by | Jan 15, 2016 5:20 pm | Comments (9)
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Hass is stepping down as deputy city parks chief.
When “Mr. Christy Hass” showed up for an interview for a man’s job, it was too late to send her home.
by | Jan 13, 2016 3:04 pm | Comments (3)
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The Green during last year’s tree lighting.
The New Haven Green wasn’t one of the factors that first drew Chris Stedman to New Haven. But as a certain spatial — and spiritual — anchor of the city, it’s part of what has kept him here.
by | Jan 5, 2016 5:12 pm | Comments (9)
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This year’s Christmas-tree lighting.
The Green will soon see some green for a facelift that has been three decades in the making.
by | Jan 3, 2016 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
The wind was blowing down the beach at Lighthouse Point Park as a crowd of 100 people gathered on New Year’s Day to race into the surf of the Long Island Sound. They wore bathing suits, wetsuits, a smattering of costumes. The Pig Man (a.k.a. artist Tony Juliano) was back from last year. I took off my coat, hat, sweater, shirt, pants, socks, and shoes to reveal the bathing suit underneath, and planted my bare feet in the sand.
Right about then I had an unexpected thought: It’s not that cold.
by | Dec 21, 2015 5:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Arata and Stella in smoke-free sand.
Young moms Shiho Osumi and Sarita Rich were pleased that their 15-month-olds could play without breathing in tobacco smoke at East Rock Park’s College Woods playground. The didn’t know that a new law is keeping the park smoke-free.
by | Dec 15, 2015 3:16 pm | Comments (0)
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To the extent that Cyclo-cross racers live to race in challenging conditions, Sunday’s 2015 Elm City CX Finale race at Edgewood Park, could not have been more different from last year’s inaugural race, when snow squalls covered trails and riders reveled in the extra challenging conditions.
Continue reading ‘300 Cyclocross Racers Navigate Formidable Course’
by | Dec 3, 2015 4:16 pm | Comments (2)
The rain kept crowds away from the annual lighting of the holiday tree Tuesday night on the New Haven Green. But for the not-so-few who came out, the lights still came on. The food came out. There was hot chocolate to be had. And voices to be heard, dreaming of a white Christmas.
Continue reading ‘In The Mist, It Was A Dreamy Start To Xmas’
by | Aug 13, 2015 7:17 am | Comments (1)
Sal DeCola is asking people to help him clean up and “beautify” Fort Hale Park this weekend.
by | Aug 3, 2015 5:33 pm | Comments (10)
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Logan on the walk-through.
Fish swim in it, birds nest by its banks, and soon even pedestrians may be able to walk comfortably along the shore of an historic city river.
Continue reading ‘Trailblazers Clear Way For A Mill River Path’
by | Aug 3, 2015 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
More bats will be hanging around Fair Haven Heights, and that’s a good thing for bats and humans alike — not so much for the mosquitoes.
by | Aug 3, 2015 2:59 pm | Comments (4)
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Two buses pulled away from the steps of City Hall, carrying over 100 volunteers, gardeners, and scientists.
by | Jul 24, 2015 1:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Torres examines some “good” tree-of-heaven, which will stay.
At Dover Beach, trash and “trees of heaven” are out. Pollinators and people are in.
by | Jul 1, 2015 2:20 pm | Comments (4)
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Sawyer Christmann made believe he was the first butterfly in the garden.
And for the butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.
by | Jun 22, 2015 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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This guy got a free ride, with PB&J at the start and ice cream at the end for the energy needed.
Stops at nine city parks, from Edgewood Park in the west to Quinnipiac River Park and Criscuolo Park on the east side of town; about two and a half hours of leisurely riding to cover approximately 12 to 14 miles, and then your reward for completing the big New Haven bike loop: 30 percent off ice cream at Ashley’s on York Street.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists Get Revelations And Ice Cream On City Bike Tour’
by | Jun 12, 2015 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
“Look,” Chris Ozyck called out. “There’s another whirling disease fish.”
by | Jun 4, 2015 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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“Saving the Sound” means, in part, working on the waterways that run through New Haven.
by | Jun 3, 2015 2:07 pm | Comments (6)
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A crew erected not a tent, but a huge inflatable movie screen in Edgewood Park — in preparation for a summer of “Friday Night Flicks” in parks across town.
by | May 19, 2015 5:18 pm | Comments (6)
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Bella Vista Alder Barbara Constantinople slipped out the front doors of City Hall to take a few drags on a cigarette before voting in favor of banning all forms of tobacco products from government-owned property.
Continue reading ‘Alders Kinda Kick Smoking Out Of Public Spaces’
by | May 18, 2015 11:45 am | Comments (0)
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United Illuminating crew members started felling trees in Edgewood Park Monday — a day after nature started the job for them.
by | May 11, 2015 5:21 pm | Comments (9)
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This locust tree has another week to remain standing — before it and a couple of dozen other orange-tagged aboreal Edgewood Park denizens get the axe.
by | May 4, 2015 1:24 pm | Comments (8)
This report was sent in by Fair Havener Carlos Galo.
Several hundred people from New Haven and beyond descended on the banks of the Quinnipiac River estuary on Sunday for the 6th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest planned by the Chatham Square Neighborhood Association.
by | May 4, 2015 8:14 am | Comments (0)
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Wooster Square activist Peter Webster sent in this write-up and these photos. Click here and here for previous articles about this project.
The shabby, neglected dumping-ground called Russo Park, on the tiny connecting street between Chapel Street and Wooster Street, site of the Saturday Wooster Square City Seed Farmers Market, is being recast in splendor: Harvey’s Walk.
by | May 1, 2015 11:41 am | Comments (0)
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“Here comes the sun!” an onlooker said. “We got the sun up.”
“We may not be responsible for getting it over the real horizon,” joked one of the members of New Haven Morris and Sword. “But we did get it over the mountains.”
by | Apr 28, 2015 3:45 pm | Comments (10)
A proposed ordinance to ban smoking from public playing fields, playgrounds, schools and other places children congregate cleared a major hurdle as a Board of Alders committee unanimously approved the measure.
Continue reading ‘Smoking Ban Advances; E-Cig Measure Added’
by | Apr 23, 2015 1:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ominous clouds and the threat of rain didn’t hold back the people gathered at Edgewood Park for a walk. It just meant they had to walk a little faster.