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May 14, 2024 11:34 am
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Elizabeth Laconi, Anne Hartjen, Shayla Streater, and Amayah Smith.
Amid the sea of vendors and artisans on Saturday afternoon at the 27th annual Westville ArtWalk neighborhood festival and arts market, 11-year-old Amayah Smith looked around in awe at the multitude of goods people had to offer, from handmade soaps to crochet plushies. Amayah could imagine herself taking part, so folks better watch out at next year’s ArtWalk for a new business — “‘Mayah’s Joy” — bringing homemade stickers to you.
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Brian Slattery |
May 14, 2024 8:29 am
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Sean Patrick Gallagher
These Wine-Dark, Warming Currents, Rising.
In Sean Patrick Gallagher’s series of paintings, the sea roils red. The image is clear enough, but the title brings home the allusions the artist is leaning toward. “Wine-dark,” the famous moniker for the ocean in Homer’s classical Greek epics. The others are more contemporary, pointing to the effects of climate change. The series of paintings together act almost like a film. Move through the gallery fast enough, and the floor might feel like it’s surging beneath your feet.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 26, 2024 8:48 am
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Sheila Lamb (right): "Your job right now is to be engaged."
As Mauro-Sheridan math teacher Sheila Lamb knocked on her seventh graders’ desks to urge them to participate in class, math coach Cortney Costa used her phone at the back of the classroom — not to play games, but to record Lamb’s model lesson.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 15, 2024 1:33 pm
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The former Doyle's dry cleaners at 203 Alden Ave.
The redeveloper of the former Doyle’s Cleaners on Alden Avenue has ditched plans to build a new specialty food store and will now construct six, instead of four, apartments there instead.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 27, 2024 9:59 am
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Mark K. St. Mary
Study #1108.
Mark K. St. Mary’s Study #1108 looks almost like it could be a double exposure, an image of light and shadow laid over a photograph of a hallway. Viewed another way, it can feel almost intrusive, a view from inside a house at night when the lights are off. Should we, the viewers, be there? What is going on?
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 19, 2024 4:25 pm
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Alex Ankrah and Josephine Bailey: Family Dollar is a top-dollar date space.
Mother and daughter Hinasta L and Celeste Burrell left Family Dollar with Rockin’ Protein, hand sanitizer, period pads and heavy hearts — as they prepared for potential closure of the only store in the city keeping their pockets lined with more than lint.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 8, 2024 2:28 pm
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No sign of "religious" activity: Assessor Pullen (left); portions of the blighted Scientology building.
Scientologists will have to pay taxes after sitting on plans to resurrect Ron Hubbard’s spirit inside the deteriorating doors of a former furniture store — now that the city revoked the church’s tax-exempt status.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 5, 2024 9:45 am
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Students Monday outside the parked cARTie bus.
cARTie museum educator Nicole Pappo reads to students outdoors.
When asked “does art matter?” second graders Mercedes, Mason, and Elia agreed “yes.” Then they showed some of the reasons: Mason drew a sign reading “art = peace.” Elia drew a self-portrait. And Mercedes drew a rainbow, reading “I love art.”
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 4, 2024 2:18 pm
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Ellen Maust reads aloud to Mauro Sheridan second-grade class.
In a second-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School students danced along to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” after learning about the “Queen of Soul.”
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Kamini Purushothaman |
Feb 29, 2024 2:58 pm
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Round 2's coming: Jovon Ladson navigates concrete quarter pipe added in the previous round of skateboarder-city-designed renovations.
Skateboarders young and old envisioned stairs, an awning, and 24/7 lights as they met with city officials to map out a plan for a $250,000 renovation of their park.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 21, 2024 9:34 am
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Roy Money
Emeishan View 2.
The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist pictures — the highest peak, the widest vista, the prettiest temple. Instead, he has an eye for the beauty in the details, the shape of the land, a mat of vegetation, curls of fog. Pictures of famous vistas might make us want to go there. Pictures like Money’s might give us more of a sense of what it’s like to already be there.
A national Jewish organization called on Mayor Justin Elicker Friday to take disciplinary action against a city employee over an Upper Westville encounter that laid bare local tensions over the war in Gaza.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 9, 2024 4:50 pm
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This reporter's favorite student as seen during Friday's Davis magnet school pep rally.
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Ernie's owner Pat DeRiso tries to get orders out for delivery while reporters hound him about National Pizza Day.
A plethora of pizza, pom-poms and politicians flooded Upper Westville Friday morning amidst a pair of symbiotic popularity contests – in which every party was a winner.
The slices of of za and strings of plastic were featured in two separate city celebrations taking place around the corner from one another.
Over at Davis Academy, students screamed out of ostensible excitement or, perhaps, excess energy as their principal announced that both The Magnet Schools of America and the University of Connecticut have recognized the school for “innovative excellence.”
Down the street on Whalley Avenue, politicians and thin-crust fanatics packed like anchovies inside Ernie’s Pizzeria for National Pizza Day and a proclamation by the governor naming New Haven the “Pizza Capital of America.”
"I can't quit": Blumenthal fields sharp Qs from Mauro-Sheridan fifth-graders.
“If you had to either quit or work with Donald Trump as president, what would you do?”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal faced that question and others about his role in the future of American democracy — not at a press conference, or on the Senate floor, but in Lauren Bitterman’s fifth-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan school.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 12, 2024 8:30 am
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Hank Paper
Another Brand New Day.
Hank Paper may have given his photograph the perfect title. Another Brand New Day is on one level just a normal street scene in Italy, but its vivid colors and warm light are almost supernaturally delicious. Paper finds the ecstasy in the everyday, and with it, a palpable sense of hope.
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 19, 2023 11:07 am
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SCSU grad student Bruno Semino competing in a pickleball tournament in October at Edgewood Park.
The story of the proposed indoor pickleball facility slated to spring forth from a stretch of asphalt in Westville begins, in a way, in 1957, when Harrison Blume’s grandfather first hung a podiatry shingle on Blake Street.
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Asher Joseph |
Dec 18, 2023 2:58 pm
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Students sing loud and proud at Elm City Montessori's eighth annual Winter Sing.
Students, families, and teachers bundled together in the subfreezing temperature at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) to lift their voices in song during the school’s eighth annual Winter Sing — which played out as candles flickered, under the silhouette of West Rock.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 18, 2023 8:55 am
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The show of artist Amira Brown’s work, up now at the Mitchell Branch Library in Westville through the end of the month, doesn’t have a title, nor do any of the individual pieces. That gesture alone seems to be part of the point, as is the elliptical, border-melting nature of the work itself. It’s a show to find your way into; one possible starting point is a piece that shows, in outline, a person in a classic pose of pondering, but the pondering itself is dissolving the person. The person contains other people. The person contains stars. But Brown’s sly humor is on full display as well. “Meh,” is one complete thought. “Shrug,” another. And then: “rodeo.” The rodeo of making art? Of showing it? Something bigger? Whatever the case, it isn’t Brown’s first.
