by | Apr 29, 2022 1:08 pm | Comments (3)
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.
by | Apr 28, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Apr 22, 2022 8:05 am | Comments (2)
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.
by | Apr 21, 2022 4:25 pm | Comments (7)
Wednesday evening's candidate forum.
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.
Continue reading ‘Treasurer Candidates Pitch Their Qualifications’
by | Apr 8, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (15)
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.
by | Mar 31, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (1)
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.
Continue reading ‘At Kehler Liddell, Artists See Into The Myths Of Time’
by | Mar 27, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Mar 21, 2022 9:19 pm | Comments (4)
Andy Bach, 66: Feeling good to be a part of something.
The Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, Inc. celebrated World Down Syndrome Day Monday afternoon with a parade around Westville.
by | Mar 18, 2022 3:11 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Cruella Deville Spotted On School Grounds’
by | Mar 14, 2022 9:37 am | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Mar 7, 2022 6:33 pm | Comments (5)
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One of the burned-out cars.
(Updated) Someone lit four cars on fire in Fair Haven, on a night when a stolen car also ended up in the Edgewood Duck Pond.
Continue reading ‘Arsonist Torches 4 Vehicles; Stolen Car Pulled Out Of Duck Pond’
by | Mar 3, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Judge Robinson Invokes Judge Jackson On 24th Mauro-Sheridan Rendezvous’
by | Feb 27, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (10)
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.
by | Feb 21, 2022 9:52 am | Comments (9)
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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.
by and | Feb 18, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (7)
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Renewed mission: Violet Harlow, John Cavaliere, Andre Marti at work.
Restoration is in full swing at Westville Village’s hub of reinvention.
by | Feb 18, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (3)
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.
by | Feb 8, 2022 11:48 am | Comments (19)
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Aftermath of Sherman Parkway crash.
Aftermath of Central-Chapel crash.
A Hamden man died Monday from injuries suffered in a car crash at Chapel Street and Central Avenue, one of two collisions in New Haven that required fire rescue crews to extricate trapped victims.
Continue reading ‘Crash Kills Man; Pregnant Woman Extricated From Car In 2nd Incident’
by | Feb 7, 2022 2:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Attorney Jim Segaloff: Westville has potential to become "a significantly vital and vibrant community."
Another 144 new apartments are planned for Westville Village, according to a rezoning application recently submitted to the Board of Alders by the owners of an existing three-story office building on Blake Street.
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
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311 Blake St., now owned by an affiliate of Ocean Management.
A local megalandlord expanded its domain in Westville/Beaver Bills by buying up a 70-unit apartment complex on Blake Street for $9.2 million.
by | Jan 20, 2022 10:08 am | Comments (4)
The general store, circa 2022: Strange Ways' successor.
Pedestrians and people driving along Whalley Avenue may have noticed the storefront that used to house Strange Ways has changed. That’s because the beloved lifestyle store moved from Westville Village to downtown. In its place, owner Alex Dakoulas — who also still operates Strange Ways in its new location — has opened Westville General, selling meats, cheeses, condiments, candy, home goods, and gifts (just for starters).
by | Jan 12, 2022 2:04 pm | Comments (8)
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Tennis mavens can look forward to filled-in cracks — and space newly set aside for pickleball — at Edgewood Park’s popular but neglected courts.
by | Jan 11, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (5)
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Mr. Williams with seventh-grade class in March 2020.
Something was missing when staff and students arrived at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School Monday morning.
Continue reading ‘Mauro-Sheridan Mourns Loss Of A Mentor, Friend’
by | Jan 10, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (0)
Ana Henriques’s Forest I partakes of recognizable natural shapes — spreading tree branches, a mirrored sun, the ripples of water and hills — without being beholden to them. There’s a push toward the abstract that sets the shapes and colors free from the viewer giving it the easy designation of a forest scene. She makes us see those shapes and colors again, as if we’re seeing them for the first time. Just as important in the context of “Reflections,” the new group show running now at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville through Feb. 6, if viewers look closely in the glass that frames the work, they can see the works of Mark St. Mary and Liz Antle O’Donnell — the other two artists in the show — reflected in the glass.
by and | Dec 22, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (2)
This year as part of the Wreaths Across America, James Hillhouse High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) honored the veterans by placing armed services wreaths at Westville Cemetery.
by | Dec 17, 2021 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
A new 50-year retrospective exhibit displays works by artist Bruce Oren (below), including the above sculpture of Moses.
Artist Bruce Oren renders the face of Moses in fine detail in marble, from the wrinkles worn into his face to the weight of his eyelids. He conveys the heaviness of the tablets on his shoulders by the angle of his elbow, the definition of the muscles. But as we move away from Moses’s face, the details begin to grow coarser, until we see the edge of the block that Moses came from.
The figure emerges from the marble, but Oren leaves room for the stone to have its say, too. We get to see not just the finished figure, but the path Oren took to get there.