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Dec 10, 2018 8:39 am
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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.
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Nov 23, 2018 10:05 am
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Members of the Hill North Management Team this week unveiled the first installment in a beautification campaign with banners that honors neighborhood trailblazers.
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Oct 19, 2018 2:00 pm
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Holocaust survivor and local tailor Libby Glucksman.
As she prepares to close a tailor shop that was a West River fixture for five decades, Libby Glucksman has a lot of boxes to pack. She has even more of a story to unpack. A survivor’s story.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 11, 2018 1:24 pm
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Pedro Soto with stepmom Gladys.
When he was a penniless young man of 19 in the Bronx, originally from Puerto Rico, with little or no machine shop experience, John Soto answered an advertisement for a “machinist with one year’s experience.”
As the employer looked at him skeptically, Soto added, “If you hire me, in a year, I’ll be that experienced machinist.”
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Oct 11, 2018 8:13 am
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Tracey Davis-Massey with her family.
Tracey Davis-Massey might be the oldest person ever named as New Haven’s Student of the Month. She’s 45 years old, and she’s two months away from finally completing high school.
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Sep 5, 2018 12:13 pm
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In one portrait, a man with glasses gazes from the frame, friendly but appraising. In another, Ruth Bader Ginsburg peers out from a background swirling with color, bringing all her intelligence and experience to bear to size up the viewer. In a third, a woman, nobody’s fool, gazes out from a scintillating wall of hues, a clock tower to her left.
It turns out that the woman is Marilyn Walton, a construction worker, hairdresser, and business owner who happened to be the grandmother of artist Jaida Stancil. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is, of course, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, rendered by Aliya Anna Hafiz. And the man with the glasses is artist Salvador Bacón, father of Patricio Salvador Bacón Guaray, who painted his father’s portrait.
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Aug 21, 2018 3:44 pm
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Daviya and Henry.
A bullet that pierced Henry Harris Green IV, aka Renegade, on a Newhallville street eight years ago, and remained lodged in his body is now evidence in an investigation into his recent death.
Call it one more chapter in a compelling story about a young man who embraced life against great odds while injecting humanity into the communal conversation about gun violence.
Lt. Ernest Jones helping a zoned-out man Thursday.
One person collapsed on the Green. Then another. Then another. More help was needed fast.
Meanwhile, a man went on Facebook Live to announce he was jumping off East Rock. A Cedar Hill building started collapsing. A fire broke out in the Annex.
Officer Doug Pearse thought he and his partner still had a “50 – 50” chance to rescue a suicidal woman at East Rock’s summit. Then she stood up at the precipice of a rock and bent her knees above a deadly drop.
Dobro master Stacy Phillips, who died Tuesday at 73.
Watching Stacy Phillips contemplatively smoke his cigars in baggy pants and a T-shirt outside his Alden Avenue apartment or pass the hat between sets with his “bluegrass characters” at the Outer Space, you might not guess he won a Grammy.
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Apr 25, 2018 7:47 am
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City arts czar Andy Wolf and Mayor Toni Harp.
New Haven celebrated its 380th birthday Tuesday afternoon with a party that promoted diversity, opportunity and progress, and singled out seven individuals who have left a lasting imprint on the city’s cultural, physical and spiritual landscape.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 29, 2018 4:16 pm
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Chapman Wednesday at her last Historic Wooster Square Association Inc. meeting as president
Elsie Chapman never intended to be president of the Historic Wooster Square Association. She was just helping a founding member of the association navigate how to use email.
Watch out, baby boomers. Twenty-something New Haveners began stepping into leadership roles in 2017, suggesting a long-overdue transfer of power may not be far away.
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Oct 27, 2017 4:49 pm
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Lawlor in all her splendor Thursday night.
The Black and Hispanic Caucus took time out from its annual benefit for the city’s youth and seniors to honor a woman who truly has the keys to the city, Pattie Lawlor.
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Oct 25, 2017 12:39 pm
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Mayor Harp joins Paley at the table of honor.
They celebrated buying, rehabilitating, and selling scores of homes to first-time homeowners and in the process revitalizing a stretch of Newhallville that many had given up on.
Not on the agenda but very much part of the event was also celebration of the return to action of the man who has lead that effort for decades: founder and executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services, who has returned from a life-threatening stroke to be the very model of optimism and resiliency.
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Oct 16, 2017 8:02 am
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Ret. Firefighter John Cretella, Ret. Lt. James Schwartz, Ret. Lt. James Kearney, and Capt. Miguel Rosado, Jr.
“You’re crawling down the hallway of a burning building. Your ears are beginning to burn. Your hair is beginning to catch on fire … then you hear a moan. You reach up and grab someone lying on a bed, and out you go.
“There’s no greater feeling than to be be able to save people’s lives.”
Tom Ullmann sees much still wrong with Connecticut’s criminal justice system. But he also sees a lot right — and, in 43 years of tireless advocacy, he can claim some of the credit.
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Jun 28, 2017 7:45 am
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Ortiz Monday evening at her final Board of Ed meeting.
Coral Ortiz noticed “something fishy.” She noticed that adults around her were too “intimidated” to mention it. So she spoke up — and stopped a speeding political locomotive in its tracks.
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Jun 16, 2017 2:17 pm
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Neal-Dixon with Brown, who inspired her to become a librarian.
When Tyshawna Neal-Dixon was in her early teens, showing up to Dixwell’s Stetson Branch Library with her brother to use the computers and pick up books, she didn’t know that the foundation for her future was being laid every time she stepped in the doors.
