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Maya McFadden | Oct 11, 2024 1:00 pm
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Godslove Ampah (right), with math teacher Tonya Howard: "Whenever I look at an equation, I just want to use my brain to figure it out."
Time to math! The standard algorithm way, at Troup.
Troup fifth-grader Godslove Ampah used to struggle most with math, back when she was still living in her home country of Ghana.
Now, three years later, that’s completely changed — and Godslove finds multiplication challenges fun, thanks to the help of a local teacher working to make sure students know more than one way to solve a problem.
Beaver Hills Alder Tom Ficklin, a leading New Haven figure in media and politics and a community omnipresence for decades, died suddenly Wednesday night at the age of 75.
Pengyan Sun and daughter Sophie with (now retired) longtime NHFPL employee Xia Feng, at Tuesday's meetup.
English lessons for Chinese grandparents. Exercise equipment for the elderly. And a library-hosted WeChat channel for Chinese New Haveners looking to connect.
Those recommendations rose to the fore as a dozen people gathered for the city library system’s first ever meeting held entirely in Chinese — to help think through how New Haven’s public library system could improve over the next half decade.
The Elicker administration and East Rock / Fair Haven Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith have asserted as much — well, not in those exact words — about the current state of neighborhood-slicing highways, as they seek $2 million in federal funds to help plan a brighter future for underused underpasses.
Near Grand Ave. and Murphy Dr., soon to be "Emma Jones Justice For Malik Corner."
The corner where East Haven police officers chased, shot, and killed 21-year-old Malik Jones in 1997 will not be called “Malik Jones Corner” after all.
Instead, the Board of Alders decided to name that intersection after Jones’s mother, Emma, and the campaign for police accountability she has carried forth after his death.
Bechard: It's difficult to run a film fest when "there's no movie theater in New Haven."
After a decade-long run of bringing documentaries and filmmakers from all over the country and beyond to New Haven — and, for a brief time in October, turning the city’s downtown into a documentary lover’s paradise — the New Haven Documentary Film Festival has come to a close, and will have a final farewell screening on Wednesday, at the Cannon on Dwight Street.
Stacey Abrams (right), and interlocutor Emily Bazelon: "If you’re interested in peoples’ lives being better, that’s politics.”
State government is by far the least understood in our system, and in many ways the most important to get right if we want to achieve the goals of democracy.
Former Georgia state rep and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made those remarks, by turns trenchant yet largely apolitical, at the Hopkins School Monday afternoon before no fewer than 1,200 enthusiastic, applauding young people.
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Karen Ponzio | Oct 7, 2024 8:18 am
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Luca McCarthy at work: “I’m very anti-garbage. Nothing is garbage.”
One view of the CAW exhibit, featuring pieces by Simmons, Giroux, McCarthy, and Brantley.
You know October is here when New Haven sidewalks are dotted with fallen leaves, and art studios and galleries are open for all to see. Open Studios 2024 began on Saturday with a variety of locations ready and waiting to share art in a variety of media, including City Gallery, The Institute Library, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, and Creative Arts Workshop (CAW).
CAW, however, had a unique set up offered to the public. While an exhibit by eight artists from the Ely Center’s 2024 open call was on view on the first floor of the Hilles Gallery at CAW on Audubon Street, those same eight artists were on the second floor, creating new pieces and greeting visitors who wanted to engage them in discussion about their work.
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Mayor Elicker: The city's "financial situation is on stronger footing than it has been in many, many years."
Increased state aid, building permit revenue, and savings due to staff vacancies helped the city end last fiscal year with a $16 million budget surplus — a portion of which the mayor now plans to direct towards New Haven’s public schools.
Plans to bring a cannabis dispensary — and not 75 new apartments — to an Upper State Street warehouse took one big step forward, after a Fairfield-based housing developer flipped the property for $3.15 million to a local bud entrepreneur looking to bring “Hi!” to the people.
