensive paperbacks share a plastic orange cutting board with another case of tulips, copper cups, an orange, and a candle. Beneath, there is a profusion of orange berries and petals in an orange wicker basket, resting beside a box of markers and pens: all siennas, vermillions, golds. This Titian tableau is an introduction to the idea that, as the title of a new art exhibit at Lotta Studio states, nothing rhymes with orange.
by | Aug 9, 2018 11:04 am | Comments (0)
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Jennifer Hudson at Local Lit.
A woman undergoing treatment for cancer strives to connect with her young daughter, even as she seems to be developing a new friendship at her chemo sessions. A middle-aged daughter tries to help her mother, who is suffering from dementia, deal with her impending eviction. A young man going out to buy condoms instead ends up part of the search for a lost car.
by | Aug 7, 2018 12:58 pm | Comments (1)
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Afro-Semitic Experience Monday night in Beecher Park.
Monday evening was the pits in Westville — which was cause for celebration.
by | Aug 7, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (6)
A motorcyclist died after crashing into a car in Westville Monday night.
by | Aug 6, 2018 12:44 pm | Comments (5)
Allan Appel Photo
Park goat joins Uhl for morning coffee.
Yes, we have four stomachs making us thoughtful. Well, that makes us ruminative creatures.
We particularly like the unlimited buffet of Japanese Knotweed but we are fastidious to leave room for our favorite dessert, poison ivy. And we of course really enjoy meeting the hundreds of people who visit and care for us. New Haven water is pretty darn cool too.
Those were the highlights of an amusing (at least for me) interview with two of the six goats now busily eating the invasive species in a two-and-a-half acre fenced plot near the tennis courts in Edgewood Park.