Yale Digs Deep For Greener Heat
| Feb 27, 2024 1:14 pm |Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
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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| Aug 21, 2023 1:35 pm |Fair Haven resident Nkenge Hook didn’t miss a beat of information, filling the lines of her notebook with bright blue ink as each employer stepped up to speak.
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Yale has purchased a two-and-a-half-story Prospect Street house-turned-office building for $2.85 million, further cementing the university’s ownership of much of a Prospect Hill block.
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| Jul 18, 2023 11:54 am |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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| May 26, 2023 3:19 pm |Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
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| May 22, 2023 11:32 am |Dressed in caps and gowns and with new diplomas in hand, 440 Albertus Magnus students graduated from the Prospect Hill Catholic college on Sunday — marking the school’s 100th such ceremony.
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| Apr 25, 2023 8:58 am |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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| Apr 18, 2023 4:30 pm |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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| Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm |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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| Mar 2, 2023 9:47 am |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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| Feb 27, 2023 9:13 am |“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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| Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am |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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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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| Jan 23, 2023 12:48 pm |(Updated) Maceo “Troy” Streater ended up on top of a four-way special election for Ward 21 alder, making him the next local legislative representative for a zig-zagged district that stretches across parts of Newhallville, Dixwell, and Prospect Hill.
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| Jan 18, 2023 5:37 pm |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.
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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| Jul 19, 2022 2:48 pm |“This is your park,” Gemma Joseph Lumpkin of the New Haven Public Schools reminded middle schoolers gathered Tuesday in Edgerton Park, over and over again.
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| Jun 27, 2022 9:10 am |Families who now call New Haven home gathered in East Rock Park to remember their journeys from Kenya, Burundi, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan — and to build a community ready to welcome newcomers from all over the world.
The owner of a long-vacant Prospect Hill lot won permission to construct a new five-bedroom single-family house and attached garage on the site of a former wetlands.
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and | Feb 3, 2022 4:39 pm |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.
Firefighters found a man who’d been shot dead in a car Sunday in the Prospect Hill section of the East Rock neighborhood.
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| Oct 14, 2021 12:36 pm |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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| Aug 30, 2021 10:19 am |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.
New Haven’s “upstairs-downstairs” divide was on display at a Democratic ward committee meeting Wednesday night in both a vote taken and an exchange about low-wage workers.