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City OKs Yale Music Hall Renovation

by Thomas MacMillan | Jun 13, 2013 11:50 am | Comments (1)

Two century-old Yale music buildings will be joined together and renovated, thanks to $25 million and new permission from city zoners.

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Gateway Graduates Largest Class Ever

by Allan Appel | May 24, 2013 8:21 am | Comments (4)

Not long after he left prison with a GED, Thomas Daniels lost his son to street violence. He resisted the urge for revenge and decided instead to work professionally with grieving dads.

To do that he needed to go to college.

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Yale Flees Newhallville After Prof’s Mugging

by Thomas MacMillan | May 21, 2013 4:01 pm | Comments (61)

After an 83-year-old architecture professor was attacked at the Lilac Street building site of a Yale-designed house, the university plans to pull out the newly installed foundation—and has decided it’s just too dangerous to build a home in Newhallville.

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Yale Probes Arson Threat

by Staff | May 7, 2013 5:39 pm

Yale University is investigating a message found scrawled on a bathroom wall, promising arson at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life.

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New Haven Rallies For Solanlly & Chastity

by Melissa Bailey | May 3, 2013 7:52 am | Comments (15)

As an admissions deadline neared, Solanlly Canas, a high-school valedictorian and an undocumented immigrant from Colombia, began to give up hope that she could afford to go to college. Then she got an email that “changed my life.”

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“Elm-Ivies” Go To Top Dogs—& The Women Behind The Scenes

by Staff | Apr 24, 2013 4:19 pm | Comments (1)

Town and gown congratulated their top execs as they prepare to leave office for 20 years—along with the women who kept their offices running smoothly.

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College-Bound Soccer “Family” Needs Bucks

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 18, 2013 4:02 pm | Comments (1)

After six years as a tutor, soccer coach, and “older sister” to 13 immigrant and refugee boys, Lauren Mednick is ready to see the last four off to college—if she can raise $35,000.

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Wooster Square Writer Snags A “Windham”

by Allan Appel | Mar 4, 2013 2:21 pm | Comments (1)

Move over National Book Award. Take a seat, Pulitzer. You too, Nobel.

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Shhh: Terrorism Study’s Already In Full Swing

by Paul Bass | Mar 1, 2013 3:43 pm | Comments (17)

Behind this anonymous door three floors above downtown New Haven, a Yale-affiliated shrink is paying local immigrants $150 to help the FBI sniff out liars when hunting terrorists.

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Free Skool’s In Session

by Staff | Feb 28, 2013 9:26 am

Interested in fermentation? DIY herbal medicince? Yoga? Screenwriting? Poultry?

Now’s your chance to learn.

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