by | Feb 16, 2023 8:47 am | Comments (35)
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Time to reset the clock? The Edgewood Park sundial.
A new group of citywide parks advocates is calling on Mayor Justin Elicker to up his administration’s care for open spaces — including by reinstating a stand-alone department for parks and trees.
Continue reading ‘"Friends" To City: Bring Back Parks Dept.’
by | Feb 9, 2023 3:05 pm | Comments (21)
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Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.
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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.
A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive.
An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble.
A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.
Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
by | Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm | Comments (18)
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The view from the soon-to-be-replaced Mid Bridge.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.
A dance venue. A community garden. A set of lights for the skate park. A … West Rock-bound gondola?
Those were a few of the ideas that made it onto a community-built wish list for $800,000 worth of improvements for Edgewood Park, as put together by roughly 100 parkgoers.
by | Dec 21, 2022 11:33 am | Comments (5)
Alling Memorial Golf Course: Fees bumped.
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Tom Verderame pitches fare in November.
Local golfers will have to pay slightly more to hit the links in Fair Haven Heights come April — as alders signed off on a higher fee schedule for the Alling Memorial Golf Club that still makes the Eastern Street venue less expensive than courses in Hamden, Woodbridge, or Orange.
by | Dec 6, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (1)
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Nova and Zora Zanders at Sunday's Hill holiday fest.
Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for.
“I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”
Continue reading ‘Hill Holiday Bash Brightens Kimberly Square’
by and | Nov 22, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (16)
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The approved new Wooster Square monument.
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The Wooster Square Monument Committee at the site of the past and future statues on Tuesday.
(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.
by | Nov 18, 2022 10:49 am | Comments (2)
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Volunteer Kevin McCarthy and Tusker Pickett at the Trowbridge Environmental Center Thursday.
Years ago when Anna Pickett was potty-training her boys, taking them walking outside could be a challenge because she was always on the look-out for a bathroom.
Back then if she was in the College Woods area of East Rock Park, she often could not find one.
No longer — thanks to a city effort to reopen long-shuttered public parks buildings and turn them into active community centers. With working bathrooms.
Continue reading ‘Book Club, Bathrooms Beckon At Reopened Park Center’
by | Nov 15, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (6)
Trekking with the New Haven Bioregional Group through Edgewood Park.
Sunday marked the first cold morning of the year, with rain, and at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, people hurried from stall to stall. But another group of people gathered at the gazebo and soon headed farther into the park, unharried by the weather. The occasion was a walk of the New Haven Bioregional Group, into a part of the city where trees and moving water had something to do with preparing the Elm City, and the region, for the future.
Continue reading ‘Park Volunteers Manage The Bends In The River’
by | Nov 14, 2022 8:49 am | Comments (12)
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Blake Field: State-funded upgrades en route.
Parks and fields across the city — as well as a flood-prone westside road — are a big step closer to receiving long-awaited improvements, now that the Board of Alders has formally accepted state money earmarked to make those upgrades a reality.
by | Nov 11, 2022 2:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Philadelphia and New Haven moms walk together along the Valley St. memorial.
Philly's Johndell Gredic sketching a vision for a similar garden in her home city.
A group of moms from Philadelphia walked a brick pathway lined with the names of hundreds of New Haven victims of gun violence — to take solace in the tranquil Valley Street garden, and to find inspiration in how to build a similar memorial in their own home city.
Continue reading ‘Philly Moms Find Brotherly Love By West Rock’
by | Nov 10, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Jay Clark put his foot on his DGK Boo board. He glared at the concrete bench.
by | Nov 9, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (18)
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A contingent of Wilbur Cross community members, including Board of Ed Student Representative Dave John Cruz-Bustamante, art teacher Melody Gallagher, and soccer captain Matteo Festa.
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A lightly muddy Blake Field on Friday afternoon.
Broken ankles. Used syringes. Mud-induced match cancellations. Low morale.
Those were just a few of the high school sports-related obstacles that Wilbur Cross coaches and students spoke out about having to surmount time and again, as they successfully urged alders to move forward with long-awaited upgrades to the East Rock Athletic Complex.
Continue reading ‘Student-Athlete Pleas Power Field Repairs’
by | Nov 8, 2022 6:16 pm | Comments (0)
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James Wilson prepares to return a serve Sunday at the rebuilt courts.
Patrick McGovern back at play.
The pop of tennis racket returns can be heard again in Edgewood Park — along with a briny new variation.
by | Nov 8, 2022 9:53 am | Comments (3)
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The proposed new Wooster Square Park monument.
A laborious and sometimes controversial process to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park took a big step closer to completion — as alders favorably recommended a new Italian-American-heritage-celebrating monument, which could cost $250,000 in privately raised funds to build.
Continue reading ‘Alders Endorse Columbus Statue Replacement’
by | Nov 1, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (9)
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Sandra and her four kids stop by Trunk or Treat for second year.
Five year old Thiago Arichabala dressed as Chucky.
The light at the end of a spooky spider- and cobweb-filled tunnel at Edgewood Park was a hefty bag of Halloween treats.
Continue reading ‘Edgewood Park Transformed By Halloween Haunted Ride’
by | Oct 28, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Before he moves on from his city job next week, Martin Torresquintero is hustling to finish one last bridge to connect New Haveners to an overlooked nature wonderland.
by | Oct 28, 2022 9:29 am | Comments (9)
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John Geanakoplos on Wilbur Cross' existing running track.
New fencing for Rice Field. New soccer equipment for Blake Field. A “multi-sport field and track” at Wilbur Cross.
Those upgrades and others might soon come to three East Rock sports fields if the Board of Alders approves accepting state and possible federal funding.
Continue reading ‘East Rock Athletic Fields Upgrades Advance’
by | Oct 18, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (21)
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Columbus statue replacement, now before the Board of Alders.
A new sculpture honoring New Haven’s Italian American community is one step closer to coming to Wooster Square now that the Elicker Administration has formally submitted plans to the Board of Alders for a public artwork to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue.
Continue reading ‘Columbus Statue Replacement Up For Review’
by | Oct 17, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)
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Colello on Friday: "I started from the bottom and went through it all."
A veteran Hamden public works employee is slated to become the town department’s next director — with plans to bring sustainability, including town-made potting soil, to the top of his agenda as well as to community members’ gardens.
by | Oct 7, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (8)
Thursday's City Plan Commission meeting.
Three city parks and a flood-prone west side road are slated to receive millions of dollars worth of upgrades thanks to a bevy of state and federal aid coming New Haven’s way.
Continue reading ‘Parks Upgrades En Route Thanks To State, Federal $’
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Neighbors buy fresh produce at Health and Wellness Festival.
Children do park yoga with Full of Joy Yoga.
Yoga. Farm fresh produce. Starter plants for home gardens. Hula hooping. And Bomba.
That was all on the agenda Sunday at the inaugural Gather New Haven Health and Wellness Festival.
Continue reading ‘Gather New Haven Brings Out The Wellness In Inaugural Community Fest’
by | Sep 19, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (2)
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New Haven & New Jersey firefighters at work.
Firefighters from New Haven and New Jersey collaborated to take apart a condemned Newhallville playground, piece by piece — so that safe, new play equipment can rise in its place in honor of a local “angel.”
Continue reading ‘Firefighters Begin Rehab Of "Angel's" Playground’
by | Sep 12, 2022 4:24 pm | Comments (4)
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Great Horned Owl stars at Sunday's Migration Festival at Lighthouse Park.
Humans (above) ponder falcon (below).
by | Sep 4, 2022 12:26 pm | Comments (32)
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You can drive here Sunday. Not Monday.
Drivers can steer their cars to the summit of East Rock Park again for now — on Sundays, from only the Davis Street entrance on the Hamden side.
Continue reading ‘Cars Allowed Again In East Rock Park -- On Sundays’
by | Sep 2, 2022 5:55 pm | Comments (7)
Billy Bostic Friday keeping watch on progress at Edgewood Park.
From his front-row seat under Edgewood Park’s “Lyin’ Tree,” Billy Bostic was heartened to see a crew working on a new tennis court surface — and disheartened to see skateboarders and rollerbladers potentially mar the new work.
Continue reading ‘Tennis Pro To Rollerbladers: Please Don't Wreck New Courts’
