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Lisa Rodriguez |
Dec 19, 2024 2:18 pm
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This Citizen Contribution was submitted by Army Sergeant First Class (Retired) Lisa Rodriguez.
This month, James Hillhouse High School was honored to be a stop on this year’s Wreaths Across America convoy along their way to Arlington National Cemetery.
The school was tapped because of Hillhouse JROTC’s yearly participation in the National Wreaths Across America Day wreath-laying ceremony over the last four years. The convoy started in Maine and traveled for six days, making three stops each day at designated locations until they reached Arlington. They stopped at Hillhouse on Dec. 10.
LCI attorney Williams and hearing officer Bernblum: You're fined.
(Updated) A Livable City Initiative (LCI) hearing officer approved more than $130,000 in anti-blight fines for six vacant Ocean Management properties that look like, well, trash.
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Dec 5, 2024 4:39 pm
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Alder Hogan (second from left) with Beaver Hills neighbors at latest crime-focused meetup.
Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hills neighbors should expect to see more police officers in their part of town next spring — thanks to what the police chief anticipates will be a surge in hiring due to a newly inked union contract.
Jaqualine Rosales is no stranger to moving. After leaving her family in El Salvador, she lived for a time in Texas, and then in South Carolina. Now in New Haven, the 18-year-old Hillhouse High School student lives by herself. She doesn’t feel alone, though.
“I’ve been to a lot of schools and I’ve seen a lot of education [in] different ways,” Rosales said on Thursday at a press conference calling for deeper state investments to help young people who might otherwise fall through the cracks. “But New Haven has something special because this school feels like [a] second home to me…it feels like family.”
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Jabez Choi and Thomas Breen |
Nov 19, 2024 8:33 pm
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Hogan (fifth from left) with supporters after Tuesday's win.
(Updated) Gary Hogan will be the next alder representing Beaver Hills’ Ward 28, after the neighborhood’s Democratic ward committee co-chair won Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat left vacant following Alder Tom Ficklin’s unexpected death in October.
Blumenthal (right) with tenants union members Asia Foley and Sinclair McCutcheon: "The reach of this legislation would be very broad in protecting tenants."
Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator stood side by side with members of the city’s first officially recognized tenants union to announce proposed legislation to make it easier nationwide for renters to organize and collectively bargain with their landlords.
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Nov 5, 2024 10:47 pm
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Debby Sauls and Rae Dehal, with Sauls's dog Jules: Nervous about the election, glad to be in community.
MSNBC election updates blared across TV screens at queer space and pan-Asian restaurant Blue Orchid, while upbeat music played throughout the bar at around 8:50 p.m.
A couple dozen people sat at the counter and around the restaurant eating and drinking, some with a blue shot that they could get for free if they showed an “I VOTED” sticker.
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Laura Glesby, Allan Appel and Thomas Breen |
Nov 5, 2024 6:58 pm
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Memori votes for Kamala Harris.
As dozens of children lined up to drop “ballots” into a “ballot box” in a Newhallville-based kid election, 9‑year-old Memori cast a vote for Kamala Harris, while 11-year-old Syair cast a vote for Donald Trump.
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.
Gary Hogan (center) with top cops and Beaver Hills neighbors after Wednesday's meetup.
The following Citizen Contribution was written by Ward 28 Democratic Ward Committee Co-Chair Gary Hogan, about a recent neighborhood meetup with top city police to discuss crime in Beaver Hills.
Benny Lieblich’s 8‑year-old daughter had just gotten out of the back seat of the family’s 2017 Honda Pilot when joy-riding teens hopped out of a stolen car and hopped in.
They drove away, with Benny Lieblich in hot pursuit.
Bayan Albakkour: A phone-free example for her siblings.
Adona Blair with her cousin and younger sister: Locking away phones tells students you don't believe in them.
Metropolitan Business Academy rising junior Bayan Albakkour thinks that Yondr cellphone pouches — a method for creating phone-free spaces that some New Haven schools are adopting — are a good idea to help students focus on class by hiding a key source of distraction.
Her best friend, meanwhile, remains unconvinced — and thinks these cases that lock away students’ phones for the day will only encourage students to rebel more.
That debate will play out this fall as three New Haven public schools experiment with stowing away phones after a pilot year at Barnard.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 16, 2024 11:40 am
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Hillhouse graduate Issac Perry scores $4,500 scholarship ...
... at Thursday's back-to-school rally at Bowen Field.
Backpacks, popsicles, children’s books, and a $4,500 college scholarship were all on hand at Bowen Field as New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) prepared families for the first day of classes in less than two weeks.
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Aug 16, 2024 10:05 am
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Semira Estep carries the one to calculate her birth year, at back-to-school rally.
Despite Thursday’s high-90 degree temperatures, Felicia Scott and her daughter’s goddaughter Semira Estep waded through the crowd at Bowen Field as they exchanged memories and educational wisdom in preparation for New Haven Public Schools’ first day back.
Yahya, Rayyan, and Amira stay cool in Hillhouse's pool for open swim.
Growing up in Syria and Jordan, 18-year-old Ibrahim Alhraaki didn’t learn to or take an interest in swimming. Then he began attending Common Ground High School — and was offered a chance to become a city lifeguard.
A 55-meter race at Bowen field with 4th through 6th graders.
Four-year-old Kairo Johnson had her eyes glued on her mother standing behind the finish line of a 55-meter race, motivating her to speed past her opponents and take the win.
The race took place during a community track meet to celebrate a month-long summer track program run by Hillhouse track coach Gary Moore.
Moisture bubbles and tears in the field house track last fall.
A new indoor track, roof, locker rooms, and scoreboard are all one step closer to coming to the Floyd Little Athletic Center — as alders endorsed accepting nearly $8.8 million in state funds to make those planned improvements a reality.
City development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Whalley leader Allen McCollum, Eddie Eckhaus, Rabbi Andre Malek, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday's ribbon-cutting.
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Eckhaus's trademark super-stuffed felafel.
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach.
I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food.
Like Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, that rabbi appeared at Eckhaus’s Lea’s Felafelhaus to-go storefront Monday for a ribbon-cutting bringing hopes for a business resurrection.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 12, 2024 2:48 pm
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Percy Dagraca, balancing carefully to avoid leaving a footprint.
Fresh concrete dried quickly on Crescent Street under the hot sun.
The long-awaited sidewalk-in-progress across from Beaver Pond Park is the product of years of neighborhood advocacy, political bureaucracy, geometric problem-solving, and now physical labor.
“Prepare your minds,” Marquis Brantley announced to his squad of six young athletes, “to crab.” He crouched down on all fours, alternating between his left and right limbs as he “crabbed” to the opposite side of Bowen Field.
“Just because I can do it fast doesn’t mean that you should, too. My hands are a burning mess, so slow down. Feel every moment.”
As Olympians across the globe prepare in advance of the hotly contested 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Brantley trained the next generation of local athletic excellence on Wednesday at their home turf at 175 Crescent St., adjacent to Hillhouse High School.
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Jun 14, 2024 10:59 am
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Jocelyn Juarez: Proudest moment was "handing in my last assignments."
On Bowen Field for Thursday's celebration.
When Jocelyn Juarez entered Hillhouse High School as a freshman, she struggled with a disability that inhibited her ability to walk. She often relied on her mother for support.
But on Thursday, at Hillhouse’s graduation ceremony at Bowen Field, Juarez confidently strode across the stage to receive her diploma. Her mother watched from the stands with tears in her eyes.
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Jun 14, 2024 9:26 am
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Paul Panagrosso: "I'm a lucky man to be here today."
Eighty years after officially graduating from what was then called New Haven High School, 98-year-old World War II veteran Paul Panagrosso walked across the stage with Hillhouse’s Class of 2024 on Thursday to receive his diploma.
