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Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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A shower of pink, for 50th straight year.
Valentina Simon doing her thing at Sunday's fest.
Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 11, 2023 11:50 am
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Exchanging student stories -- and building empathy -- at HSC.
High School in the Community (HSC) freshman Kiley was convinced she would never get along with a senior student she found herself sitting across the table from.
After each high-schooler opened up to “exchange” personal, vulnerable stories with the other, the two students wound up trading phone numbers — and found they had more in common than they first thought.
Surprise! Instead of staring at his computer, Nick Murphy found himself strolling through cherry blossom-budding Wooster Square Monday en route to picking up iced vanilla lattes.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 10, 2023 9:23 am
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The Y2Y temporary shelter site at 924 Grand: Construction to start this summer?
New Youth Continuum CEO Mike Moynihan: “I am totally psyched to get this thing going again."
A years-delayed plan to provide shelter on Grand Avenue for young New Haveners in crisis is moving ahead — with fewer beds, and a new nonprofit director at the helm.
Donald Moody, with Elm City ID / prepaid MasterCard: "That extra $500, it's a big thing."
(Updated) Donald Moody spent the first $200 that he received from a cash-transfer pilot program for formerly incarcerated New Haveners on basketball lessons for his stepson.
How might he use future monthly allotments under the year-long program?
On the occasional restaurant date with his wife and on regular insurance payments for his car and motorcycle and on the many, many other bills that come with living outside prison, Moody said.
And maybe on a tuxedo for his long-planned-for wedding ceremony this July, too.
Conte West Hills Magnet School: Exiled 3rd-grader can return.
A Conte West Hills third-grader can finish out the last few months of the school year at her Wooster Square “magnet” school — thanks to a Board of Education vote to reverse the district administration’s decision to bar the young student from her New Haven classroom after finding out that she lives in Hamden.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 13, 2023 9:09 am
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Carol Horsford signing up with attorney Earle Giovanniello for Wooster Square foreclosure auction.
Investors from Madison, Meriden, Orange, Fairfield, and Westchester County crowded into a Wooster Square parking lot to try to buy a tax-foreclosed carriage house-turned-condo.
The winning bidder: A local real estate broker whose growing business’s signs dot downtown and East Rock.
But winning the auction might not end up meaning obtaining the property.
Metropolitan Business Academy students left their smoke-scarred high school Wednesday and assembled in Hillhouse’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse to shoot hoops and play Four Square volleyball — and come together as a community at a time when it’s tough to be a teacher or a student.
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Jan 11, 2023 2:04 pm
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Samuel Rosenberg (right) in HSC's "Leadership 101."
Find ways to collaborate with others. Delegate work when you’re overwhelmed. Be open to criticism. And don’t panic when the best laid plans go a bit awry.
Those are a few of the lessons that High School in the Community (HSC) junior and literary magazine editor Samuel Rosenberg has learned in a new class focused on training current student leaders how to excel as the heads of their respective clubs and groups.
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Jan 6, 2023 3:32 pm
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HSC grad Houston (right) offers current students college advice.
High School in the Community senior Amara Frazier-Conner sat across the table from her future self — in the form of recent grad Tyron Houston — to hear about how best to prepare over the next few months before beginning her own first semester in college.
Houston’s advice: Learn self-control, create study habits, don’t fall victim to peer pressure, and “get harder on yourself” now so you’re ready for the challenges of higher ed come September.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
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Thomas Breen and Laura Glesby |
Nov 22, 2022 9:34 am
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The approved new Wooster Square monument.
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The Wooster Square Monument Committee at the site of the past and future statues on Tuesday.
(Updated) The group charged with coming up with an Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park gathered at the site of the past and future monuments on Tuesday to celebrate a major milestone for the project — and to kick off a $300,000 fundraising drive.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 7, 2022 9:21 am
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Greenberg outside 80 Hamilton: "It'll be a magical place for New Haven."
A local artist and historian with a knack for finding lost artifacts has won a key city approval to convert a former Hamilton Street warehouse into his next curatorial space for Elm City ephemera.
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Oct 24, 2022 2:39 pm
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DeLauro on Monday: "This is the best part of the day."
In a “Developing Toddlers” classroom on Olive Street, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro got an up-close look at the severity of the child care staffing crisis — and at the joys and benefits of early education work.
Columbus statue replacement, now before the Board of Alders.
A new sculpture honoring New Haven’s Italian American community is one step closer to coming to Wooster Square now that the Elicker Administration has formally submitted plans to the Board of Alders for a public artwork to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 16, 2022 1:34 pm
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15 Brown St., now OK'd for a new 2-family house.
Three different vacant lots in Wooster Square, West River, and Upper State Street should soon sprout new two-family houses, thanks to approvals granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 14, 2022 12:33 pm
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150 Wooster St: Former Tony & Lucille's, future new Italian eatery.
Make way for gelato and cocktails on Wooster Street, empanadas on Spring Street, and truffles and cheeses and Neapolitan-style dishes near Broadway.
Those culinary ventures are each one big step closer to coming New Haven’s way, after winning requested land-use relief from the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 30, 2022 8:59 am
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Greenberg on top floor of former ACME building, with 19th-century elevator that was moved to 80 Hamilton.
A local museum nonprofit has purchased a Hamilton Street office and warehouse building that will now serve as the permanent home of New Haven artist and historian Robert Greenberg’s ever-expanding collection of Elm City artifacts, memorabilia, and ephemera.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 15, 2022 12:43 pm
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107-year-old Frank Sacco plays bocce on Wooster Street.
On a sun-drenched Sunday morning, a man finessed a ball down the tree-shaded bocce court at Wooster Memorial Park.
The man was Frank Sacco, who was born on 82 Wooster St. and will turn 108 in November. His ball clacked off the other balls, coming to rest near the pallino, or target. Competitors and onlookers at the weekly Society of St. Maria Maddelena bocce league match cheered.
