Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
A baptismal font is not a font. This occurs to me as I take my place beside the pedestal. I run a finger along the rim of the broad, shallow bowl. It’s made of brilliant emerald stone, something like marble, grander than the one at our church. There is a drain in the center. Surely they don’t let the christening water go into the sewage pipes. Where, then? Maybe it...
At 10 a.m. Saturday, East Rock Park buzzed with activity. An automated bubble-blower engrossed a dozen rambunctious children while a local band of middle-aged musicians — known as Parker’s Tangent — played song after song of 12-bar classic rock. By 11:45 a.m., a group of bicyclists had pedaled its way over to the intersection of Cold Spring Avenue and Orange Street...
In October 2007, Kica Matos, a city community services administrator, visited Yale to address the Yale Political Union on key issues pertaining to the public safety of immigrants in New Haven. Her speech, during a debate about providing services for immigrants, enumerated the challenges in her line of work — undocumented families, for instance, renting spaces in...
To longtime Yale administrator Henry “Sam” Chauncey ’57, University President Richard Levin may be one of the greatest administrators Yale has seen in modern times — but he is also among the most reserved. “I, for one, would like to see more university presidents speak out now more than they are [on] the issues of the world,” he said of Levin and other...
Officials from Yale-New Haven Hospital and the U.S. Army jointly announced Tuesday an effort to reincorporate ex-soldiers more successfully into society. Under the agreement, the hospital will become one in a growing list of official partners of the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success, or PaYS, whereby a soldier’s occupational abilities in the military are matched...
From the minute I picked up Sam Bagg’s column of April 10 (“The only peace”), I knew something was wrong. In the pit of my stomach I knew I didn’t like the direction of Bagg’s reasoning, and yet I found each of his points apparently incontestable. He indicts the culture of victimization and is right to do so. There is nothing more disgusting to my palette then...
Many state leaders are calling for a change in Connecticut courts: Minors should no longer be tried as adults. The so-called Raise the Age legislation, currently pending a hearing in the state legislature, aims to reverse the practice of holding 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in the eyes of the law. Spearheaded in 2007 by Rep. Toni Walker and signed into law by Gov. M...
While Connecticut’s arts funding will dwindle next year, the City of New Haven will continue to dole out grants to local artists. The city of New Haven announced Monday that money allocated to the Mayor’s Community Arts Grant Program funding cycle would remain at $25,000. Though city leaders discussed cutting that funding at the Board of Aldermen’s Finance...
As the Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee works to finalize budget allocations, city department leaders are pleading for additional dollars. The Finance Committee convened Monday night in City Hall to hear testimonies from city departments concerning their budget requests for fiscal year 2009-’10. Representatives from the departments approached the committee to...
Artspace. It exists in an area that most Yalies would tremble at the thought of (at college, four blocks is “miles”). Other sturdier souls might know it as “around about where Miso is.” But if you’re ready to brave whatever local mythology places between the Yale campus and 50 Orange St. (kids on bicycles, panhandlers etc), you’ll be surprised with what you...
New Haven youth may soon have new places to socialize in a safe setting. The need for additional low-key and safe recreational facilities in New Haven was foremost on the agenda for the Aldermanic Youth Committee’s meeting Wednesday night. Members of the aldermanic Youth Council, concerned New Haven residents and student representatives from three New Haven high...
Ward 7 Alderwoman Frances “Bitsie” Clark can still remember clearly the time she was most impressed with the youth of New Haven. She remembers a girl who came to the front of the stage at one of two public youth hearing hosted by the Board of Aldermen last year to speak against a teenage curfew proposal. “You gave birth to us,” Clark said the girl said to the...
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