Silky Returns Home
by | Sep 20, 2007 5:31 pm | Comments (1)
With ingenuity, shoe leather, and some help from New Haven Independent readers, Cedar Hill Resident tracked down the owner of the pooch in this picture.
Citizen Contributions
The Route To Sweet Jamaica
by | Sep 4, 2007 8:17 am | Comments (0)
David White graduated Saturday from an Easter Seals program that steers ex-offenders to productive jobs. Chip Croft, who runs SEA-TV, which in turn runs the program with Easter Seals, sent in these photos and this write-up.
Youth Action on Minor Street
by | Aug 16, 2007 4:45 pm | Comments (0)
(Submitted by organizers with the Hill Youth Action Team): The Hill Youth Action Team (HYAT) youth leaders did a street clean up in
the Hill neighborhood Tuesday.
A Cedar Hill Fairy Tale
by | Jul 12, 2007 3:41 pm | Comments (17)
Cedar Hill Resident is on her street with a broom again, planning to make a call to the street-sweeping fairy. Maybe that’ll work better than the countless calls she has made to city bureaucracy. Read on for the account she sent in to the Independent:
Journey To The Lost City
by | Jul 8, 2007 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
Coop High School senior Cynthia Green and her brother Henry, a junior (pictured here in his Marine cadet fatigues), are heading off on a mission trip to the Peru with six adult members of Church on the Rock Monday.
A Wide-Awake Night At The Museum
by | Jun 26, 2007 3:10 pm | Comments (3)
As part of the Boys 2 Men mentoring ministry of Church on the Rock, 15 boys ages 8 – 12 and 5 adult chaperones headed off to the American Museum of Natural History last Friday for a real life “Night in a Museum.” Pictured: Michael Brooks Jr., Jacob Edmond, and Derrick Pommills, Jr. next to tiger with Derrick looking a bit imperiled!
Pardee’s Blooming
by | Jun 24, 2007 2:24 pm | Comments (0)
Rebecca Turcio stopped by Pardee Rose Garden and returned with this write-up and these photos:
Soapbox Champ Heads To Akron
by | Jun 4, 2007 1:39 pm | Comments (0)
TajMalik Chardon is headed for a stock-car race in Akron, Ohio, this July, after winning first place this past Saturday in a sopabox derby in Edgewood Park.
PIVOT—and Step Forward
by | May 22, 2007 4:29 pm | Comments (0)
A ceremony for Christian Community Action’s PIVOT program was moving in two ways: In the stories of young people who overcame problems like addiction to start toward careers. And in the dance of one of the graduates, Tina Lawson (pictured), who performed her “Praise” dance.
101 Dresses—& Hundreds of People
by | May 15, 2007 11:09 am | Comments (0)
Hundreds of people showed up for the opening of a new group show at Artspace, 101 Dresses. (Pictured, left to right: Joan Gardner, one of the exhibiting artists, Clarisse Pollack, Elaine Holmes, Co-Curators Linda Lindroth and Denise Markonish, Frank Garner, and Helena Estes, daughter of Eleonor Estes.)
Arts Walks The Village
by | May 14, 2007 11:25 am | Comments (1)
The sunny weather brought crowds to the streets of Westville Saturday for the annual ArtWalk.
A Day For Literacy
by | May 2, 2007 10:32 am | Comments (0)
Brenda Brenner and Alan Cooper of the Jewish Coalition for Literacy with Attorney Michael Jefferson of the Greater New Haven Literacy Coalition board were on hand Tuesday for a forum on adult literacy programs in town. Josiah Brown, a volunteer board member of the coalition that sponsored the forum, sent in these photos as well as the following write-up:
Benedict Arnold Returns To Green
by | Apr 30, 2007 11:15 am | Comments (5)
And he had a militia with him. Mark Branch and Betsy Branch were there. She took these photos; he sent in the following write-up:
A Clean Sweep In Cedar Hill
by | Apr 24, 2007 6:23 pm | Comments (0)
Greenspace gardens and curbsides are starting to bloom in the Cedar Hill section of East Rock, where neighbors held a spring clean-up. These photos came from Rebecca (pictured below in a URI T‑shirt); send in your photos for publication here.
A Singing Rhyme on the Closing of the Last Real Jewish Deli in New Haven
by | Apr 17, 2007 12:31 pm | Comments (0)
Following is Astrid Istra’s contribution to the Independent’s New Haven poetry contest. Have a New Haven poem? Wanna win a mug and be videotaped reading your poem? Send it here by April 30.
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Village of Power Celebrates the Spirit
by | Apr 8, 2007 12:19 pm | Comments (0)
The Village of POWER wowed the community at the Stetson Library this past Wednesday. Poets, artists and clothing designers were among the famous VOP participants. After the poetry, music, art and fashion, VOP artists mingled with the community, sipping orange juice and munching on cookies from the local C‑TOWN. We Thank the Stetson Library for their hospitality and the community for supporting our efforts. We thank our teachers who include Mikki Balaban (writing), Jake Weinstein (art) and Vivian Fripp Elbert (Fashion is Our Passion), and our wonderful and dedicated case management staff. Empower New Haven is pleased to support the Village of Power, via their client participation in our Business Assistance Partnership with the Chamber of Commerce.
Coliseum Still Life—And Explosion
by | Jan 21, 2007 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
Tens of thousands of people showed up in the bitter cold for a sight they’ll never forget — the New Haven Coliseum’s implosion Saturday morning. Readers sent in these photographic memories.
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Open House
by | Jan 12, 2007 10:49 am | Comments (0)
Maria Cardalliaguet G√ɬ≥mez‑M√ɬ°laga, who teaches Spanish at Wilbur Cross Annex and is a Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute school representative, speaks about the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute’s collegial nature at Tuesday’s Open House. New Haven teachers and Institute seminar leaders (members of the Yale faculty) gathered to discuss the program generally and this year’s seminars specifically.
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LEAP’s Holiday Bash
by | Dec 11, 2006 9:56 am | Comments (0)
LEAP had a great holiday bash, giving supporters the chance “to give and receive.” The organization sent in this photo, of Louise Endel (LEAP Board Member), co-host Mike Stratton, and Jean Handley LEAP Board member); as well as the write-up below from Molly Miller.
Minutes of Owl’s Nest Meeting
by | Dec 3, 2006 4:04 pm | Comments (0)
Following is a report from a member of a neighborhood group around Westville Village on a meeting last Thursday night about troubles surrounding the Owl’s Nest bar.
SOA: School of Activism
by | Nov 28, 2006 8:45 am | Comments (5)
What’s in an acronym? New Haven high school student Rachel Kobasa, who’s 16, traveled to Georgia to protest outside the School of the Americas. She sent this photo and a write-up about her social-justice mission there.
Chicken For The Democratic Soul
by | Nov 9, 2006 5:38 pm | Comments (0)
Cary Catham sent in these photos East Rock neighbors running a “Chicken Soup for the Democratic Soul” tent outside the polls at Wilbur Cross High School Tuesday. Send us your photos at this e‑mail address.
Their “Second Chance” Starts With Reading
by | Oct 26, 2006 9:22 am | Comments (0)
Former state schools chief Ted Sergi spoke in downtown New Haven Wednesday to support the work of the Greater New Haven Literacy Coalition. Coalition member Josiah Brown sent in this account of the event as well as photos that he and Curtis Hill shot:
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Community Mediation At 25
by | Oct 9, 2006 11:35 am | Comments (1)
Famous question once posed to the nation: Can’t we all get along? Famous answer in New Haven, Connecticut: Yes, thanks to Community Mediation. The agency, which helps neighbors and groups in town settle disputes, just turned 25 years old. Here are some photos of the anniversary bash at Anthony’s Ocean View, from Philip B. Rosenthal. Plus a report from Gone Dishin’.
Muslim-Jewish Fitness, On Whalley
by | Oct 4, 2006 10:16 am | Comments (0)
Mubarakah Ibrahim sent in this photo and the following release about some only-in-New Haven kind of news: