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| Jul 19, 2023 1:38 pm |Former Downtown Alder Abby Roth, a former supporter of incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker, switched her allegiances for this year’s campaign and endorsed one of his challengers.
Former Downtown Alder Abby Roth, a former supporter of incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker, switched her allegiances for this year’s campaign and endorsed one of his challengers.
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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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and | Jul 6, 2023 10:09 am |Excited to give their cousin Demi the same Fourth of July experience they’ve had since childhood, East Rock natives Payton and Jessica Smokes laid out a picnic blanket under the setting sun on Wednesday to watch the rain-delayed fireworks alongside her.
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| Jun 30, 2023 4:25 pm |College Woods Park came alive with dance, food, and community last weekend as New Haveners gathered to celebrate World Refugee Day.
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| Jun 26, 2023 9:14 am |East Rock neighbors decorated rainbow-colored cardstock letters spelling out the word “PRIDE” — and spoke about how that word means love, acceptance, authenticity, and support — at a LGBTQ+ community-celebrating event that doubled as a campaign stop for an aspiring first-time alder.
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| Jun 26, 2023 8:57 am |Drag kings, fairy hair, tarot readings, visual art, and a vivacious vibe that pulsed with community: these and more filled the event room, art gallery, and gathering area now known as the Black Box this past Saturday night at Witch Bitch Thrift. The Whitney Avenue thrift store has created a space within its space that can be used for anything from a contemplative sanctuary to a meeting area for clubs, classes, open mics, and more.
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Parks commissioners delayed deciding on whether or not to fully reopen the road to the top of East Rock Park to cars — as they weighed the testimony of drivers and those who struggle to walk such a long steep slope alongside that of frequent pedestrians and clean-park proponents.
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| Jun 14, 2023 2:24 pm |Wilbur Cross cheerleading co-captains and twin sisters Kayla and Makayla Edwards haven’t had a lot to cheer about over the past four years — until, that is, they did.
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| Jun 8, 2023 3:35 pm |Just like during every other day of the school year, East Rock Spanish teacher Magda Colón came to work on Thursday ready to celebrate the hard work of her students.
This time, she was in for a surprise — when her students and school staff turned that praise around, and presented her with an award recognizing the impact she’s had on their lives.
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| Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am |When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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| Jun 5, 2023 12:08 pm |Sound School senior Cesar Mendez wore a purple cord to symbolize his bilingual superpower — and so that his younger brother Giovanni can now recognize him as the hero that he is.
A bustling East Rock ice cream shop won’t be offering wine on tap anytime soon — now that a legal agreement has reversed a prior approval permitting the storefront to sell booze in addition to soft serve.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall: the cars that race down Willow Street and crash into neighbors’ fences.
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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 26, 2023 2:05 pm |Another season of grinding up and repairing roads kicked off on Friday, as the mayor and top public works officials gathered on Edwards Street to celebrate $3 million worth of milling and paving to come.
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| May 24, 2023 9:01 am |After East Rock School kindergartener Aylanais cooked up a freshly illustrated “cheese pizza,” she topped it with broccoli, pineapple, pepperoni, and mushrooms for a tasty and very New Haven-spirited class lesson.
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| May 23, 2023 1:57 pm |A 35-year-old Hamden man died Tuesday morning after driving his Tesla into nine other vehicles on New Haven’s Nicoll Street, police said.
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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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As East Rocker Caroline Tanbee Smith filed papers to make official her first aldermanic run, Fair Havener Claudia Hererra readied to hand over the local legislative baton — to a candidate she says will build bridges between those neighborhoods and across the broader city if she’s elected to be Ward 9’s next representative.
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| May 1, 2023 9:02 am |A cold spring morning downpour couldn’t keep father-son cycling duo Larry and Taylor King from riding for a good cause — to raise money to help keep their home city green, sure, but also to spend some quality family time outdoors and on two wheels, rain or shine.
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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 24, 2023 10:43 am |Connecticut patients seeking an abortion can continue to access — for now — a safe, legal, and decades-old medication that is commonly used across the country to help end a pregnancy in its first trimester.
But the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of mifepristone’s federal approval is only temporary. And an ideologically motivated attack on the drug’s legitimacy could still prevail.
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| Apr 24, 2023 8:41 am |The tension was mounting (well, sort of) late Saturday afternoon at East Rock Park: Team Popcorn Colonel — dressed in matching Orville Redenbacher outfits, complete with red suspenders and bow ties — were busy jumping on a trampoline while trying to sink a beachball-size papier-mâché popcorn kernel into a bucket.
Nearby across a blanket strewn with bike look-alike food (Cheetos and toothpicks in the shape of a two-wheeler?), Team Bicycle were forming themselves into a human velocipede.
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| Apr 20, 2023 3:54 pm |New Haven’s first-ever Latina schools superintendent greeted Ecuadorian-born student Bryan Panata with an “Hola,” made a Puerto Rican geography connection with Wilbur Cross junior Lunaa Omar, and remarked on how bilingual education has advanced since her childhood days working to learn English in a basement classroom.
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Connecticut is the wealthiest state in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Wilbur Cross junior Dave John Cruz-Bustamante told a crowd of educators gathered across the street from their school.
“But you wouldn’t know that from looking at our desks.”