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Jun 7, 2022 8:52 am
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Stephen Julien and cast.
The band room at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School was full of students getting into their costumes, changing into sailors and spirits, monsters and magicians. They donned robes and fixed their crowns of flowers, then congregated onstage.
“How does everyone feel in their costumes?” asked co-director Justin Pesce.
“Good,” said one student. “Hot,” said another. If they were all still wearing masks due to Covid concerns, it was a detail; what mattered was that, after two years, Mauro Sheridan was mounting its 2022 production of The Tempest, in collaboration with Elm Shakespare Company, in person.
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Jun 6, 2022 3:00 pm
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Monica and Andy Schlessinger: thankful for Chapel Haven.
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Chapel Haven crew sings National Anthem on Saturday.
Earth science and basketball classes. Volunteering in the community. And independent living for residents with developmental disabilities.
Mother-son duo Monica and Andy Schlessinger singled out those as just a few of the many highlights of the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center (CHSC) — which celebrated its 50th anniversary in Westville.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 3, 2022 9:07 am
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A cluster of paintings on the wall of the gallery all border a central piece, as if feeding it, which in a sense they do. The central piece holds the others together. In it, a yard bordered by trees is the site of some kind of excavation, roped off. Something is being unearthed there, the ruins of a house, or something still older, maybe. But instead of a crew with tools, the only animals in sight are a cardinal and a bluejay, watching over the proceedings in a moment that’s both funny and a little magical, a flight of fancy on the part of the artist, though very much grounded in reality.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 2, 2022 9:48 am
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Concrete Creations crew at work Wednesday.
Park regulars keep eye on renovations by the "Lyin' Tree."
As a crew repainted the fencing of Edgewood Park’s tennis courts, park regulars like Byron Breland, Ernest Newton, Billy Bostic, and Kerry Ellington watched from a distance cheering on long-awaited renovations to one of New Haven’s communal gems.
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May 16, 2022 8:25 am
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Amira and Iman Brown display their art and artistic flair.
ArtWalk brought the heat, both literally and figuratively, to Westville Saturday as outdoor vendors, neighborhood businesses, and a variety of activities in Edgewood Park energized and elated the village and its visitors.
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Laura Glesby |
May 11, 2022 1:29 pm
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One recent Wednesday morning, before arriving to Whalley Avenue to open his pharmacy business for a day, Victor Fok drove to a patient’s house to teach them how to test their blood sugar levels, free of charge.
At Fok’s previous job at a large corporate pharmacy chain, he would never have had the time and incentive to prioritize patient education. Now, as a co-owner of the recently-opened True-Care Pharmacy in the Amity neighborhood, Fok and his team hope to reach community members where they live with personally-delivered prescriptions, immunizations, and education initiatives.
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Brian Slattery |
May 4, 2022 8:57 am
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When sibling rivalry becomes a little too hostile. When a puppeteer’s puppet refuses to cooperate. When a threesome collides with the cheerful aesthetic of a Disney movie. These and many other wonderfully absurd scenarios were mined for laughter by The Regicides on Tuesday evening, kicking off a week of ArtWalk programming in Westville.
Knights of Columbus units at Sunday's celebration.
When the apostles sent out their nets at the shore of Lake Tiberias, according to the Book of John -– ultimately a metaphor to become “fishers of men” –- there were no real ichthyological prey to be caught. When they came to believe and to give witness, then they filled their nets. And, thanks to God, there was a big catch.
That was the apt homily for how to keep rebuilding the Catholic community in Westville and the heart of the message of Archbishop Leonard Blair as he celebrated mass in front of 200 of the faithful on the occasion of Westville’s St. Aedan’s and St. Brendan Parish’s main building’s 100th anniversary.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 29, 2022 1:08 pm
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Aaron Goode and Caleb Kleppner help guide straw poll.
Westville Dems line up "Iowa Caucus"-style for Erick Russell.
An Iowa Caucus-type event in Westville offered a preview of next week’s Democratic Party state convention, as Erick Russell and Matt Lesser won landslide victories in a ranked-choice-vote straw poll held among nearly two dozen Westville Democrats.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 28, 2022 8:35 am
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Frank Bruckmann
Skull Right.
A skull is so synonymous with death that our brains make it into a cliché, but Frank Bruckmann’s painting gets us to look through the symbol to the object itself — the shapes of the teeth, the perhaps unexpected delicacy of the animal’s cheekbone and jawbone. Bruckmann is, in short, inviting us to slow down.
Together again, at last. From left, Suzanne, Farah, Haitham (grandson), Lamese, Aboudi, Shiyam, Haitham (grandfather), Leila, and Wesam.
The long road from New Haven to the old industrial city of Erie, Pennsylvania, passes through Danbury, Binghamton, Damascus, Homs, Tripoli, Beirut, Chicago, and finally to the shore of the Great Lake that Erie is named after.
At least that’s the route we took in our minds when we undertook a ten-hour drive to, at last, meet the whole family of Haitham Dalati and Shiyam Daghestani, for whom, under the auspices of IRIS, we had helped ease their transition from the Syrian civil war to life in New Haven.
They agreed that Connecticut’s investments need bigger returns — and they each argued they were the best person to make that happen. The three candidates suddenly vying for the Democrats’ state treasurer nomination this year showed New Haven Democrats last night that what differentiates them is not politics — but what each of their individual qualifications say about their capacity to best serve in the position.
Sai Reddy and Lucille Alouah: Operation Save Our Mailbox.
Lucille Alouah believes a neighborhood should have a library and an accessible postal mailbox — and she’s fighting to keep both in her pocket of Westville.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 31, 2022 9:14 am
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Matthew Garrett
Acorn.
It’s just a picture of an acorn, but the lens makes all the difference. Under Matthew Garrett’s eye — and, apparently, his phone — the seed becomes a landscape of detail. The bed that it lies on brims with life. It’s a study of an intricate surface we don’t pay attention to very often, but given its subject, it’s also an image about possibility, the chance for vast growth.
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Mar 27, 2022 5:02 pm
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Rabbi Ravid Tilles, at right, presents prayer shawl to BEKI Rabbi Eric Woodward at Sunday's ceremony.
As we emerge –- we dearly hope -– from a mask-filled pandemic, one of the most important values to which we aspire is seeing and being seen, in the fullest spiritual sense.
Lux Rosa outside Edgewood School at dismissal time: no Dalmations in sight.
There was a reported sighting of a famous fictional London heiress at a New Haven public school, amid an effort to help students and teachers take a day to chill out during the cruelest academic year in memory.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Mar 14, 2022 9:37 am
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Matt Goldenberg and Sara Zuba.
Matt Goldenberg returned to New Haven after running a half marathon on Halloween, picked up Sara Zuba — who was dressed in a garden gnome costume– and drove to Sleepy Hollow Circle. They ran the .3 mile-long street in Fair Haven Heights and returned to their homes across town in Westville to celebrate the holiday.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Mar 3, 2022 4:47 pm
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Retired Judge Angela Robinson Thursday at Mauro-Sheridan.
Retired state judge Angela Robinson visited students at Mauro-Sheridan Thursday for the 24th consecutive year — partly in honor of a late educator who first brought her to the school, partly in honor of another woman poised to make history on the bench.
Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.
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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 21, 2022 9:52 am
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The crowd Sunday at Bloom Black History event.
Book lovers descended Sunday on Bloom to sample not only the assortment of flowers and soaps, but the works of James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Jesmyn Ward — brought into the Edgewood Avenue lifestyle store and gathering place courtesy of Bamn Books, a New Haven-based mobile bookstore that focuses on the literature of the African diaspora.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 18, 2022 9:09 am
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Kehler Liddell Gallery is suffering an infestation — of metal beetles and painted moths, courtesy of the work of artists William Kent and Gar Waterman. Together, in the show “Pest Control,” running at the Westville gallery through March 13, they offer commentary on another kind of pest problem altogether.
