by | May 3, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (9)
(Updated) A 70-year-old pedestrian died after getting struck by a driver on a perilous stretch of Whalley Avenue.
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by | Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm | Comments (28)
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Keith Mahler at the entrance to his latest live-music venue.
Michael Ulrich puts finishing touches on a wall inside the arena Thrusday as officials cut the ribbon.
The center-court net was gone. Along with the court. Monster amps rose from a new concert stage.
And a new era officially began for the Connecticut Tennis Center — as an outdoor concert venue called Westville Music Bowl.
by | Apr 29, 2021 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Joe Hemingway, Melissa Saint, Adam LoPiano on walking tour.
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Planned riverfront patio to be included in 500 Blake development.
One hundred twenty-nine apartments are coming. Will the neighborhood be safe from all the extra traffic coming along with them?
Continue reading ‘Red Light Flashes On Builder Walking Tour’
by | Apr 23, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Hawkins greets birthday celebrants at Mountain Valley Place.
Hildreth Hawkins revealed a secret Friday: “Home cooked food.”
by | Apr 22, 2021 7:36 pm | Comments (27)
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Elm City Montessori fifth grader Jada Tucker (second from left): We are not dangerous.
Jada Tucker, age 11, wants African Americans to be seen as brave, not dangerous.
Yanalyse Rivas, age 11, wants Brown and Black people to have the same rights as white people.
Continue reading ‘Elm City Montessori Students Protest Police Brutality’
by | Apr 21, 2021 5:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Dozens of candles light up Whalley and Ramsdell corner.
More than 200 friends, family, and fellow motorcyclists gathered again at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Tuesday night to mourn the death of Revolucion motorcycle club (MC) President Daniel Velazquez Quinones in a crash last Friday.
Continue reading ‘200 Return To Crash Site To Promote “MC” Unity’
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:19 am | Comments (5)
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DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes: We need nature-based climate change solutions.
More trees planted in the Hill. Less pollution in the West River.
These are some of the ideas for what to do with $1 million now available from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a longtime cap-and-invest program for power plants in the northeast.
Continue reading ‘$1M Available For Tree Planters, Caretakers’
by | Apr 18, 2021 10:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Memorial Sunday for Danny Velazquez, pictured below on his ride.
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Memorial candles were lit, engines revved, and cries of “Revolucion!” rang out at the corner of Whalley and Ramsdell Sunday evening at the spot where an allegedly drunk driver killed the popular leader of a local motorcycle club.
Continue reading ‘Motorcyclists Mass After Crash Kills Leader’
by | Apr 15, 2021 1:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Main branch’s Sharon Lovett-Graff and Alana Delgado: Please come back! We missed you.
The doors were wide open again at the public library’s main branch — and two patrons were found browsing through the wide variety of nonfiction books in the stacks.
Staffers are trying to get the word out so more New Haveners come back inside.
by | Apr 15, 2021 9:41 am | Comments (4)
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One neighbor’s plea posted on Central Avenue.
Mayor Justin Elicker told concerned Westville neighbors that he might not have to close their beloved library after all.
by | Apr 13, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (6)
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City Budget Director Gormany: Praised at Monday night’s hearing for police and fire OT realism, slammed for potential library closure.
Increase police and fire overtime? Realistic budgeting.
Close a library branch? Disastrous, disingenuous politics.
Those two takes about the city’s budget-making process emerged during the latest virtual workshop on Mayor Justin Elicker’s two proposed Fiscal Year 2021 – 2022 (FY22) general fund budgets — a $589.1 million “crisis” version and a $606.2 million “forward together” budget.
by | Apr 13, 2021 8:27 am | Comments (1)
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Blue Lights at Night.
The profile of the Q Bridge is unmistakable to anyone who lives in New Haven, but it rarely gets the treatment painter Chris Ferguson gives it. Under his eye and brush, the bridge feels hazy and gauzy, a distant mirage. Ferguson’s choice to highlight marsh and beach in the foreground adds to the sense of the bridge as an object to find beauty in. His generous eye, warm and inviting, is a thread that runs through all his work in “Looking Up!” a show he shares with artist Amanda Duchen at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, running now through May 9.
by | Apr 7, 2021 2:06 pm | Comments (6)
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rivers.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
Continue reading ‘Parents: Disrupt The “Good School” Narrative’
by | Mar 30, 2021 2:26 pm | Comments (29)
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Joshua Van Hoesen on WNHH FM.
Joshua Van Hoesen is determined to give Upper Westville voters a choice — about who represents them, and about how their city will stay solvent in the future.
by | Mar 26, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (18)
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New apartments on the rise at 87 Union St. …
… 104 Howe St …
& 9 Tower Ln.
Surface parking lots and piles of dirt have given way to rising cranes, skeletal assemblies of wood and steel, and even the occasional “Now Leasing” sign — as the city’s years-long building boom transitions into its next stage of development with over 1,700 new apartments coming online.
by | Mar 24, 2021 2:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Dani Cardenas, 4, definitely has that blue dish soap at home.
Westville Community Nursery School (WCNS) is heading into its next half century with the principle that has served it well for 50 years — listen to children and teach them what they want to know.
by | Mar 22, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
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WRWC walking West River Greenway.
“Nature is a work in progress. Nothing is complete,” Frank Cochran said. “Stop thinking, ‘I’m going to complete this task.’ You’re not, and that’s good.”
Continue reading ‘West River Walk Reveals Work To Do, & Why’
by | Mar 19, 2021 5:58 pm | Comments (10)
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Pet store co-owner Reinaldo Capetillo with one of the puppies that didn’t get stolen during the recent burglary wave.
Rosa displays the grate he’s pitching to storeowners.
Amid a spike of overnight burglaries, top west side cop Elliot Rosa is trying to convince wary business owners like Reinaldo Capetillo to install roll-up metal grates — and he’s touting a friendlier new model.
by | Mar 18, 2021 11:59 am | Comments (5)
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A sign outside Parking Lot A of the new Westville Music Bowl.
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The updated traffic and parking plan for the 2021 season.
The operators of a new Westville outdoor-music venue plan to keep Yale Avenue open to through traffic this concert season, as they dramatically scaled back the site’s parking plan to correspond to a Covid-induced capacity cap.
Continue reading ‘Westville Music Bowl Drops Street Closure Plan’
by | Mar 15, 2021 8:09 am | Comments (15)
Digital rendering of the Westville Music Bowl.
Here’s a harbinger of both warmer weather and a post-pandemic future: An outdoor-music venue is set to launch in Westville beginning with an April 30 show by the jam band Gov’t Mule.
Continue reading ‘Live Concerts Set At Westville Music Bowl’
by | Mar 9, 2021 12:00 pm | Comments (12)
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One neighbor’s plea posted on a Central Avenue tree.
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Mitchell library: In City Hall’s crosshairs.
Teachers, parents, artists, and bibliophiles lined up to blast the mayor’s proposed shutdown of Mitchell branch library, decrying the “absurdity” of threatening to close a core community institution that makes up only 1/20th of 1 percent of the city budget.
by | Mar 1, 2021 7:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Lynn, Karl, and David Arezzini and Adam Boekman at Monday’s event.
Chapel Haven registered disappointment Monday with Gov. Ned Lamont’s updated statewide vaccine rollout plan, saying the agency’s off-campus residents and their families are dealing with mental anguish as a result of changed rules delaying their shots.
Continue reading ‘Chapel Haven Appeals To Lamont To Reconsider Vaccination Changes’
by | Feb 22, 2021 1:51 pm | Comments (20)
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Swingle and Saphira.
Kevin Swingle and his dog Saphira have been together for three and half years — and thanks to Westville neighbors who got to know them, they’re sleeping indoors for the winter.
by | Feb 19, 2021 12:45 pm | Comments (3)
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35-145 Cooper Pl.
A New Jersey investor has expanded his west side residential holdings by picking up a 137-unit Upper Westville apartment complex for $21 million — more than double the value the city places on the properties.
by | Feb 9, 2021 6:01 pm | Comments (9)
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Rogan Gopi (at right) with Sonny Patel back behind counter Tuesday.
Rogan Gopi didn’t want to hand over the Backwoods cigars.