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Nov 22, 2022 12:20 pm
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Bloom owner Alisha Crutchfield with a gift box she designed for the holidays.
Alisha Crutchfield gathered a blank journal, pens promising that “You Got This,” a homemade candle bathed in “blessings,” a chain necklace with the reminder that “Black Femmes Aren’t Your Playground” — and then labeled the overflowing arrangement the perfect present for “the person who loves self care and spending time alone after a long day of work.”
She did so to show how she busily assembles her top-selling products in personalized baskets for those seeking professional help upping their gift giving game — and as part of a broader effort to urge New Haveners to shop local this holiday season.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 17, 2022 12:32 pm
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Gateway's William Brown talks reading, kindness at Mauro-Sheridan.
With a book in hand, Gateway Community College CEO William T. Brown showed Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School second graders the superpower of kindness — and the benefits of good deeds and college educations.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 15, 2022 8:59 am
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Trekking with the New Haven Bioregional Group through Edgewood Park.
Sunday marked the first cold morning of the year, with rain, and at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, people hurried from stall to stall. But another group of people gathered at the gazebo and soon headed farther into the park, unharried by the weather. The occasion was a walk of the New Haven Bioregional Group, into a part of the city where trees and moving water had something to do with preparing the Elm City, and the region, for the future.
One of the city’s largest investor-landlords has snapped up a Fitch Street apartment building that once housed previously homeless families, after a middleman flipped the property at a $875,000 markup.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 27, 2022 8:49 am
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On one side of Kehler Liddell Gallery is a panoply of children’s faces, caught in a thousand different expressions, a snapshot of both the feelings of dozens of different people at any given moment and the range of emotions that all of us are capable of across time. On the other side of the gallery are more abstract pieces, forms with faces that appear to be mid-transformation, the expression of something more interior.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Oct 24, 2022 10:38 am
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144 more apts., coming soon to Blake?
Dixwell Alder Morrison: Do better, developers.
Two plans that promise to bring a total of 256 new apartments to Westville and Long Wharf moved ahead — as alders pressed for more affordable units and questioned whether the city’s recently adopted “inclusionary” housing law goes far enough.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Oct 20, 2022 9:10 am
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New apartments, coming to a convent near you?
A historic and long-vacant McKinley Avenue convent building may see its 20 “nuns’ cells” converted into 10 new apartments for empty nesters, thanks to the zoning board’s approval of a church-to-housing plan.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 19, 2022 9:23 am
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Diane and Tim Nighswander
Uterus.
The poster isn’t trying to be subtle. It’s an expression of protest, and the anger underneath it. That the message is delivered so clearly is a testament to the people who made it — professional visual artists, photographers and graphic designers Diane and Tim Nighswander.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 19, 2022 9:29 am
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Topeka Jemmott and mom Denise Hallums at 537 Fountain auction.
Topeka Jemmott has looked up at the faded, overgrown, and seemingly abandoned single-family house at 537 Fountain St. just about every day over the past year during her morning walks around the neighborhood.
Now the Upper Westville resident will have a chance to bring that blighted property back to life, after she submitted the winning — and only non-bank — bid at the house’s foreclosure sale.
Retired Superior Court Judge Angela Robinson ordered seventh and eighth-grade students at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School Thursday to chase their dreams.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 14, 2022 9:03 am
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Kim Weston
The image appears to come apart at the seams in front of you. In one quadrant is a dancer, strong and in her element. But around her the image quick degrades. The colors break apart and crash into one. It’s just the sort of happy accident that some artists, like Kim Weston and JLS Gangwisch, seek out and exploit. “That image was a glitch. People thought we created it together but I thought it was perfect for this show. It’s where Jeffrey and I meet. There are no accidents. That image was supposed to be that way,” Weston said. “There’s such beauty in its technical disaster. Who says that’s not supposed to be there? Why isn’t my whole card destroyed? It was just that image. What energy source or force created that moment? And here, Jeffrey comes around and says he wants to do a show together.”
The show — “Cadence” — is running now at Kehler Liddell Gallery through Oct. 9.
Commercial tenants at 881-883 Whalley (pictured) can stay put for the duration of their leases.
A Fair Haven Heights-based early childhood education nonprofit continued its citywide expansion by purchasing two adjacent commercial buildings in Westville Village for $1.995 million.
Billy Bostic Friday keeping watch on progress at Edgewood Park.
From his front-row seat under Edgewood Park’s “Lyin’ Tree,” Billy Bostic was heartened to see a crew working on a new tennis court surface — and disheartened to see skateboarders and rollerbladers potentially mar the new work.
As 54 frantic calls came in to the city about another bear roaming upper Westville, Steve was calmly checking out the offerings at a bird feeder on Stevenson Road.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 9, 2022 2:29 pm
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Stephanie Thomas outside Edgewood School polls.
The Fairfield County candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for secretary of the state popped into her opponent’s home turf to make her pitch, to greet some supporters, and to take a refreshing sip of homemade honey and mint iced tea, courtesy of Westville resident Jessica Feinleib.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 9, 2022 11:50 am
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State treasurer candidate Erick Russell with husband Chris Lyddy outside their polling station, Davis Street School.
Erick Russell and his husband (and former state representative) Chris Lyddy, who live on Stevenson Road in Ward 26, walked out of the scorching heat and into the air-conditioned gymnasium at Davis Street school to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections Tuesday at around 10:45 a.m.
They were particularly familiar with one name on the ballot: Russell’s.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Aug 8, 2022 2:37 pm
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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
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URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
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Olivia Gross |
Jul 25, 2022 9:17 am
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The main stage at Seeing Sounds.
The concrete made the temperature seem twice as high at Edgewood Park’s skate park Saturday, but skateboards still flew through the crowd — and music filled the air at the first annual Seeing Sounds music festival.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 25, 2022 9:17 am
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Moore.
In the middle of his set to close out the day, musician Trey Moore took a moment to be thankful. “I just woke up one day and decided to do this, and here you are, in the flesh.”
He spoke with an air of gratitude, and just a hint of incredulity, that Seeing Sounds — a day-long festival of music, clothing, food, games, and skating that he organized at Edgewood Skate Park — had actually happened.
A decades-old eyesore may be reborn as the new eastern gateway to Westville, according to promoters of a a planned 245-apartment complex and public West River walkway that won City Plan Commission approval Wednesday night.
