NASA Astro Touches Down At Sheridan
by | Jun 7, 2006 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
The astronaut in the middle of this picture hopes to see humans on Mars one day. For now, he dropped in on some students in Westville.
Westville
Still Sinking
by | Jun 6, 2006 8:26 am | Comments (2)
A few blocks away from this Westville creek, houses are sinking and no one knows why. Neighbors Monday questioned whether a nearby Whalley Avenue expansion project requiring altered drainage would further affect their flood-prone, cracking homes. And they called out for help.
Play… Lettuce!
by | May 17, 2006 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
Baseball teams have celebrities open their season by throwing out the first ball. New Haven’s cherished “City Seed” neighborhood farmers’ market has two celebs lined up — chef Jacques Pepin and State Sen. Toni Harp — to open the season this Saturday by throwing out the first heads of lettuce.
The festivities start around 11 a.m. across from the park in Wooster Square at the corner of Chapel and DePalma streets. Click here to read a release about that opening and the upcoming openings in Westville and Fair Haven.
The Delta Comes to Westville
by | May 15, 2006 3:58 pm | Comments (1)
Those ribs have been smoked 18 hours before coming to Whalley Avenue. The tunes filling the joint? They’ve been seasoned far longer.
A Weekend For Bikes & Butterfly Ladies
by | May 15, 2006 8:43 am | Comments (0)
Despite a fearsome weather report, the outdoors were filled with people around town this weekend. At a “bike jamboree” in Edgewood Park an adjunct to Westville’s Artwalk, Jeff (in his new bike helmet) learned repair tips as Brian Hornby worked on his bike.
The Whole World, On Davis Street
by | May 8, 2006 8:43 am | Comments (0)
So a Bulgarian and a Nigerian walk onto a stage — and perform a traditional Eastern European wedding dance. Come see what K‑5 “mini-ambassadors” for countries the globe over shared with a packed auditorium of schoolmates, teachers, parents, and the mayor at a Davis Street Magnet School International Day event celebrating “Voices Linked Together by Humanity.”
He Knows From Haunting
by | May 1, 2006 11:05 am | Comments (2)
How did Saddam Hussein’s former personal physician (above) end up talking to Gone Dishin’ in a Westville gallery? And how did Cain’s name end up in boldface type? Read on to find out.
Not At The Lord’s Convenience
by | Apr 12, 2006 12:39 pm | Comments (0)
These people don’t want their Dixwell Avenue church turned into a convenience store. They came to Tuesday’s Board of Zoning Appeals meeting to protest. So did other neighbors on Willard Street in Westville —‚Äù against a construction company seeking to turn a small storage barn into a two-story home.
Dishin’ The Dirt
by | Apr 10, 2006 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
The Dish actually got down and dirty on Sunday, at a group activity on Whalley Avenue at the New Haven Holocaust Memorial. The memorial, on the corner of West Park Avenue, in Edgewood Park, was built 30 years ago; it is the first such structure in the nation to be erected on public land and part of the proud legacy of Mayor Frank Logue. It is a tribute to the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide.
Scenes From a Car Wash
by | Apr 3, 2006 5:34 pm | Comments (1)
Sunday was ideal weather for turning on the hoses, carting out the vacuum, cleaning people’s cars — and maybe getting a little wet in the process. That’s what teens did all afternoon in the parking lots of the Westville Synagogue at Fairfield and West Prospect streets. They held the car wash just in time for Passover to raise money for their chapter of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth.
it was also a nice day to relax in the sun with little kids while the bigger kids did the work.
Gone Dishin’—for Divas
by | Feb 28, 2006 3:35 pm | Comments (0)
Kehler Liddell Galleries has become the focal point for the new denizens of Ar-LOW and their newly created devotees. Saturday night, two of the new émigrés to Westville offered their time and talent to present a two-dimensional concert. Allison Kalloo and Lisa Cobham (pictured), backed by their musicians, alternated between jazz standards and operatic arias.
Art Imitates Democracy
by | Feb 24, 2006 9:55 am | Comments (1)
Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery entertained more than one kind of design Thursday night as some 40 neighborhood residents and politicians gathered to ask developer Tim Mulcahey (pictured) direct and specific questions about the future of the upscale apartment complex he’s building at 446 Blake St. The developer said the apartments will become “a community in and of itself,” while some residents worried that the upscale apartments would inevitably gentrify into a segregated enclave of the wealthy.
Gone Dishin’ In The Other ‘Ville
by | Feb 19, 2006 10:44 am | Comments (0)
Westville has become alive with the sounds of people from all over town, other towns and other states. The reality is that downtown’s “entertainment district” and its activities and any other special tax district can look, with envy, at the transformation that is evidenced by the throngs that flock to this little community (without benefit
of salaried staff). The energy and vision of Thea Buxbaum and her assembled team have produced a vibrant Saturday nightlife that promises to expand. The focus is the wonderful Kehler Liddell Gallery and its ever changing mixed media shows and opening receptions, interspersed with concerts.
“Smirk All You Want, But This is The First Time You’ve Had a Face”
by | Feb 16, 2006 8:44 am | Comments (3)
An optimist, a patrician developer (above left), a fast-talking activist, a brick-hauling lawyer, a framer, a proprietor, and a city employee all sat in City Hall Wednesday night at an informal gathering convened to discuss the latest alterations to Metropolitan Development’s plan to convert 446 Blake St. into an upscale apartment complex that will attract the ever-elusive “right” kind of tenants.
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Blizzard, Schmizzard
by | Feb 13, 2006 7:47 am | Comments (1)
Surprise! Despite the biggest snowstorm of the year (of the last 100 years or more, in some parts of the region), the garbage crews arrived right on time in Westville this morning. The streets were plowed. Even re-clearing the plowed ice-chunks at the end of the driveway was a breeze (with the help of neighbor Cory’s snow-blower). From here, at least, it looks like New Haven was on top of this storm. How was it on your block? Post a comment below.
Caffeine Upgrade
by | Jan 4, 2006 3:20 pm | Comments (1)
The Dunkin’ Donuts at the Fountain-Whalley gateway to Westville may become a Starbucks. That’s cool with neighborhood baristas Tamara Moore (above) and Nicole Festa (at left).
It’s “Pat.” Not “HAL”
by | Dec 20, 2005 11:04 am | Comments (1)
This machine chaired a meeting at City Hall Tuesday morning. It rescued a $60- $90 million development project in Westville. The machine’s formal name is “Nortel.” Humans gathered around it addressed it as “Pat.”
A Higher Power
by | Dec 19, 2005 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
A Westville 7th grader has a (literally) bright idea for adding meaning to his upcoming celebration for becoming a bar mitzvah: He’s raising money to bring solar power to his synagogue. Following is a copy of a fund-raising letter he sent out.
Deadline on Blake Street
by | Dec 19, 2005 12:33 pm | Comments (0)
A Virginia developer wants to turn a bleak old factory property a block from Westville Village into a luxury apartment complex looking something like this. First he needs approval for a permit from the City Plan Commission when it meets in an emergency session Tuesday morning. Neighbors are watching with a wary eye.
Westville Aglow
by | Dec 4, 2005 12:52 pm | Comments (0)
One hundred people flooded into the center of Westville Village Friday night to help light the holiday tree, schmooze at Lena’s, check out gallery openings, and celebrate the community contributions of Katie Bradley (shown with Bob Bradley in photo). Friends chipped in to buy Bradley an original Gar Waterman sculpture. For more on Westville Village happenings (there are a lot of them), click here. And click here to read what the Register wrote about Friday’s event.
“Super” Cop Climbs Pole, Rescues 3
by | Nov 10, 2005 11:59 am | Comments (3)
Officer Steve McMorris prepares to check out of Yale-New Haven Hospital Thursday morning and head home for a well-deserved rest after a dramatic rescue. Earlier that morning he climbed a pole at Three Judges Motel and saved the lives of three people trapped in a fire. “The only thing I could think of,” McMorris said, “was: ‘I’ve got to get up there.’”
In Search of an Opposition
by | Nov 8, 2005 4:47 pm | Comments (4)
How do you run for office in New Haven as a Republican? For starters, don’t mention your party affiliation. And try to show up on Election Day, if you can. (Click here for election results.) We went hunting for the last of the vanishing Republicans at the polls Tuesday.
“Tramp”-ing Through the Neighborhood
by | Nov 5, 2005 1:18 pm | Comments (2)
That traffic tie-up on West Elm Street one recent day was the fault of one large Tramp — a trampoline, to be exact. It lived for years in the backyard of the Etra-Wolf family, to the delight of neighborhood children. The Etra-Wolfs are leaving town and gradually clearing out their stuff, including the popular trampoline. The trampoline has been making its way through the neighborhood to potential new homes where it can keep another generation of Westville kids hopping and jumping.
Paging Jupiter
by | Nov 3, 2005 10:05 am | Comments (6)
Recognize that cool tower with the antenna on top? And those gothic arches? That’s Sheridan School (“Sheridan Academy of Excellence”). Not what the NASA-affiliated public school looks like now, but what it will look like after the city rebuilds it. Officials unveiled the new design at a neighborhood meeting Thursday night. The talk was of how to respect the old while building the new; and of how, if possible, to avoid even more frustrating morning rush hour traffic tie-ups as Sheridan expands.
Stamford Owes Us One
by | Nov 2, 2005 7:19 pm | Comments (0)
Stamford police were stuck in their investigation of the murder of a 75-year-old woman. They had physical descriptions of two suspects, but no info on who they might be. Then the New Haven police came down to discuss two people they were looking for in connection with the death of a man found dead in the West River in Edgewood Park. The New Haven cops had the names of those two people; the Stamford cops found them and arrested them for the Stamford murder. Now New Haven cops want to interview the two about the Edgewood Park death. It’s a tale of two deaths, two cities, and two suspects.