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As Scot X Esdaile prepares to fly to L.A. to receive a lifetime achievement award on national TV, he hasn’t forgotten what it’s like to be the young turk crashing the gates inn New Haven.
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by | Jan 14, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (7)
Augustine in his Hillhouse art classroom.
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A masked superhero has walked the halls of Hillhouse High School for almost a year, mostly in secret.
by | Jan 11, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (5)
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Mr. Williams with seventh-grade class in March 2020.
Something was missing when staff and students arrived at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School Monday morning.
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by | Jan 7, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Social worker Glenn Xavier: Without us, where would the kids be?
Upon learning that his colleague had tested positive for Covid-19, Matt Tremper did double duty: He taught history to his seventh-graders on one side of the library while overseeing a science experiment for another class assembled across the stacks.
Learning continued — even though the Omicron variant was doing its best all week to render schools inoperable.
by | Jan 5, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Crowd at Career honors Anastasio with moment of silence.
The memory of the legendary New Haven coach Tom “Mr. A” Anastasio was channeled at halftime Tuesday night on the basketball court at Hill Regional Career High School.
by | Dec 24, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (20)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn atop a "detectable warning pad" designed to help blind pedestrians cross Kensington Street.
Giovanni Zinn is ending a busy 2021 with a new bridge to show off, not to mention speed humps and cycletracks and raised intersections all over town.
by | Dec 14, 2021 9:34 am | Comments (3)
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This year's NCNW honorees.
The New Haven section of the National Council of Negro Women Inc. (NCNW) celebrated 45 years of “triumphing together” this past Saturday with the community.
Continue reading ‘National Council Of Negro Women Honor "She-roes" -- & 1 "He-ro"’
by | Nov 15, 2021 4:52 pm | Comments (4)
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Operation Hug: Staff sergeant Andre Cunningham greets 4-year-old Moriah after four-month deployment.
Serenity before her father’s surprise arrival.
Andre Cunningham came home from a four-month deployment in the Middle East a week early — and deployed to Benjamin Jepson School for a surprise mission.
by | Sep 24, 2021 1:30 pm | Comments (14)
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Peter Hvizdak was driving around the Hill when he noticed a boy seeking to do the same — behind the wheel of a car with no tires.
He knew he had to stop to get that photo.
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Pete Hvizdak at WNHH FM: Register photojournalist has retired after 45 years documenting life in New Haven.
by | Sep 20, 2021 8:20 am | Comments (2)
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Elijah Davis Jr. leads final service as pastor: God needs fishers of men.
New sign revealed.
En route to leading his last service as pastor of Pitts Chapel Unified Free Will Church, Elijah Davis Jr. accidentally left his bible in the limo. So he ditched his planned sermon and preached a word about fishermen and loyalty.
by | Sep 15, 2021 3:15 pm | Comments (6)
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The postman always rings nice: Maiorano in Front Street Park, which he remembers as the Schiavone scrap yard in his youth.
Carol Manago was thrilled to see Chris Maiorano back in the neighborhood. Even if he didn’t have his mail satchel with him.
Her pooch Chico was less thrilled.
by | Aug 27, 2021 11:25 am | Comments (9)
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Speaking from lived experience: Kim Hart testifies on hunger data at aldermanic hearing.
Kimberly Hart’s refrigerator stayed humming and cold only because of a long extension cord that slinked out the back door, down the stairs, and around to an outlet in her downstairs neighbor’s apartment.
by | Aug 13, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (3)
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WNBA’s Tanaya Atkinson at Friday’s giveaway.
Barber Brian MacCalla give 5-year-old Jayce Smith a shape-up at Friday’s back-to-school event.
As basketball star Tanaya Atkinson prepared to fly out of the country, she passed the rock to kids back home in New Haven to ensure they have filled book bags and free fresh hair cuts in time to return to school.
by | Aug 2, 2021 9:28 pm | Comments (18)
Babz Rawls Ivy with Prosperity Foundation Executive Director Orsella Hughes at Monday’s porch launch.
Babz Rawls Ivy kicked off Black Philanthropy Month with the launch of a fund to aid Black women exiting prison and reentering society, hoping to ease a path she herself has successfully navigated.
by | Jul 16, 2021 3:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Here’s a clue: Her feet know how to pray.
Here’s another possible clue: She once pointed a .357 magnum at a cop — who had a gun pointed back at her — and survived.
by | Jul 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (7)
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David Burgess at work.
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David Burgess in the park Tuesday with citation from the Connecticut General Assembly.
David Burgess has worked five days a week since the days of the first George Bush Administration to clean debris out of New Haven’s waterways, sweep up trash in Edgewood Park, and plant shrubs around the city — and people noticed.
by | Jun 30, 2021 12:13 pm | Comments (26)
Paul Hammer, on a mission.
Paul Hammer jumped to his death from the Air Rights Garage. I think he’d be comfortable with that fact leading his obituary.
by | Jun 22, 2021 6:49 pm | Comments (5)
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New Haven Fire Lt. Samod “Nuke” Rankins, recovering from a near-death experience fighting a fire, is paying it forward — to the tune of $50,000.
Continue reading ‘Lt. Rankins Forwards $50,000 To Future Firefighters’
by | Jun 14, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (7)
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Frazier (left), Alder Morrison at unveiling of “Jeffie Frazier Way.”
One of the city’s leading educators, retired Principal Jeffie Frazier, has died at the age of 77.
by | Jun 6, 2021 11:45 am | Comments (0)
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Two New Haveners who have spent lifetimes quietly making our community better got a moment in the spotlight Sunday.
Continue reading ‘2 Civic Heroes Inducted Into Jewish Historical Society “Hall of Fame”’
by | Apr 19, 2021 12:44 pm | Comments (3)
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Israel Estrada, Linda Neaton, Juel Crawford, Jenni Butman, Sarah Moore gather in neighbor’s yard.
A backyard cleanup at a homebound elderly woman’s yard served as a good deed, a “vaccination celebration,” and a reminder of community for volunteers ready to emerge from pandemic isolation.
by | Apr 9, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (8)
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In a windowless room in the basement of a university library, four mayors who ruled New Haven for four decades are going down in history.
by | Mar 31, 2021 10:53 pm | Comments (16)
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Winfred Rembert at work in his Newhall Street home.
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“Cotton Field Rows,” 2009.
Winfred Rembert, a nationally renowned artist who depicted vivid scenes of Southern cotton fields and chain gangs and juke joints, died Wednesday inside the Newhall Street home where he carved his leather masterpieces.
by | Mar 14, 2021 3:18 pm | Comments (2)
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Gallishaw with his kids at Saturday’s event.
Abraham Gallishaw is known for hosting pig roast cookouts that feed his neighbors in the Hill. On Saturday his neighbors turned around to throw him a celebration — to help him get back on his feet after a fire destroyed his home.
by | Feb 9, 2021 2:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Laurie Lopez on the blight beat in Fair Haven.
Laurie Lopez is about to start a new city job that continues the mission she has pursued with passion for decades in Fair Haven: cleaning up trashed public areas so everyone can enjoy them.