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949 Whalley Ave.
Scientology architect Christopher Sanders (right) and project manager Larry Nardecchia pitch plans.
The Church of Scientology of Connecticut got the thumbs up to convert a vacant Westville former furniture warehouse into a place of worship, despite reservations of two neighbors who lambasted the organization for long neglecting the property and spurning the community.
by | Nov 16, 2018 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Neighbors at the brainstorming that generated the 50 ideas.
Westville neighbors fed up with an uptick in crime put their heads together and came up with 50 ideas to thwart criminals and help each other find peace of mind.
by | Nov 9, 2018 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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94 East Rock Rd.
An East Rock home recently sold for over $1 million — still a rare feat for New Haven residences, even in the East Rock neighborhood’s pricey housing market.
Continue reading ‘Latest Sales: East Rock Home Buy Tops $1M’
by | Nov 8, 2018 9:45 am | Comments (17)
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Neighbors hash out crime fighting ideas at Edgewood School.
Westville neighbors went looking for solutions to a recent uptick in crime in the neighborhood. They found them by picking each other’s brains instead of their pockets.
by | Nov 7, 2018 3:58 pm | Comments (25)
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Some of the hundreds waiting four hours to vote Tuesday.
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Democratic Registrar of Voters Shannel Evans assembles hand-count team at 1:42 a.m. at Edgewood School.
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Merrill: No excuses.
Hours after most Connecticut communities had reported their election results, New Haven’s leading voting official arrived at Edgewood School after midnight Wednesday with a team of election workers and began counting 1,968 ballots. By hand.
by | Nov 7, 2018 9:32 am | Comments (15)
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Kingmaker Mauro: “I’m just a fat guy from the Elm City with the best team in the state. Maybe the country.”
(Updated) Ned Lamont will be the next governor of Connecticut, thanks to New Haven.
Voters here gave Lamont a 23,278-vote victory margin — which will continue to grow as more votes are counted — over Republican Bob Stefanowski, the largest single vote total in the state.
Stefanowski conceded to the Greenwich Democrat on Wednesday morning, even as New Haven continued counting its ballots after a disastrous election day muddled by broken voting machines.
Continue reading ‘Stefanowski Concedes In Governor’s Race; New Haven Puts Lamont Over The Top’
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Part of the voting traffic jam at City Hall to register.
Double breakdowns in New Haven’s elections Tuesday have thrown the city’s vote-count into chaos — and prompted Republican gubernatorial Bob Stefanowski to go to court to segregate some of the city’s ballots.
by | Nov 6, 2018 1:31 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven goths and goth-curious art lovers congregated in Lyric Hall in Westville to celebrate goth artwork at the first annual Gothic Arts Market, hosted by Lorelei Rayven.
by | Nov 6, 2018 1:30 pm | Comments (0)
Westville neighbors plan to meet with their alder and neighborhood top cop Wednesday evening to brainstorm ideas to counter a recent uptick in burglaries, car break-ins, and muggings.
Continue reading ‘Westville Brainstorms On Recent Crime Uptick’
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.