by | Feb 24, 2025 9:39 am | Comments (28)
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Tending bud at Nautilus Botanicals ...
... owned by Luis Vega (center), celebrating a "dream come true" eight years after cannabis arrest.
Behind shelves of pipes by Bridgeport glass blower Mary Melts and across from a wall of paintings by Westville’s Shady Dankin, budtenders at Nautilus Botanicals invited the public to the grand opening of the city’s third legal pot shop.
by | Feb 21, 2025 11:28 am | Comments (13)
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East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog's large intestines...
...while others check out the frog's tongue and teeth.
East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly suited up in gloves and eye protection to pierce through the unexpectedly tough skin of a frog — and discover, through hands-on education, what a real three-lobed liver looks like.
by | Feb 21, 2025 11:25 am | Comments (2)
Some of the iconic New Haven products (above) Steve Thomas (below, at WNHH FM) sends out.
Steve Thomas noticed New Haven ex-pats hankering online for some Elm City pie and cannoli — and willing to pay to have someone ship it to them.
Continue reading ‘He's Shipping New Haven's Delicacies Nationwide’
by | Feb 20, 2025 4:10 pm | Comments (14)
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Ocean workers clear Monterey-adjacent encampment ...
... which LCI's Taylor Munroe said has been the subject of neighbor and SeeClickFix complaints.
Wynter and two fellow Ocean Management workers hauled a mattress, a bicycle, two shopping carts, a frying pan, a wicker chair, a pile of clothes, and a host of other belongings and debris from a Dixwell Avenue homeless encampment Thursday and into the back of a U‑Haul.
The truck was parked on the sidewalk in front of the decrepit former Monterey Jazz Club — a long-vacant building that the Elicker administration tried to buy two years ago, but that still remains rundown and under megalandlord ownership.
by | Feb 20, 2025 4:01 pm | Comments (35)
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City, state, and Yale leaders brainstorm "inclusive growth" over breakfast.
Over 150 Yale and New Haven leaders gathered amid sparkling lamps and plant walls at Hotel Marcel to start thinking about what a plan for tackling poverty and economic exclusion might someday look like.
by | Feb 20, 2025 1:09 pm | Comments (15)
McMahon and Murphy, at confirmation hearing.
Washington — The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Linda McMahon as the next education secretary as Democrats said she would be the last person to hold the post of a cabinet agency President Donald Trump wants to disband.
Continue reading ‘Committee OKs McMahon; Dems: There Goes The Ed Department’
by | Feb 20, 2025 9:28 am | Comments (15)
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Squint and you can almost see the green.
One idea for a future Gibbs Street Park, which received support from neighborhood kids.
A new public park may someday take shape where Gibbs Street meets the Farmington Canal Trail — perhaps with a playground, exercise equipment, and a park for neighborhood dogs.
by | Feb 19, 2025 3:52 pm | Comments (26)
Elphaba, Sen. Kissel: This bill is wicked. So to speak.
Hartford — Should Connecticut movie theaters have to publish accurate start times for films and previews — or else face $1,000 false-advertising fines?
New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney says yes. Cinema owners say no. And an Enfield lawmaker was embarrassed that such a question would even be asked.
by | Feb 19, 2025 2:47 pm | Comments (18)
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Olive & Wooster: If it quacks like a rooming house ...
Is a luxury apartment complex with “collective” rentals actually an illegal rooming house?
A legal aid attorney argued that it is, as she defended a tenant facing eviction from one of the new high-end apartment complexes that have popped up in recent years on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
by | Feb 19, 2025 9:47 am | Comments (10)
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May Day 1970 rally on the Green.
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Notes from New Haven's underground.
This coming Saturday you might think it’s Feb. 22 and only Washington’s birthday — but not if you happen also to be at the New Haven Museum, where the under-appreciated Whitney Library will be time-traveling back to May 1, 1970, the historic May Day rally on the Green and at Yale.
by | Feb 18, 2025 8:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Daniel Juárez at a January Aldermanic Affairs Committee meeting.
The Board of Education has a new member in New Haven Public Schools parent, opera singer, and Yale fundraiser Daniel Juárez, who was unanimously approved for the position on Tuesday evening by the Board of Alders.
by | Feb 18, 2025 2:53 pm | Comments (15)
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Prez Srajer: "The tenant movement is here to stay."
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"Just cause" co-sponsor Laurie Sweet (center), in January.
Hartford – Connecticut Tenants Union President and New Havener Hannah Srajer was in the middle of laying into the “unchecked greed” of corporate landlords who use no-fault evictions to hike rents when the co-chair of the state legislature’s Housing Committee said her three minutes were up. She asked Srajer to summarize the rest of her testimony.
“The tenant movement is here to stay,” Srajer concluded. “We’re not raising new problems. We’re just making them more visible. Let’s get this done.”
by | Feb 18, 2025 9:06 am | Comments (11)
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Senior Lily Gonzalez: "Just had to get used to" not texting mom or friends as much.
NHA's wall-mounted locking and unlocking devices near school exits.
New Haven Academy’s hallways and cafeteria have gotten louder — now that the high school has become the first in the district to adopt Yondr pouches, leading to students spending lunchtime talking to each other instead of looking at their phones.
by | Feb 17, 2025 3:41 pm | Comments (61)
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Dorothy Cupariello attends her first protest...
...and Patricio ignites a chant for transgender rights.
Holding up a pink triangle sign — which in another time and place might have marked them for death — Patricio seized a moment of silence, cupped their hands over their mouth, and started a chant of their own among the hundreds of protesters gathered outside City Hall.
Their words — “Trans rights are human rights!” — spread through the crowd like fire.
Continue reading ‘Hundreds Protest On (Not My) President's Day’
by | Feb 17, 2025 9:15 am | Comments (22)
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Eco-friendly affordable housing on Dixwell: More, please.
With the Connecticut General Assembly’s legislative session in full swing, New Haven’s eight state lawmakers are pushing 184 different bills that touch on everything from growing housing near transit to digging deep on thermal energy to requiring movie theaters to disclose what time the films, and not just the trailers, actually start.