by | Jun 26, 2009 10:32 am | Comments (1)
As nine high schools held their graduations Thursday night and public schools prepared to free kids for the summer Friday, a pint-sized processional was taking place on Edgewood Avenue. It was graduation day there, too, for the Montessori School on Edgewood.
by | Jun 9, 2009 12:39 pm | Comments (3)
Tamra Green couldn’t afford a computer. Now her daughter is exploring the planets, online.
by | May 27, 2009 2:14 pm | Comments (16)
Before the city sold her neighborhood’s school to Achievement First, Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder (pictured) tried to add something in the deal for her neighbors.
by | Apr 8, 2009 10:47 am | Comments (0)
It appears that the old Dwight School is about to become a new Achievement First school. Deputy Economic Development Administrator Chrissy Bonanno said the city is negotiating the sale of the Dwight building on Edgewood Avenue to the charter school organization. The deal may be done this month.
by | Feb 9, 2009 12:08 pm | Comments (8)
Achievement First is negotiating with the city to buy the shuttered Dwight School as a new home for its Amistad Academy charter school. But first the group has to strike a deal with Dwight neighbors, who have some ideas of their own.
by | Dec 3, 2008 8:43 am | Comments (5)
Florita Gillespie and Curlena MacDonald spent years helping to bring a community center to the Dwight School. Now they feel burned — and they’re determined to salvage some of the neighborhood’s hard work.
by | Dec 1, 2008 12:21 pm | Comments (5)
“Wait a minute!” called out Leo Vigue, as decades of Rudy’s regulars presented their favorite bartender with a “Big Daddy” birthday cake.
by | Oct 23, 2008 9:51 am | Comments (0)
Jermita Kimbrough (on right in photo) said she was speaking “from the heart” in saying the names of her twin brother, mother and father, who all died of AIDS. She was one of many who called out the names of departed family members and friends at the 19th annual AIDS Interfaith Network Service of Healing and Remembrance on Wednesday.
by | Oct 20, 2008 6:50 am | Comments (1)
It was one encounter with history after another as New Haven dedicated the stunningly restored Troup School Sunday. Gale Iannone bumped into a life-sized version of herself from 24 years ago — and a half-century-old version of her mom.
by | Oct 2, 2008 10:43 am | Comments (0)
Congregation Beth Israel, more widely known as the Orchard Street Shul, is having an open house on Sunday, Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to Barry Herman, an officer of the congregation.
by | Sep 5, 2008 7:58 am | Comments (11)
This time, Hui Zhao was determined not to let someone get away with his Toyota.
Continue reading ‘Delivery Man Rescues Car; Crowd Nabs Thief’
by | Sep 4, 2008 8:11 am | Comments (2)
As another school year begins, laborers like Michaela Robinson took a bow inside a restored gem named after a workers’ champion.
by | Aug 18, 2008 8:57 am | Comments (0)
Tyquan Hill and his cousin Chantelle had to venture only next door to enjoy some cotton candy, sno cones, and this bouncy castle. Tyquan lives on Sherman Avenue, right next to where Union Temple Church was throwing its Youth Explosion Block Party on Saturday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘Union Temple Throws Youth Explosion Party’
by | Jul 15, 2008 4:17 pm | Comments (22)
When students stream into the rebuilt Troup school this September, they’ll come face to face with 12 five-foot-tall panels of blended photographs of New Haven union activists across time.
by | Jun 12, 2008 8:23 am | Comments (2)
Jamal Shaw was working his shift behind the Shaw’s fish counter when someone asked him if he was registered to vote. By the time his lunch break was over, the answer was yes.
by | Jun 11, 2008 6:23 pm | Comments (2)
The house that haunted fallen former Dixwell Alderman Drew King will soon be exhumed of its ghosts.
by | Jun 4, 2008 12:52 pm | Comments (7)
The “community room” at the Dwight Elementary School might as well have been lined in silver.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Plan Perseveres Despite Lean Times’
by | Jun 3, 2008 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
Free hotel room. Big money. Even in hard times, should she refuse?
by | May 15, 2008 8:23 am | Comments (1)
In the late ’60s, it was New Haven’s very own Haight-Ashbury (pictured). Later it became a blighted eyesore. Today? An upscale duplex. It’s for sale — if you’ll live there.
by | Apr 2, 2008 5:22 pm | Comments (4)
That’s what Mattie Hatcher Long (pictured) and others said about the Rev. Dr. Curtis Cofield at his jam-packed funeral.
by | Mar 31, 2008 7:46 am | Comments (31)
New Haven’s school system took it on the chin, as did Yale and City Hall, as Dwight gathered for a “state of the Community” summit.
by | Mar 30, 2008 9:26 pm | Comments (0)
Christine Bartlett-Josie had a unique perspective to bring to Saturday afternoon’s State of the Community Meeting in Ward 2, where she has lived for 12 Years. And it has nothing to do with the new job she has just taken up, director of development for the youth program LEAP. On the other hand, it just might have everything to do with the job she recently left.
by | Mar 3, 2008 7:15 am | Comments (14)
Obama fever swept through town again, animating David Manners-Weber and Justin Kosslyn to organize a community clean-up.
by | Feb 29, 2008 4:27 pm | Comments (1)
Mark Griffin helped some Yalies in his neighborhood thwart what he called a “home invasion.”
by | Jan 9, 2008 8:13 am | Comments (22)
Six levels. Plants and trees. A “parklet.” A little more than half the spaces originally envisioned. Residences, offices and stores wrapped around.