by | Nov 6, 2020 1:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Lilla Mae Holness at 100 years old.
Over the course of a century, Lilla Mae Holness — “Miss Holness” to family, “Aunt Mae” or “Lilla Mae” to friends — has been a sister and a mother figure, a legendary strawberry shortcake baker and a staple at the monthly Pokeno games.
These friends and family came by foot and SUV to wish the New Haven native a happy 100th birthday.
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Some of last year’s visitors: There was no such thing as buying too much candy.
As we face a challenging night of trick-or-treating and modified celebrations, I offer a few reflections to chew on with your excess Snickers bars.
Continue reading ‘Haunted History: Will Trick-Or-Treaters Retrn?’
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:27 pm | Comments (31)
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Next up: Munson Street ex-factory slated for demo.
Science Park plans to knock down one more still-abandoned former factory building and construct 200 new apartments there. Newhallville alders and residents are seeking to ensure their neighbors can afford to live there.
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Current plan for the former Coliseum site.
(Opinion) When I first came back to New Haven in 1971 I was told by everyone to focus on the problems of the poor and the disadvantaged. Forty years later I see the mood of the City seems not to have changed. Affordable housing is critically important but there are several much larger issues which need to be the focus of our discussions, all of which conclude making the project financially successful for all income classes.
The current controversy over the Coliseum site is focused strictly on affordable housing, a subject which, by itself, is a nonstarter.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Coliseum Site Needs A Neighborhood Builder’
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:52 am | Comments (5)
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Kyasia Parker shows her new face shield to her mom, Nikki.
The masks had arrived. So Kyasia Parker sprinted door to door, rounding up her neighbors and friends — and keeping up the momentum in a grassroots pandemic-survival effort.
by | Oct 22, 2020 11:32 am | Comments (14)
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Neighbors at Sunday’s initial gathering.
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Reyes at Wednesday meeting.
Police Chief Otoniel Reyes told 100 Beaver Hills residents worried about an uptick in violence not to go out patrolling the neighborhood themselves, but instead to keep pushing his department to do better.
by | Oct 21, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
The now-empty site of a factory by the Mill River that sent products to Home Depot could host warehouses for the delivery side of Home Depot, or another delivery-focused company like Amazon, by the summer of 2021.
by | Oct 18, 2020 8:28 pm | Comments (44)
Forty Beaver Hills residents came out Sunday to seek solutions to spiking crime — and at times confronted divisions in their own neighborhood, which has both a sizable African-American and a sizable Orthodox Jewish population.
by | Oct 18, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Bishop Woods third-grade teacher Alena Roberts preps lessons in her empty classroom.
Yellow-and-black striped tape divides the hallways. Stickers remind students to wear masks and stay six feet apart from one another. Zip ties keep each locker closed and off limits. Gallon-sized pumps of hand sanitizer wait at each school entrance.
These are some of the changes to Bishop Woods Architecture & Design Magnet School that await students when they are scheduled to start some in-person classes on Nov. 9.
Continue reading ‘Bishop Woods Air Filters Are In, Lockers Locked’
by | Oct 13, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (13)
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The grassy triangle at the corner of MLK and Orchard Street.
What if the city subdivided a vacant six-acre stretch at the intersection of Orchard Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard and let neighbors purchase lots to build their own townhomes there?
by | Oct 12, 2020 2:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Hermosillo, Reilly exchange outlooks.
Erin Reilly tried to convert Maria Estela Hermosillo to a conservative vote. In return, Estela Hermosillo tried to convert Reilly to the Baha’i religion.
by | Oct 1, 2020 3:35 pm | Comments (11)
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Edgewood Park’s Coogan Pavilion, one of three city learning hubs to open on Monday.
(Updated Thursday) Around 1,500 New Haven students still have not signed onto their online classes. The city has a plan to help — by setting up free learning hubs throughout the city with seats prioritized for these students.
Continue reading ‘City Preps 9 Learning Hubs For Missing Students’
by | Sep 1, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (23)
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The Olin Powder Farm.
Hamden environmental groups and Newhall neighborhood leaders are renewing a push for the state to force Olin Corporation to clean up, remediate and open a 102.5‑acre forest and wetlands site so that residents can finally enjoy the closed-off land.
by | Sep 1, 2020 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Nazareth Vyraven: I like to give students something of their own.
Nazareth Vyraven is on a mission: To give a new backpack and two new face masks to every student in the schools that surround her Dwight church.
Continue reading ‘Free Backpacks, Masks Ready For Dwight Schools’
by | Aug 26, 2020 8:44 am | Comments (17)
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Kevin Morse livestreams Clifton Street fire.
The acrid stench of burning drywall wafted in through the open driver’s window as Justin Shipchack navigated his sedan into a parking spot.
by | Aug 25, 2020 3:46 pm | Comments (8)
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Rafael Ramos (left), Meghan Maidelis (right) lay out rules for landlord.
Two basement bedrooms of a two-story Diamond Street house had metal bars and plywood boards on their windows. Not good — that meant the people living inside had no alternative escape route should a fire break out.
by | Aug 21, 2020 8:09 am | Comments (4)
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The infamous pole (left) still standing amidst the flowers.
The pole is still there. Neighbors are still mad. And the power company didn’t show up to a community meeting to talk about it.
by | Aug 20, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (15)
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The Coliseum lot
Downtown and Hill neighbors slammed the redevelopment plans for the old Coliseum site — and committed to trying to get the Norwalk-based developer to pause the development process and be more transparent, include more affordable housing, and devise a more appealing design.
by | Aug 15, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (3)
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Prayer caravan participants preaching peace.
Local Hispanic pastors and their congregants blanketed city streets with prayers of non-violence, unity and hope in a car caravan that traveled from Fair Haven to the Hill to City Hall.
by | Jul 25, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (20)
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Plan calls for six new townhomes like these at corner of Mill River and Humphrey Street.
Why can’t all six of planned new Humphrey Street townhomes be affordable?
Mill River neighbor Joan Cavanagh asked this question on Friday evening of the developer hoping to build 12 apartments housed within six townhomes at 156 – 158 Humphrey St.
Continue reading ‘Mill River Plan’s Affordability Fleshed Out’
by | Jul 22, 2020 9:37 pm | Comments (17)
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Olive and Wooster greenspace, where sign reads: “Plantings donated by the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team.”
A 40-foot utility support pole has arisen on a flowerbed at the corner of Wooster and Olive streets to help make way for a new 299-apartment complex.
Neighbors aren’t pleased.
by | Jul 3, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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A Newhallville grocery giveaway Thursday afternoon provided 320 New Haveners with food as part of a mission to nourish Newhallville with health, wealth, and leadership.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville “Loves Out Loud,” Feeds 320 Families’
by | Jun 26, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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An end-of-year celebration at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School.
New Haven is changing, but school zones aren’t. This makes some schools nearly impossible to get into through the lottery system.
The fix is redistricting, Magnet School Assistant Program Coordinator Michele Bonanno told the Board of Alders Education. No such fix is currently being planned.
The occasion was a review of this year’s lottery process results.
Continue reading ‘Lottery Concerns Highlight Outdated School Zones’
by | Jun 25, 2020 11:35 am | Comments (0)
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Recent demonstration, like hte one pictured, have featured calls for movement on seating the new civilian review board.
Hill South neighbors want someone on the Civilian Review Board who understands their perspectives and is easy to communicate with.
To several on the Hill South Community Management Team, that means the CRB needs a member who attends their meetings.
Continue reading ‘Hill South Seeks CMT Rep To Civilian Review Board’
by | Jun 22, 2020 11:30 pm | Comments (38)
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2018 protest unofficially renames Columbus Family Academy, with blood on hands of papier maché Columbus.
The Board of Education voted overwhelmingly in support of removing Christopher Columbus’s name from a Fair Haven K‑8 school — as well as from an October holiday on the district’s calendar — in the city’s latest reckoning with the 15th-century explorer’s violent legacy.