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Fr. Emmanual left, and Anne Bates at a Marycare event in Westville in 2009.
When Anne Bates, founder and president of the New Haven based nonprofit Marycare, passed away in December, her shared vision to develop a health center for the underserved people of Ejemekwuru, Nigeria, an unofficial sister “village” embraced by many Westville Village residents, had been realized.
But the hard work of staffing and maintaining the clinic had just begun.
Trachten and Decker agreed and then slightly disagreed.
How late should restaurants with bars be allowed to stay open? What should matter more in the decision — the bar’s need to make money, or nearby residents needing sleep?
The Board of Zoning Appeal considered those questions, then decided to allow two proposed restaurant/bars on different sides of town to serve alcohol and provide a reduced amount of parking.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Apr 10, 2017 11:56 am
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DeLeo prepares to lead the tour.
With the first blue sky in days overhead and wind whipping all around, Frank DeLeo shared a vision of trails along the West River and people biking and hiking near the former Pond Lily Dam just a few feet from the hustle and bustle of traffic and parking lots.
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David Sepulveda |
Apr 4, 2017 12:46 pm
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Kane.
“S‑i-t-z-p-r-o-b‑e. Sitzprobe.”
Edgewood After School Drama Club’s Jaime Kane, who is directing an upcoming stage production of Beauty and the Beast (Jr), spelled it out, explaining, “it’s a theatrical term that means seated rehearsal.”
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Lucy Gellman |
Mar 30, 2017 12:02 pm
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ECDC members Luis Antonio, Nikki Carrara, Alicia White, Lindsey Bauer, and Tara Lee Burns.
Lindsey Bauer — or maybe it was some version of her former self, or maybe someone else — strode toward a cluster of dancers. She stepped forward. Stepped back. Stepped forward. Kellie Ann Lynch held up a hand and looked at the group, breaking a building tension.
“Do we need a little more up, down?” she asked, her arms swinging as she spoke. Bauer nodded as if to say, yeah, let’s try that. A moment later, she was pushing violently against members of the group — and then she was airborne.
Two Alden Avenue neighbors offered different takes on how to slow down cars on their street — while lawmakers tried to figure out how much control they have over how fast people can legally drive in town.
Clockwise, from top: Engel, Da Silva, Donius, and Brandes.
Westvillers spoke as one Tuesday night in urging zoners to allow a local restaurant team to proceed with turning an abandoned bank branch into a new eatery and watering hole at the corner of Fountain Street and Central Avenue.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 13, 2017 7:40 am
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Towards the end of his set, Borts Minorts took a moment between songs to tell the audience something: “It’s good to have something you love that makes your life happy. This is it, guys!”
Minorts was one of two acts to bring their passion to the stage of Lyric Hall Theater on a bitter cold Friday night. This bill, which included the return of New Haven’s Tet Offensive to Lyric Hall for the first time in six months, more than delivered on the promise written on the show flyer to “entertain the crap out of you.”
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 9, 2017 9:19 am
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Knight and Bolduc with Chef Camacho (center) Wednesday night.
Westville welcomed a plan for a new restaurant at an empty former bank building while expressing reservations about another at a former problem bar spot, as developers made their pitches.
Vyacheslav Gryasnov — who is performing a solo recital at Lyric Hall this Saturday, fresh off a concert at Carnegie Hall — makes me ask just how near to heaven New Haven is.
Not two weeks ago I heard the Yale Philharmonia in an ideal program: Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 in F major and Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin providing balanced indulgences, with an unfamiliar (to me) Shostakovich — his Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor — for piquancy. On an outstanding evening the Shostakovich stood out, thanks to a commanding performance by Gryasnov, a young pianist from Sakhalin Island, the remotest reach of Russia.
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David Sepulveda |
Mar 7, 2017 3:00 pm
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A placard outside Postcard Central, signals the sentiment inside.
A group of Westville women who have heeded a viral call for White House resistance gathered to create artful messages that will be mailed on March 15, a figurative stab to the heart of President Trump’s policies and claim of widespread support.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 6, 2017 8:46 am
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About halfway through the Butterflies of Love’s set at Lyric Hall on Saturday, singer, songwriter and guitarist Jeff Greene asked the audience, “How many people out there really hate the Butterflies of Love?” All he received back was laughter.
“I was looking for a more negative response,” he replied, then launched into a story about the old days of the band that referenced a negative response they had once received.
“I only operate when I have something to work against,” he stated at the end of the story. That still didn’t deter the wall-to-wall crowd at Lyric Hall from giving the love back, again and again, to this perennially popular local band who made a long-awaited appearance in New Haven. A band that enjoyed local and international success in the 1990s, Butterflies of Love headlined Saturday night, along with Bill Beckett and Procedure Club, for one of only three performances — the second in Asbury Park, N.J., and the third in London, England.
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David Sepulveda |
Feb 21, 2017 1:29 pm
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Manager Bee at store’s entrance Thursday morning.
Standing behind two freshly smashed glass doors cordoned off by yellow crime tape, dejected Westville Wines manager Kumar Bee said he was in shock after a brazen smash and grab robbery today at one of the west side of town’s busiest intersections.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 20, 2017 8:58 am
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Banking on dinner at Fountain and Central.
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Dream team Camacho & Bolduc: Headed for Westville?
The empty former First Niagara Bank branch in Westville’s commercial heart may soon find new life as an eatery run by one of the city’s more successful restaurateurs — and revive some of the dining scene lost in the fire at the old Delaney’s across the street.
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Lucy Gellman |
Feb 14, 2017 8:51 am
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At the launch.
On a plank of wood that almost looks soft, there’s a discarded quill, bent like a fern. Ink still wet and velvety at the tip. Beside it, the inkwell. Its mouth beckons, shallow cap flung open while the well of black liquid suggests there’s more inside. Beside them, a letter opener, and a sense that the table could go on forever.
It comes with a note. If you want to take it home and keep looking, you can — and not for the small fortune usually associated with buying art.
New Haven’s latest snowstorm has once again attracted excited visitors to West Rock Avenue, where a memorable snowman has risen in David Sepulveda’s front yard — this one offering a message of peace for turbulent times.
“Headed toward D2,” Officer Francisco Ortiz reported on the police radio as he led the cops following a speeding driver of a stolen Toyota Highlander.He slowed down at a commercial intersection, losing sight of the driver. A moment later, he reported: “Large 22.” And “We’re going to need a signal 1 here.”
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 25, 2017 9:06 am
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Grooving at Edgewood’s skate park.
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Moser and local skaters mark up map with new design.
David Moser offered a simple choice to the group of skaters and bikers and rollerbladers gathered in a circle before him Tuesday night: “Concrete vs. asphalt.”
“Falling on asphalt,” one skateboarder responded, “is like falling on sandpaper.”
Giammona beside her 30-second video starring her smoking and finger-biting in “High Anxiety.”
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Julie Fraenkel’s papier-mache pinata was the first piece to sell.
Toni Giammona’s uncle threatened to wear his “Make America Great Again” T‑shirt to her art “Inauguration Nation” art opening in Westville this weekend. Until she talked to him.
Artist Giammona — whose dad Vincent was a New York City firefighter who died on 9/11 — has made her first-ever video installation titled “High Anxiety,” about the incoming Trump administration.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jan 16, 2017 3:03 pm
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Zohra Rawling was racking her brain, trying to explain all of the things that a recent beau had been doing to make her feel that special, warm tingly feeling from her nose to her toes, that flutter within her chest and stomach.
“I could say bella bella even / say wunderbar,” she sang. “Each language only helps me tell you/ how grand you are!”
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Lucy Gellman |
Jan 9, 2017 8:00 am
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When Anna Osinaike woke up to see large, swirling snowflakes outside her window Saturday morning, she had a moment of calm. This — the first snow of the new year, crisp and still bright white — would be the perfect reason for a quiet day.
But then she remembered: She and her 4‑year-old daughter Kristen had a date to travel halfway around the world, and be back in New Haven by 3 p.m. Despite the winter weather, they couldn’t be late.
