by | Feb 3, 2012 2:10 pm | Comments (6)
At 5 p.m., the announced time for its grand opening, workers at Keys On Kites Tattoo & Gallery were still buzzing around the newly installed sign fronting 869 Whalley Ave. in the heart of Westville Village.
by | Jan 19, 2012 1:06 pm | Comments (21)
Site of future Popeye’s on Kimberly Ave.
Westville and Kimberly Square are getting new fast food joints — with a side order of trees.
by | Dec 15, 2011 6:11 pm | Comments (1)
Paula Hyman, who lived in Westville and was a leading religious historian who helped bring gender “egalitarianism” to American Judaism, died Thursday. She was 65. Her funeral is set for Friday at 11:30 a.m. at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel synagogue on Harrison Street.
Click here to read a full-length tribute to her career and life by Deborah Dash Moore published by the Jewish Forward; Moore writes: “Hyman wanted to reclaim Jewish women activists of yore for contemporary Jews as part of her lifelong mission to challenge received ideas about leadership, values and ways of doing things in the United States and Israel. Her work ultimately transformed Jewish historical scholarship by bringing gender analysis into its mainstream,” Moore writes.
And read on for a blog tribute posted by Westville writer (and fellow congregant) Mark Oppenheimer:
by | Dec 8, 2011 2:56 pm | Comments (4)
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After 35 years, Gar Waterman has made so many sculptures that he has nowhere left to store them. Hence the “Dumpster Clause” in his will.
by | Nov 29, 2011 4:42 pm | Comments (31)
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Years after Tommy K’s rented its last video, workers are sprucing up its former Whalley Avenue storefront and will transform it into a new 7‑Eleven — if a developer can assure neighbors and zoners that a new 24-hour convenience store won’t become a crime magnet.
by | Nov 19, 2011 7:11 pm | Comments (18)
Tragedy marred the annual Saturday-morning drinking fest known as the Yale-Harvard Game tailgate, as a U‑Haul driver ran into a crowd of people outside the Yale Bowl and killed a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman named Nancy Barry.
by | Nov 7, 2011 2:42 pm | Comments (10)
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On the road to reelection, Alderman Sergio Rodriguez has been rolling door to door in a rented electric scooter with a vow to jump-start the city’s flagging employment rate. Meanwhile, his opponent reported in virtually from the campaign trail on his quest to take the steering wheel.
by | Oct 31, 2011 7:39 am | Comments (8)
An early snowfall left the ground white and slushy, but it was not enough to deter young and old from their appointed rounds in this year’s pre-Halloween Giant Puppet Parade on Sunday in Westville Village. The parade, sponsored by the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA), featured an array of giant puppets, costumes and creations, many of which were made in the WVRA-sponsored puppet-making workshops located in the vacant Anthony’s Barbershop on Fountain Street. Workshop leader and parade coordinator Muffy Pendergast worked with volunteers to facilitate the puppet creations at the site, but also dispensed advice to many who chose to make their creations at home.
by | Oct 27, 2011 12:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Searching for the remains of a 19th-century match factory in Westville, Ian Alderman found a home for his growing grassroots theater company — and the perfect Halloween haunt for his latest ghost story.
by | Oct 7, 2011 11:16 am | Comments (1)
When Kayla Davis sat down to write something she would read at Friday night’s poetry slam at Lyric Hall, she thought about what the world would be like if things were different. If they were better.
by | Oct 6, 2011 12:04 pm | Comments (20)
Dugas: Revenue’s tanking.
Some 50 fans of the endangered Amity branch on Whalley Avenue drove to a hearing to save it from the chopping block — and drove home that point.
Continue reading ‘Should Drivers Or Walkers Keep A Post Office?’
by | Oct 3, 2011 9:56 am | Comments (9)
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John Resnick (Class of ‘47) greets Paul North, Edgewood ‘38, at Edgewood School’s 100th birthday party Sunday.
Beginning cellist Christine Howe at Neighborhood Music School’s 100th birthday “play in.”
You walked home for lunch and walked back. There were two recesses, few fat kids, and little homework until fifth grade. That guard who walked you across Edgewood and West Rock? John Resnick and his friends called him “cement head” because of his hair.
by | Sep 30, 2011 2:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Bridget Gardner’s home is tilted and sits next to a growing sinkhole.
Nine months after the state promised a $2 million lifeline for their sinking homes, Bridget Gardner and her neighbors find them deteriorating further, as the money is held up in cross-border talks between New Haven and Woodbridge.
Continue reading ‘Sinking Homes Relief $$ Floats Out Of Reach’
by | Sep 23, 2011 3:13 pm | Comments (10)
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The kids skateboarding at Edgewood Park won’t have to cross Whalley to grab potato chips to snack — once the apple and cherry trees Semi Semi-Dikoko and his neighbors plant this weekend mature and bloom.
by | Sep 22, 2011 11:32 am | Comments (2)
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Westville’s public library branch cleared out its overflow books — and came back with $2,500 for the citywide system.
by | Sep 16, 2011 4:44 pm | Comments (9)
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(l-r) Adam Marchand and Michael Slattery.
A recount of the Ward 25 Democratic Primary aldermanic elections produced identical results to Tuesday night’s count: 459 for Adam Marchand and 440 for Michael Slattery. Since no other candidates are running in the November general election, that assures the labor-backed candidate will become the Westville ward’s new representative.
by | Sep 15, 2011 10:58 am | Comments (9)
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Rodrick shows a finished pattern ready to be translated into a final product.
Walking or driving through the center of Westville Village, intriguing window displays at Rodrick Gilchrist Design at 911 Whalley Avenue, signal the artful creations one will find inside. Beyond the gleaming coat-of-arms that bears a large tailor’s shears at the studio’s entrance, is a polished mosaic floor of chunky irregular granite pieces. Racks of clothing are arranged in a setting that seems more art gallery than boutique, more museum than working studio. That vibe may soon change with the advent of new fashion sewing classes that will be offered to the public beginning on September 19, according to partner/owners Rodrick Williams (Gilchrist) and Aysegul Ikna.
by | Sep 14, 2011 12:15 am | Comments (14)
(Updated 10:35 a.m. Wednesday) A Westville aldermanic race won’t be officially decided until Friday.
by | Sep 13, 2011 7:16 pm | Comments (13)
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Jeffrey Kerekes and John DeStefano meet up at Edgewood School Tuesday afternoon.
Mayor John DeStefano inspired a last-minute vote, as well as a curbside debate, outside Edgewood School, while in Fair Haven an influential minister found candidates triply blessed.
by | Sep 9, 2011 8:43 am | Comments (5)
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Emily Adji & Mayor DeStefano.
After bringing her audience to tears, 7th-grade violin virtuoso Emily Adji needed a hug and some light-hearted words whispered in her ear. Fortunately for her, New Haven’s mayor was standing beside her — and delivered the goods.
by | Aug 24, 2011 12:45 pm | Comments (2)
Ben Dean (violin, left), Carrie Sangiovanni (guitar, vocals, center).
In a candlelit back room, dancers whirled and stomped and invoked the spirits of Mozart, Joan of Arc, and Amelia Earheart.
by | Aug 22, 2011 3:16 pm | Comments (37)
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Slattery (right) with Chapel Street neighbors Peg Sanders (left) and Janet Barese.
Cars are rolling slowly these days on a rough, freshly-milled Central Avenue. The current Westville alderman and an aldermanic hopeful are working to see that traffic stays slow once the street is re-paved.
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‘Candidate Asks: Where's
The "Complete Street"?’
by | Aug 18, 2011 8:23 am | Comments (32)
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Police, fire and rescue personal had a busy morning as they responded to a predawn double crash at a stretch of roadway on Yale Avenue in Westville — at a strip that has been plagued by serious accidents.
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‘Update: Predawn Crash
May Have Been Drag Race’
by | Aug 17, 2011 11:13 am | Comments (4)
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Filming the Trailer for My Brother Jack at State Street’s Diesel Lounge earlier this year.
An informal forum featuring Stephen Dest, the director of the New Haven-based independent film project “My Brother Jack,” and local artists Larry Morelli and Silas Finch, whose work will be featured in the film, took place at Kehler Liddell Gallery on Sunday. The forum was moderated by outgoing gallery director Sarah Fritchey, and provided an opportunity for the audience of several dozen to hear the artists talk about their creative processes and the roles their work will have in the soon-to-be-made movie.
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‘“My Brother Jack” Seeks
Actors, Financial Backers’
by | Aug 1, 2011 12:05 pm | Comments (15)
Thomas MacMillan File Photo.
Edgewood Park won a national election to get a new fruit orchard — by close to 10,000 votes more than the next closest community.