Lucca (at right) greets his cousin, Sora, another Italian water dog, who arrived at the park with her “grandmother.”
On the way to the dog park one recent afternoon, I watched a speeding car hit a highway barrier and spin in a 360-degree revolution. The driver, one of many daft people at the wheel of late, managed to total only his sedan and not any eyewitnesses. Then he crept off to the exit on his rims, smoke billowing from the hood, and succeeded in reminding all of us how close we come every day to profound misfortune
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Empty lot at 506 Winchester, envisioned for playground.
Raegan Ferrell, pictured, has ideas for a possible new playground.
An overgrown Newhallville lot might become a playground, with springing bumblebee seats, a log-shaped tunnel, and mushroom stepping stones.
But when the city presented these plans to the neighbors, parents and grandparents balked. The park looks well-designed, they said, but would their children be safe?
Melvin McKoy trapped by ET by the bank of the West River.
A New Haven human named Melvin McCoy found himself in the grip of a green extraterrestrial visitor on Halloween, while up the road a crew worked on freeing other New Haven humans from a real-life homegrown horror: lead-paint poisoning.
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Oct 18, 2021 3:00 pm
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Skateboarding commences Friday night at new George Street park.
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Ambassador Neftalie Williams teaches Jaden Lee how to Ollie Saturday at Scantlebury Park.
Fourteen-year-old Jaden Lee snapped the tail of his skateboard, slid his foot forward, and jumped all at once.
Jaden received those three tips on how to do his first “Ollie” from a visiting U.S. “ambassador” who came to town to spread the word about not just how to skateboard, but why it matters, as New Haven also opened a new park for the faithful.
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Oct 18, 2021 9:42 am
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Katherine Jacobs, Mary Brown, Alder Jill Marks, Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Chaz Carmon at Sunday park ribbon-cutting.
Napoleon tests new play surface.
Napoleon Jenkins jumped from the gleaming bars of the jungle gym, his feet landing on the spongy surface of the Goffe Street Park playground with a soft thud.
“It’s pretty good,” said the 8‑year-old, grinning, testing out the new surface, one of a host of improvements at the park.
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Oct 11, 2021 11:28 am
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Ariana Akani meets Strawberry Sunday in Goffe Street Park.
On her fifth birthday, Ariana Akani made a new friend named Strawberry. If all goes well, Strawberry will return to New Haven and Ariana again in the spring — and perhaps offer her a ride.
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Oct 8, 2021 9:45 am
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Stephen Kobasa, Allie Perry at final stone laying at B’way Triangle.
Twenty years to the day after the United States first bombed the Taliban, New Haveners officially put an end to one home front of the Afghanistan War — by laying a final stone commemorating last month’s military and civilian deaths from “forever wars” in the Middle East.
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The Kensington playground.
As a lawsuit drags on over a Kensington Street Park playground, an affordable housing developer has canceled a promise to donate apartments to a neighborhood nonprofit.
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Lt. Dana Smith: Now the top cop for East Rock/Newhallvillle.
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Newly minted Dwight/Beaver Hills top cop Lt. Ryan Przybylski.
Newhallville, East Rock and Cedar Hill have a new neighborhood top cop — Lt. Dana Smith, who has stepped into the district manager role as Lt. Manmeet Colon moves over to Internal Affairs.
And a little further west in Dwight and Beaver Hills, Lt. Ryan Przybylski has risen to the role of district manager, replacing recently promoted Capt. John Healy.
Chaz Carmon: This was our youth’s home away from home.
Hurricane Ida wiped out seven years worth of belongings at the home of the Ice the Beef anti-violence youth group. Now the group is scrambling to get back in and “save lives” again.
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A protest sign at Kensington Playground.
The Dwight Community Management Team tabled a proposal to prohibit the city from ever giving up the only public park in a neighborhood — out of a concern that such a policy might interfere with the city’s legally-contested sale of Kensington Playground to an affordable housing developer.
Players at season finale of Guns Down, Books Up Unity Basketball League.
For the first time in their lives, Tyran Mason, Maasa Bethea, D’aire Barnett, Davon Hargrove, Allen Hennah, and Travis James didn’t have to worry about unexpected shootings happening around them while they played on a basketball court.
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Carlos Eyzaguirre presents Mike Amore Jr. with mayoral proclamation.
Since the 1950s, much of New Haven has kept its attire fresh and clean thanks to Jet Cleaners, which celebrated its 65th year in business Tuesday with city officials and neighbors.
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Aug 20, 2021 1:43 pm
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Johnny Cummings: Keep your eye on the ball, not me.
Johnny “JC” Cummings stepped on the court where he once reigned, not to sink a three-pointer, but to pass along wisdom about the game of basketball to an up-and-comer he hopes will follow in his footsteps.
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Aug 20, 2021 10:55 am
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Wednesday’s pop-up event at Criscuolo Park.
On a normal day Criscuolo Park is filled with chess players, basketball games, and fishers. On Wednesday, dozens of neighborhood kids joined in on the park fun, for a family pop-up event.
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Candidates John Carlson, Steve Orosco, and Anthony Acri talk with neighbor Carol Landino (left) at meet-and-greet.
Republican candidates seeking to reenergize their local party this fall gathered in a Morris Cove open space not for a picnic — but to promote a platform that includes protecting New Haven parks.
Deserie “Aunt Ish” Brown at the horsehoe pit: Spread out the tables.
Foundations have been poured for four new picnic tables and grills in Goffe Street Park — where some neighbors plan to gather Thursday to try to stop the work from finishing as planned.
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Aug 10, 2021 9:57 am
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“Hope Grows” tree dedication event to end domestic violence Monday.
Drizzly raindrops trickled down the leaves and were soaked up by the roots of an American chestnut tree that now stands in Fair Haven’s Quinnipiac River Park for victims of domestic violence.
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Scantlebury playground, newly resurfaced.
Jeanette Morrison admired a new poured-in-place rubber play surface at Scantlebury Park — and said some benches, a gate, and swing set chains should come next.
New Haven’s Republican mayoral candidate Tuesday came out in support of neighbors organizing to save a neighborhood playground and to kill a deal to expand Tweed New Haven Airport.
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At the Scantlebury Park splash pad.
One new sign, four temporary security bollards, and a new operator for the skating rink were all voted up.
No vote was taken — yet — on a proposed new policy asserting the right of every neighborhood in town to have a playscape or playground and a water area.
Grab your suit and sun block — New Haven’s Lighthouse Point Park beach is reopening Thursday afternoon now that the water has been deemed safe for swimming.
