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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 2, 2022 4:18 pm
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"Team Get Right" and "Young Kings" square off in OT in day's final game.
Basketballs soared in the air. Stuntin’ Is A Habit played on the loud speaker. Families competed in spades. And grill smoke ignited the crowd’s appetites.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 27, 2022 4:19 pm
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Bob Pattison laments light pollution.
A proposal to raise the permitted height of sports facility lighting has generated controversy in Hamden among light sleepers, bird migration enthusiasts, and critics of Quinnipiac University’s role in the possible zoning change.
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Olivia Gross |
Jul 25, 2022 9:17 am
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The main stage at Seeing Sounds.
The concrete made the temperature seem twice as high at Edgewood Park’s skate park Saturday, but skateboards still flew through the crowd — and music filled the air at the first annual Seeing Sounds music festival.
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Jordan Ashby |
Jul 19, 2022 2:48 pm
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“This is your park,” Gemma Joseph Lumpkin of the New Haven Public Schools reminded middle schoolers gathered Tuesday in Edgerton Park, over and over again.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jul 17, 2022 10:53 am
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Ahndiya Glasper (far left) at the table honoring her late great-grandmother and mother.
Latoya Glasper was planning a community wellness day as part of her new job with the city Health Department. It would be a resource fair, named “Momma’s Love Community Day,” in honor of her late grandmother.
Before Glasper was able to see the event to completion, she underwent a sudden health crisis and died in June. At 42 years old, Glasper left her five children and own mother.
This Saturday, the Health Department put on the event anyway — dedicated to Glasper’s memory.
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Maya McFadden and Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 14, 2022 3:35 pm
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Paul DiMauro nourishes his communal plants.
As children with flushed faces and cherry cheeks raced around a playground in the summer heat, Paul DiMauro enjoyed a similar sense of freedom a few feet away — spending another morning of his retirement tending to seeds that will soon sprout into rosy tomatoes in a shared community space.
Maybelle, 5, lights a sparkler at Monday celebration.
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Monday fireworks show.
Explosions of colors burst into the sky, lighting up East Rock and beyond, as hundreds of families gathered on the Wilbur Cross football field Monday evening for the city’s annual Fourth of July display.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 27, 2022 9:10 am
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Refugees & descendants honor past, future at World Refugee Day picnic.
Families who now call New Haven home gathered in East Rock Park to remember their journeys from Kenya, Burundi, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan — and to build a community ready to welcome newcomers from all over the world.
Bradley Street Co-op's John Martin picks mulberry to share with neighbors.
A mulberry tree that was purportedly planted by George Washington at the intersection of Bradley and State Streets will soon going to find itself in the midst of a summer home-improvement project.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 17, 2022 6:18 pm
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On Friday's canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top left: Tour guide Aaron Goode; Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
Aaron Goode pointed down to the 19th century trap rock retaining walls that still line the Farmington Canal Trail in Dixwell, and then up to the 21st century Yale-dorm-topping carved relief panels that pay homage to the enduring transportation corridor’s founding engineers.
“History is everywhere in New Haven,” he said, “above us and below.”
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Courtney Luciana |
Jun 17, 2022 9:11 am
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Lisa Saunders.
Lisa Saunders was working out at Edgewood Park early to get her morning calisthenics reps in using the playground as her personal gym before starting the rest of the day.
Saunders used to weigh 400 pounds and now guides other people of color in weight loss based on her personal experience while taking part in an overeaters anonymous group.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 3, 2022 9:15 am
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Brent Peterkin in action at preserve, in prep for Black Birders Week walks.
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Local Osprey makes use of Quinnpiac nest platform.
Large winged Ospreys circled overhead. Coupled Mourning Doves sang to each other on a thin leafless tree. Hunting Tree Swallows sped through the air in blue flashes.
That was the scene this week at the Quinnipiac Meadows Nature Preserve, a local Narnia-esque green space owned by Gather New Haven (GNH).
GNH Executive Director Brent Peterkin was scoping out the preserve, and pointing out its beauty, in advance of leading community bird walks on Friday and Saturday.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 2, 2022 9:48 am
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Concrete Creations crew at work Wednesday.
Park regulars keep eye on renovations by the "Lyin' Tree."
As a crew repainted the fencing of Edgewood Park’s tennis courts, park regulars like Byron Breland, Ernest Newton, Billy Bostic, and Kerry Ellington watched from a distance cheering on long-awaited renovations to one of New Haven’s communal gems.
Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
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Maya McFadden |
May 20, 2022 9:41 am
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Participants in Thursday's launch party.
New playground rendering.
A party brought Newhallville together at a playground slated to be revamped to honor a Yale clinical scientist who loved to give back and made significant strides to improve substance abuse treatment.
A shingle oak with star-like leaves was planted Friday just feet from the Quinnipiac River — marking a milestone in New Haven’s ongoing efforts to make the Elm City a tree city once more with deeply connected grass roots.
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Courtney Luciana |
May 4, 2022 1:45 pm
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Francis Miller gets work underway.
Francis Miller stood on a ladder taking pictures of the New Haven Green Memorial that honors fallen heroes of World War I — not just for fun, but as a first step in a preservation project.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Apr 25, 2022 10:17 am
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The annual Cherry Blossom celebration at Wooster Square Park returned for the first time in two years on Sunday — bringing back families, friends, puppies, and community to the park.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Maya McFadden |
Apr 20, 2022 3:57 pm
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Wooster Square’s cherry blossoms served as a fitting seasonal backdrop Wednesday morning — for a photographer aiming to turn the trees’ ephemeral beauty into immortal crypto wealth.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Maya McFadden |
Apr 14, 2022 2:06 pm
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Bob Lamothe points to osprey circling above.
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Lamothe's portrait of a Cape May Warbler.
As Bob Lamothe walked along the Mill River, he positioned his Canon camera towards the sky, prepared to capture birds in flight — and was reminded of shared migration patterns that help people and avians alike call back and forth between their homelands.
