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Mandy Buys Albertus Student Housing For $7.4M

by | Nov 28, 2023 12:21 pm | Comments (12)

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490 Prospect St.: Now owned by Mandy, leased by Albertus.

Tapping the current advantageous real estate market,” Albertus Magnus College has sold 20 units of student housing and related office and meeting space for $7.4 million to an affiliate of Mandy Management — and has entered into a long-term lease with the local megalandlord to preserve the property for school use.

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Downer Wins Ward 19 Board of Ed Endorsement

by | Jul 18, 2023 11:54 am | Comments (5)

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Downer makes her pitch Monday night.

A challenger to an incumbent Board of Education member won a ward committee endorsement Monday night in her quest to win the Democratic nomination.

Making bold strikes, Ward 19’s Democratic Town Committee placed their votes on challenger Andrea Downer, rather than on incumbent Darnell Goldson, for the Board of Education membership race.

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Tiger Squad News Roars Back To Life

by | Apr 25, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (4)

Tiger Squad News crew Alae Aboutalib, Shayla Black, and Nima Safdari, with the first issue of their school's reborn newsletter (below).

The ink is dry on the first issue of the recently revived Tiger Squad News — as Celentano School reporters-in-training Nima Safdari, Alae Aboutalib, and Shayla Black return to the beat for a second newsletter that they hope will inform their classmates about just how much work goes into being a student reporter.

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Enviro Activists Think Green, Look Local

by | Apr 18, 2023 4:30 pm | Comments (4)

(l-r)Edward Dunar, Lee Osorio, Molly Johnson, Steve Winter, Chris Schweitzer

Imagine this: a completely electrified municipal vehicular fleet – all 600 cars and trucks; replacement of hugely polluting oil burners with high efficiency heat pumps in many of the poor homes that most need low cost and healthier energy; and the green day when composting kitchen scraps will be as routine and revenue-producing as recycling.

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On Service Day, Albertus Tends Its Garden

by | Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (4)

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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.

A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer. 

It does, however, if the green acre in question happens to be the garden at Albertus Magnus, a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition, where service and community are pillars of the faith of equal importance with the two others, study and prayer.

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Celentano School Assembly Celebrates Jamaican Connection

by | Mar 2, 2023 9:47 am | Comments (0)

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At Celentano School's final Black History Month celebration of the year.

Eighth-grader Akiellea Gooden honored her Jamaican roots on stage in front of her Celentano School classmates by sharing a quotation from a Black political icon and historical Caribbean compatriot, Marcus Garvey: A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

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Calligraphy Exhibit Sings About Sex

by | Feb 27, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (0)

O my dove, thou art in the cleft of the rock, in the secret crevices of the cliff.” The words from Song of Songs, poetic as they are, could be interpreted any number of ways. But in artist Margaret Shepherd’s hands, that interpretation tilts in a certain direction. The gracefulness of the letters themselves, the sensuousness of the details, the flower seemingly on the verge of opening a little wider, all suggest that, whatever other meanings the passage may have, one meaning is right on the surface, and not to be ignored.

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Yale Chemical Safety Building Plan Advances

by | Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am | Comments (0)

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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.

Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill. 

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Albertus Charts Path To Black Catholic Sainthood

by | Feb 17, 2023 1:46 pm | Comments (13)

The 6 Black Catholics under consideration for sainthood.

Featured speaker and guide Shingai Chigwedere.

There are 11 white Americans — and 0 African Americans — among the 10,000 saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Zero Black American saints. Zero Americans-of-African-descent saints,” Shingai Chigwedere told a 20-person audience at Albertus Magnus College. However you want to word it, there are zero.”

That number may soon change, as the local Catholic university shined a light on the six Black Catholics currently being considered for sainthood.

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Streater Campaign Hits Dixwell Streets

by | Jan 18, 2023 5:37 pm | Comments (4)

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Maceo Troy Streater knocks on Ann Garrett Robinson's door Wednesday.

A team of formerly-incarcerated campaigners rally behind Streater.

Door after door, Maceo Troy Streater set out in the neighborhood where he’s lived his whole life to campaign for a newly vacant alder seat — and to convince neighbors that personal and political change is possible.

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Div Dorm Aims For Green Eden

by | Jul 27, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (14)

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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.

The Yale Divinity School plans to build a dormitory that recycles its wastewater and generates all its own energy — aiming to create the first residential building to meet Living Building Challenge” standards for sustainability.

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Strolls Keep Soulmates On Life's Path

by and | Feb 3, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (1)

Mary Ann Frank and Lauren Pinkza with Willow on Thursday's walk.

The word on Cliff Street Thursday was: Female friendships.

As in long-haul female friendships, nurtured on morning strolls. They can get you through a pandemic — and help you grapple with mortality.

They can even get you through a disappointing morning sandwich.

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New Center Leads Into The Mystic

by | Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)

Seekers at opening of Eckhart Center for Catholic and Dominican Life.

Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart.

Unable to find a convenient or affordable cave? Are the crazy schedules, noise, and constant challenges of New Haven life playing havoc with your quest for solitude and purpose?

Don’t fear. Albertus Magnus College’s new Meister Eckhart Center just may have a solution for you: Learn how to be an urban mystic.”

You might start by having pizza with one.

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Immigrants’ Kids Pumped For School Year

by | Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am | Comments (2)

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Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman.

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NHPS Student Enrollment Count by Race/Ethnicity.

Lucia Nunez Del Prado, Brayan Sanchez, and Milton Guzman are ready for the new school year to begin Monday: They have their vaccine shots, they’re even OK with wearing masks. And, after experiencing remote learning, they much prefer the idea of being back in class in person.

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