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Cross Keeps It Close

by | Feb 12, 2024 1:41 pm | Comments (0)

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Harmoni Thomas with the ball against Shelton.

Wilbur Cross Lady Governor Leilanie Pugh had just minimized her opponents’ lead by laying the ball off the backboard and into the hoop — but she didn’t stop there.

Seconds later she caught a rebound, then sank a mid-range shot to bring her team within four points.

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Guard Finds A Net

by and | Jan 11, 2024 2:24 pm | Comments (1)

Lady Governors on the road: "One, two, three ... TOGETHER!"

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Wilbur Cross's Gabi Rodriguez takes a three-pointer against Foran.

Gabi Rodriguez had a lousy day at school. You wouldn’t have guessed that watching her sink three pointers that evening.

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Commission Frets Over Kids Playing Soccer

by | Jan 4, 2024 1:15 pm | Comments (16)

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These kids can't drive or park on River Street, but they'll be able to kick the ball.

What if 12 kids playing soccer in a vacant warehouse becomes 200?

City Plan commissioners debated that allegedly nightmare scenario for an hour before deciding they could live with it after all — as long as the number of players, benchwarmers and spectators doesn’t escalate beyond that cap.

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Generation To Generation, Podiatry To Pickleball

by | Dec 19, 2023 11:07 am | Comments (8)

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SCSU grad student Bruno Semino competing in a pickleball tournament in October at Edgewood Park.

The story of the proposed indoor pickleball facility slated to spring forth from a stretch of asphalt in Westville begins, in a way, in 1957, when Harrison Blume’s grandfather first hung a podiatry shingle on Blake Street.

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Yale's Tree-Cutting Golf Course Renovation Plan OK'd

by | Dec 8, 2023 4:08 pm | Comments (17)

The Yale Golf Course, as pictured in a City Plan presentation.

Yale has won city permission to cut down more than 1,000 trees and renovate its Upper Westville golf course as part of a plan that university officials pitched as making 200 acres of fairways and tees more sustainable” — and that local activists criticized as environmentally backwards.

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East Shore Park Soccer Fields Renamed For Douglas W. Rae

by and | Nov 9, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (2)

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Local officials and Douglas W. Rae (third from right) at Founder's Day event.

The following writeup was submitted by Ellen Doon and Mike Galbicsek of the New Haven Youth Soccer league.

On Saturday, Nov. 4, over a hundred people gathered at East Shore Park to celebrate 40 years of youth soccer in New Haven. Members of New Haven Youth Soccer, along with several city and state officials, came together for the league’s first Founder’s Day” event. The event honors Dr. Douglas W. Rae, Professor Emeritus in the Yale School of Management, who founded New Haven Youth Soccer in the early 1980s.

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Parking Lot, Meet Pickleball

by | Oct 13, 2023 2:49 pm | Comments (18)

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Pickleball played at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in April ...

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... and next at an indoor trendy paddle sport building, coming to this parking lot?

Indoor pickleball instead of surface-lot parking could be coming to a busy Westville Village intersection, as the owner of a Valley Street stretch of asphalt has proposed constructing a new two-story gym and spa” dedicated to the trendy tennis-adjacent sport.

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Trophy-Winning Academy Keeps Hamden Dancing

by | Oct 11, 2023 12:00 pm | Comments (1)

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Maya McDuffie (left) instructing young Hamden dancers.

Sitting on Lia Davila’s office floor, directly in front of her desk and constantly in her line of sight, is a row of five trophies. The trophies, which stretch all the way up to her chest, serve as a reminder of the grind, grit, and glory her students put in over the summer at the Turn It Up Dance Challenge in Orlando, Fl. in order to bring those awards home to Hamden.

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Bears-Bulldogs Match Kicks Off HBCU Conversation

by | Oct 3, 2023 4:49 pm | Comments (0)

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Legacy Foundation's Greg Jones and high school senior Devin James, with Morgan State AD Dena Freeman-Patton and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison after the event.

A door opened for high school senior Devin James at The Lab at ConnCORP.

The occasion was a Friday evening conversation, moderated by ESPN’s Michael Eaves, on Athletics & Academics at HBCUs” with Dena Freeman-Patton, the first female athletic director at Morgan State University. 

Freeman-Patton was in town for Saturday’s NAACP Harmony Classic between her Maryland-based school’s Bears and Yale’s Bulldogs. Yale would prevail 45 – 3.

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Ex-Yankees Ace Pitches Baseball’s Future Stars

by | Sep 26, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (1)

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Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word.

CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field."

When CC Sabathia was nine years old, Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart visited Sabathia’s Boys & Girls Club — and that’s when the future Cy Young Award-winning left-hander knew what he wanted to do with his life.

It wasn’t just playing baseball.

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4,500 Run Through New Haven

by | Sep 4, 2023 7:34 pm | Comments (5)

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Start of 5K at 2023 Faxon Law New Haven Road Race.

Quintessential New Haven,” Ruth Koleske pronounced, as she stood near the corner of Temple and Elm awaiting her husband on a sun-drenched Monday morning. 

She was referring to the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race, which played out for its 46th Labor Day. In all, 4,500 runners competed in various races, including the 20K, which Koleske was following, the 5K, a 13.1‑mile race, and a fun run for kids.

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