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)
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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.
by | Jul 13, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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“Obsidian Flow Oregon #1,” archival digital print by Bob Giannotti, curated by Alan Shulik
If you believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, then what if pictures can talk? And not only to us but to each other?
by | Jul 13, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (24)
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Ward 26 Co-chairs Sharon Jones and Amy Marx, Ward 27’s Henry Lowendorf at forum, which ended in a split vote.
Upper Westville Democrats are torn on judging whom they want adjudicating cases in probate court: a practitioner in that area of the law, a familiar face in the neighborhood, or a service-minded newcomer.
by | Jul 12, 2017 12:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Elizabeth Barton of Iron & Walnut.
On the most recent version of a new Westville Village art crawl Second Saturday, the artists working in West River Arts — a warren of second-floor studio spaces nestled amongst galleries, cafes, and commercial buildings on Whalley Avenue and Blake Street — threw their studios open for conversation with the community.
by | Jul 11, 2017 5:35 pm | Comments (2)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Hamoudehand his family cut the ribbon with Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. and Mayor Toni Harp.
First there was pizza. Now, there’s chicken. Crispy, crunchy chicken, with biscuits on the side.
And a few Moroccan pastries.
by | Jul 6, 2017 7:39 am | Comments (0)
Concerned neighbors Angela Clinton and Nate Bixby.
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Giant hoses snake across intersection.
Westvilleans who called in a fire on Alden Avenue Wednesday and tried to start putting it out now intend to hold a fundraiser to help neighbors who are now displaced from their home.
Continue reading ‘Westville Fire Displaces Tenants; Neighbors Pitch In’
by | Jul 4, 2017 11:03 am | Comments (8)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
Bolden-Smith and Kravitz at their new outpost.
Marijuana leaf symbols have appeared in the window of a small office at 326 Central Ave., but you can’t knock on the door and buy ganja.
by | Jul 4, 2017 8:52 am | Comments (4)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
David Sepulveda locked and handcuffed in a cruiser at the scene: Trump tweets about it; New Haven does it in real life.
No deal, Independent reporter David Sepulveda told the state.
No case, the judge ruled in the end.
by | Jul 3, 2017 2:02 pm | Comments (1)
Rescuing baby ducks from a storm drain proved only part of the challenge on West Rock Avenue.
by | Jul 3, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
At the municipal parking lot wall on Blake Street, off Whalley Avenue in Westville, artist Don Wunderlee unveiled a new mural Sunday.
by | Jun 26, 2017 7:31 am | Comments (2)
Mulcahy.
Karen Ponzio
Mark Mulcahy strummed his guitar on the stage of Lyric Hall on Thursday, midway through a string of older songs after performing his new album, The Possum in the Driveway, in its entirety.
“What else?” he asked the band around him. Someone in the audience shouted a request.
“Not that what else,” he said. “Don’t yell out songs” he said, in a soft and kindly manner, “because the band might not know them and then they’ll feel bad…. If you went to someone’s house and they offered you apple pie, you wouldn’t yell out ‘cherry pie’, would you?”
by | Jun 22, 2017 4:36 pm | Comments (28)
CDM Smith
Proposed redesigned Winthrop-Edgewood intersection.
Wharton: Can you help sell GOP curmudgeons?
After nearly three years spent convincing Westville, Edgewood and Dwight neighbors of the benefits of a two-way cycle track stretching from Forest Road to Park Street, city planners found one group left to convince: Republicans.
by | Jun 19, 2017 12:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Fay and Dakoulas.
Alex Dakoulas, owner of Strange Ways in Westville, had been enjoying the weekly underground movies being shown at Lyric Hall on Whalley Avenue, down the street from his own shop every Tuesday. Coincidentally, Dakoulas had begun holding Flair Fair, a market for vendors of pins, patches, and other wearable art, in Lyric Hall.
So he approached Joe Fay, the curator of Lyric Hall’s film series, with the hope that they could “combine our powers” and “get people together for a unique event” — to not only shop, but to also see, as Fay put it, “slightly offbeat films.”
Thus, Strange Cinema was born.
by | Jun 19, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (17)
Christopher Peak Photo
A new mascot for Jamell Cotto’s campaign: the kangaroo.
A challenger for the Board of Education has a new name for his supporters: “kangaroo warriors.”
by | Jun 16, 2017 8:15 am | Comments (39)
Christopher Peak Photos
Harp, Paca at their first joint forum Thursday night.
In Mayor Toni Harp’s New Haven, violent crime has fallen nearly 75 percent in six years. In challenger Marcus Paca’s New Haven, bullets still fly in struggling neighborhoods, with victims shot “even in their own homes.”
Young people are flocking downtown for walkable living and a startup-friendly culture, in Harp’s city. In Paca’s, economic development hasn’t touched the Westville, Grand Avenue or the Dixwell main drags.
by | Jun 14, 2017 7:41 am | Comments (2)
Lucy Gellman Photo
TSF golie Mateo Zabala makes a save against Elm City.
For the third time in 16 minutes, Elm City Express was gaining on the New Jersey-based TSF FC‘s goal. Anthony Assante extended his left leg and kicked, giving the ball a solid spin. TSF goalie Mateo Zabala watched it carefully. With a thump, the ball fell squarely into his gloved hands.
by | Jun 8, 2017 12:05 pm | Comments (0)
Ni’Jauh Boston-Williams, Kayla Poole, and Dhalia Brelsford as Leonata, Hero, and Beatrice.
The Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School has one of the coolest science and technology-themed programs in town, complete with partnerships with spacemen and competitive robotics clubs.
An increasingly poorly kept secret is the growing prowess of its long-standing Shakespeare reading groups, which have led to The Mauro-Sheridan Shakespeare players’ annual production of a Bard play.