by | Oct 4, 2017 11:55 am | Comments (1)
Mary Shelley wrote her now classic work Frankenstein as the result of a writing competition, which included her husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron during what she described as a “wet and ungenial summer.”
by | Oct 4, 2017 7:53 am | Comments (0)
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Artist Sara Scranton.
Artist and poet Daniel Eugene told me before his photo shoot with Sara Scranton at his Studio Feruvius in Westville that he plans to be the Patron Saint of Paper Trails.
by | Oct 2, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (1)
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Marisol Orihuela and her dog Rigoberta at Edgewood Park on Sunday.
Feeling depressed after the election of Donald Trump, Yale Law School associate professor Marisol Orihuela decided this January to get a dog: a chihuaha mix that she planned to bring to local protests.
by | Sep 25, 2017 7:58 am | Comments (16)
Juda leads the kaddish at Sunday’s ceremony.
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Detail of the memorial.
Isidor Juda was on a train bound for Nazi death camps when miraculously it slowed down. He leapt off and escaped. Three uncles, three aunts and two cousins weren’t as lucky. Sunday, decades later, he said the prayer for the dead for them at a memorial gravesite in New Haven.
by | Sep 22, 2017 1:46 pm | Comments (3)
Connecticut Open
A solar array will replace seats in an upper-level section.
The Connecticut Tennis Center may have failed to book Aretha Franklin for a concert this fall, but it will soon harness the power of another, even bigger star.
Continue reading ‘Solar Panels Take A Seat At Tennis Center’
by | Sep 22, 2017 7:53 am | Comments (1)
For New Haven-based musician and sometimes promoter Rick Omonte, music is a contagion. “It’s like a parasite or a bug,” he said in an interview last week. “You might walk by a window and hear something, and then it’s in your head. And then you hear it on the street, and it’s another crumb. And then you hear someone playing it, and you say, ‘excuse me, I don’t know you, but what’s that song?’”
Omonte’s big ears and curiosity led him, sonically speaking, to the West African country of Niger. Next Tuesday, he’s bringing Niger to New Haven, represented by celebrated guitarist Mdou Moctar, who will play Lyric Hall in Westville at 8 p.m.
Continue reading ‘How Rick Omonte Is Bringing Niger To New Haven’
by | Sep 18, 2017 2:12 pm | Comments (34)
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A Family Dollar like this could be coming to Westville.
Furlow: Wrong fit.
A developer is eyeing a Whalley Avenue property formerly home to a CVS pharmacy in Westville as the possible new home for convenience retailer Family Dollar.
The developer should not expect a welcome mat.
by | Sep 15, 2017 5:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Officials break ground during Friday’s shovel ceremony.
On the same day that Chapel Haven commemorated 45 years of serving adults with disabilities, it also broke ground on a new campus that many hope will take it 45 years into the future and beyond.
by | Sep 15, 2017 1:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Officer Valentin approaches the Toyota.
Jason Newton insisted he never saw the speed limit sign.
by | Sep 12, 2017 1:04 pm | Comments (4)
Paul Bass Photo
Bria Holmes, with Paca in Westville, greets voter Wendy Samberg.
The news cycle gave Marcus Paca’s mayoral candidacy a last-minute boost Tuesday, as voters woke up to learn that a the headquarters of a marquee new-economy New Haven company is moving to Boston.
Continue reading ‘Paca Catches A Late Break — & A Wing Guard’
by | Sep 7, 2017 4:26 pm | Comments (7)
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BMX rider Justin Kearney, and skateboarders Anthony Papagoda and Brian Clark debate snakes and volcano transitions.
Skateboarders gathered at their longtime park Wednesday night not to do tricks on the concrete, but to help a new city-hired spraypaint-wielding builder map the “clam shells” and “tombstones” that will flow into a new stat-of-the-art venue.
by | Sep 1, 2017 1:13 pm | Comments (5)
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If not for his talents for forgery and for culinary invention, Salam Al-Rawi probably wouldn’t have been on Whalley Avenue this week preparing to open Westville Village’s newest restaurant.
Continue reading ‘Soul Of Iraqi Village Surfaces In Westville’
by | Sep 1, 2017 12:19 pm | Comments (4)
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Mauro Sheridan Principal Kaliszewski at bus arrival Friday.
A crossing guard was hit by a car near the intersection of Grand and Ferry Friday, just as city officials were across town urging drivers in school zones to slow down and stop passing school buses.
Continue reading ‘Crossing Guard Hit, Enforcement Stepped Up’
by | Aug 24, 2017 8:41 am | Comments (2)
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Mayor Toni Harp with New HYTEs’ Mavi Sanchez-Skakle at Wednesday’s luncheon.
The women were assembled in an-air conditioned suite overlooking an outdoor court at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale for lunch and to celebrate women in business. But they were asked to resist the forces that might turn back the progress that has helped more women succeed.
Continue reading ‘Women’s Day Luncheon Aims At Stalled Progress’
by | Aug 24, 2017 8:15 am | Comments (9)
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Jacob Guaman peeks in from second-floor landing.
Despite two city-ordered series of repairs, a child is still living at a west side apartment with lead-paint poisoning — the latest chapter in a decade-long saga that’s now the subject of a demand letter and an upcoming suit by legal aid lawyers questioning how effectively the city regulates hazards in renters’ homes.
by | Aug 20, 2017 1:50 pm | Comments (5)
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Mavi Sanchez-Skakle of New HYTEs working with children on their stances.
Could the next tennis phenom be growing up in Newhallville or Dixwell? Maybe, if the neighborhoods had tennis courts.
by | Aug 11, 2017 12:39 pm | Comments (7)
A public hearing notice on an ash tree on Central Avenue.
(Updated) The city will remove 20 ash trees and put 13 trees on monitor status for the ravages of the emerald ash borer.
by | Aug 8, 2017 3:12 am | Comments (5)
Pike International
Colby Court, one of three Pike-managed properties due for lead-paint abatement, under the terms of an EPA settlement.
One of New Haven’s largest landlords has agreed to a $121,000 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over alleged violations of lead-safety rules — the EPA’s latest enforcement action in what environmentalists worry will be a dwindling federal caseload as the Trump administration limits oversight of toxic chemicals.
by | Aug 6, 2017 3:02 pm | Comments (10)
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Shaquille Saunchez battles two defenders.
Elm City Express, a first-year professional New Haven club, trounced CD Aguiluchos USA 2 – 0 at Yale’s Reese Stadium Saturday night to advance to the National Premier Soccer League Championship Final.
by | Jul 31, 2017 8:05 am | Comments (7)
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Gavin, Blau, and Marra on set at Lyric Hall.
The cameras were in focus, the actors in position, the lights and furniture in the antique barroom rearranged in preparation for the next scene of the movie.
by | Jul 25, 2017 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
I wandered over to a recent “cooking with cannabis” course hosted by Westville’s Women Grow CT to learn how to make some summer-themed edibles: lemonades, barbecue sauce, and the classic medley of baked goods. What I got was a glimpse into a budding industry.
by | Jul 21, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (0)
Lucy Gellman
The ensemble.
Scene: The city and the forest, once a single village, have been divided by a railroad that cuts through the land.
Scene: The two halves are now two municipalities. No trade flows between them. Families, then friends, lose touch. The city moves to protect itself with high walls.
Scene: All the trees are dying, one by one. The walls have severed their roots.
by | Jul 18, 2017 7:51 pm | Comments (2)
Jon Greenberg Photo
The serving table, with Libby Abraham’s winning pies at foreground.
Libby Abraham claimed the rights to the title of best pie baker in Westville Monday evening, fending off seven strong competitors to win a neighborhood-wide competition.
by | Jul 18, 2017 12:03 pm | Comments (19)
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Mothers of gun violence victims Monday evening.
A proposed memorial in honor of New Haveners lost to gun violence could be headed to the outskirts of Edgewood Park. But organizers need to win over some neighbors first.
by | Jul 17, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (60)
CDM Smith
Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
City traffic commissioners held off on clearing the way for the proposed west side two-way bike track along Edgewood from Forest Road to Park Street until they hear that the neighborhood’s alders are on board.