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Tourney Lifts Coach Saulsbury's Legacy

by | Jan 6, 2025 9:23 am | Comments (1)

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Hillhouse soars at latest Saulsbury Invitational.

Coach Saulsbury (right) with Olympic gold medalist Alexis Holmes and invitational founder Neil Richardson.

Under the bright lights of the Floyd Little Athletic Center, shoes squeaked on hardwood. Bodies collided and scrambled for loose balls. The 800 people in the stands groaned over every missed jumper. 

The scintillating affair, between the Hillhouse High School Academics and the New London Whalers, was just one matchup in the annual Robert Saulsbury Basketball Invitational. 

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Walker-Myers Ready For Trump

by | Jan 2, 2025 5:02 pm | Comments (14)

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Board of Alders President Walker-Myers at WNHH: "I don't instill fear. I instill hope."

Don’t panic. Let’s see what happens and what doesn’t happen. Then we’ll make sound decisions the way we always do.

Tyisha Walker-Myers offered that strategy as she and New Haven walk into what may prove a stormy 2025.

Emphasis on may.”

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Fed Bill Boosts $ For Homeless Vets

by | Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm | Comments (7)

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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."

U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."

Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.

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Basement Vapes

by , , and | Jan 2, 2025 9:28 am | Comments (2)

Timothée Chalamet as Dylan recording the Highway 61 album, in A Complete Unknown.

Baby-boomer critics have spent the past week reliving halcyon memories and lauding the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. It turns out that critics born long after Bob Dylan exploded popular culture and released generation-defining music have their own takes on the film, which adopts an historical fiction approach to capturing the moment when the folkie plugged in and blasted Like A Rolling Stone” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

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New Havener Of The Year

by | Dec 24, 2024 9:22 am | Comments (3)

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IfeMichelle Gardin shows off her James Baldwin earrings.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Then there are years marked by someone like IfeMichelle Gardin, who in 2024 exposed the questions that the answers hide” — as artists do, according to James Baldwin.

Gardin is authoring a new chapter of New Haven’s literary history in the form of Kulturally Lit, an organization that blossomed over the past year during what would have been James Baldwin’s 100th year of life.

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In 2024, Megalandlords Sold Big

by | Dec 23, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (13)

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Ocean tenants union members protesting at 1455 State in July.

(Updated with sales data through 12/31) Two of the city’s largest landlords unloaded a combined 191 New Haven apartment buildings containing 594 rental units for more than $79 million this year — as a wide array of different buyers, new homeowners and out-of-town investors alike, moved in to fill the void.

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Green Remakers Face Grave Question

by | Dec 23, 2024 12:28 pm | Comments (19)

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What about Mary? The gravestone of 3-year-old Mary Hillhouse Oswald preserved in Center Church on the Green's crypt.

When the city unveiled a proposal to build a fountain and a children’s garden” on the upper half of the New Haven Green, Nicholas Mignanelli had a question: What about the eight to ten thousand people buried inches beneath the ground?

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In 2024, We Were In It Together

by | Dec 23, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (3)

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Students take the stage for bomba at the Puerto Rican Fest on the Green.

In a restaurant, art about environmental catastrophe. A music show in a bike shop. A tap-dancing demonstration in a bakery. A full-fledged musical in a transformed gymnasium. An opera in a museum. 

From large, multi-organization efforts to team-ups between artists and local businesses, in 2024 New Haven saw a lot more collaborations across its arts scene.

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Look Closely, & You'll Hear New Haven

by | Dec 20, 2024 10:01 am | Comments (2)

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A true New Haven circuit board melds music and apizza.

Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.

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Teen Homicide Victim Mourned As "Beautiful Spirit"

by | Dec 19, 2024 5:40 pm | Comments (11)

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Daily Jackson, loved for his heart and his humor.

Tiny footprints in concrete and a Daily knock” at the door helped bring Daily Jackson’s memory to life Thursday morning at a crowded funeral service for the 17-year-old Riverside student who was shot and killed in Newhallville earlier this month.

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