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Mobile Art Student Crew Keeps It Clean
Garfield the cat and a Hillhouse Academics Smurf popped up on two electrical boxes less than a mile apart — as local high schoolers hustled to paint over profanity-laden graffiti in city parks and street corners, in an effort to beautify New Haven this summer. A trio of New...
Theory Becomes Practice Becomes Abstract Art
When you enter City Gallery, located at 994 State St., the first thing you notice is the vibrant painting in the window. Joyce Greenfield’s Boeing resembles an abstract plane, done in bright greens and blues. The colors evoke the natural tones of the earth, but the plane itself is manmade and mechanical, creating a dichotomy of natural versus human creation. There is a sense that the plane is a miniature planet, orbiting the earth.
Shhhh!: GOP Panel Almost Sort Of Agrees With Biden
Milwaukee — Amid another day of Biden-bashing here at the Republican National Convention, a little-noticed breakout session Tuesday afternoon featured discussion of emerging common ground between some MAGA Republicans and liberal Democrats. The panel, hosted by the DC-based bipartisan boutique lobbying firm ACG Advocacy, was entitled, “Antitrust, Regulation and...
City Unveils First Electric Trash Truck
New Haven trash, meet the 2024 Battle Motors LET 2 EV. That’s Connecticut’s first ever electric garbage and recycling truck, which is slated to take to the streets of New Haven starting Wednesday morning. City officials gathered at the public works headquarters at 34 Middletown Ave. Tuesday morning...
Fire Wrecks Dixwell Home, Displaces 8
Fred Christmas was on his way to Stop & Shop to pick up a steak to grill in his backyard when he got a call from his landlord. “Fred,” he recalled her saying. “The house is on fire.”. For the past quarter century, Christmas — a former Dixwell alder...
Alleged Gang Member Gets 9 Years
A 25-year-old alleged “Exit 8” gang member was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison — but not for the murder prosecutors claim he committed. During a hearing Monday at the federal courthouse at 141 Church St., U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden sentenced Donell Allick Jr. to 115 months, or nine and a half years, in prison.
“Teachers Village” Grows In The Heights
For financial reasons, Justin Cross lives with his mom and Ubers, an expense he can ill afford, all the way across town from the Hill to his early childhood education job in Fair Haven Heights. Eric Gill commutes from Waterbury, where he shares a single room with a brother and...
“Uncle Chip” Collins Celebrates 100
As guests entered Milton “Uncle Chip” Collins’s 100th birthday party at Amarante’s Sea Cliff, they might have had trouble distinguishing the World War II vet, beloved New Havener, aesthete, and now centenarian from a crowd of dancers. However, Collins could be found by the band, grooving along to swanky jazz.
Killed Peace Activist’s Memory Kept Alive
At a memorial service for 70-year-old local peace activist Yusuf Gürsey, friends and colleagues joined in person and over Zoom from all over the world — California, Puerto Rico, Turkey — to share stories and poems for the hit-and-run victim. All knew him as a lover of...
Photographer Sees America, No Filter
It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his eyes, makes him seem as though he has a thousand stories, and maybe he’ll tell us one. But, the photographer reveals, he never did.
Vegan Kosher-Certifying Rabbi Rides To Felafelier’s Rescue
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach. I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food. Like Elijah the Prophet on the first...
Nutmeg State Delegates Join In Ad-Vancing Trump’s GOP Pick
Milwaukee — Connecticut Republicans joined a convention floor full of delegates Monday in shouting “Yay!” as U.S. Sen. and Yale law grad J.D. Vance was unanimously nominated as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate. Trump and Vance, who grew up in Ohio, were...
Electricity Standoff Looms For Tiny Shelters
The Elicker administration has asked United Illuminating to turn off the power at six backyard emergency shelters in the Hill now that a 180-day state permit has expired, rendering the tiny homes “illegal dwelling units.”. That’s according to Mayor Justin Elicker, who provided an update Monday afternoon on...
Blumenthal: Unite Against Political Violence, Keep Supporting Biden
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal declined to speculate how the attempted assassination of former President Trump might affect the ongoing campaigns or the roiling issue of whether President Joe Biden should remain the Democratic Party’s flag-bearer. He did say, “We need to come together to condemn all political violence and...
3 Weekend Shootings, 7 Victims
Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, there were three separate, non-fatal shootings in New Haven that injured seven victims, leaving one in stable but critical condition. This is according to a Sunday New Haven Police Department press release on X. Police are still investigating. They aren’t sure if the shootings...
Who’s To Blame For $7.99 Eggs?
Greedy corporations are to blame for high grocery prices. Or maybe global supply chain disruptors like avian flu, drought in West Africa, and the war in Ukraine are most at fault. Or maybe we should point the finger at too few workers willing to put in an honest day on...
Tong: Don’t Back Down On “Democracy”
As Democrats nationwide pull back on criticizing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination, state Attorney General William Tong promised to continue to speak out about the high stakes of this year’s election. “Saying that we’re in a fight for our democracy is...
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