Bump-outs, Bike Lanes Eyed For Fountain
by | Dec 10, 2021 2:16 pm | Comments (18)
Fountain Street’s fixers are suggesting that New Haven do the bump to keep the public safer.
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Kehler Liddell Gallery Decks The Walls
by | Dec 10, 2021 10:45 am | Comments (0)
The crisp, heightened color and the vertical symmetry immediately draw the eye to Penrhyn Cook’s photos, Mexican Tub and VW at Sunrise, side by side on the wall at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville. They’re just normal manmade objects, and in the world there are many like them, but Cook’s treatment of them imbues them with substance, meaning — even dignity.
Edgewood Teacher Arrested
by | Dec 7, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (14)
(Updated) Police arrested a 42-year-old Edgewood School teacher Monday after an “altercation” with a student in a classroom.
“Cool Science” Pulls Up To Mauro-Sheridan
by | Nov 24, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (1)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photo
Les Sinnock leads students through the mobile lab, aimed at introducing them to high-tech manufacturing.
Huddled around a high-intensity microscope, Mauro-Sheridan eighth-grader Lauren Sellers and 12 of her classmates gasped as the tiny Abraham Lincoln statue etched into the penny came into full view.
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At Kehler Liddell Gallery, Artists Unsettle For A Purpose
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:00 am | Comments (1)
R.F. Wilton
Baby Tubelegs With Shoes.
The baby in the middle of the image might just be a doll, but in the photograph it seems as though it’s been brought strangely to life. Is it a ruler, looking out over its broken domain? A performer playing for a mute audience? A judge passing down a verdict to the condemned? It’s an image that overflows with a sense that we’re looking into another world, adjacent to ours but darker and stranger, made up of the things we thought we threw out. Something’s coming from that world into ours, and maybe we’re both frightened and fascinated to find out what it is.
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Woman, 95, Dies In Fire
by | Nov 13, 2021 6:02 pm | Comments (3)
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Firefighters on scene Saturday on Stevenson Road.
Pauline Burgo, 95, died Saturday from injuries sustained in a fire at her home.
Parents Left In Dark About Missing Bus
by | Nov 10, 2021 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
For three straight mornings this week, ESUMS students waited more than a half hour for the school bus to arrive — while their parents were left in the dark about what was up.
Gazebo Government Delivers An Answer
by | Nov 9, 2021 9:43 pm | Comments (13)
Paul Bass Photo
LCI’s Arlevia Samuel, Mark WIlson, and Raymond Jackson hear Brenda Olmedo’s concerns Tuesday evening in the Edgewood Park gazebo.
The people who run Brenda Olmedo’s government came to a park near her home to hear how to do better. Olmedo was ready with a four-year-old complaint.
Montessori Clinic Vaccinates 150 5-11 Year-Olds
by | Nov 8, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (5)
Lillian Price Photos
Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.
This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka.
Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
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2 Millenials, 2 Paths In Ward Race
by | Oct 29, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (18)
Paul Bass Photos
Upper Westville candidates Van Hoesen and Brackeen this week at WNHH FM: Both are vaxxed.
One candidate handed out assignments to dozens of neighbors: Here’s your street. Here are the doors to knock on. Here are flyers to hand out. Let us know who’s voting.
At another end of the ward, the other candidate set out to meet voters as well. Alone.
Edgewood Students’ Art BLOOMs
by | Oct 29, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (1)
Maya McFadden Photo
Rya’s Joan Miro-inspired art at right.
Rya and mom Caryl Williams.
Edgewood School seventh-grader Rya imagined a green cat, a purple moon, and yellow eyeball, then put a marker to paper.
Westville Firehouse Cleared For Lead Clean-Up
by | Oct 26, 2021 10:48 am | Comments (3)
Firefighters and firetrucks have temporarily moved from Westville’s Fountain Street firehouse to the Ellsworth Avenue station pending completion of a clean-up.
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What Is Wrong With This Picture?
by | Oct 25, 2021 11:26 am | Comments (66)
Paul Bass Photos
Board of Ed candidates James O’Connell and Edward Joyner appear in the same spot in the above photo — but only because of computerized cropping. This election season, Joyner refuses to engage with his opponent in person.
Same holds for Ward 26 alder candidates Darryl Brackeen and Joshua Van Hoesen, above. For the second straight campaign, Brackeen refuses to show up along with his opponent to debate the issues.
Edgewood Kindergarteners Head Outdoors
by | Sep 29, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (3)
Maya McFadden Photos
“Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.
With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and dance through their hair — in the latest example of in-person learning during the ongoing pandemic.
Dems Beckoned For Home Stretch
by | Sep 27, 2021 1:49 pm | Comments (27)
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Adam Marchand seeks to rev up Democrats in Ward 25.
It’s time to hit the streets and knock on doors. Even though it’s an odd-numbered year.
Election volunteers in New Haven’s vote-richest ward received that marching order Sunday afternoon.
Driver Released After High-Speed Double Crash; “Drunk As Fuck,” Neighbors Heard
by | Sep 24, 2021 4:07 pm | Comments (16)
A speeding motorist — whom witnesses later said they later heard proclaiming being “drunk as fuck” — crashed into a parked car, a stop sign, then a front porch, then was released at the scene by the police without charge.
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BEKI Reconnects With Ancestors
by | Sep 21, 2021 12:24 pm | Comments (5)
Photo Courtesy Ghislane Palumbo
A new photography exhibit in Westville weaves together the harrowing and the mundane, humor and hard work, to celebrate life, family, and the strength that can come from connections to the past.
Look Out! 6 “Unsafe Structures” Cited
by | Sep 21, 2021 8:16 am | Comments (13)
Thomas Breen photos
Demolition underway at 276 Howard Ave…
… fire-damaged homes at 25 and 21 Sheffield Ave…
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
Latest Property Transactions: Ex-Convent Sells For $375K
by | Sep 17, 2021 9:26 am | Comments (5)
Thomas Breen photo
Former convent at 349-351 McKinley.
A local landlord purchased Saints Aedan & Brendan Church’s former convent building on McKinley Avenue for $375,000, and affiliates of the local megalandlord Mandy Management pulled more than $12.2 million worth of mortgages from a California-based commercial lender.
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Two Artists Find Inspiration In Isolation
by | Sep 10, 2021 7:53 am | Comments (0)
Marjorie Wolfe
Pavilion.
It’s a seaside pavilion, framing an island off the Connecticut coast. But the way the image is cast, it doesn’t allow for simple idyll. It’s peaceful, sure, but also lonely. There’s the tranquility of isolation, but also a sense of insecurity. It is, said photographer Marjorie Gillette Wolfe, “evocative of what I went through” during the depths of the Covid-19 shutdown, as she found herself alone and outside in “protective spaces, but in another sense, not protective at all.”
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BBQ, Bumps & Bullets: A CMT Snapshot
by | Sep 9, 2021 2:28 pm | Comments (6)
Thomas Breen photo
A pothole on Seneca Road.
Old potholes are plaguing Seneca Road. New bike lanes are popping up on Yale Avenue. Persistent wood smoke is clouding over Cleveland Road. And gunfire is rattling South Genesee Street.
That street-level snapshot of life in Westville and West Hills came into focus during the latest monthly meeting of the neighborhoods’ community management team.
Documentary Features Mohammed Hafez’s Story
by | Aug 19, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
The New Yorker has a new 20-minute documentary out about celebrated Westville-based Syrian artist Mohammad Hafez (who also owns the Pistachio coffee shop).
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Artists Read Between The Lives
by | Aug 13, 2021 8:58 am | Comments (0)
Lisa Toto
Can’t Sleep.
Lisa Toto’s Can’t Sleep is a portrait of insomnia familiar to anyone who has suffered from it. Its multiple exposures detail what it can be like — first being in bed unable to lose consciousness, then getting up, because why not, you’re up anyway, then thinking better of it and getting back into bed. It also captures the way time seems to split in the depths of sleeplessness, the sense that every second is passing with unbearable slowness, and at the same time, the unpleasant realization, upon looking at the clock, that it’s far too late to get a good night’s sleep. The subject is rendered more poignant by its sense of privacy. Should we even be looking? But that’s also the moment that we connect with the subject, through shared understanding.
Teens Get A Night Out At Westville Bowl
by | Aug 12, 2021 12:59 pm | Comments (11)
Maya McFadden Photos
Rapper G Herbo performs for fans at Westville Bowl Wednesday night.
The Chicago rapper known as G Herbo used to come to New Haven as a teen to kick start his music career. He returned to town as the headliner for a free full-capacity hip-hop show for pandemic-weary city youth, a summer celebration of community at the Westville Bowl.
Bluesman, Pie Champ Reveal Secret Ingredients
by | Aug 10, 2021 7:08 pm | Comments (0)
Lisa Reisman Photo
Rocky Lawrence channels Robert Johnson at Monday night’s Hi-Fi Pie.
He bowed his head, closed his eyes, and clutched the neck of his guitar. His faded leather shoes pounded the ground. His voice broke. His guitar moaned.
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