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Learning chess at S.P.O.R.T. Academy's Fair Haven School afterschool program.
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"One, two, three... Chess!"
“If your pawn game is good, you can do so much.”
So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young students at Fair Haven School this week to reflect on the life skills they’ve learned on the chess board — and also to shoot some hoops, eat pizza, and celebrate a path towards sharper problem solving for even the humblest of chess players.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 21, 2022 6:27 pm
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Wilbur Cross's athletic complex: Ready for plastic repairs.
Synthetic turf prevailed over goose poop-laden grass — as high school athletes won not a football or soccer game but a civic debate against environmental advocates concerning the harms and benefits of replacing Wilbur Cross’s chronically muddy sports area with a field of plastic fibers.
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Nov 14, 2022 11:30 am
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Skater / moviemaker Thomas Purtell at Plush screening Saturday.
Skaters rolled down the blacktop of a partially closed Orange Street, gathering in a large group. They were there Saturday night to see the premiere of Sucker, a new skate film by Thomas Purtell.
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Lisa Reisman |
Nov 14, 2022 9:07 am
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Marine Corps veteran Dennis Bardelli: "We all take care of each other."
“Elbows out wide, snap your wrists!” Paul Weiland called to his fellow disabled veterans amid the thud of basketballs bouncing off the hardwood floorboards under the bright lights of Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) Pelz Gymnasium.
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Liliya Garipova |
Nov 11, 2022 11:10 am
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Playing, learning on Wilbur Cross's soccer field.
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Coach Miller.
As a lifelong student of o jogo bonito and a decades-long fixture of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) athletics, Wilbur Cross High School head soccer coach Edgar Miller has a lot to say.
About perseverance. About natural talent and hard work. And about how soccer can teach one to overcome adversity — whether that be the ruts of Rice Field or the challenges of being a teenager.
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.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 28, 2022 9:29 am
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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.
Top teams plunge for advantage at underwater rugby national championships.
Masked, fin-footed competitors traversed a chlorinated underworld in search of a salt water ball — and a chance to fly abroad to compete for a world cup.
On a humid overcast day with at least the rain holding off, Keira D’Amato set a new women’s record Monday at the 45th annual Faxon Law New Haven Road Race.
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.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 15, 2022 2:49 pm
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The "Young Kings" take home the tournament championship.
Newhallville celebrated its past, present, and future at a closing event at an annual summer community reunion and basketball tournament hosted at Lincoln Bassett Park.
Organizers present Newhallville leaders with appreciation awards.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 15, 2022 12:43 pm
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107-year-old Frank Sacco plays bocce on Wooster Street.
On a sun-drenched Sunday morning, a man finessed a ball down the tree-shaded bocce court at Wooster Memorial Park.
The man was Frank Sacco, who was born on 82 Wooster St. and will turn 108 in November. His ball clacked off the other balls, coming to rest near the pallino, or target. Competitors and onlookers at the weekly Society of St. Maria Maddelena bocce league match cheered.
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Aug 4, 2022 9:15 am
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New Haven Age Group Track team in the 1970s.
James Barber is a legend in the world of track and field. Over a career spanning more than 50 years, he trained All-Americans and Olympic athletes. His greatest influence, however, was in New Haven, where he inspired thousands of young people to be their best, as athletes and in life. Now, an alumni network of his former athletes is honoring him with a gift that will last forever: a new fund for youth housed at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. The Foundation’s Matthew Higbee contributed this article.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 2, 2022 4:18 pm
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"Team Get Right" and "Young Kings" square off in OT in day's final game.
Basketballs soared in the air. Stuntin’ Is A Habit played on the loud speaker. Families competed in spades. And grill smoke ignited the crowd’s appetites.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 27, 2022 4:19 pm
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Bob Pattison laments light pollution.
A proposal to raise the permitted height of sports facility lighting has generated controversy in Hamden among light sleepers, bird migration enthusiasts, and critics of Quinnipiac University’s role in the possible zoning change.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jul 24, 2022 11:52 am
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The Wheel Good Paddlers, led by drummer Julia Wilson and captain John Pescatore, in the final race.
The Tuff Girls 1, led by drummer Livia Doran and captain Christa Doran.
It was the final race of the day, and the Tuff Girls were just a few strokes behind the Wheel Good Paddlers, who were back to defend their title, this year with the help of New Haven Public School (NHPS) students.
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After a countdown from three, Kevin Mackenzie took a bottle of champagne — and smashed it against the side of The Cannon, the new combination sports pub-plant-based eatery on Dwight Street.
“We thought,” Mackenzie said, “this was a little more our style.”
