by | Oct 12, 2020 9:36 am | Comments (2)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photos.
Lovette Short.
Enjoying music, food from Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe, a Village Drill Team performance, and the lovely fall weather, Lovette Short spent her Saturday afternoon updating her voter registration and teaching her kids about the voting process.
Continue reading ‘West Rock Registration Drive Celebrates Right to Vote’
by | Sep 4, 2020 12:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Charles Eugene Holiness and Shelly Holiness prepare for food delivery.
An SUV backed into Honda Smith’s Harper Avenue driveway in West Hills this past drizzly Wednesday afternoon.
Smith, the alder of Ward 30, emerged from her garage, clicking off her phone. Another batch of fresh food for those in need during the pandemic had arrived — and a team of volunteers was ready to get those boxes distributed.
by | Jul 27, 2020 5:28 pm | Comments (3)
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While celebrating his birthday on his Westville Manor front steps with his two granddaughters, Jose Valentin shared his perspectives of gun violence in New Haven with a group of 15 adults walking the neighborhood to talk to residents about stopping the violence.
Continue reading ‘Anti-Violence Walk-Talkers Hit West Rock Streets’
by | Jul 16, 2020 4:11 pm | Comments (5)
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Liz Cox, who’s leaving Common Ground High after 21 years, stands in Javii’s garden, built in memory of student who died in 2014.
When Crystal Fernandez arrived at Common Ground High School in 2001, one of the first people she met was Liz Cox.
by | Jun 22, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
The Parks Commission gave approval for Common Ground High School to build a a secure, permanent out-of-doors structure, with fresh air blowing through, and large enough for a class all to be under the roof.
Continue reading ‘Common Ground Wins OK To Build New Pavilion’
by | Jun 12, 2020 11:11 am | Comments (17)
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Hausalden at a February community meeting.
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Cycletrack plan — at least as of four years ago.
• City readies comprehensive plan for bike, pedestrian commuters.
• Long-delayed Edgewood cycletrack delayed once more.
by | Jun 5, 2020 1:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Cops track Westville roamer’s whereabouts.
Top west side cop Lt. Elliot Rosa updates us on the whereabouts of the bear roaming Westville — and asks if “Boo-Boo,” who was last spotted roaming Orange, may be the same visitor.
by | Jun 1, 2020 1:27 pm | Comments (2)
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The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped West Hills Alder Honda Smith from connecting with residents, keeping her neighborhood cleaned up, and from going outside for a healthy walk around the neighborhood.
by | May 11, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (11)
“Look at that,” the narrator says as a man on screen pops in to a car parked at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Avenue.
by | May 2, 2020 8:58 pm | Comments (1)
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“I had my doubts that we would ever get any help out here,” said Margareth, a senior resident of the Rockview housing development who walked from her apartment to a pop-up food distribution site at Katherine Brennan School on Saturday morning.
by | Mar 13, 2020 2:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Solar Youth’s Candace Wright and Joanne Sciulli at the nonprofit’s Westville Manor headquarters the day after the shooting.
Joanne Sciulli and Candace Wright had planned on talking about COVID-19 precautionary measures at Solar Youth’s all-staff meeting.
They instead ending up dealing with the traumatic fallout from a safety hazard even more immediate than the virus pandemic: a shooting that took place outside of the West Rock nonprofit’s headquarters right as kids were arriving for an after-school program.
by | Mar 13, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (2)
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Common Ground 10th graders Eliana Solano and Corey Boyd-Morton listen to visiting artist Kwadwo Adae.
Solano sketches a representation of the coronavirus COVID-19.
Eliana Solano sketched a virus with a diamond-shaped head and insect-like legs next to an Earth on fire, books, dollars and the word “expectations” in big block letters. The drawings partially filled a globe of anxieties and other thoughts held up by a small sketch of Solano herself.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae was warming the Common Ground High School class up for a group art project about climate change and its effects on students’ lives. Adae has visited the class weekly to build up to the project — one of numerous nontraditional, eco-conscious approaches that recently won the school a national award and a state seal of approval.
Continue reading ‘Common Ground’s Green Approach Wins Recognition’
by | Mar 10, 2020 3:38 pm | Comments (8)
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Former nursing home at 34 Level St., newly acquired by housing authority on its second try.
The city’s housing authority paid a Long Island-based landlord $1.17 million for a six-acre former nursing home site on the far west side of town —five years after the agency nearly succeeded in purchasing that same vacant site for just $152,000 from the city at a foreclosure sale.
by | Mar 6, 2020 1:07 pm | Comments (5)
A car thief crashed into another driver’s car, then bailed. He started running. Officer John Truhart ran after him.
by | Feb 27, 2020 8:29 am | Comments (1)
Someone left a car running at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Saturday, went inside to the convenience store — and came back out to find someone else taking off with the vehicle.
Continue reading ‘Top West Side Cop Pleads For Common Sense’
by | Feb 18, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (4)
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CFO Penn in foreground, with Superintendent Tracey.
The Board of Education is really not in deficit. It has just been chronically and systemically under-funded for the last 30 years, and you should write to your representatives, especially in the state to deliver that message.
Continue reading ‘School-Funding Road Show Rolls Into Westville’
by | Feb 17, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Pink or red or salmon-colored cards up in Westville.
Westvillians raised their pink cards — or were they salmon-colored? or red? — to give the thumbs up to support for a local longtime after-school program and a job training program that has been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
Continue reading ‘After-School Care, Job Training Supported in Westville/West Hills’
by | Feb 10, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (4)
The west side of town now has its own video report on weekly crimes, courtesy of top district cop Lt. Elliott Rosa.
by | Feb 6, 2020 1:39 pm | Comments (3)
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Tenants check out virtual reality at kickoff session.
Over 100 public-housing tenants are receiving two years of free internet service and free tablets in return for a promise — to attend classes on how to use them to improve their lives.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Rosa (left) and Dell (right) with CMT stalwart Marge Wiener.
All that’s changing is … a vowel.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
Continue reading ‘West Siders Back Quest For $$ To Help Kids, Families’
by | Dec 18, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (8)
Glendower’s Shenae Draughn: This boosts West Rock’s broader revival.
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6-acre defunct nursing-home site.
One of the city’s major landlords is about to spend $1.17 million to buy a long-vacant six-acre nursing home site in order to build 100 to 150 apartments — almost all of it needed affordable units.
by | Dec 16, 2019 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Chris Ozyck (right, in green hat) with a street tree pruning team.
Urban Resources Initiative sent in this article.
Winter may be coming, but that doesn’t mean that those who care for New Haven’s urban forest are turning in for the season.
Urban Resources Initiative, a nonprofit/university partnership at the local Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is gearing up to send out winter crews to prune over 500 young street trees in the next few months.
by | Dec 11, 2019 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Lt. Rose Dell at a recent community meeting.
Lt. Rose Dell is headed back to 1 Union Ave after a year building relationships with neighbors to tackle crime on the city’s west side.
by | Dec 9, 2019 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
A senior citizen withdrew $4,000 from the bank to pay two women who scammed her with a false promise of much more cash in return.