by | May 6, 2024 8:04 pm | Comments (43)
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Protesters rally outside City Hall ...
... before filling the Aldermanic Chamber for Monday's vote.
The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
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Alexandra Daum highlights new landscaping and more sustainable energy ...
... as part of Science Hill development projects.
Yale is seeking to build up its scientific campus by digging down into the earth, as revealed during a presentation on future buildings with a massive underground presence.
Continue reading ‘With Science Hill Build, Yale's Going Down’
by | May 6, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (58)
Clockwise from top left: Up to 64 new apartments eyed for Hamilton St.; developer Yoon Lee; the 63 Hamilton parking lot; Lost in New Haven's Rob Greenberg.
A bid to provide lots more places for people to live on Hamilton Street has prompted pushback from some neighbors over where current and future residents and visitors will be able to put their cars.
by | May 6, 2024 7:57 am | Comments (0)
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The Decemberists' Colin Meloy ...
... and opening act Ratboys, at College St. Music Hall.
The Decemberists brought May to a magnificent start on Saturday night when they returned to College Street Music Hall for the fourth show of their 2024 A Peaceable Kingdom North American tour.
Fans filled the room from floor to balcony, up the stairs and to the edges of the stage barrier, to bask in the multicolored hues of the lights and lofty sounds of some of their favorites, mixed in with new material from the band’s aptly titled upcoming album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again.
by | May 3, 2024 3:50 pm | Comments (7)
Former cop Vincent Raucci, pictured in plainclothes participating in a 1980s-era Q Terrace drug bust...
...is now behind bars in New Mexico.
Vincent Raucci was in jail when he received notice of a lawsuit against him — by a man he once sent to prison when he was a cop.
Continue reading ‘Corrupt Cop Located For Lawsuit — In Jail’
by | May 3, 2024 3:27 pm | Comments (9)
Planned new adult ed center on Bassett St., to open in June 2026.
More than 120 students are expected to graduate next month from New Haven’s Adult & Continuing Education Center — which is back open for in-person classes on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, after flooding caused the school’s now-repaired main building to close for nearly three months at the end of last year.
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Audrey Tyson, serving as a DNC delegate in 2016 in Philadelphia: "Tearful" with excitement upon learning she'd be a 2024 delegate in Chicago, too.
At the Chicago DNC ... in 1968.
Eight New Haven-area Democrats have won the chance to help officially select their party’s presidential nominee this summer at what’s shaping up to be an uncontested — but plenty contentious — Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
by | May 3, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (0)
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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story, along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1. The man pictured above is nicknamed the “Meat Stylist.” Who is he, and why is he in the news?
A. Niles Finnegan; he launched a franchise of “bespoke lamb products” out of a James Street warehouse
B. Jason Sobocinski; he introduced a “bacon bagel melt” menu item at Olmo on Trumbull Street
C. Ken Henson; bassist and lead songwriter on the new EP release “Shred To The Bone” by the local metal band Carnal Carnage
D. Nathaniel Bradshaw; chef and coach of Wilbur Cross High School’s culinary team, which won a state competition
E. Jimmy Apuzzo; he’s retiring after working as a beloved butcher and owner of the market at 721 Orange St. for 56 years
by | May 2, 2024 9:22 am | Comments (57)
Instagram posts documenting Wednesday's protests and arrests.
Yale police arrested another four protesters — including by tackling some to the ground — during the latest pro-Palestinian demonstration on the university’s downtown campus.
by | May 2, 2024 9:21 am | Comments (0)
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Melissa Rodriguez stays rooted to El Salvador family gardening memories.
As New Haven Academy junior Melissa Rodriguez planted pink and red “Busy Lizzies” at school, she thought back fondly on the days of helping her grandmother in El Salvador tend to her vibrant flower garden and fruit trees.
That was the scene Wednesday afternoon as New Haven Academy students worked to liven up the school’s garden beds as part of a week of environmental activities at the 444 Orange St. magnet high school.
by | May 1, 2024 10:02 pm | Comments (46)
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Advocates for the resolution protest at the Board of Alders in February.
Hundreds of people turned out to offer polarized and passionate testimony before the Board of Alders during an online hearing about a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza — a proposal that local legislators plan to take up for deliberations next week.
Continue reading ‘Ceasefire Hearing Draws Anguished Testimony’
by | May 1, 2024 4:28 pm | Comments (65)
New Haven police Wednesday afternoon released video footage of the East Rock crash Sunday involving a cop cruiser and an ATV, sending the ATV rider to the hospital.
by | May 1, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (21)
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The Beinecke Plaza flagpole on Wednesday.
A Yale graduate student allegedly spent 23 minutes working to release the rope and lower the American flag in Beinecke Plaza during the first night of a pro-Palestinian tent encampment.
A week later Yale police arrested that graduate student for vandalizing university property — with repair costs for the “damaged” flagpole estimated at more than $9,100.
Continue reading ‘Warrant: Arrested Protester Lowered American Flag’
by | May 1, 2024 11:55 am | Comments (27)
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Police cameras at Orchard and Edgewood.
The streets have eyes — an additional 266 and counting, to be precise — now that several million dollars in one-time federal aid have translated into a trove of new police surveillance cameras watching out for crime across the city.
by | Apr 30, 2024 3:32 pm | Comments (13)
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Kolokotronis and Blau in Kolokotronis's city-condemned apartment.
The property manager of a church-owned apartment complex on Orange Street has ordered the two lead organizers of the building’s tenants union to move out or face eviction — from city-condemned rental units that they haven’t been able to live in for months.
