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.
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.
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.
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.
by | Nov 24, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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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.
Continue reading ‘“Cool Science” Pulls Up To Mauro-Sheridan’
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.
Continue reading ‘At Kehler Liddell Gallery, Artists Unsettle For A Purpose’
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.
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.
by | Nov 9, 2021 9:43 pm | Comments (13)
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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.
by | Nov 8, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (5)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Montessori Clinic Vaccinates 150 5-11 Year-Olds’
by | Oct 29, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (18)
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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.
by | Oct 29, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (1)
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Westville Firehouse Cleared For Lead Clean-Up’
by | Oct 25, 2021 11:26 am | Comments (66)
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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.
by | Sep 29, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (3)
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“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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Driver Released After High-Speed Double Crash; “Drunk As Fuck,” Neighbors Heard’
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.
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.
by | Sep 17, 2021 9:26 am | Comments (5)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Latest Property Transactions: Ex-Convent Sells For $375K’
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.”
Continue reading ‘Two Artists Find Inspiration In Isolation’
by | Sep 9, 2021 2:28 pm | Comments (6)
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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.