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Daniel Hunt.
As a part-time student support worker at Engineering & Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), Daniel Hunt always kept his eye on one high-schooler.The student had been hanging out with gang members, and gotten arrested. Hunt pulled the teen aside to let him know it still wasn’t too late to turn things around.
by | Dec 24, 2019 7:53 am | Comments (8)
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Lt. Manmeet Colon greets Capt. Duff at Dec. 11 “Signal 4” Van Dome fundraising party.
New Haven will always be grateful that Anthony Duff followed his own advice in 2019. Otherwise he might not have made it to 2020, on the cusp of reporting back to work at the police department.
by | Nov 26, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (1)
New Haven’s city clerk took on a new job duty: climbing a pole to save the day.
by | Nov 15, 2019 3:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Outlaw leading a support group for ex-offenders.
William “Juneboy” Outlaw III was New Haven’s top cocaine dealer before he reached the age of 20. Then he spent decades behind bars, staring at death.
This week Outlaw, who’s now 51, hit the big time again — this time as a star street outreach worker featured on the Today Show and in a biography about to rock the nation with a tale of personal redemption.
by | Nov 5, 2019 5:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Imam Hasan (at left) at 2010 renaming of the masjid.
Imam Dr. Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan, a New Haven Muslim leader and interfaith peacemaker for more than a half century, died Monday at the age of 83 after a long illness.
by | Oct 7, 2019 7:57 am | Comments (2)
“Necessary Diva” Jackson, who performed a moving one-way biographical show Sunday night.
Dr. Tiffany Jackson began with her parents. Her mother was born in Alabama to sharecroppers who had “a lot of kids,” Jackson said, and raised them in a shotgun shack. Jackson recalled asking her mother why it was called that.
“If you stood in front, and you aimed a shotgun,” her mother told her, “it would go clear through the back door.”
by | Oct 1, 2019 2:52 pm | Comments (4)
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Lauren Sepulveda receives a congratulatory hug from her students.
Lauren Sepulveda felt like a “pretty average” high school student with no direction — until a social studies teacher encouraged her to sign up for an Advanced Placement class and compete in National History Day.
Sepulveda, now a social studies teacher herself at Fair Haven’s Clinton Avenue School, found out just how exceptional she is when she was surprised Tuesday with a $25,000 check for being one of the country’s best teachers.
by | Sep 20, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Moshair Gameel, Amina Maniriho, and Jane Kinity.
Amina Maniriho stood laughing and dancing while the trees at the edges of the park reverberated with the Swahili lyrics of “Dunia Haina Hurumu” — the world has no mercy. Her seven children jumped and wove about the new friends she has made since she arrived seven months ago. Above her, a strong South wind whipped the American flag mounted on a tall white pole.
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With retired Sgt. Shafiq Abdusabbur at the unveiling.
With grandsons Wesley and Wilbert Frazier.
During ceremony, legendary principal urges adults to volunteer.
by | Aug 14, 2019 5:50 pm | Comments (5)
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The officers who saved Capt. Duff’s life.
Four city police officers arrived at Dixwell Avenue and Henry Street Monday night prepared to use their new training in how to apply tourniquets to save the life of another gunshot victim.
They didn’t realize this victim was one of their own — Capt. Anthony Duff.
by | Jul 26, 2019 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
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Miranda makes his civic engagement pitch on Davenport Avenue. Below: Broken sidewalks on Greenwood, Stevens, Vine, and Stevens.
Hector Miranda has an encyclopedic knowledge of every busted sidewalk and precarious tree limb in the upper Hill.
The loquacious apolitical Stevens Street resident has embarked on a new campaign to pressure City Hall to fix up his neighborhood — not by running for office, but by knocking doors and exhorting his neighbors to make their voices heard.
by | Jul 26, 2019 8:10 am | Comments (8)
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Emcee Kica Matos: “Beautiful” transfer of power on the island.
In the hours after Ricardo Rosselló resigned as governor of Puerto Rico, the spirit of the protests that led to his fall from grace echoed inside Amarante’s Sea Cliff in Morris Cove on Thursday night, where Puerto Ricans United (PRU) honored four local residents and organizations.
Continue reading ‘“Peaceful Revolution,” City Heroes Hailed’
by | Jul 9, 2019 3:44 pm | Comments (5)
Eliza Vargas at an Ice The Beef anti-violence rallly.
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James Bhandary-Alexander address a worker rights rally. (At left: organizer John Lugo.)
James Bhandary-Alexander gets in the trenches with immigrant hotel housekeepers, building cleaners and Uber drivers to fight for decent pay and working conditions. Darrell Allick’s Ice The Beef gets in the trenches with young people in New Haven neighborhoods to save lives by stopping violence.
by | Jun 7, 2019 7:51 am | Comments (2)
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Jeffie Frazier (right) at Thursday night’s hearing.
Alders unanimously supported renaming a Dixwell corner outside Wexler-Grant in honor of the school’s retried longtime principal and a nationally celebrated neighborhood educator.
by | Apr 26, 2019 12:10 pm | Comments (27)
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Kerry Ellington leads protests that shut Downtown streets.
When Kerry Ellington first learned that police had shot at two unarmed people in Newhallville, she didn’t hold a press conference. She started organizing.
by | Apr 19, 2019 8:06 am | Comments (3)
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PSAP’sRosemary Fuentes, George Peet, Jeff Patton, Nkoy Moore.
A man on West Rock was threatening to kill himself. Jeff Patton had to do some quick calculations to try to help save his life.
by | Apr 17, 2019 4:19 pm | Comments (10)
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As Jorge Cabrera greeted his striking workers at the Hamden Stop & Shop, one asked about her pay from the previous week.
Will they have the checks tomorrow? she asked.
They should, replied Cabrera. But if you run into any trouble, give me a call.
by | Mar 12, 2019 5:58 pm | Comments (17)
Road trip to her favorite annual music festival.
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Rebecca Turcio.
Rebecca Turcio, who championed the cause of one of New Haven’s littlest-noticed neighborhoods and emerged as one of the first and most passionate humane local grassroots voices of the Internet Age, died Monday after a long illness at the age of 54. Her imprint on New Haven lives on.
by | Mar 7, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (6)
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At Wednesday’s surprise event, Jack Paulishen gets his first look at the multimedia lab being named in his honor.
At the front of three rows of chairs, at the center of the school library, Mr. P was wincing. He folded his hands and crossed his legs.
Coworkers past and present had lured him to the school library to let him know what a difference he has made in the lives of New Haven’s young people — before it was too late to tell him.
by | Jan 14, 2019 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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A hearse, manufactured in 1888, carries Bishop Stalllings’ body Sunday from Beers Street to Dixwell.
Bishop Robert Henry Stallings Jr.
He was a young pitcher in the Negro Leagues when the New York Yankees came to his door to recruit him.
No way, his father, Bishop Enoch Stallings, of the Church of God and Saints of Christ in the Dwight neighborhood, told the scouts. “This boy is going to sing in the choir.”
by | Jan 4, 2019 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Hartman updates press on 2017 SWAT response to Elm Street barricaded man’s shooting of wife and 2 cops.
Officer David Hartman — a public face of New Haven’s police department since 2011 — retired Friday after a quarter century in uniform and seven years of elevating law enforcement’s literary standard.
by | Jan 4, 2019 1:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Ida Ruth Wells with then-Land Trust Director Chris Randall in 2011.
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The corner of County Street and Henry Street, to be renamed Ida Ruth Wells Corner.
The street corner outside of the Prescott Bush senior apartment complex will be renamed in honor of a late neighborhood stalwart who promoted community gardening at public housing complexes.
Continue reading ‘Corner To Be Named For Public-Housing Hero’
by | Dec 23, 2018 10:08 am | Comments (10)
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Kim Harris (above); Amy Marx (below).
In 2018, Kim Harris and Amy Marx imagined a better New Haven. They teamed up with determined people. Then they made it happen.
And they’re just getting started.
by | Dec 10, 2018 8:39 am | Comments (2)
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AwardeesMelton, Slomba, Downing, DeLauro, Hameen, and Washington.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 38th annual awards ceremony, held Friday during a luncheon at the New Haven Lawn Club, began with a protest. As patrons were seating themselves in the Lawn Club’s expansive ballroom, a troop of young women marched in file toward the stage, chanting and holding aloft signs about stopping domestic and sexual violence, about women’s suffrage, about curing breast cancer.
The women were dancers from Premier Dance Company, headed by Hanan Hameen, one of the afternoon’s award recipients. They took the stage to a blast of music from the speakers, moving from funk to pop to hip hop, as patrons finished sitting down — a fitting nod to the theme of the arts awards this year, of phenomenal women.
by | Dec 7, 2018 12:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Tom Talbot (center) at a BZA hearing.
After more than a decade as New Haven’s point person for all things zoning, Tom Talbot is packing up and leaving City Hall.