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Mar 28, 2018 1:10 pm
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Parent Suzan Ali and daughter Khloe receive the news.
Dessara Bryant came to a parents meeting at St. Aedan-St. Brendan School to learn how a new STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts & Math) teaching framework will affect her kids’ learning.
She left with a more existential concern: whether the school she loves will survive.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 21, 2018 12:03 pm
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Scene at one of the many crashes at the Willard-Yale-Central intersection.
Auguste Fortin and Jeanne Dubin have seen at least seven to ten crashes outside their homes near the intersection of Central Avenue, Yale Avenue and Willard Street.
They celebrated winning a years-long quest Tuesday night to convince the city to put four-way stop signs at that intersection in the hope of seeing far fewer crashes in the future.
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Mar 20, 2018 3:09 pm
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Marlene Pratt updates management team on plan.
A Career High School biology teacher whose son was shot and killed 20 years ago has a new site in mind and new support from a local architecture firm and forestry nonprofit in her long-running quest to create a public reflection garden in honor of all New Haven victims of gun violence.
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Mar 20, 2018 8:10 am
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Furlow testifies at the Capitol Monday..
The fate of a digital billboard erected on Whalley Avenue is clear. It’s not going anywhere.
But west-side neighbors and elected officials said the city should have more explicit power to regulate such future billboards, though outdoor advertising advocates say it already has such powers.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 13, 2018 4:41 pm
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Honda Smith and Mike Dorsey on the streets during almost-storm moment.
When the promised snowstorm failed to arrive in New Haven Tuesday afternoon, Honda Smith and a city tag-and-tow team faced a dilemma on Valley Street: Place tickets on 60 cars illegally parked on the odd side of the street? Or let it slide?
Public Space Enforcement Officer Honda Smith had called for the tag and tow team hours before when the snow was flying and the visibility was low.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 8, 2018 5:18 pm
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Giant ash that fell across Marvelwood Drive during Storm Elsa.
Jose Jordan (center) with neighbor Esther Comba (left) and New Haven firefighter Lt. Gerard Bellamy.
Jose Jordan’s mother sought refuge from Hurricane Maria by fleeing to her son’s home in Westville — only to have an ash tree topple over power lines in Wednesday night’s storm and plunge the home into cold and darkness.
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Christopher Peak |
Feb 28, 2018 1:00 pm
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Electronic billboard at 1057 Whalley.
An electronic billboard’s LED pixels on upper Whalley have illuminated a hole in the zoning ordinance, and sent politicians looking to tighten regulations before the Elm City starts to resemble Vegas.
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Feb 23, 2018 4:05 pm
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Taryn Joseph, center, flashes answers and her iPhone.
Career High School student and New Haven Arts and Ideas fellow Taryn Joseph could not have been more animated and excited to share her reaction to a “painful” painting with its creator, artist Rhinold Ponder.
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Feb 14, 2018 8:33 pm
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Early reception before transitioning to dance floor.
Exotic masks and costumes seemed in short supply under the shimmering streamers of the annual New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) Mardi Gras fundraiser celebration this year — but not the celebratory fervor that kicked into high gear at the celebration’s temporary new location in Westville.
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Feb 14, 2018 8:36 am
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Manjares Bistro’s Ana De Los Angeles and Miguel Trelles.
Westvillers came out to a zoning hearing to support two new plans to build up and boost nightlife in their commercial village, while upstairs music teachers added a discordant note.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 13, 2018 4:17 pm
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The new proposed Village Center, or BA-2, zone for Westville Village.
An assisted living facility would be OK, but not a boarding house. An apartment building could rise four stories and have a first-floor pharmacy — but no convenience store. Boutique hotel? Fine. Motel? Not fine.
And never shall there be a drive-through fast food restaurant in the heart of the Village.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 7, 2018 3:03 pm
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The current skate park.
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BMX biker Justin Kearney points out favorite features of the new design.
Parks Director Becky Bombero asked the dozen skaters, skateboarders and bikers assembled before her what day of the week they would be available to come to help pull weeds as their sweat equity contribution to a new skate park.
The timing of Donald Trump’s travel ban has split a Syrian family between New Haven and Lebanon — only in this case it’s the grandparents who made it to the Promised Land, praying for a breakthrough so their beloved daughter and grandchildren can join them.
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Jan 26, 2018 9:14 am
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A rendering of the new Delaney’s-apartment complex planned for Central and Whalley.
The burned-down Delaney’s Restaurant & Tap Room is making a comeback to Westville Village along with new apartments on top, if a newly submitted zoning application gets approved.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Jan 22, 2018 5:54 pm
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On Saturday, a man with a gun went into the Westville Quality Market and demanded money — the third time in just over a year that the store at the corner of Alden Avenue and West Elm Street has been robbed at gunpoint.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Jan 19, 2018 2:04 pm
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Engineer David Sacco details site improvements.
The old Whalley Avenue CVS will get a new parking lot and cosmetic improvements — and still, despite some neighborhood opposition, become a Family Dollar in the end.
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Jan 11, 2018 4:17 pm
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Car remains in frozen prison along emergency route on Edgewood Ave.’s odd-numbered side, a week after storm.
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Smith with Hill neighbors.
Kate Bradley went door to door ahead of last week’s “bomb cyclone” that dumped a foot of snow to remind neighbors to move their cars to the even side of the street to make way for the plows.
The only problem: The plows never came to clear the snow.
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Jan 10, 2018 6:44 pm
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Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
New Haven’s longest-serving state representative is facing a likely challenge from a fellow Democrat who claims he can help bring home more bacon from Hartford.
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Dec 20, 2017 8:51 am
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Bruckmann’s oil painting “Fish House” has sold.
Painter Frank Bruckmann often puts his intensely colored, evocative scenes on large canvases. But at holiday time, he offers smaller formats — and the works, like those of his colleagues, are selling.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 19, 2017 11:49 am
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Thabisa at Kehler Liddell.
Thabisa strolled from the back of Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville with a megaphone in her hand, already singing. The people in the audience, seated on the gallery floor — many on blankets and pillows — fell quiet as soon as they heard her voice.She strolled in, took her stand on the small carpet set up under the lights to make a stage. Various percussion to her right. A guitar and a trumpet on stands to her left. Behind her, a large yellow wingback chair, a floor lamp, an end table with a framed picture on it.The South-African born and now New Haven-based musician sang mostly in Xhosa, but a line in English leapt into the audience’s ears.“This is where I am,” she sang, “I’m here to stay.”
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Dec 14, 2017 4:31 pm
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Nemerson breaks news to riled neighbors.
After months of debate of what kind of retail belongs in Westville — and how much government can and cannot exert its will on private property owners — a Family Dollar is likely coming to a vacant building on upper Whalley Avenue.
Thabisa and Steve Mednick Thursday in the WNHH studio.
When Thabisa performs her music in Xhosa, the language from her native South Africa, people in Westville understand what she’s singing. Even if they don’t understand the words.
