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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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?
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Raj Kumar winds up.
Hitesh Redy, with improvised "cricket bat."
Raj Kumar lifted his right arm like a windmill against the backdrop of the former English Station power plant as he “bowled” a tennis ball towards Hitesh Redy — who didn’t need a proper cricket bat to enjoy some time in the park in Fair Haven.
A plank of wood salvaged from their Woolsey Street home would do just fine.
High school senior Thailynn Morehead, right, called for the budget to fund functional school bathrooms.
To 69-year-old Linda Randi, who’s worked as a paraeducator in New Haven Public Schools for 38 years, more funding for the Board of Education would mean “I wouldn’t have to work a second job.”
Specifically, she said, she’d no longer have to work a nightly six-hour shift waiting tables on top of her full-time classroom hours.
Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story, along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1. Who is pictured above and why was he in the news this week? A. William Randolph of A Broken Umbrella Theatre Co., who starred in a production of The Grinch B. Sandy McLain, who was named the new city vital statistics registrar C. Legal aid attorney Rich Kuby, who defended immigrant workers in an eviction case in housing court D. Painting/power washing co. President and Fair Haven landlord Mark DeFrancesco, who succeeded in court in pressing an eviction against two of his immigrant worker/tenants who got injured on the job E. Wilson Woodworth, the “mystery” lender who tried to hide his identity while giving $12.25 million in loans to New Haven “nonprofit” housing corporations run by imprisoned sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer F. Actor Jim Carrey, who made a surprise visit to a class at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School
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11-year-old Avery with her favorite Black Raspberry Newhall Street soap.
Bassett Street smells like lemongrass and poppy seeds to 11-year-old Kauren, now that her favorite sweet-citrusy soap is up for sale in honor of the street where she goes to school.
Behavior change for drivers, not pocket change for city coffers, drove a proposal to install red-light and speed cameras toward another recommended approval.
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Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana in court.
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Edgar Becerra protests his former employer, MDF Painting and Power Washing, before the eviction proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana must find a new place to live, ending an eviction case that sparked protests over alleged exploitation of migrant workers.
Rabbi Greer: Signs mortgage docs and runs nonprofits while behind bars.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofit housing organizations received a $12 million boost from a mystery lender — and then saw two longstanding lawsuits ditched by Greer’s sexual-abuse victim.
