by | Jun 20, 2023 3:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Mercedes Jackson parked her Nissan Altima Coupe in the going-out-of-business Whalley EbLens parking lot Tuesday to enjoy a “7.2” breakfast and catch a few private minutes before “hitting my first client.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Whalley: Mercedes Plans Last-Chance EbLens Run’
by | Jun 20, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (10)
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Hamden mayoral candidates Walter Morton IV, Lauren Garrett at WNHH FM.
As Hamden’s search for a police chief enters its second year, two mayoral candidates agree the acting one is doing a good job.
They won’t say if that means he should get the permanent slot.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Mayoral Candidates Differ On Chief Process -- But Not The Chief’
by | Jun 16, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (20)
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State Rep. Roland Lemar on the legislature floor the day the camera bill passed.
Roland Lemar earned the right to take a victory lap this week. As long as he remains sober and below the speed limit.
Continue reading ‘How Lemar Prevailed In 12-Year Controversial Camera Quest’
by | Jun 15, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (4)
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Carmen Pajarillo took a break from studying for a medical board exam Thursday morning by bringing her dog Honey to a hidden pocket of paradise.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Jefferson Street: An Urban Oasis Beckons’
by | Jun 13, 2023 5:17 pm | Comments (15)
Key video-recorded moments of the Randy Cox incident.
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Kayla Vinson and John Velleca at WNHH FM: "Those are fireable offenses."
New Haven sent a signal by firing officers who paralyzed Randy Cox — with different interpretations of what that signal is.
by | Jun 13, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (2)
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Almando Clarke took a cloth and bucket inside a van parked on the New Haven Green Tuesday as empty stages and tents all around him awaited another afternoon and evening crowd for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Continue reading ‘The Word on Temple Street: Showered With Dignity’
by | Jun 9, 2023 9:57 am | Comments (0)
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Gaylord Salters at WNHH FM.
Gaylord Salters’ brother never got to live out his second-chance life. Salters is getting his own second chance — and has assembled a brotherhood of other people who were freed from prison because of government wrongdoing to work toward eliminating the need for second chances.
by | Jun 7, 2023 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Rodriguez with Zoe in Wooster Square Park.
Zoe got an extra walk through Wooster Square Park Wednesday morning so her owner could get some air before hunkering down to six hours of indoor Zoom.
by | Jun 1, 2023 11:44 am | Comments (6)
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The scene Thursday morning on Boulevard near Edgewood.
Andrew Tudesco: "People are hurt because of me."
A van driver issued an appeal for people to avoid phone distractions behind the wheel after he caused a three-vehicle crash that sent a mom and her baby to the hospital.
by | May 31, 2023 11:21 am | Comments (2)
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Elm City Open Air Market organizers Michelle Groom, Jacqueline James-Boyd, Janice Parker, and Valerie Brown at WNHH FM.
Start with an emerging home/cart/truck start-up culture. Add a pandemic brewing period. Throw in the emergence of pop-up culture. Find a lot the size of an arena right off I‑95 and I‑91.
Jacqueline James-Boyd and a group of fellow entrepreneurial-minded colleagues mixed together those ingredients. They cooked up what they hope will become a new tradition in New Haven: An “Elm City Open Air Market” where hundreds of vendors gather to promote their wares and build their businesses.
by | May 24, 2023 11:51 am | Comments (12)
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John Brehon in the repair section of Devil's Gear.
The storefront at 845 Chapel St. offers a glimpse into New Haven’s past and future.
by | May 19, 2023 8:39 am | Comments (0)
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David Sasso, at far left, recording the new album with Jacob's Ladder.
Hunkered at home with his Martin D28 guitar one Blursday evening during the lockdown depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, David Sasso heard familiar melodies come out a new way.
Fast forward to May 2023: Sasso returned home to debut a bluegrass take on a traditional Jewish prayer service, with an album of said music about to drop.
Continue reading ‘Ghost Of Bill Monroe Welcomes The Sabbath Queen’
by | May 18, 2023 12:02 pm | Comments (3)
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One buzz led to another Thursday morning for Taveius Winder.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Norton Parkway: Into The Weeds’
by | May 17, 2023 12:48 pm | Comments (3)
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Wendy with Word on the Street correspondent Paul Bass and the saved violin.
(Updated) A sidewalk-discarded violin may soon have a new life in the hands of a public school student musician.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Elm Street: Scrapped Violin Saved’
by | May 15, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
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The pastrami egg and cheese sandwiches were flying at a George Street construction site Monday as Jillian Ledic kept a food truck moving so her moms could bring some of the trickle-down dollars of New Haven’s construction boom to Vegas.
Continue reading ‘Word On George Street: Boomtime Breaktime’
by | May 12, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (3)
Mentors 3: Asst. Police Chief David Zannelli, Fire Capt. Troy Frost, Fire Lt. Derrick Meade at WNHH FM.
“I grew up in the projects. My grandmother took care of ten of us. I knew what it’s like to sleep on the floor and eat mayonnaise sandwiches.”
Continue reading ‘Firefighters, Cops Set Out On Mentoring Mission’
by | May 10, 2023 4:28 pm | Comments (12)
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News cameras record police press conference on surveillance camera-assisted arrests.
Police credited city-owned cameras for helping them make two more gunfire-related arrests, the latest in a string of cases that have led at least one surveillance critic to reassess his position.
Continue reading ‘Crook-Catching Cops Credit Cameras; Critic Reconsiders’
by | May 9, 2023 4:13 pm | Comments (1)
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Candice Jones Tuesday on her day "off."
Watch out New Haven. Watch out world. Candice Jones is certified.
by | May 8, 2023 12:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Rose Bender started the week with a flat tire. She rolled with it, her hand on the wheel and her eventual destination in sight.
Continue reading ‘Word On College Street: Future Doc Makes A Pit Stop’
by | May 5, 2023 11:51 am | Comments (12)
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Attorney Taubes: The statewide commutation pause is "a harm that Governor Lamont has inflicted on essentially everyone who’s in prison across the United States."
A civil rights attorney looking to tackle mass incarceration on a local level is sounding the alarm on a statewide decision he worries could pose nationwide consequences for people appealing their prison time.
by | May 2, 2023 11:13 am | Comments (2)
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Erick Gonzalez, Frank Redente, Kiara Cintron, and Ivette Oliveras at WNHH FM.
First an annual neighborhood May parade came back. Then the parade grew, and grew.
Now Fair Haven is going all out not just with hundreds of marchers, but a day and evening-long celebration of the neighborhood’s culture and cuisine and commerce.
Continue reading ‘Energized Fair Haven Ramps Up Annual Neighborhood Celebration’
by | May 1, 2023 12:01 pm | Comments (14)
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Sen. Murphy: "The way that we're feeling on both the right and the left is strikingly similar."
Can we talk? About how lonely and disconnected so many of us feel?
Chris Murphy hopes so. Otherwise, he worries, we won’t be able to come together as a nation to tackle challenges ranging from mass shootings to opioid addiction to teen suicide and social-media bullying to political polarization.
by | May 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (1)
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Bill O'Brien, Sister Cathy Phillips, Monsignor Gerard Schmitz at WNHH FM.
An immigration story is coming full circle in New Haven’s Catholic elementary school classrooms.
Continue reading ‘K-8 Catholic Education Evolves With Changing Times’
by | Apr 26, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (3)
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At the 2019 ride.
Fifteen years later, it’s fair to say that “Rock to Rock” is a New Haven institution, along with the movements that birthed it.
by | Apr 25, 2023 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Sandy Birner cut through the Courtyard Marriott parking lot on Howe Street Tuesday morning with two Stop & Shop bags filled with sneakers and hats, in search of the right place to show them to the world.