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Taking in New Haven: Christine Larsen and Jane Van Valkenburg Tuesday on Broadway.
Jane Van Valkenburg pulled into New Haven to receive one of the greatest gifts a music teacher could ask for.
by | Mar 6, 2023 1:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Alexander McWilliams: "Fentanyl is killing everybody."
Alexander McWilliams gave his friend Perry Flowers a ride in his 2014 Honda Civic to the state pre-trial jailhouse and juvenile court Monday morning so Flowers could show up for his nephew.
by | Mar 6, 2023 10:52 am | Comments (3)
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Transition Clinic's Nadine Horton and Lisa Puglisi at WNHH FM.
Lisa Puglisi and Nadine Horton are helping ex-offenders reintegrate into society by tackling one of the least-discussed challenges.
They’re looking for Connecticut to discuss that challenge more — and send more helpers.
by | Mar 2, 2023 3:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Patricia Tynan picked up a coffee to go from the Humphrey Street Dunkin’ on her way into work Thursday, but this time she ordered a decaf.
Continue reading ‘Word On Nicoll Street: Big Picture Comes In Focus’
by | Mar 1, 2023 2:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Started young, still painting: Matt Bleythings and Robert Picagli at work site Wednesday.
In their fathers’ footsteps, Robert Picagli and Matt Bleything picked up the tools to prepare a century-plus-old Dwight building to house new generations of renters.
Continue reading ‘Word On Kensington Street: Paintbrushes Pass Down’
by | Mar 1, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (19)
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Diving in: Leslie Blatteau at WNHH FM.
School fights and lockdowns. Teacher flight. Staff shortages. Fights for funding. Calls for more elected school board members — and a school board willing to meet in public in person. A search for a new superintendent at a crucial juncture for public education.
Fourteen months into her presidency of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, Leslie Blatteau has found herself in the middle of these and other pressing public controversies. As a public school parent, as a New Haven teacher with 16 years in the classroom, and now as a labor leader, she has thought long and hard about these issues.
by | Feb 28, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday’s snow day gave Huân Ngô time to catch up on grading papers and preparing his students for New Haven’s jobs of tomorrow.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Maple Street: STEM? 'Snow Sweat’
by | Feb 27, 2023 4:57 pm | Comments (1)
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David Goraieb had a feeling that he’d end up unloading boxes of peppers and pork bellies from a truck Monday morning.
Continue reading ‘Word On Crown Street: "Warehouse Guy" Hops In The Truck’
by | Feb 23, 2023 4:29 pm | Comments (11)
Keeping hope alive: Christina Logvynyuk, Olekseii Atnoniuk, Myron Melnyk, and Carl Harvey at WNHH FM.
New Haven hasn’t forgotten Ukraine.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Support For Ukraine Remains Steady At War 1-Year Mark’
by | Feb 22, 2023 4:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Mayra Soto had time to pray and hear the gospel when she went to receive her forehead ashes Wednesday.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Ashes Mark New Life Chapter’
by | Feb 21, 2023 3:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Greg McLaurin stopped at Goffe Street Tuesday morning because he didn’t want to cuss. He wanted a calm spot to consider a solution rather than escalating a conflict he had on the job.
Continue reading ‘The Word On County Street: Greg Weighs His Next Move’
by | Feb 17, 2023 11:15 am | Comments (4)
James Bhandary-Alexander and Alyson Heimer at WNHH FM.
In New Haven, people are proposing ideas to strengthen democracy.
In Israel, people are taking to the streets to try to save democracy.
In the process, the debate in both places cuts to fundamental questions about what democracy is all about in the first place.
by | Feb 16, 2023 5:05 pm | Comments (5)
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A white Kia pulled up to the curb. Kenta Wilson’s plan for the morning was about to change.
by | Feb 15, 2023 10:57 am | Comments (0)
Company founder Yael Porat; New Haven trial chief Edouard Aboian.
A nonagenarian is waiting in New Haven for three five-milliliter syringes to arrive from overseas — and help her walk outside the house again and avoid having a limb amputated.
Continue reading ‘Blood-Disease Breakthrough Tested In New Haven’
by | Feb 14, 2023 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Misha Harris was on the hunt for dazzling new footwear Tuesday in order to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style.
by | Feb 13, 2023 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Carl Zemke took a round three-inch file to the ground-down teeth of his Stihl chainsaw Monday morning convinced that the old blade could still do the job.
by | Feb 13, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (9)
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OrLando Yarborough and Erik Clemons at WNHH FM.
Once upon a time, New Haveners without college degrees could pursue well-paying careers making rifles at the old Winchester factory.
Today they’ll be able to pursue careers working in labs helping test drugs to cure diseases like cancer, thanks to a new pipeline created to help New Haveners find their way to some of the jobs of the future pouring into the city.
by | Feb 9, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Mid-morning at the oasis: Dominique and Bamboo Thursday in Rainbow Park.
Dominique decided to turn right a block sooner than usual on her way home. She walked by a rainbow and entered a new world.
Continue reading ‘During Dwight Detour, Dominique Discovers Eden’
by | Feb 8, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (3)
Nathaniel Britton had boots on the ground Wednesday. He could feel the soles and toes start to split.
by | Feb 8, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (26)
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One of three fatal crash scenes in nine years at the corner of York Street and South Frontage Road.
Advocates of “speed cameras” on perilous streets invoked traffic stop-sparked police violence to argue that the devices protect rather than curtail civil rights.
That’s a new argument. One camera skeptic who wore the badge isn’t buying it.
Continue reading ‘Skeptic Counters Camera Civil Rights Claim’
by | Feb 7, 2023 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
The rubble in Diyarbakır, Turkey.
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Stepping up: Kadir Catalbasoglu Tuesday at Brick Oven Pizza.
The tragedy unfolding in his native Turkey prompted Kadir Catalbasoglu to do what he usually does when people need help: He got busy.
Continue reading ‘Pizzeria Raises Dough For Turkish Earthquake Victims’
by | Feb 6, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (13)
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Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
Continue reading ‘Street Trees Condemned; Park Trees Preserved’
by | Feb 3, 2023 1:43 pm | Comments (2)
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After working the overnight shift, surgical ICU nurse Makenzie Givens polished off a plate of scrambled eggs at Bella’s Cafe Friday morning, then headed home for some shut-eye.
But not too much shut-eye.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: ICU Crew Lands At Bella's’
by | Feb 3, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (2)
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Lee Osorio, at right, chatting up the Coalition for Active Transportation at the 2023 New Haven Promise Internship Fair.
A New Haven “active-transit” group is marking its fifth anniversary by getting more kids on bikes around town more safely.
by | Feb 3, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.