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Kian Ahmadi |
Jun 23, 2023 5:03 pm
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Dressed in a blue tee shirt with “Amalfi” printed across the chest, Fran Calabrese remembered walking hand in hand with her grandfather to a Wooster Square-hosted celebration of St. Andrew when she was just three years old.
Now 70, Calabrese returned on Thursday to that very same neighborhood Italian festa — which for her is about carrying on the traditions of Amalfi and honoring the miracle performed by New Haven’s patron saint.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 21, 2023 9:07 am
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A New York-based landlord plans to knock down two vacant Grand Avenue commercial buildings and build 112 new apartments in their stead on the northern end of Wooster Square.
Try to find a way to make the world a bit brighter than it is today.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae and High School in the Community Salutatorian Gian Rodriguez delivered that hope- and sorrow-filled challenge in separate graduation ceremony speeches Tuesday as they painted a path forward in Wooster Square Park.
A bridal business owner with local political history roots has filed to run against Wooster Square’s two-term, union-affiliated incumbent alder in a Democratic race that sheds light on a neighborhood in flux.
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Thomas Breen |
May 9, 2023 11:02 am
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A Wooster Square Park arts committee has raised $225,000 so far to help put up a new Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture in place of the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue — and is still looking for donations for a goal that now tops $300,000.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 19, 2023 2:50 pm
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Wooster Street parkgoers should soon have a new climbing structure, pull up bars, and other outdoor fitness equipment to help them exercise in the public greenspace, thanks to a donation from the Dalio Foundation.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 11, 2023 11:50 am
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High School in the Community (HSC) freshman Kiley was convinced she would never get along with a senior student she found herself sitting across the table from.
After each high-schooler opened up to “exchange” personal, vulnerable stories with the other, the two students wound up trading phone numbers — and found they had more in common than they first thought.
Surprise! Instead of staring at his computer, Nick Murphy found himself strolling through cherry blossom-budding Wooster Square Monday en route to picking up iced vanilla lattes.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 10, 2023 9:23 am
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A years-delayed plan to provide shelter on Grand Avenue for young New Haveners in crisis is moving ahead — with fewer beds, and a new nonprofit director at the helm.
(Updated) Donald Moody spent the first $200 that he received from a cash-transfer pilot program for formerly incarcerated New Haveners on basketball lessons for his stepson.
How might he use future monthly allotments under the year-long program?
On the occasional restaurant date with his wife and on regular insurance payments for his car and motorcycle and on the many, many other bills that come with living outside prison, Moody said.
And maybe on a tuxedo for his long-planned-for wedding ceremony this July, too.
A Conte West Hills third-grader can finish out the last few months of the school year at her Wooster Square “magnet” school — thanks to a Board of Education vote to reverse the district administration’s decision to bar the young student from her New Haven classroom after finding out that she lives in Hamden.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 13, 2023 9:09 am
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Investors from Madison, Meriden, Orange, Fairfield, and Westchester County crowded into a Wooster Square parking lot to try to buy a tax-foreclosed carriage house-turned-condo.
The winning bidder: A local real estate broker whose growing business’s signs dot downtown and East Rock.
But winning the auction might not end up meaning obtaining the property.
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.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 11, 2023 2:04 pm
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Find ways to collaborate with others. Delegate work when you’re overwhelmed. Be open to criticism. And don’t panic when the best laid plans go a bit awry.
Those are a few of the lessons that High School in the Community (HSC) junior and literary magazine editor Samuel Rosenberg has learned in a new class focused on training current student leaders how to excel as the heads of their respective clubs and groups.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 6, 2023 3:32 pm
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High School in the Community senior Amara Frazier-Conner sat across the table from her future self — in the form of recent grad Tyron Houston — to hear about how best to prepare over the next few months before beginning her own first semester in college.
Houston’s advice: Learn self-control, create study habits, don’t fall victim to peer pressure, and “get harder on yourself” now so you’re ready for the challenges of higher ed come September.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am
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A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
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Thomas Breen and Laura Glesby |
Nov 22, 2022 9:34 am
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(Updated) The group charged with coming up with an Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park gathered at the site of the past and future monuments on Tuesday to celebrate a major milestone for the project — and to kick off a $300,000 fundraising drive.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 7, 2022 9:21 am
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A local artist and historian with a knack for finding lost artifacts has won a key city approval to convert a former Hamilton Street warehouse into his next curatorial space for Elm City ephemera.