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Maybe By 2018?

by | Jun 27, 2017 8:08 am | Comments (8)

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Goldson: We’ve been deliberate and transparent.

Eighteen people have applied to be New Haven’s next schools superintendent, in a process that began in 2016 and may now drag out until the end of 2017.

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New “Friends” Give Goffe Park A Shine

by | Jun 19, 2017 2:29 pm | Comments (4)

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The stage at Goffe Street Park.

Parks can be places where people make new friends. On Saturday, it was a park itself that made new friends as community leaders, officials, and city wide residents gathered to inaugurate and celebrate the launch of Friends of Goffe Street Park, the newest among 15 park advocacy and stewardship groups across the city.

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Long-Term Graduates Get Their Day

by | Jun 9, 2017 12:28 pm | Comments (0)

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Jeanette Morales at Adult Basic Ed graduation.

Jeanette Morales never thought she’d get to have a high school graduation. Until a late lesson on Galileo Galilei encouraged her to keep going, and become an educator herself.

Thursday night Morales was one of 99 students to receive her high school diploma through the New Haven Adult and Continuing Education Center, which celebrated its graduates in a degree ceremony at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU).

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Rescue House Emptied; Rescuer In Limbo

by | Mar 10, 2017 1:15 pm | Comments (15)

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Condemned home’s owner, second from left, with neighborhood top cop cop Sgt. John Wolcheski, second from right, and LCI’s Rick Mazzadra (masked) during the clean-up.

The cats and cat corpses are gone. Neighbors rarely smell the stench anymore. Now the question is: What happens to the house? And the kind man who lived there?

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Police “Pig” Moved Indoors

by | Oct 11, 2016 2:42 pm | Comments (12)

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Skinner: “I’m speaking for the people who died.”

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“Cops” at original spot.

Complaints about a painting of a pig with a police cap forced the artwork from an outdoor display — but not before sparking a public debate about where art belongs.

Gordon Skinner’s piece has moved from the Goffe Street Armory to Artspace’s Orange Street gallery after the city heard objections from law enforcement.

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The Armory, en La Ronde

by | Oct 6, 2016 12:08 pm | Comments (3)

As I followed a dotted line of orange tape into an old bathroom at New Haven’s Goffe Street Armory, Martial Chazallon’s voice flowed from a pair of earbuds into my ears, directing me to sit in a plush armchair and start to relax.

Sit down, he urged, the command softened in the thick webbing of his French accent. Place your hands on your knees. Back straight against your chair. Feet flat on the floor. Are you feeling the solidness of that floor through your shoes, your socks? Listen to your breath. Listen to the building. 

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Dog-Mauling Death Prompts New Protocol

by | Aug 22, 2016 1:44 pm | Comments (11)

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Wingate, center, convened hearing after witnesssing fatal attack.

The deadly mauling of a 53-year-old New Haven woman has changed the way the city’s 911 center prioritizes the calls it receives about dog bites and attacks. It also might put new rules on the city books that would require more responsible dog ownership.

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