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Chocolate sweet potato cake.
Walking up to a large round table, Thomas Edwards took a tiny plastic cup into his hands, sniffed its contents, and lifted it to his mouth, dumping a chip-studded triangle of cookie into its yawning hole. He chewed. He licked his lips. His eyes grew slightly larger.
Yep, he proclaimed. This — the Choco-Fabulous Cookie from an area chef — was the clear winner of the afternoon.
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Michelle Liu |
Dec 8, 2016 2:24 pm
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Thames pitching Dwight.
With a loss of state funding looming, one of New Haven’s prison re-entry programs is looking to secure a community development block grant from the city to ensure it can keep providing services to newly-released inmates.
Historic preservationists in Dwight accused Yale-New Haven Hospital of trying to demolish a treasured George Street building by neglect — while the hospital responded that the neighbors thwarted their efforts to turn the property over to Habitat for Humanity over a year ago.
Face got into the pick-up truck. The driver ordered a “half and half.” They agreed on a price; Face doesn’t remember if it was $50 or $60. He shifted into gear. Then they heard a siren.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 31, 2016 1:12 pm
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DeLauro presents Miya’s founder Yoshiko Lai, whose son was named a White House Champion of Change for Sustainable Seafood, with a Congressional cookbook.
Two of Rosa DeLauro’s grandchildren and one of their friends had the day off from school, but they got schooled nonetheless — in sustainable food sourcing and how to make sushi — while meeting a woman who is making business history.
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Oct 14, 2016 12:08 pm
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Chef Indar at House of Naan readies the bites for the Tandoori oven.
The small nuggets of chicken went into the bowl, followed by a garlic and ginger paste. Then a basil spice mix made of olive oil, fresh basil and chili followed.
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Michelle Liu |
Oct 6, 2016 12:07 pm
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Schiavone: Neighborhoods can take control.
A developer who revived downtown New Haven sparked a ruckus with his neighbors when he suggested reviving other parts of town with the help of eminent domain.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 15, 2016 8:07 am
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Fellowship Place Board Chair Pat Luddy, Guerrera, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Soli Johnson, daughter of Birgitta, and clients.
There’s a lot of shame in being homeless, and it’s hard to talk about, said Morgan Harrison. He knows firsthand: He’s overcoming homelessness and on his way to a degree and a job as a railway engineer.
Talking honestly with a counselor — the first step in a solution — can be difficult, too, if you’re crammed with maybe another person into a broom closet-sized office with storage shelves above you, walls so thin everybody hears, and a door that can’t open without banging into a washer and dryer.
Eliudh Rodriguez repoints bricks at 224-6 Edgewood (below).
Millions of dollars are pouring into reviving old buildings along Dwight’s stretch of Edgewood Avenue — with guarantees that low-income families will remain there for decades.
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Jul 26, 2016 7:40 am
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Nearly 30 New Haveners stood in the pouring rain to once again proclaim that Black Lives Matter — including when it’s not a cop who pulls a fatal trigger.
Ocean Management has taken over properties from local slumlords with the stated intent of doing better — but, at least on Chapel Street, had trouble shedding previous owners’ bad reputations.
The state has slapped contractors working at a second New Haven building project with stop-work orders based on claims of failure to follow worker’s compensation rules.
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Jun 8, 2016 7:24 am
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Wayne Silvera, front, thanked the clinic for help with rats and leaks at home.
This past academic year, families of children enrolled at the Troup School had an unconventional setting when seeking legal counsel: a classroom at the school itself.
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May 16, 2016 7:24 am
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Dancing and chanting, “Pick It Up,” a pioneering crew of future members of the venerable African-American Omega Psi Phi fraternity helped launch the biggest community clean-up of the Dwight neighborhood in a generation.
Smith (right) with Williams on the job at Dwight Gardens.
Newhallville’s Smart at work.
Darren Smith found his way back to the old Dwight Co-ops with a drill and a T‑square in hand so he could help give his childhood housing complex a second chance — along with his own carpentry dreams.
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May 5, 2016 2:56 pm
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Hausladen and Zinn (center, center-right) with neighbors.
Team Hausladen-Zinn might have designed their way into full-on community support for a two-way protected-bike-lane “cycletrack” linking the west side to downtown.
Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Olivia Martson inspect the proposed cycletrack design.
New Haven’s city engineer found a way to please opposing sides in Westville with an updated plan to build two-way protected bike lanes — then moved on to absorb a different flavor of public feedback up Edgewood Avenue in Dwight.
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Mar 26, 2016 8:47 pm
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Former AIN clients Lonnie B. Groom and Alonzo Harvin both had tears in their eyes at Elsie Cofield’s wake.
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AIDS pioneer Elsie Cofield, who was laid to rest this weekend.
Alonzo Harvin remembered a “mother figure” who got him off drugs. Mabel Mincey remembered the caring pioneer who came to the hospital when her daughter was suffering with AIDS, back when most people didn’t know or want to know how to help.
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James Street developersSalinas and O’Brien, at right, with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes and City Hall’s Matt Smith Monday night.
The Board of Alders gave final approval to a deal to transform the defunct CT Transit bus garage on James Street, and it gave the OK for the city to accept a $1.2 million grant to advance bike ridership on the west side of town.
A crew bulldozed a condemned former longtime produce market and adjoining apartment house Monday, as the owner and the city debated what should take its place.
