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Friday, March 21, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Host: LA VOZ HISPANA DE CT

Latino news, views, and music.

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Host: Lucy Gellman

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Host: LA VOZ HISPANA DE CT

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Columbus House
Taps New CEO

Homelessness services org to bring in Louis Gill, after more than a year without a permanent leader.  Staff reports. 

Gwendolyn Louise Good, 74

Overseer Good was dedicated to theological study and led Hamden’s Bible Gospel Center.  Staff reports. 

Punks Go Acoustic Psycho

Memo to an ex: ​“I never want to hear your name/ I never want to see your face/ Get out of my dreams/ Get out of my head/ Get out of my heart/ & get out of my bed.” Paul Bass reports. 

“What a Guy”

New SB Khi single processes dive bar encounter.
Jisu Sheen reports. 

“Year Of X” Marks Mothers’ Resilience

Latest installment of Kulturally LIT/Possible Futures book club honors mothers of Malcolm X, MLK Jr., and Baldwin.  Karen Ponzio reports. 

Legal Notice

Public Safety Committee meeting 3/31. Read more. 

A Pain-Free Joyride

Jack Quaid delivers in Novocaine. Jamil Ragland reports. 

“This Is The Cost”

Student poet Journey Rosa drops knowledge at $chools push in Hartford.  Maya McFadden reports. 

Boy, 8, Who Died
In Hill Shooting ID’d

As Stacey Glasgow.  Maya McFadden and Thomas Breen report. 

“Homespun” Heroes Hailed

Historian examines women’s labor during the Revolutionary War.  Allan Appel reports. 

Alders Honor Compassionate Teen

At New Reach-hosted ceremony recognizing Keontrai Floyd for giving back.  Zachary Groz reports. 

Horse Girls Take Note

Tuvan throat singers saddle out some soul music. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reviews.

Wiki Editors Add To Black History

At Stetson Library. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Beulah Jackson, 71

Known as a ​“fashion icon,” Beulah took pride in being a mother.  Obit. 

“Governmental Immunity”

Leads judge to toss lawsuit by man stabbed on school grounds. Eugene Driscoll reports.

How Schubert Did His Thing

Clayton Stephenson opens eyes, ears and minds at the Artists’ Collective.  Jamil Ragland reports. 

Jewish Day School
Appoints New Leader

Allan Appel reports.

Co-Op Arts Director 
Temporarily Transferred

To help BRAMS build out new arts high school. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Legal Notice

Joint Community Development/Tax Abatement meeting 3/25. Read more. 

Legal Notice

Tax Abatement Committee meeting 3/25. Read more. 

Susan Elizabeth Wilson Gilliam, 76

Dr. Gilliam was passionate about her faith, her family, and teaching math.  Obit. 

The Scary Music Of Hope

A writer watches a live opera stream for a distraction from our political climate.  Lary Bloom reports. 

Family In The House

For sneak preview of Hillhouse doc.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Miami Comes To Westville

Thanks to DaSilva Gallery & Frame Shop.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

“The King’s Festival??”

Co-Op theater students head ​“Into The Woods.” The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Shubert Taps In

To viral Syncopated Ladies, live on tour.  Aster Aguilar reports. 

Diane Hamilton-Toles, 71

Diane was a woman of strong faith, known for her generosity and dedication to service.  Obit. 

Envelope, Please ...

Winners announced in Compost Heap Indies awards for best profiles in ​“preservationist” pap, pusillanimity, and persistence. (Pictured: trophies.)  Paul Bass reports. 

Gen Alpha Speaks: 
Cereal, Then Milk

Cartoons and Lucky Charms lure families to Best Video.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Elmo Finds Tango

And a mom with grown kids finds out what it’s like to see Sesame Street Live on an adult date night.  Karen Ponzio reports. 

4 Bands Draw In Close

At Never Ending.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Suspect Arrested
In Delivery Driver Murder

Police reveal what led to the murder of 26-year-old Raviteja Koyyada and the arrest of a 21-year-old woman.  Laura Glesby reports. 

This Is Glass

Former manufacturer’s ghosts inspire resistive and radical art-making at NXTHVN.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Wilson Librarian
To Head To Wallingford

After 4 years serving as Hill library’s branch manager.  Laura Glesby reports. 

Sweet Delivery

A trip to the post office leads to a trip to the arts shop leads to a return trip to a family farm leads to … a citrusy recipe.  Liz Grace reports. 

Still Nasty

Nasty Women exhibition returns, to Creative Arts Workshop. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

It’s Raining $$

State $$, that is — $9M for local orgs thanks to Community Investment Fund.  Staff reports. 

Pop-Up Film Series
Premieres In Westville

Movies will continue all week at Lotta Studios.  Karen Ponzio reports. 

Fearing Trump, Yale 
Suspends AI-Smeared Scholar

New York Times’ Stephanie Saul reports.

By The #‘s

• 17% of NHPS’ budget comes from the federal gvt.
• 42% of those funds support meals for low-income kids.
• The School + State Finance Project breaks it all down.

FD Report: Latest Xu-House Fire Began With Burning Basement Mattress

by | Mar 21, 2025 4:01 pm

Thomas Breen photo

126 Sheffield. The fire department found it is "very well possible" that someone in the basement "improperly discarded a cigarette end at the floor near the wall that surrounded the oil tank."

File photo

City fire investigator Reyes (second from left) with property manager David Kone, at the scene of the Jan. 31 blaze. One of the six tenants displaced in the fire, who is now homeless, previously lost his home in a different Xu-house fire.

Either a cigarette or mixed wiring could have ignited a mattress in a basement of a Newhallville three-family house that burst into flames earlier this year.

Those details are included in a newly released report that sheds light on what may have caused just the latest of five fires in two years at different properties controlled by Bethany-based landlord Jianchao Xu.

Continue reading ‘FD Report: Latest Xu-House Fire Began With Burning Basement Mattress’

Wexler-Grant, Lincoln-Bassett To Merge

by | Mar 21, 2025 12:17 pm | Comments (5)

Thomas Breen photos

Wexler-Grant in Dixwell, to merge with ...

... Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville.

Grappling with low enrollment and decaying buildings, the city’s public school district plans to merge Wexler-Grant and Lincoln-Bassett into a single PreK-8th grade school next academic year.

That doesn’t mean the total number of schools in New Haven will drop, however, as the district then plans to convert the current Wexler-Grant site into a new alternative middle school focused on ​“project-based learning.” 

Continue reading ‘Wexler-Grant, Lincoln-Bassett To Merge’

Postal Workers Protest Proposed DOGE Cuts

by | Mar 20, 2025 8:58 pm | Comments (14)

Zachary Groz photo

Post workers and friends march on Elm

Carrying red, white, and blue signs reading ​“U.S. MAIL NOT FOR SALE” and chanting ​“Whose Post Office? The People’s Post Office,” roughly 15 U.S. postal workers marched down Elm Street to protest a recently announced Trump- and Musk-led effort to slash the service’s workforce and budget.

Continue reading ‘Postal Workers Protest Proposed DOGE Cuts’

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