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Inside Isabel Senes' ESL class Tuesday morning: NHPS's English language learner student enrollment has increased from 4,199 to 4,626 since October.
Career High School freshman Cecilia translated the sentence, “The horse is under the desk,” from Spanish to English in her head before saying the words out loud to her classroom conversation partner Enmerl — as part of a playful exercise in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class designed to help city public school students from a variety of linguistic backgrounds get up to speed in English.
10 Liberty (top) and 48 Grant, soon to become housing?
Two abandoned factory buildings in the Hill are each a step closer to revival as housing, after alders approved a tax break and a zoning change on Monday night.
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May 31, 2024 11:50 am
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Truman sixth graders Jovanni Sanchez, Julian Torres, and Kayden Williams.
Twins Marin and Kana are left behind on a dystopian island that alternates between 14 years of sunlight and 14 years of nightfall.
The long sun is about to set — and Marin and Kana are not alone.
What happens next? Pulitzer Prize-winning local author Jake Halpern wouldn’t say. Truman School sixth graders Jovanni Sanchez, Julian Torres, and Kayden Williams had some ideas of their own.
Steve Winter: "Neighborhood-scale platform for decarbonization."
The city hopes to draw clean energy directly from the earth to heat and cool a train station, a thousand or so apartments, and maybe one day an entire neighborhood.
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May 21, 2024 1:21 pm
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Imani Bryan and Alexis Aguirre unpacking first AP African American Studies class.
After learning about everything from Africa’s Mali Empire to Black rebellion during Reconstruction to the history of slave codes and slave ships and convict leasing — and with coursework still to come on the Black Panther Party and the Black Arts Movement — Career High School senior Eliana Brito Castillo praised her school’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies class as opening her eyes to “a huge part of history that isn’t taught.”
“Now,” she said, “I feel I have a more complete view of how America came to be.”
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One of many Bishop Woods student awardees Seth Middleton ...
... at crowded Florence Caldwell Title I Award ceremony.
Students, parents, teachers, and administrators packed Career High School’s auditorium to celebrate middle schoolers for their academic growth this year in such areas as reading, math and science — and to honor the many adults who work tirelessly to make that learning possible.
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May 8, 2024 8:06 am
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Juniors Josh, Radwaa, and A'Mere map out the Salvadoran Civil War.
Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
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May 3, 2024 3:27 pm
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Planned new adult ed center on Bassett St., to open in June 2026.
More than 120 students are expected to graduate next month from New Haven’s Adult & Continuing Education Center — which is back open for in-person classes on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, after flooding caused the school’s now-repaired main building to close for nearly three months at the end of last year.
The Teklehaimanot family (center) hears their name called at Tuesday's housing lottery.
Seven-year-old Meklit and five-year-old Bethlehem ran around the empty rooms of 455 Howard Ave., dodging the legs of parents and realtors and city workers. This two-family home would soon be theirs.
“We always wanted a big house,” Meklit said, minutes after her father won the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI’s) latest affordable housing lottery. “I always wanted this to happen.”
Yale has purchased a vacant former rubber factory in the Hill that was once home to vibrant, illegal live-work artist studios for more than $2.5 million.
Big buildings, not empty lots, envisioned for Union Station area.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Ed Zack clears litter from a headstone overtaken by a tree.
Gravestone partially uncovered by Zack, apparently commemorating someone who fought in Company D.
Ed Zack spotted a slight indent in the grass. He kicked away a layer of soil and weeds to find the gravestone of a veteran in St. Bernard’s Cemetery in the Hill.
He found another indent. And another. And another.
Eventually he uncovered several rows of hidden graves — along with a mystery about what happened to the funding designated for their upkeep.
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... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning.
Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven a year, one sapling at a time.
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Mt. Calvary Revival Center on Legion Avenue.
Jesus Christ and pre‑K kids will each get a “sliver” of city land — if the sale of two odd-cut, publicly-owned properties next to an adjacent Pentecostal church with plans for a daycare wins final approval.
Transit director Aysola: Human being will review camera footage before automated tickets are sent out.
Proposed 19 locations for red light and speed cameras.
Drivers hell-bent on whipping past the often-ignored red light at Park and South Frontage have only a few more months to avoid an automatic ticket, if a plan announced Monday goes through to put a red light camera there.
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Mar 15, 2024 3:35 pm
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The gas station at 9 p.m. Thursday.
A Kimberly Avenue gas station ran out of fuel while requesting extended hours of operation — after community members complained over the convenience store’s contribution to neighborhood crime.
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Mar 13, 2024 1:43 pm
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Four of the six tiny homes constructed behind Amistad House.
Six backyard emergency shelters built without city approval won zoning relief Tuesday night — as even rule-abiding commissioners backed the argument that community action should sometimes precede paperwork.
One candidate campaigning for ward co-chair in the Hill tried a novel campaign strategy, at least for a New Haven Democrat: Insulting immigrants, then insulting a constituent’s house.
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Feb 29, 2024 4:19 pm
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Ray Boyd at 43 Sylvan, planned transitional home for formerly incarcerated men like himself.
Ray Boyd knows what it’s like to come home after decades in prison without support or guidance on how to rebuild his life.
Two years later, he and his wife Jackie James are trying to provide a better homecoming for others — by transforming James’ childhood home into a transitional home for people re-entering society.
Candidates Dolores Colon and Doris Doward at Trowbridge Square Park rally.
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Jason Bartlett addresses challenge candidates at the Hill Museum.
(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.
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Feb 26, 2024 11:46 am
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Watch Friday’s fashion show above.
Long polka dot skirts from the ’50s, black leather jackets from the ’60s, and bell bottoms from the ’70s all made a return to Hill Regional Career High School as it celebrated Black fashion throughout the years.
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Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez: The Hill's happening.
Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
John C. Daniels newcomers with staff: Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Heather O’Brien, Widny Morel, Marlene Rosario, Kenia Wama Vargas, Iveth Shenoha Quintero Rodriguez, Deam Sebastian Barrozo Garzon, David Santiago Franco Chaparro, and Yesenia Perez.
Forty-five native Spanish speakers have immigrated here and entered seventh and eighth grade at John C. Daniels School just over the past four months — and are getting up to speed fast thanks to a schoolwide effort to focus on language skills as well as family needs.
