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Nov 8, 2021 9:02 am
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Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.
This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka.
Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
Upper Westville candidates Van Hoesen and Brackeen this week at WNHH FM: Both are vaxxed.
One candidate handed out assignments to dozens of neighbors: Here’s your street. Here are the doors to knock on. Here are flyers to hand out. Let us know who’s voting.
At another end of the ward, the other candidate set out to meet voters as well. Alone.
Firefighters and firetrucks have temporarily moved from Westville’s Fountain Street firehouse to the Ellsworth Avenue station pending completion of a clean-up.
Board of Ed candidates James O’Connell and Edward Joyner appear in the same spot in the above photo — but only because of computerized cropping. This election season, Joyner refuses to engage with his opponent in person.
Same holds for Ward 26 alder candidates Darryl Brackeen and Joshua Van Hoesen, above. For the second straight campaign, Brackeen refuses to show up along with his opponent to debate the issues.
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Maya McFadden |
Sep 29, 2021 9:43 am
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“Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.
With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and dance through their hair — in the latest example of in-person learning during the ongoing pandemic.
A speeding motorist — whom witnesses later said they later heard proclaiming being “drunk as fuck” — crashed into a parked car, a stop sign, then a front porch, then was released at the scene by the police without charge.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 21, 2021 12:24 pm
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Photo Courtesy Ghislane Palumbo
A new photography exhibit in Westville weaves together the harrowing and the mundane, humor and hard work, to celebrate life, family, and the strength that can come from connections to the past.
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 17, 2021 9:26 am
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Former convent at 349-351 McKinley.
A local landlord purchased Saints Aedan & Brendan Church’s former convent building on McKinley Avenue for $375,000, and affiliates of the local megalandlord Mandy Management pulled more than $12.2 million worth of mortgages from a California-based commercial lender.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 10, 2021 7:53 am
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Pavilion.
It’s a seaside pavilion, framing an island off the Connecticut coast. But the way the image is cast, it doesn’t allow for simple idyll. It’s peaceful, sure, but also lonely. There’s the tranquility of isolation, but also a sense of insecurity. It is, said photographer Marjorie Gillette Wolfe, “evocative of what I went through” during the depths of the Covid-19 shutdown, as she found herself alone and outside in “protective spaces, but in another sense, not protective at all.”
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 9, 2021 2:28 pm
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A pothole on Seneca Road.
Old potholes are plaguing Seneca Road. New bike lanes are popping up on Yale Avenue. Persistent wood smoke is clouding over Cleveland Road. And gunfire is rattling South Genesee Street.
That street-level snapshot of life in Westville and West Hills came into focus during the latest monthly meeting of the neighborhoods’ community management team.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 13, 2021 8:58 am
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Can’t Sleep.
Lisa Toto’s Can’t Sleep is a portrait of insomnia familiar to anyone who has suffered from it. Its multiple exposures detail what it can be like — first being in bed unable to lose consciousness, then getting up, because why not, you’re up anyway, then thinking better of it and getting back into bed. It also captures the way time seems to split in the depths of sleeplessness, the sense that every second is passing with unbearable slowness, and at the same time, the unpleasant realization, upon looking at the clock, that it’s far too late to get a good night’s sleep. The subject is rendered more poignant by its sense of privacy. Should we even be looking? But that’s also the moment that we connect with the subject, through shared understanding.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 12, 2021 12:59 pm
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Rapper G Herbo performs for fans at Westville Bowl Wednesday night.
The Chicago rapper known as G Herbo used to come to New Haven as a teen to kick start his music career. He returned to town as the headliner for a free full-capacity hip-hop show for pandemic-weary city youth, a summer celebration of community at the Westville Bowl.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 10, 2021 7:08 pm
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Rocky Lawrence channels Robert Johnson at Monday night’s Hi-Fi Pie.
He bowed his head, closed his eyes, and clutched the neck of his guitar. His faded leather shoes pounded the ground. His voice broke. His guitar moaned.
Lifelong Upper Westville residents Jacob Schonberger and Zoe Schulman sledding this winter at the golf course.
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The Yale Golf Course: Only deer and golfers allowed?
Fifty Upper Westville neighbors gathered in a green minipark on a cool summer night and turned their thoughts to winter — and to Yale’s decision to end, for now, their generations-long access to sledding, cross-country skiing, and day-time hiking at the university’s golf course.
One of 50 crashes in recent years at Chapel and Yale.
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Planned new design for Yale Avenue by Edgewood School
A plan to remake a crash-prone stretch of Yale Avenue between West Rock and Edgewood Avenues has won final approval, with the aim of making the road safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers.
Firefighters prepare to enter 200 Fountain St. apartment.
Firefighter Taurese Washington escorts Carol Wilkerson to safety.
A larger-than-usual contingent of firefighters responded to a one-alarm call on Fountain Street, to ensure elderly tenants didn’t get stuck in a dangerous spot.
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Natalie Kainz |
Jul 27, 2021 9:34 am
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The Nields in Westville on Monday.
Sending folk harmonies and bluegrass tunes out onto the grassy slope behind Mitchell Branch Library, folk-rock band The Nields became a part of the Westville community on Monday afternoon.
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Natalie Kainz |
Jul 27, 2021 8:25 am
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Rawan Oudeh, Ayman Saloumi, and Mazen Saloumi at Westville Emesa Pizza.
Nearly a decade after losing his family’s former pizza restaurant to a bombing in Syria, refugee and culinary entrepreneur Mazen Saloumi has opened a new Middle Eastern pizza restaurant in Westville.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 23, 2021 9:45 am
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Cyclists, get ready. A protected bike track is on the way.
The long-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack spun a wheel or two closer to fruition, as city staffers and cycling advocates gathered to celebrate the construction underway on the new 2.1‑mile protected bike path.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 21, 2021 12:07 pm
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Tuesday night’s Salsa session on Central Avenue’s one-block “patio.”
Jason Ramos of Baila Con Gusto moved fluidly between English and Spanish as he stood before a group of about 20 students Tuesday evening on the newly closed-to-traffic Central Avenue Patio between Whalley Avenue and Fountain Street.
