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Allan Appel | Apr 29, 2024 10:29 am
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Rachael and Elaine Osei-Bonsu at the Wilmot Road "visioning" workshop.
What if a West Rock community center had an art and music space combined with a recording studio? And a gym and boxing area for fitness and a playground for little kids? And an expanded library and upgraded computer center?
Those items and more were very much on a wish list in formation as young New Haveners gathered to look ahead to a future, expanded 295 Wilmot Rd. Family Center.
At Sunday's protest on Chapel Street and (below) the Green.
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More than 1,500 pro-Palestinian protesters from across the state on Sunday marched downtown in the latest mass public demonstration of outrage with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
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Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen | Apr 26, 2024 4:14 pm
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Alex Nieves checks out a freshly-cleaned portable toilet on Thursday afternoon.
An accumulation of feces, old clothes, and drug paraphernalia prompted the city to increase the number of portable restrooms on the New Haven Green from two to six, as city officials search for a more permanent bathroom solution.
Class of 2024 tree planted by John Martinez student council.
John Martinez School eighth grader Roselyn Sampedro’s dream to stay rooted to her middle school forever came to fruition Friday as she helped plant a crabapple tree — in honor of the Class of 2024, and to celebrate Arbor Day.
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Waxahatchee at Toad's Place.
“I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.”
It was a refrain I’d heard maybe hundreds of times at that point, the croon of Katie Crutchfield’s voice and the banjo backing her committed to memory. But Thursday night, as I heard it live and sang along with a crowd filling up Waxahatchee’s sold-out show at Toad’s Place, the song felt new.
Murder victim Ciera Jones: Shot and killed over rap lyrics.
A 21-year-old member of the Exit 8 gang has admitted to murdering 22-year-old Ciera “CeeCee” Jones and conspiring to murder 18-year-old Tashawn Brown three years ago — and now faces up to life in prison, with a recommended sentence of up to 30 years.
Schiavone at 80 performs in the living room of a Chapel Street frat house apartment while fighting an eviction.
Joel Schiavone, the sockless banjo-strumming real estate developer who launched New Haven’s downtown renaissance, has died at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy that will long outlive him.
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Allan Appel | Apr 25, 2024 8:54 am
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Michael Ortiz before diorama evoking Connecticut's Long Island shoreline.
“Absolutely magnificent,” eighth grader Michael Ortiz marveled at a representation of the Connecticut shoreline with its marshes, night herons snagging fish, and dozens of other labeled flora and fauna — all as part of one of the newly reopened state history dioramas at the freshly renovated Yale Peabody Museum.
The Teklehaimanot family (center) hears their name called at Tuesday's housing lottery.
Seven-year-old Meklit and five-year-old Bethlehem ran around the empty rooms of 455 Howard Ave., dodging the legs of parents and realtors and city workers. This two-family home would soon be theirs.
“We always wanted a big house,” Meklit said, minutes after her father won the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI’s) latest affordable housing lottery. “I always wanted this to happen.”
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Maya McFadden | Apr 24, 2024 10:31 am
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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
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Trekking towards Morris Creek.
About 30 people took a walk through Morris Cove, from Lighthouse Point Park to East Shore Park and back again, to see for themselves the route the city has proposed for the Shoreline Greenway Trail — and to see what other routes, or detours off the main route, might be possible.
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Mel Defilippo, a prevention services manager with A Place to Nourish Your Health (APNH), explains healthcare offerings to event attendees.
“I’ve never, ever gone to a place like this before,” said Darnell Ray, taking in the flurry of queer-affirming healthcare and self-care opportunities that filled the New Haven Pride Center.
Protesters out of the street, back on Yale's campus, at around 5:45.
(Updated at 5:59 p.m.) The streets around Yale’s downtown campus are back open now that pro-Palestinian protesters who had blocked traffic at the intersection of Grove, Prospect, and College for more than eight hours reached a deal with police to leave — without anyone else getting arrested.
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At the New Haven Composers Spotlight at NXTHVN.
Composer and violinist Alyssa Chetrick was taking a solo as part of her vertiginous piece, sardonically titled “Equilibrium.” If some of the previous passages had offered a sense of calm, Chetrick was now going for chaos, spurring the ensemble around her to join her. Her phrasing pushed the musicians around her to dig deeper into the music she’d written, as if they were looking to break it. Would they?
