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Green hopeful Paul Garlinghouse, incoming Republican registrar Lisa Milone, and incumbent Democratic registrar Shannel Evans.
Lisa Milone can’t lose November’s registrar of voters election.
Seriously: Per state law, the Republican candidate has to win. The same is true for her Democratic counterpart and two-term incumbent, Shannel Evans.
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Don't look now, but this stretch of High St ...
... will soon be turned by Yale into a pedestrian utopia.
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days.
All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners unveiled early-stage designs for how a city-owned downtown block will be transformed by summer 2026.
by | Oct 2, 2024 9:41 am | Comments (1)
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The Psychedelic Furs: Still making music that's fun, sexy, and a bit dangerous.
October opened with a one-two punch as the dreamy double bill of the Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain turned College Street Music Hall into a post-punk version of heaven.
Continue reading ‘Post-Punk Legends Bring Nostalgia, Rebirth’
by | Oct 1, 2024 3:34 pm | Comments (29)
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Police union Prez Cotto and Mayor Elicker: Deal reached, ratification vote to come.
The Elicker administration and the police union have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract that would increase salaries by 25 percent over the term of the deal.
Continue reading ‘City, Police Union Reach Tentative 6-Year Contract’
by | Oct 1, 2024 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
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450 Sargent: Appraisal dropped from $33M to $29M.
Furniture retail giant IKEA has secured a $4 million discount on their Sargent Drive property’s “fair market value” — and a resulting $186,000 cut to their next local tax bill — after waging a yearslong legal battle over the property’s worth.
by | Oct 1, 2024 11:18 am | Comments (1)
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Liliana Jimenez's painted rocks ...
... for close friend Evyana Devine Vidro, at a new memorial at Wilbur Cross.
Cherry blossoms and rays of sunshine came to life and mind as Wilbur Cross students gathered to honor their late classmate, 15-year-old Evyana Devine Vidro.
by | Sep 30, 2024 7:20 pm | Comments (36)
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Notice the "Q" lapel: Yale Associate VP Rich Jacob, at center, at Monday's Upper Science Hill groundbreaking with new Yale prez Maurie McInnis and Gov. Ned Lamont.
McInnis and Lamont kick up some dirt with Mayor Justin Elicker and Provost Scott Strobel.
A mystery letter “Q” lapel pin whispered a dream about New Haven’s future at a groundbreaking Monday afternoon for a project that will transform Yale’s campus at the border of the East Rock neighborhood.
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Jessie Unterhalter at work Monday.
“Beautiful!” a passing motorist called out while heading downtown Monday on Chapel Street.
“Thank you!” Jessie Unterhalter said for the tenth? 20th? time of the day.
Unterhalter didn’t want to be rude. People passing by the once-blank warehouse wall at Chapel and East Streets have brightened to see the swirling bright colors Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn have been painting there for the past three weeks. Unterhalter appreciated their appreciation.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Chapel & East: Swirling Colors Hit The Wall’
by | Sep 30, 2024 12:51 pm | Comments (16)
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School Psychologist Yesenia Garcia calls for smaller class sizes at Monday's rally.
Fair Haven School has just one social worker, one psychologist, and one school counselor — to support over 800 students.
At one of three rallies that took place across the city’s public school district Monday morning, Mayor Justin Elicker said that the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) system needs an additional $35 million in order to fund a “reasonable” ratio of one social worker per 250 students.
Elicker offered that assessment as 50 educators, students, and allies gathered outside the Grand Avenue public school to call for that funding.
by | Sep 30, 2024 9:45 am | Comments (28)
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Tabitha Sookdeo at WNHH FM: "It's all connected."
Tabitha Sookdeo has a new job helping undocumented young people stay settled here — and addressing the conditions that lead some others to come here.
To her, the two issues, immigration reform and climate change, are related.
by | Sep 27, 2024 4:47 pm | Comments (8)
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Don’t understand the headline of this story? Neither do we, really. Our Gen Z correspondent is here to help.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s most recent post on X (formerly known as Twitter) sticks out in the midst of policy-driven proclamations and support for foreign allies. It’s a TikTok-style video, where the 81-year-old congresswoman speaks what to many might be gibberish, but to an entire generation, is perfectly clear.
by | Sep 27, 2024 3:48 pm | Comments (38)
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Welcome back, Chapel Street, looking east from Church.
Eastbound travel lanes are back open for the first time in a year and a half on a downtown block of Chapel Street — which is no longer a roadway-shuttering construction zone, and which now has 166 new places to live.
Continue reading ‘Chapel Lanes Reopen, With "Archive" Apartments’
by | Sep 27, 2024 1:38 pm | Comments (33)
Cross girls' locker room, photo courtesy of Cross counselor Mia Comulada Breuler.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) leaders said the district needs 33 more tradesmen to just begin working towards addressing its thousands of building-disrepair work orders — while the head of the school system’s custodial union called for more in-house hiring, and less private contracting.
Continue reading ‘Understaffing Blamed For School Building Decay’
by | Sep 27, 2024 9:59 am | Comments (18)
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Protest organizer Kerry Ellington: “The police could have chosen a nonviolent alternative."
Conley's cousins Tamara Flint, Ronisha Moore, and Maya Harris, at Thursday's protest.
A week to the hour after a fatal confrontation between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley, protesters gathered at the car wash where the shooting took place — to criticize law enforcement for how they handled last Thursday’s attempted arrest, and to describe Conley as more than just his criminal record.
Continue reading ‘1 Week Later, Rally Protests Police Shooting’
by | Sep 27, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (6)
Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in Megalopolis, which feels at times like an object lesson in what happens when no one is able to tell a filmmaker when his ideas are bad.
The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper, balancing vertiginously over traffic. He wobbled, and almost began to fall.
It was the opening scene on opening night for legendary director Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie, Megalopolis: A Fable, but we weren’t in an arthouse theater. We were in Cinemark, in North Haven, the closest place screening the limited-release film. With the Criterion closed and New Haven without a first-run theater of any kind, would it be the same?