by | Sep 2, 2016 8:42 am | Comments (2)
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Brennan-Rogers Principal Gail DeBlasio greets a parent and student on the first day of school.
Instead of sitting inside his third-grade classroom with his fellow students hours into his first day of school, Benny was standing in the hallway talking to two teachers.
He wasn’t in trouble. He was in distress. And he wanted to speak with “Dr. D.”
by | Jul 1, 2016 7:27 am | Comments (2)
Housing authority head Karen DuBois-Walton: health care near home.
In one month, Wilmot Crossing resident Betty Reveas will be able to do grocery shopping around the corner. In about a year, she can see a doctor a stone’s throw away, instead of having to drive downtown.
by | Jun 2, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (3)
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Mercer at Thursday’s event.
Nyasia Mercer said now that Common Ground has a new building able to accommodate a major expansion in students and activities, the school will no longer be a secret to those outside of its grounds.
by | Jan 29, 2016 3:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Mariah and Tiana, at the forefront of city’s “restorative justice” push.
When Mariah yelled at Tiana for stepping on her coat after recess, their third-grade teacher sent them to a pair of seventh-grade peer mediators to work out their differences.
by | Jan 19, 2016 6:05 pm | Comments (4)
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The Andersons on WIlmot Road.
The new intersection.
Heading back home from a family viewing in North Haven of Ride Along 2, Lajuan Anderson cruised into her West Rock neighborhood via a newly opened road rather than travel miles out of her way.
by | Dec 23, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Will Jackson aces the knot.
Without knowing quite why, six girls and ten boys in separate groups meeting on different nights passed around a roll of toilet tissue.
Continue reading ‘“Teen Talkers” Journey To Self-Sufficiency’
by | Nov 27, 2015 9:34 am | Comments (8)
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Partners Bengtson and Valente.
From the car parked in the shadow of West Rock on one-way Stone Street, the smell of marijuana drew the attention of Officers Mike Valente and Pat Bengtson.
by | Oct 27, 2015 2:30 pm | Comments (3)
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has identified the man who fell to his death from atop West Rock Sunday as Robert Anastasio, a 26-year-old man from Hamden.
by | Aug 31, 2015 7:28 am | Comments (1)
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Bus struggles to squeeze by sign on test run.
Dilias Ratchford answered her door to a surprise: For the first time in 12 years, a city bus had stopped right near her house, instead of a mile down the road.
by | Jun 25, 2015 4:10 pm | Comments (0)
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A malfunction at the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant released radioactive material into the environment and “evacuee” Michelle Duprey was contaminated.
by | Apr 6, 2015 8:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Twenty-five firefighters spent 20 minutes Monday afternoon controlling a single-alarm fire that left six people without a home in the West Rock neighborhood.
by | Apr 1, 2015 8:19 am | Comments (0)
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On Monday afternoon, instead of Solar Youth going to the library, the library came to Solar Youth.
by | Mar 9, 2015 3:04 pm | Comments (7)
CT Transit
Notice something missing?
An easy fix already exists for the stranded bus riders who live in New Haven’s rebuilt Rockview public housing. But a larger challenge looms: connecting isolated tenants citywide to an efficient mass-transit system.
Continue reading ‘Never-Built Path Could Link Rockview To Buses’
by | Mar 4, 2015 4:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Dilias Ratchford pointed to the dump trucks lined up at the very bottom of Wilmot Road to indicate where residents of Rockview must walk to catch a bus.
by | Jan 5, 2015 9:04 am | Comments (5)
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The fence comes down.
An attorney and former New Haven alderman has written the definitive account of the notorious fence that divided Hamden from New Haven’s West Rock public-housing developments.
by | Nov 28, 2014 9:29 am | Comments (0)
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The Pond Lily Dam.
The West River Watershed Coalition wants its namesake to be designated a state greenway — and members are trying to get all the cities in the watershed on board before it makes its case to the state.
Continue reading ‘Greenway Designation Pursued For West River’
by | Oct 31, 2014 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
Some West Rock seniors are closer to seeing their homes get a much-needed renewal, as the Housing Authority of New Haven broke ground on the Abraham Ribicoff Cottages this week.
by | Oct 14, 2014 1:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Eight firefighters, a Yale-New Haven doc and a paramedic rescued a worker trapped in dirt up to his waist in a collapsed trench Tuesday morning. They couldn’t climb right in — or else they would have risked creating a second problem.
by | Aug 15, 2014 5:22 am | Comments (0)
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The Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) distributed “close to 500 backpacks and school supplies” at its first-ever “Back to School Fair” Wednesday, according to spokeswoman Jasmin Franjul.
by | Jul 31, 2014 7:53 am | Comments (0)
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Lashae Morrison’s and Queshon McDaniel’s cousin was shot and killed in October, mere feet from the Westville Manor building where they plant flowers and learn about making the world greener.
Continue reading ‘West Rock Teens Raise Banners To Combat The Violence’
by | Jul 22, 2014 9:02 am | Comments (3)
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Comer pioneered a child development idea a half-century ago at Brennan-Rogers, where it returns this fall.
One of New Haven’s experimental school sites ditched a hot modern education-reform idea, an extra-long school day, and is bringing back an older idea — daily tough talks to help kids deal with trauma.
by | May 30, 2014 8:56 am | Comments (12)
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There have been four shootings in the Westville Manor community in the last seven days — last Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and after midnight Wednesday. Even in a community where two gunshot murders happened in 2013, this is extreme.
by | May 21, 2014 5:52 pm | Comments (6)
A cemetery’s wrought-iron gate survived as a crew took down a Hamden-New Haven fence in earnest Wednesday.
Arthur Perry drove to the corner of Mueller Drive and Woodin Street as he has for 20 years, only to come upon a startling new sight. He suddenly had a clear view of the potter’s field previously hidden behind a fence sealing his town from New Haven’s West Rock neighborhood.
by | May 13, 2014 7:00 am | Comments (2)
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Harp at Monday’s fence event.
New Haven’s knitting itself back together — and the region back together.
Mayor Toni Harp offered that long view Monday of why a fence is coming down on the New Haven-Hamden border.
by | May 12, 2014 2:23 pm | Comments (7)
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“It’s about time!” William Tucker exclaimed after watching a barrier fall Monday — a barrier that kept “his side” walled off from New Haven.