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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Mar 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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BOMUS second graders in cup-stacking competition.
Special education teacher Rebecca Smith shows off hula hooping skills.
Hula hooping, dance parties, coloring, and team cup-stacking competitions helped the students and staff of the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) decompress mid-school year.
by | Feb 17, 2023 2:13 pm | Comments (8)
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At Friday's Black History Month celebration at Barack Obama School. "What Black history means to me is that I get to celebrate the Black people who made the world a better place," said one student.
Students honored after "caught being STRONG."
Perfect attendance, Black trailblazers, and the ability to gather in-person as a school again were all causes for celebration Friday, at a student-and-staff-led Black History Month event hosted by Barack H. Obama Magnet University School.
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by | Feb 16, 2023 4:34 pm | Comments (12)
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Attendees at Wednesday's superintendent search community meeting. Top row, left to right: Robert Gibson, Sean Reeves, Margaret Mary Gethings. Middle row: Kim Rogers, Rev. Joseph Champagne, Kelvin Rutledge. Bottom row: Shafiq Abdussabur, Shannon Mykins, and Leslie Blatteau.
Troup School reading instructor Pamela J. Tonge needs the next superintendent’s help in bridging the divide separating administrators and parents from teachers like herself, who work daily to help young students catch up to grade-level literacy despite a lack of classroom resources and respect.
by | Feb 16, 2023 3:52 pm | Comments (9)
An illustration of the upcoming Stone Street senior housing.
A Branford-based developer won permission to replace four single-family homes with 65 new apartments in Beaver Hills, following site plan approval for a project seeking to bring more income-restricted housing for the area’s elderly.
by | Feb 3, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.
by | Feb 1, 2023 5:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Beth Ewing left home Wednesday morning with a purpose.
by | Feb 1, 2023 3:45 pm | Comments (13)
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Metropolitan Business Academy students left their smoke-scarred high school Wednesday and assembled in Hillhouse’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse to shoot hoops and play Four Square volleyball — and come together as a community at a time when it’s tough to be a teacher or a student.
by | Jan 27, 2023 11:00 am | Comments (5)
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State Treasurer Erick Russell with PROUD Academy board member and former city Corporation Counsel John Rose at SCSU event on Thursday.
The nation’s first Black openly gay state official met the organizers of what hopes to become the first LGBTQ-centered private school in Connecticut — and one of only a handful in the country.
Their message about being “firsts” in an era of anti-gay backlash was identical and impassioned: Don’t just be your authentic self. Celebrate that self, too.
by | Jan 23, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (0)
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Cabrera.
With something like a gambit, New Haven Symphony Orchestra music director candidate Donato Cabrera scored a pedagogical victory, showing the audience a wide range of sounds with a selection of pieces designed to show off different sections of the orchestra before bringing a full symphony orchestra at the close.
Continue reading ‘Guest Conductor Strides To Success In NHSO Concert’
by | Dec 8, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Ashley Stockton (center) at "Tell Me Why It Works" panel.
The stakes of learning the wrong way to read are more than just academic for Ashley Stockton.
The Wexler-Grant teacher saw firsthand how her son with dyslexia struggled in school when following a now-outdated method that prioritizes looking for clues and guessing at words — and she saw how his literacy improved when, with the help of a costly private tutor, he began to sound words out.
Stockton shared that story of her shift in understanding about how reading can and should be taught during a panel discussion called, “Tell Me Why It Works: The Science Behind Reading.”
by | Dec 7, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (15)
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Blake St. tenants union members winning official recognition from Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Wildaliz Bermudez (center).
A group of Blake Street renters delivered a 31-name petition to City Hall — and officially became New Haven’s first legally recognized tenants union.
by | Dec 6, 2022 2:20 pm | Comments (1)
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The engine was running. The baby was bundled up.
Stephen Jones was ready for the call.
by | Dec 5, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Models walk the runway at 42nd annual Arts Awards.
The red carpet rolled out. An endless stream of apizza flew in the door straight from Big Green Truck’s ovens. DJ Cookie filled the room with tunes to get everyone on their feet.
And New Haven’s artists, designers, and fashionistas — some professional, some amateur, and a few still in strollers — gathered for an only-in-the-Elm-City celebration.
Continue reading ‘42nd Annual Arts Awards Put Fashion First’
by | Nov 29, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (7)
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Stone St. houses, slated for demolition ...
... to be replaced by 65 new apartments.
A Branford-based developer plans to knock down four rented single-family houses and build 65 new apartments for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, according to a new 17-year local tax break application for a project slated to go up in the shadow of West Rock.
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients’
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
Continue reading ‘"Abstinence," Not Methadone, Set For CVS Site’
by | Oct 10, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Beaver Hills neighbors Nan Bartow and Rebecca Cramer advocating for a new Crescent St. sidewalk in February.
Approximately 550 feet of new sidewalks should soon be coming to an oft-traversed stretch of Crescent Street thanks to the pedestrian safety advocacy of Beaver Hills neighbors.
by | Oct 6, 2022 10:06 am | Comments (20)
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Asst. Chief Ettienne at Black and Brown Male Empowerment Conference: "Who knows someone who has died from gun violence?"
Street outreach worker William "Juneboy" Outlaw.
Surround yourself with people who help you thrive — and watch out for those around you who are up to trouble.
Marshawn Moore first learned that lesson three years ago soon after his older brother was shot and killed. The 13-year-old New Havener learned that lesson a second time during a college-campus panel discussion with city cops.
Continue reading ‘Teen Conference Message: "Stay Around The Right People," "Away From Guns"’
by | Oct 3, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (5)
Jonathan Cortez, center: How's $160,200?
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Ken Johnson prepares to up the ante, at Saturday's Bellevue Rd. auction.
“One-seventy-five,” Ken Johnson whispered into his cell phone.
That’s how much a rival bidder had just put down at a foreclosure auction on Bellevue Road. Johnson needed to know from his corporate contact if he could go even higher to buy the foreclosed single-family house before him.
Continue reading ‘Investors Vie For Foreclosed Bellevue Home’
by | Aug 29, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield welcomes back Obama students.
The song “Happy” by Pharrell played on a speaker as students walked past a cheering crowd, balloons, and a rainbow door fringe at 8 a.m. Monday for the start of a hope-filled new academic year at Barack Obama Magnet and 43 other city public schools.
by | Aug 26, 2022 12:15 pm | Comments (3)
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Class of 2026 settle in to new homes. Clockwise from top left: Destiny Rowland, Duke Quermorllue, Autumn Thomas, and Jasmine Uvicchio.
When choosing where to attend college this year, Norwalk native Duke Quermorllue ultimately decided on Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in large part because of his new school’s home city.
As Quermorllue put it on move-in day Thursday: “New Haven is the place to be!”
by | Aug 23, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
Beecher's rental "chiller," on site on Tuesday.
Beecher School’s permanent air-conditioning system is still busted, and won’t be replaced for several more months.
But a rental “chiller” is being installed this week — and classes should be able to take place as planned starting with next Monday’s beginning of the new school year.
Continue reading ‘Rental "Chiller" Brought In To Address Beecher School's HVAC Troubles’
by | Aug 22, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (13)
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Father-son duo Dexter and Isa Singleton practice drawing ...
... as Mendy Katz and Nir Bongart cook up some kosher burgers on Sunday.
Quiet. Neighborly. Diverse.
Beaver Hills residents and visitors hailed those community qualities as they turned out for an annual block party replete with CBD body butter, kosher hot dogs, a bouncy castle, and a whole lot of neighborhood love.
by | Aug 9, 2022 5:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Getting out the vote on Norton Pkwy.
A New Haven labor vote-puller had two hills to climb in Beaver Hills Tuesday as he sought to lure voters to the polls for an expected low-turnout Democratic Party primary: muggy weather that felt like nearly 100 degrees, and lack of public interest in two intraparty contests for lesser known statewide offices.
His strategy to confront both challenges: Focus local, local, local.
And offer an air-conditioned car ride to the polls if need be.
