by | Jul 14, 2021 12:46 pm | Comments (4)
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Tuesday’s journey.
Inside the NHFPL’s read mobile bus.
Eighty New Haven Public School (NHPS) students, parents, teachers, and administrators gathered for a summer afternoon focused on fitness and reading.
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by | Jul 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (7)
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David Burgess at work.
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David Burgess in the park Tuesday with citation from the Connecticut General Assembly.
David Burgess has worked five days a week since the days of the first George Bush Administration to clean debris out of New Haven’s waterways, sweep up trash in Edgewood Park, and plant shrubs around the city — and people noticed.
by | Jul 5, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (3)
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Their interpretations of the holiday varied, but the crowd that returned to East Rock for the resumption of the city’s Independence Day fireworks shared a sense of post-pandemic safety — and awe at the explosions of color in the sky.
by | Jun 28, 2021 5:17 pm | Comments (6)
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Kids play on the splash pad at Lighthouse Point Park.
At Lighthouse Point Park Monday afternoon Mayor Justin Elicker and Youth and Recreation Director Gwendolyn Busch Williams announced the opening of city-run camps, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) youth ambassador program, a new driving safety program, and other activities as part of a post-pandemic “Summer Reset” initiative.
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by | Jun 28, 2021 9:03 am | Comments (1)
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Trevor Benjamin and his daughters Yasmina (center) and Leila.
The lures of jerk chicken, Jamaican music, island crafts, dancing — and, this year, free vaccinations — brought a crowd from throughout the region to DeGale Field in Goffe Street Park Sunday afternoon for the 7th annual New Haven Caribbean Heritage Festival.
Most of all, as one participant put it, it was a day to celebrate New Haven’s Caribbean culture and come together as a community.
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by | Jun 17, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (9)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
A state judge threw out half of a lawsuit about the future of Kensington Playground, after agreeing with the city that a Dwight resident and a neighborhood parks group do not have legal standing to sue the city for selling the public greenspace.
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by | Jun 15, 2021 8:54 pm | Comments (1)
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The fire up above: Scene from the 2019 display.
The city will resume its annual July 4 fireworks display from the top of East Rock this year.
by | Jun 12, 2021 11:22 pm | Comments (6)
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Moms cut ribbon Saturday for New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.
More than 100 community members who have lost loved ones to gun homicides celebrated the opening Saturday of a new healing space that brings awareness to 45 years worth of city firearms victims.
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by | Jun 9, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (6)
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Marlene Miller-Pratt, Pamela Jaynez, and Celeste Fulcher prepare to welcome public to the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.
Three moms who lost children to New Haven’s gun violence have put the finishing touches on a four-year quest to shine light on the painfully difficult journey of healing with a stunning new memorial park.
by | Jun 3, 2021 3:50 pm | Comments (14)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
The first court hearing in a months-long dispute over the future of Kensington Playground raised a broader question: Can the city be accused of “taking” land that it already owns?
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by | Jun 2, 2021 4:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Pandemic brings out more walkers, cyclists to the Hamden stretch of the trail
If Congress is handing out earmarks — what about earmarking some to support the 80-mile stretch of land known as the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail?
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by | May 3, 2021 9:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters round corner Monday from Kensington Playground.
A city-commissioned report concluded that converting Kensington Playground into affordable apartments will not harm the environment. A group of neighbors strongly disagreed and took to the streets Monday to say so.
by | Apr 26, 2021 8:52 am | Comments (3)
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Rae’gean Oakley with park’s new barrels.
Technically, the annual festival was canceled. Crowds still turned out for the second straight weekend to enjoy Wooster Square Park’s cherry blossoms — with the addition of a year-round tribute to their brilliance.
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by | Apr 17, 2021 9:40 pm | Comments (7)
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Winter Carter.
Winter Carter, 5, received a new bike on Saturday morning — and jumped for joy.
by | Apr 14, 2021 10:33 am | Comments (5)
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The magnificent cherry blossoms have begun their annual display of natural beauty in Wooster Square Park.
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by | Apr 9, 2021 10:11 am | Comments (3)
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The daffodils are out, spring after spring.
I looked for the woman I used to see at the Mill River every day. I found new life and new faces in her place.
by | Apr 5, 2021 11:20 am | Comments (3)
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Leading moms Pamela Jaynez, Celeste Robinson Fulcher, Marlene Miller Pratt at Saturday’s gathering.
City leaders and residents pray over garden.
Rev. Cicely Little: “I’m asking now, dear God, that you would allow the laws of the land to change.”
A near-complete Valley Street healing garden dedicated to victims of gun violence was prayed over and declared as sacred ground of “peace and justice” for families to heal.
by | Apr 2, 2021 11:38 am | Comments (12)
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Criscuolo Park monument to Civil War’s 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment.
Get those dogs back on their leashes. Kindly ask the old gents to remove their dominoes tables from the walking paths. And be forewarned: there’ll be no more cars parking partially on the sidewalk blocking passage.
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by | Dec 22, 2020 10:56 am | Comments (7)
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The current raised intersection at Hazel Street and the Farmington Canal. More to come in 2021, pending grant approval.
Strollers, joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists may soon have seven fewer reasons to worry about cars slamming into them on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.
by | Dec 2, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (3)
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Two weeks after a gusty rainstorm felled the first Christmas Tree on the New Haven Green, a shorter and sturdier replacement arrived on Wednesday.
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by | Nov 19, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (9)
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A protest sign opposing the Kensington Playground sale.
New Haven’s mayor joined a national coalition seeking more money for urban parks — while a group seeking to save an urban park in his backyard sued the city for selling it.
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by | Nov 16, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Holiday spirit uprooted Monday on the Green.
As the pandemic ramps up again, apparently even the weather wasn’t feeling the holiday spirit — as a storm toppled the city Christmas Tree on the Green.
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:44 am | Comments (37)
A protest sign from a neighborhood demonstration against the sale.
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The Board of Alders voted overwhelmingly in support of trading a Kensington Street park for 15 new affordable apartments — but only after an impassioned debate about the relative merits of building low-income housing atop public green space.
by | Oct 14, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (4)
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Neighbors, officials reviewing plans at the park Tuesday evening.
Next year, the baseball field won’t flood and cause the cancellation of the little-league season at Fairmont Park, if newly revealed renovation plans bear fruit.
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by | Oct 14, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (1)
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En route: poison ivy alert.
On a Sunday morning in early October, with the weather too reasonable to allow another day frittered away watching the televised politics of aggravation, my wife Sue suggested we improve our sense of well-being with a walk to the top of East Rock.
In other local households, such an urging would not make news. But this was a first for us, filled with unexpected encounters and revelation.