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They Came. They Built. 
They Sold For $71M

The Whit sold for … The What? Thomas Breen reports. 

Lost Tribe
Finds Its Way Home

At NXTHVN. Jisu Sheen reports. 

Elks Flocking To The Library

As longtime Dixwell civic org teams up with Stetson for youth programming.  Allan Appel reports. 

Lede Buried

Thanks to mistimed civil rights context, Two Trains never leaves the station.  Jamil Ragland reports. 

Family Extended

At artist Marquis Brantley Sr.‘s CAW exhibition.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Why I Hate Spotify

Izzy True reviews Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine.

“Bomb” Remarks Lead
To Tweed Evacuation

Paul Bass reports. 

Carter’s Contract Up In March

Schools facilities consultant says prior commitments keep him from another city-paid extension.  Maya McFadden reports. 

State To Pay $3.75M To
Settle Inmate Homicide Case

CT Mirror’s Mark Pazniokas reports.
Thomas Breen reports on Robby Talbot’s hard road from clinics to Whalley jail, in 2019.

“Naked Power Grab”

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro impugns impoundment in guess essay in the New York Times. 

Blight Chains Broken

The Word on Grand Avenue.  Paul Bass reports. 

(S)nowhere To Hide

NHPS promises better supervision of snow-removal contractors after numerous failed” plow jobs.
• Contractor agrees with critique, blames district for late calls, and asks to be able to work with custodians union again.  Maya McFadden reports. 

Annette Glass, 76

Annette enjoyed playing cards, taking drives, and listening to music.  Obit. 

A Lifetime In 
Ten Campus Minutes

An ode to a bosom buddy, college pal, comic genius, and sympathetic friend in hospice.  Lary Bloom reports. 

I Spy With AI

Surveillance-inspired paintings capture society’s eerie slippage into an uncanny valley. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood weighs in.

From Dixwell To Kinshasa

And back again, as Music Haven and Toto Kisaku team up for a concert and immigrant storytelling. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Local Lawyers Face DOJ

In fight over Trump administration’s probe of Jan. 6 probe.  Zachary Groz reports. 

Shack Seniors
Get Some Love

At second annual Valentine luncheon.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Fun For The Whole Family!

Nora Grace-Flood reviews a state gun show, where children and Nazi literature abound. 

Ahhhh!

Killer Kin drowns out the Super Bowl at the Space Ballroom.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Choral Classic
Reborn At Woolsey

NHSO highlights Black American composers in moving program.  Adam Matlock reports. 

Nuyorican Superhero
Hits New Haven

Long Wharf Theatre’s El Coquí Espectacular” brings spandex and Puerto Rican mythology to SCSU Aster Aguilar reports. 

Fresh Starts Screened, 
Preached At Youth Prison

As Newhallville entrepreneur Marcus Harvin visits Cheshire to talk art and life after incarceration.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Library’s Mardi Gras
To Honor Smith, Gallant

Staff reports.

Prine-Tuned Folk

At Jazzy’s Cabaret, Vance Gilbert channels a late singer-songwriter who helped set him on his path.  Staff reports. 

Who Really Wants
To Defund The Police?

And other pressing questions in the latest News From The Compost Heap direct from the Indy assignment desk.”  Paul Bass reports. 

223 Ticketed, 194 Towed

For violating citywide parking ban during weekend snowstorm.  Thomas Breen reports. 

The Snowy Day

As read by Edith Johnson, in classroom trip to Mauro-Sheridan. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Legal Notice

City Clerk press release announces new fraud alert system.  Read more. 

Pizza Celebrated, Again

Can’t stop, won’t stop, at National Pizza Day-adjacent gathering at BAR Arthur Delot-Vilain reports. 

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Mayor, union prez ink 6‑year police contract.  Zachary Groz reports. 

Today’s Legal Notice

Construction bids sought from small contractors and women and minority-owned businesses.  Read more. 

Desert Hearts Sizzle
As Snow Falls

During this month’s Queer Film Club pick.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Artists Bloom In Darkness

& bring together shared heritage and search for connections, at Ely Center.  Brian Slattery reports. 

“Super Normal” Throne

An on-display designer toilet flushes minimalism out of sight and mind. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports.

Shoegaze Takes A Slowdive

At College Street.  Leo Slattery reports. 

What’s Up, Mock?

A Bugs-inspired alcohol-free libation lives on past Dry January at the Anchor.  Liz Grace reports. 

No Parking Ban. No School

And 23 city plow trucks out clearing the streets. Snow update.  Thomas Breen reports. 

Peter Pan Made Me
Feel Like a Kid Again

Jamil Ragland reports.

“Constitutional Crisis” Continues

Delauro, Dems decry Trump/Musk’s assault on foreign aid.
Jonathan D. Salant reports. 

Municipal Tobacco License Proposal Advances

Laura Glesby photos

Local licenses, inspections are on the horizon for tobacco retailers.

Health Director Maritza Bond: Inspections would protect kids from exposure to addictive carcinogens.

The city’s Health Department could soon have the power to crack down on smoke shops that violate the law — by way of a proposed municipal license system that would allow for stricter local regulation of the 212 businesses already OK’d by the state to sell tobacco in New Haven.

Continue reading ‘Municipal Tobacco License Proposal Advances’

State To Pay $37M For Wrongful Convictions

Laura Glesby File Photo

Adam Carmon (left), one of five wrongfully incarcerated New Haveners on tap to receive $M, per state Judiciary Committee votes on Friday.

Adam Carmon served 28 years in prison as the man convicted of killing a 7‑month-old girl and paralyzing her grandmother, a verdict a judge belatedly concluded was a miscarriage of justice produced by prosecutorial and police misconduct in New Haven.

I cannot return to you the 28 years of life,” Superior Court Judge Jon Alander told Carmon on June 13, 2023, as he dismissed the case and interrupted an 85-year prison sentence. I can give you the certainty that this long nightmare is finally over.”

On Friday, the legislature’s Judiciary Committee will be asked to ratify compensation of $7.9 million for Carmon, a sum calculated by the state claims commissioner employing a formula enshrined in state law: multiply the years served by 200 percent of the median family income in Connecticut.

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The Once & Future Green: A Timeline

Not Godfrey's goat. But you get the idea.

A parking garage under the Green? Not on the Proprietors' watch.

The Green almost had an underground parking garage and a statue of JFK — and it did at one time have a state house and Seth Godfrey’s goat.

As the city, the Proprietors, the just-formed New Haven Green Conservancy and other stakeholders” of all kinds are weighing in on the next turn in the evolution of the Green’s uses, here is just a taste of what was and what might have been on the city’s central greenspace over the past four centuries.

Continue reading ‘The Once & Future Green: A Timeline’