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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 22, 2023 4:45 pm
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Chef Marc Ramirez at the grill.
On a picture-perfect Sunday afternoon, kids moon-bounced, Fats Domino crooned, and Barbara Montalvo was dancing in the middle of Glen Road.
Barbara Montalvo.
âThis is a fun, joyous event, neighbors loving neighbors, this is the community coming out embracing everybody, regardless of age, gender, color, creed, background,â she said, mid-swivel, amid the aroma of grilled hotdogs and burgers and the air of late-summer revelry in the tree-lined shade.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 21, 2023 10:51 am
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New Haven Federation of Teachers VP of Special Services Jennifer Graves distributes book bags âŠ
⊠as students pick up books for home libraries.
Track your studentâs attendance on a calendar at home. Establish bedtime and morning routines. And communicate with your school if you need help.
Those are some tips New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) gave families at a recent back-to-school rally as they prepare for the fast approaching first day of school on Aug. 31.
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson raised those questions Monday during a press conference focused on just how little information the school board has received to date about the early summer cybercrime.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 10, 2023 9:03 am
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Aric Isaacs and Ian Alderman inside the space at 280 Blake St. to be developed into a black box theater.
A Broken Umbrella Theatre has big plans for the property at 280 Blake St. in Beaver Hills. If they come to fruition, in a couple years the property will house a roughly 90-seat black box theater as well as a cabaret complete with restaurant and bar. According to Ian Alderman, Broken Umbrellaâs executive director, the project will likely cost somewhere between $1.5 million and $2 million. Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the stateâs Good to Great Program, theyâre on their way. To realize their vision in its entirety, they have faith in the strength of the New Haven arts community and its desire to have a space where the arts can be.
Desmone Gambrell-Claxton and Fabian Menges present their group's ideas for the Armory (pictured above).
The abandoned armory on Goffe Street is starting to house dreams of sports facilities, small businesses, social services, and citywide celebrations.
But before neighborsâ visions for the historic structure can become a reality, the building will need to be cleared of asbestos, sealed off from water, and bolstered to support more weight.
Harp (right) signs Abdussabur's mayoral primary petition.
Former Mayor Toni Harp was the first to sign mayoral hopeful Shafiq Abdussaburâs petition to get on the Democratic primary ballot, the day after the cityâs Democratic Party officially endorsed the now-incumbent who ended her tenure in the cityâs top elected office nearly four years ago.
Kristina DeNegre: ""It feels amazing to be home again."
A former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) principal is returning to the district to fill a long-vacant assistant superintendent post, after the Board of Education approved Madeline NegrĂłnâs first executive appointment since stepping into the top schools role.
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Asher Joseph |
Jul 20, 2023 3:30 pm
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Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker and Board of Education challenger Andrea Downer emerged victorious in the last round of ward-level endorsement votes, this time by Beaver Hills Democrats.
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Asher Joseph |
Jul 6, 2023 3:30 pm
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Goffe Terrace looking west towards Winthrop on April 1.
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Police Chief Jacobson and Mayor Elicker at Thursday's presser.
City police have arrested a 40-year-old New Havener for the shooting deaths of fellow city residents Jonathan Garcia, 27, and Marquis Darnell McNeill, 40, on Winthrop Avenue in early April.
Shanay Cannon and Shaniah Matthews amid the rubble of their mom's third-floor bedroom.
With their mom on the phone, two sisters walked through the still-smoky wreckage of their home, hoping to preserve what mattered most to them, the day after a fire destroyed it.
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Jun 21, 2023 12:39 pm
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City climate czar Steve Winter: e-bikes are a "big step to fill gaps in our transit system"
Eco-minded New Haveners looking to get out of their cars and onto two battery-assisted wheels will soon be able to apply for up to $1,500 in state-subsidized vouchers to help cover the costs of purchasing a new electric bicycle.
Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford: "Iâm feeling good and excited to be graduating."
Sporting graduation caps covered in colorful flowers and pink feathers, Kaniya Rogers and Alayjah Ford took advantage of the few moments before graduation to celebrate their time at Hillhouse High Schoolâââand to look forward to hoped-for careers in healthcare and cosmetology.
Darlene Brumell (right) and grandson Amir at NHS fest.
Sherman Avenue brightened to the sounds of beating drums and the flavors of falafel, barbecue, and tacos at Neighborhood Housing Servicesâ (NHS) ninth annual multicultural festival.
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Jun 1, 2023 12:14 pm
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Abdussabur with Beaver Hills neighbor Rivka Fenton in November 2020 acting in response to a string of attacks on Jews in Beaver Hills.
I applaud President Biden and Vice President Harris on making an important first step to addressing the crisis of growing antisemitism our nation is facing. As someone who has spent weekends patrolling to keep my friends and neighbors safe while they worshiped, I appreciate President Biden for saying what has been evident for years in America: this is a severe problem, and itâs getting worse.
ESUMS junior Leah Mock gives the board a D for its work on reducing waste.
Class was in session for the Board of Education, and the assignment was to help save the earth.
A report card handed out by student-graders about the school boardâs work on energy efficiency, reducing food waste and transportation emissions, and investing in a healthy and sustainable future looked pretty bleak: three Câs, one D, and an F.
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May 25, 2023 12:10 pm
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Walter Pop Smith little leaguers play ball!
Coach Wayne Morrison to City: Please level the playing field.
City Little Leaguers pitched, slid, struck out and hit homers at the Munson Street baseball fields on which generations of baby baseball players have practiced for nearly 70 yearsâââwhile attentive parents and coaches fretted about how the skewed state of those playing grounds could stymie their kidsâ games and self-esteem.
EHC member society Presidents Marjorie Drucker, Diane Petaway, Gloria Horbaty, Carolyn Baker, Laura Parisi.
As culture wars continued raging elsewhere across the country, an island of cross-ethnic cooperation and understanding celebrated a milestone in New Haven.
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May 16, 2023 12:15 pm
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King-Robinson STEM teacher Jonathan Hill, with seventh grader Thomas: "They solve their own problems in here."
Eighth grader -- and budding engineer -- Nevaeh James building her hydraulic system.
As her hands worked deftly on a new in-classroom engineering project, King-Robinson eighth grader Nevaeh James glanced back and forth between a basic model of a hydraulic system and her own buildâââwhich she had designed to be bigger and with an additional moving claw.
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May 5, 2023 4:07 pm
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Hillhouse senior and aspiring future congresswoman Ma'Shai Roman.
School board student representative MaâShai Roman is on track to graduate from Hillhouse High School in less than two months to pursue a college degree in political science with the goal of one day becoming a U.S. congresswoman.
If you had read her that sentence two years ago, Roman likely wouldnât have believed itâââas she was in the midst of transferring to her third high school while struggling with her mental health, all against the backdrop of the isolating and education-disrupting effects of a global pandemic.
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Apr 26, 2023 8:56 am
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TaâLannaMonique Lawson-Dickerson with NHPS students Chyna Lopes, Naylanee Alejandro, and Kate Kim at April monthly Citywide Student Council meetup.
Roughly 40 high-schoolers from across New Haven gathered on Sherman Parkway to cast their votes in support of having a greater say in school district decision making, higher-quality facilities, a more socially relevant curriculum, and increased investment in student well-being and restorative justice.
Supt.-to-be Madeline NegrĂłn with current NHPS leader Iline Tracey.
Former New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) teacher, principal, and director of education and current Hartford Public Schools Acting Deputy Superintendent Madeline NegrĂłn will become the cityâs next top schools official starting July 1, thanks to a unanimous vote of approval taken by the Board of Education Wednesday afternoon.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 3, 2023 4:59 pm
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Susan Comito takes a swing as pickleball enthusiasts square off at the Floyd Little Athletic Center-hosted regional tournament (below).
âLetâs pickleball,â city youth and rec director Gwendolyn Busch Williams called out, her words carrying through the rafters of Floyd Little Athletic Center and eliciting cascades of cheers and hoots.
Thus launched a scene unprecedented in the 385-year history of New Haven: hundreds of picklers pocking, popping, and dinking across a sea of orange nets in the 100,000-square-foot athletic space.
