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City Dems Line Up Behind Harris
Top New Haven Democrats coalesced quickly Sunday behind Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential nominee now that Joe Biden has announced he will not seek reelection. At least two local Dems, including one delegate to next month’s party convention, added U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (who often shows up on lists of potential future presidential candidates) as their favored running mate to take on the Donald Trump‑J.D. Vance Republican ticket.
Feeble From The Floor: RNC’s Testosterone-Trip TV Finale, Viewed Up Close
Milwaukee — (Opinion) For the last night of the Republican National Convention, viewers turned on the television to see a series of scripted attempts to make a 78-year-old man wearing a diaper on his ear come across as the hulky champion of a prime time fight. Inside the Fiserv Forum convention hall, I saw a different show play out.
Hundreds Fill The Green … To Read!
Nose deep in books on the Green, roughly 800 young New Haveners were transported to watching a Bronx street performer bust a move, to visiting a second-floor apartment in a Russian mining town, to spending some time with the Cat in the Hat — all as part of an annual “read-in” downtown.
PAL Kicks Off Soccer In Fair Haven
“What are we?” Fair Haven Patrol Officer and newly minted Police Activity League (PAL) Soccer Coach Frantzy Toussaint asked his 15 students. Having braved drills, laps, and games in high-80 degree weather, they proudly responded, “Soccer players!”. The students-turned-soccer players are the first participants in a new...
Arrest Made In 16-Year-Old’s Murder
A year and a half after 16-year-old Joshua Vazquez was shot and killed on a Monday afternoon in the West Hills neighborhood, city police have arrested an already-incarcerated 19-year-old on one felony count of murder. Police Chief Karl Jacobson, New Haven Police Department (NHPD) spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart, and Mayor...
Peace Gardeners: Let Water Flow
New Haven is proudly a United Nations Peace Messenger City — so says the beautiful gladioli-draped welcome sign that even many New Haveners may not know exists because they whiz by on speedy Ella T. Grasso Boulevard between Legion Avenue and North Frontage Road. Yet New Haven is also...
Opinion: Make Teacher Certification More Accessible
Naomi Jones is a 6th grade math, science, and health teacher in New Haven Public Schools. A persistent teacher shortage has left many schools in Connecticut and across the nation in a state of crisis, struggling to find students the quality educators they desperately need. Unfortunately, Connecticut’s outdated teacher certification process has far too many unnecessary barriers to educator certification, stalling any progress that could otherwise be made in getting quality certified teachers in the front of classrooms.
Private Equity Car Wash Comes To Whalley
David Council gives a heart sign, a wave, or a double thumbs-up to every car that drives through New Haven’s newest car wash — the local outpost of a private equity-owned chain he helps manage on Whalley Avenue. The suds might look familiar to customers of traditional mom-and-pop...
Protest Spotlights Alleged Child Abuse
“Justicia por mi hija,” Lida Llundo said into a megaphone on the front steps of the police department, as she held up a framed picture of herself and her five-year-old daughter whom she fears is in great danger. “Yo necesito mi hija.”. Llundo stood at the center...
Artist Makes Mythology Natural
Even without knowing the name of the piece, the figure represented there looks like a mythological personage, a character freighted with symbols. It’s there in the decorations on her boots, and the way she walks through and astride the town at the same time. It’s there in the way she holds a building in her hand. In the artist’s style, she could be a giant, holding an actual building; she could also be showing us the vision she has in her head. Or maybe it’s a little bit of both.
Electricity Turned Off At Tiny Shelters
Joel Nieves woke up in his tiny backyard home on Rosette Street Thursday morning and noticed the air was warm — too warm. At 9:24 a.m., at the Elicker administration’s behest, United Illuminating (UI) shut off the power to six pre-fab shelters, including the one that Nieves has been living out of.
Arthur J. Bosley, Jr., 73
Arthur J. Bosley, Jr., 73, of New Haven, Connecticut, passed away peacefully on July 1, 2024. Born on August 25, 1950, in New Haven, CT, Art was the beloved eldest son of the late Arthur and Helen Perry Bosley. Arthur leaves behind a loving family to cherish his memory. His...
Science Hill Build-Up Cleared For Takeoff
A green, landscaped, public-welcoming entry point to Yale’s northeastern campus is coming to Science Hill — as part of a Yale Bowl-sized redevelopment project, including a massive new lab and classroom building, newly approved by the City Plan Commission. Commissioners voted unanimously in support of that proposal Wednesday...
Self-Storage OK’d For Ex-Factory
City Plan commissioners approved a plan to convert up to 65,000 square feet of industrial space on Lenox Street into self-storage units — after deciding that that controversially quiet use fit better at a former factory in the Heights than at a former factory in Newhallville. They took that...
$8.8M In Repairs Readied For Floyd Little
A new indoor track, roof, locker rooms, and scoreboard are all one step closer to coming to the Floyd Little Athletic Center — as alders endorsed accepting nearly $8.8 million in state funds to make those planned improvements a reality. Alders voted unanimously in support of that state-money-receipt plan...
Sound Schoolers Test The Waters
The traffic from the Q Bridge rumbled overhead, oblivious to the scene below at the mouth of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers, as two students on a small Sound School boat lowered a piece of scientific equipment into the water, at surface and at depth. The reason: to continue a...
Ruth T. Henderson Gets Her Corner
When Kevin Yarbrough struggled to wake up for school one morning, his grandmother Ruth T. Henderson had a surprise. She took a bowl of water, the very one set out for their house cat Miss Kitty, and flung its contents onto Yarbrough, who jolted out of bed. Sure enough, it was just the trick.
Harley Hogs Let Wild Sides Loose At RNCBBQ
Milwaukee – Ex‑U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and his cover band “The Diplomats” pulled up to the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee during the third day of the Republican Nominating Convention to strut their stuff, show their support for Trump, and trigger Easy Rider sentimentalism with a rendition of Steppenwolf’s classic rocker “Born to Be Wild.”
Fair Rent Rejects 9 Retaliation Claims
That was the key word in the Fair Rent Commission’s rejection of a host of tenants union retaliation complaints, on the grounds that the Emerson Apartments’ new landlord had done no legal wrong in not renewing their leases. The commission issued those rejections at online hearings Tuesday night,...
Cheese Biz Pioneer Dies At 87
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx. A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
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