by | Jun 29, 2016 4:24 pm | Comments (0)
Officers arrested a man prowling Westville and recovered an array of allegedly stolen items.
Continue reading ‘Philip St. Prowler Caught; Hold-Up Duo Gets Away’
by | Jun 29, 2016 7:31 am | Comments (15)
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Heitmann in the heart of Westville Village.
After seven years in the thick of hard-fought efforts to calm his neighborhood’s streets and build up its culture and businesses, Chris Heitmann is handing over the reins of the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance and heading west.
by | Jun 19, 2016 12:41 pm | Comments (1)
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The following story and these photos were submitted by Veronica Douglas-Givan.
Proud fathers, uncles, father figures, along with members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the New Haven Police Department packed two kindergarten classrooms at Edgewood Magnet School in celebration of Father’s Day and a very special event entitled, “Donuts for Dads Day.”
by | Jun 15, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (1)
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Children helped release the bugs.
Kate Bradley kept some unusual items stocked in her fridge: thousands of live ladybugs.
by | Jun 10, 2016 11:56 am | Comments (0)
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McMillan in Yale-New Haven prayer room as Ramadan began.
Ali McMillan ducked out of a patient ward at Yale New Haven-Hospital for a quick trip to the nearby prayer room. He dragged a rug to the corner and kneeled on the floor as he prayed in a whisper. And as his stomach growled.
by | Jun 10, 2016 7:15 am | Comments (0)
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Mullins’ class dances to “La Niegra Tiene Tumbao.”
President Obama isn’t the only one opening doors to Cuba.
by | Jun 9, 2016 4:06 pm | Comments (23)
LCI’s Trachten at one of the crime scenes.
As a nurse, Marjorie Wiener has had no problem seeing patients’ penises. Seeing penises scrawled on the walls of her neighborhood is another matter.
by | Jun 9, 2016 7:00 am | Comments (0)
“Serro Scotty Sportsman.”
Photographer Marjorie Gillette Wolfe wanted to study the personality of a mobile home when it wasn’t mobile any more, and instead just hanging around at the owner’s stationary home.
Another photographer, Mark K. St. Mary, wanted to know if he photographed differently when away from home — that is, with the wider, discovering eyes of a traveler. Or with eyes challenged to overcome the more familiar if working at home.
by | Jun 3, 2016 12:03 pm | Comments (5)
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The Davis paper-clip project team: Serena Nawfal, Priya Sasidharan, Tamia Bromell, Imani Tatman, Tatyanna Russell.
With yardsticks and tape, Tatyanna Russell and her friends spent two months building a star and hanging 10,000 paper clips on it.
It would be another kids craft project if not for the meaning behind it: the star represents the Jewish Star of David, and each paper clip stands for 150 children who died during the Holocaust.
by | May 9, 2016 7:11 am | Comments (0)
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Kimbro.
Taking in the sounds of Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps and Arms & Voices as a mist began to fall over Whalley Avenue, pint-sized Westvillian Ava Kimbro and her mom Marjorie made a decision: stick it out, at least until Ava could get a big, blooming flower painted on her face. After all, this was their third Westville Artwalk, and they weren’t going to be that easily deterred. They inched toward the front of the line, where face artist Lauren Wilson was hard at work with her palettes, brushes, and stencils.
Continue reading ‘Despite Drizzle, Artwalk Spreads Spring Cheer’
by | May 6, 2016 6:22 am | Comments (1)
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Signs of spring in Westville: flowers, blossoms — and yarn blooming on bike racks and trees s.
by | May 5, 2016 2:56 pm | Comments (27)
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Hausladen and Zinn (center, center-right) with neighbors.
Team Hausladen-Zinn might have designed their way into full-on community support for a two-way protected-bike-lane “cycletrack” linking the west side to downtown.
by | May 5, 2016 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Lasley.
Marsh.
The Great Give marathon is over and WNHH radio programming is back to normal! Today’s programs delve into the daily duties of Connecticut’s secretary of the state, ask what performative film looks like in the year 2016, tease out the difference between contemporary and classical dance, and more.
by | Apr 28, 2016 1:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Zinn points out style of light fixture that would dot the new center median on Whalley.
Westville neighbors saw traffic tamed on Whalley Avenue — in charts. And they heard about how it will soon happen for real.
by | Apr 21, 2016 7:41 am | Comments (2)
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The project would go up on a slope starting here on Whalley.
A long, contentious battle between the City Plan Department and a prospective builder of a new elderly housing complex in the shadow of West Rock came to a quick and quiet end.
Continue reading ‘After Decade Of Wrangling, West Hills Senior Housing Gets OK’
by | Apr 16, 2016 9:38 pm | Comments (17)
The long political trek towards Connecticut’s April 26 presidential primary hit Westville Saturday as both Democratic camps landed on the same block.
by | Apr 14, 2016 3:43 pm | Comments (0)
Firefighters had to remove pieces of a man’s late model Toyota Camry to extricate him from it after it was flipped in a crash at Whalley and West Rock Avenue.
by | Apr 14, 2016 7:32 am | Comments (28)
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Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Olivia Martson inspect the proposed cycletrack design.
New Haven’s city engineer found a way to please opposing sides in Westville with an updated plan to build two-way protected bike lanes — then moved on to absorb a different flavor of public feedback up Edgewood Avenue in Dwight.
by | Apr 13, 2016 8:17 am | Comments (39)
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Naamani at 500 Central.
Left, current facade on Burton Street. Right, proposed, expanded facade on Burton.
(Updated) A family’s effort to turn a rescued “zombie” mansion in Westville into five apartments stumbled, as neighbors convinced the zoning board the plan would change the neighborhood’s character for the worse.
by | Apr 4, 2016 4:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Crews in Westville Village Sunday morning.
In one crash, a BMW driver failed to yield to the driver of a flatbed truck on Whalley Avenue.
In another, a BMW driver ran right into a private home.
In a third crash, a BMW driver sped up a hill in front a synagogue and lost control of the vehicle.
by | Mar 28, 2016 1:39 pm | Comments (2)
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WTNH interviews aspiring U.S. Rep. Janissa Vidal after event.
DeLauro holds court at Manjares.
A New Haven high school student with an eye toward a future in Congress heard a woman who’s already there tell her to jump in — even though she might be scared.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro told that Monday morning to Metropolitan Business Academy junior Janissa Vidal and seven of her female schoolmates at a breakfast roundtable discussion at Westville Village’s woman-run Manjares Bistro.
by | Mar 28, 2016 7:50 am | Comments (1)
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Dressed sharp in a royal blue blazer, Corey Staggers walked center stage, soprano saxophone in hand, to thunderous cheers. After thanking the audience, filled with family, friends and members of the New Haven community, he started his set with a gospel song dedicated to his late grandmother.
by | Mar 28, 2016 7:01 am | Comments (0)
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Ribbon is cut at opening of the Marycare Health Center. Fr. Emmanuel, second from right.
The Marycare Health Center, built with the help of New Haven parishioners on the dream of former St Aedan’s and St Brendan’s assistant pastor Fr. Emmanuel Ihemedu in impoverished areas of Ejemekwuru, Imo State Nigeria, immediately filled to capacity as word of the hospital’s opening spread quickly among villagers. The crush of those seeking health care overwhelmed the limited staff, taxing the nascent hospital’s ability to fulfill its life-saving mandate.
Continue reading ‘Fledgling Health Center Seeks Transfusion’
by | Mar 25, 2016 12:03 pm | Comments (5)
A fifth-grade student at Davis Street Arts & Academics School was suspended this week after bringing what turned out to be a BB gun to class.
Continue reading ‘5th Grader Suspended For Bringing BB Gun To School’
by | Mar 18, 2016 12:52 am | Comments (72)
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Culture clash: Deja Brew owner Carol Frawley debates neighborhood customer Ben Berkowitz.
Ciaran Borne-Brennan atop cycling dad Liam Brennan.
Two views of protected bike lanes — as either conduits of economic and communal vitality or destroyers of needed street parking spaces — collided at the first public discussion of an ambitious plan to connect the west side of New Haven to downtown.
The two views pitted neighbor against neighbor, barista against customer, teacher against parent at a standing-room-only gathering Thursday night inside Edgewood School’s cafeteria.