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Jackson shows Dillon a growing crack in her house.
Cheryl Jackson has watched over the years as neighbors got help saving their sinking homes. Now she’s hoping her turn has finally arrived.
by | Nov 29, 2017 8:43 am | Comments (3)
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Cats fuel up at Mew Haven.
Westville’s newest business is trying to start the holiday season off on the right paw — by offering visitors a furry reprieve from shopping, baking, final exams and holiday stress.
by | Nov 10, 2017 11:30 am | Comments (0)
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New Haven geneaologist Jeanne Insalaco documenting names yp contribute to the Honor Roll Project this Veterans Day.
When Jeanne Insalaco focused her Nikon 5200 camera on the Prospect Soldiers Monument recently, she drew from her experience shooting various monuments in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘She’s Preserving Vets’ Names For Digital Age’
by | Oct 30, 2017 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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The scene on Howard Avenue.
Winds reached 56 miles per hour in town overnight, downing at least 15 trees citywide and plunging the City Point neighborhood into darkness.
Meanwhile, officials were scrambling past midnight to deal with two storm-unrelated matters: a busload of Hillhouse High students stranded off a Baltimore highway, and a piercing alarm in a bank-owned home that was keeping upper Westville awake.
by | Oct 19, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (31)
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Brackeen walks Beverly Hills with LCI’s Rick Mazzadra & Driscoll.
Airbnb-er Leventhal.
Amid growing complaints from neighbors, New Haven is looking to start regulating the mushrooming Airbnb business in town — in such a way that they won’t land the city in court.
by | Oct 18, 2017 12:33 pm | Comments (15)
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WVRA’s Donius: Have you asked anyone else?
Should a Family Dollar make upper Whalley Avenue its home — a prospect some neighbors have opposed— the building it moves into will get a facelift that includes masonry repair, a paint job and a redone façade, landscaping and a repaved parking lot.
by | Oct 10, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Antle-O’Donnell.
Liz Antle‑O’Donnell won’t have to learn a roster of new names in her new position at Kehler Liddell Gallery. But she hopes to have new names coming through the door before the end of the year.
by | Oct 9, 2017 12:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Sarah J. Bratchell’s and Kate Stephen’s gallery on Saturday.
There was plenty of finished art to see in West River Arts on Whalley Avenue as artists threw open the doors of their studios for City Wide Open Studios’s Westville weekend. For some artists the weekend was as much about making the art as showing it.
Continue reading ‘Sometimes It’s About How You Make The Art’
by | Oct 5, 2017 12:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Yale-China Fellow Onnie Chan recording her story.
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The original Boardman Building.
A fledgling experiment after the Civil War. A voice, clear as a bell, on the other end of the line. A heartbeat of current and wire. A signal that the only way was onward, through person-to-person communication.
This is the starting point for Exchange: This Electronic Age is Both Wondrous and Horrible, a new work from A Broken Umbrella Theatre (ABUT) based on the history of the telephone exchange in downtown New Haven.
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)
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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)
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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.