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Watch out, George Baldwin, that's a sand shark!
Students test for salinity, temperature, and "conductivity."
The traffic from the Q Bridge rumbled overhead, oblivious to the scene below at the mouth of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers, as two students on a small Sound School boat lowered a piece of scientific equipment into the water, at surface and at depth.
The reason: to continue a years-long project of gathering data about the Mill River and, in turn, foster a better relationship with it.
146 Greenwich (right): Room on the block for another car?
Trachten and Rodriguez offer different views to BZA on adding housing without parking.
The city’s latest clash of cars and beds took place at the dead end of Greenwich Avenue, where an alder sought to stop the creation of a single new apartment on the grounds that the street already has too many parked vehicles.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 22, 2023 8:35 am
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Alex Morquecho, Aaron Goode and Jacob Smith with Sound School's newly planted peace tree.
Alex Morquecho and Jacob Smith crouched atop a raised bed of waterfront soil to uncover the city’s latest tribute to a hoped-for world without violence, alongside a newly planted “peace tree.”
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 26, 2023 11:21 am
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Incumbent Fair Haven Alder Ernie Santiago at Tuesday's convention: "I have work to do communicating with the leaders of my community."
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Challenger Frankie Redente, Jr. picking up Democratic primary ballot petition from 200 Orange St. on Wednesday.
In one competitive Fair Haven alder race, the local Democratic Party did not endorse any candidate — meaning that both incumbent Ernie Santiago and challenger Frank Redente Jr. will have to gather signatures to make it onto the primary ballot.
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Allan Appel |
May 26, 2023 11:50 am
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Neil Geist with local oysters in hand and a fleet of student-built sharpies behind.
Freshmen Alex Spruill and Dan Lopez, who worked two months on restoring Tenacious's decking.
As a student at the Sound School in the 1980s, Neil Geist helped to build a full-size model of the historic New Haven oyster boat, a 35-foot sharpie called Tenacious.
The Tenacious was so perfect and sailed so well the folks at Mystic Aquarium wanted to exhibit her. But the sea gods were not as protective on land. En route the boat slipped off the trailer, on I‑95, and broke in half.
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Maya McFadden |
May 18, 2023 3:28 pm
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Ella May with her food share cart capstone project.
Sound School senior Ella May is on a mission to help her school cut back on food waste — with the help of a cart and a nudge to her peers to place their uneaten, unopened foods on a share “table” in the cafeteria.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 9, 2023 11:35 am
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SAGA's Shane Emery, Drake Ortiz, Colton, Jacob Smith, and Pete Solomon.
Amid the sometimes “rocky waves” of work and class and a tough time at home, Drake Ortiz has found a refuge in Sound School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) — where they and their high-school peers can be themselves and talk about everything from their favorite movies to queer-friendly field trips to how best to prevent bullying of younger students.
Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.
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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.
A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive.
An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble.
A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.
Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Dec 6, 2022 9:00 am
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Nova and Zora Zanders at Sunday's Hill holiday fest.
Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for.
“I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 22, 2022 4:18 pm
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Site of the planned new 16-unit condo building.
A Stratford-based builder won permission to construct 16 more condos in City Point as part of the final phase of development for the Breakwater Bay Condominiums.
The Board of Education Monday evening approved the promotion of Peter Solomon (pictured) to the position of coordinator of aquaculture at Sound School.
Construction begins Thursday morning on Sea Street in City Point.
Phase 1 of the milling and paving projects, which covers 51 streets on the west side of New Haven.
City crews started bright and early Thursday morning and milling paving Sea Street, the first of 51 roadways set to receive smoother surfaces over the next six weeks — and faster than in the past.
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Dec 2, 2021 3:55 pm
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One of Mandy’s multi-family rentals on Greenwich Ave.
The head of local megalandlord Mandy Management has applied for a pre-trial diversionary program that could see criminal charges dropped in multiple housing court cases — at the same time he faces new criminal charges for code violations at a City Point apartment.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 22, 2021 5:02 pm
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Teresa Fernandez outside her soon-to-be-former home.
Teresa Fernandez and her two young kids plan on moving across the Hill to an apartment on Congress Avenue next month, now that the bank has foreclosed on their rented single-family home in City Point.
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Natalie Kainz and Isaac Yu |
Jun 11, 2021 5:13 pm
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Superintendent Tracey at Friday’s commencement.
After balancing school work, a custody battle for her 7‑month old son, and a job as a manager at KFC, 18-year-old Kayla Folk walked side by side with her best friend Rea’gean Oakley, bright smiles on both their faces. Together, they picked up their high school diplomas.
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Emily Hays |
May 21, 2021 11:03 am
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Multiplying parakeet nests, visible from half a block away.
Neighbor Jason Bartlett: It’s a miracle on Sea Street.
City Point’s busiest crew of home renovators have won admiration of some neighbors, while alienating others worried about the safety of new aerial stick-built multifamily condos.
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Donna Schaper |
Aug 25, 2020 2:38 pm
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Rev. Donna Schaper.
Transplanting from New York City in March to West Haven has been interesting.
My daughter, her wife and her 1‑year-old baby showed up a month after we arrived in March. They left Brooklyn; we left Manhattan. Our two cars sit in our small driveway, still sporting their New York plates, the ones that keep us from being able to get into Lighthouse Point and other “public” areas.
Ruth Swanton helped establish City Point as a historic district in 2001 to save the neighborhood from being swallowed by highway, she said. Now she’s worried that designation will prevent the neighborhood from switching to solar power, and helping to save the planet.
New GOP Chair John Carlson with outgoing Chair Jeff Weiss at the vote.
Once it’s safe again to visit each other’s houses, expect a knock on the door from John Carlson or one of his partners in a quest to revive democracy in New Haven.
