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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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Eddi M. photographs Alina ...
... in flower-filled Wooster Square Park.
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.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 31, 2022 5:38 pm
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Common Ground alum Crystal Fernandez at Kimberly Field planning gathering.
When Crystal Fernandez returned to the Hill with her four sons three years ago, she decided she would be a part of the change she wanted to see in her neighborhood by starting with Kimberly Field.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 29, 2022 9:20 am
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Goode leads urban explorers into wilderness, clears invasive species.
Environmental advocate Aaron Goode, loppers in hand, smiled as he looked over the hikers who had just waded through ankle-deep mud to get around a fence built across Hemingway Creek, behind the Bella Vista apartment complex.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm
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Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 31, 2022 9:11 am
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On Sunday, there I was again at Brooksvale Park, ready to take another five-mile hike, as I do most times I come here. But today I was strapping on snowshoes and making sure the bottoms of my snow pants were tight enough. We may have been spared the worst of the winter storm that dropped 30 inches of snow in eastern Massachusetts, but 9 to 12 inches was still enough to transform the landscape, making the familiar park new again, and offering the chance to see again how the town changes — day to day, year to year, decade to decade.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 27, 2022 4:52 pm
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New version of proposed monument, with plaque.
Gone are the benches, planters, flood lights, and gravel walking paths.
The sculpture itself — of an aspiring immigrant family — remains in the picture, as a controversial plan to replace the former Wooster Square Christopher Columbus monument moved to a new stage.
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 24, 2022 8:52 am
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Make room for newbies: Current Wooster Square residents at dog park.
With new apartment complexes rising along and near Olive Street, Wooster Square is planning ahead of an anticipated influx of new neighbors — and the dogs they’re sure to bring with them.
