Basketball Tourney Seeks To Stop Violence, Start Love
Free throw contest at previous Stop the Violence, Start The Love hoops tournament. There’s a basketball tournament this Saturday at Goffe Street Park, and it’s no ordinary one. Along with deejays...
View ArticleMustangs Saddle Up With Gorilla Lemonade Sponsor
Gorilla Lemonade's Kristen Threatt and CT Mustang owner and right guard Jose "Conie" Matos at new Hill mural. Justen Wilson held up a finger on his right hand. It wouldn’t bend. It won’t for several...
View ArticleYale Golf-Course Plan Met With Distrust
Stevenson Road resident Henry Horton: Will Yale's tree-cutting plans make a bad flooding situation even worse? Upper Westville neighbors of the Yale University Golf Course could have been pleased with...
View Article4,500 Run Through New Haven
Start of 5K at 2023 Faxon Law New Haven Road Race. “Quintessential New Haven,” Ruth Koleske pronounced, as she stood near the corner of Temple and Elm awaiting her husband on a sun-drenched Monday...
View ArticlePizza & Bikes Take Over Downtown
Friday night's Grand Prix bike race ... ... and Apizza Feast on College Street. Pizza lovers and cycling enthusiasts filled downtown to watch one of the last chances in the season for competitive...
View ArticleEx-Yankees Ace Pitches Baseball’s Future Stars
Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word. CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field." When CC Sabathia was nine years...
View ArticleBears-Bulldogs Match Kicks Off HBCU Conversation
Legacy Foundation's Greg Jones and high school senior Devin James, with Morgan State AD Dena Freeman-Patton and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison after the event. A door opened for high school senior...
View ArticleTrophy-Winning Academy Keeps Hamden Dancing
Maya McDuffie (left) instructing young Hamden dancers. Sitting on Lia Davila’s office floor, directly in front of her desk and constantly in her line of sight, is a row of five trophies. The trophies,...
View ArticleParking Lot, Meet Pickleball
Pickleball played at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in April ... ... and next at an indoor trendy paddle sport building, coming to this parking lot? Indoor pickleball instead of surface-lot parking...
View ArticleEast Shore Park Soccer Fields Renamed For Douglas W. Rae
Local officials and Douglas W. Rae (third from right) at Founder's Day event. The following writeup was submitted by Ellen Doon and Mike Galbicsek of the New Haven Youth Soccer league.On Saturday,...
View ArticleYale's Tree-Cutting Golf Course Renovation Plan OK'd
The Yale Golf Course, as pictured in a City Plan presentation. Yale has won city permission to cut down more than 1,000 trees and renovate its Upper Westville golf course as part of a plan that...
View ArticleSoccer Field Pitched For River St. Warehouse
Coach Gervacio Ortiz with his team. Fake grass, real goals, and striving young athletes could be the latest additions to an otherwise vacant Fair Haven waterfront warehouse — if a 50-parent plan to...
View ArticleGeneration To Generation, Podiatry To Pickleball
SCSU grad student Bruno Semino competing in a pickleball tournament in October at Edgewood Park. The story of the proposed indoor pickleball facility slated to spring forth from a stretch of asphalt...
View ArticleCommission Frets Over Kids Playing Soccer
These kids can't drive or park on River Street, but they'll be able to kick the ball. What if 12 kids playing soccer in a vacant warehouse becomes 200?City Plan commissioners debated that allegedly...
View ArticleLady Governors Look For The Rebound
Fulton pushes for a layup. With eight minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Wilbur Cross sophomore Jackie Fulton leaped into action after a teammate missed a shot. She caught the rebound...
View ArticleRiver Street Soccer Turf OK'd
There was no talk of controlling traffic, limiting crowd sizes, or banning soccer games.
View ArticleGuard Finds A Net
Lady Governors on the road: "One, two, three ... TOGETHER!" Wilbur Cross's Gabi Rodriguez takes a three-pointer against Foran. Gabi Rodriguez had a lousy day at school. You wouldn’t have guessed that...
View ArticlePoint Guards Take Charge
Cross's Sirraya Pratt gets off a shot against Shelton. Malaysia Lavonna Haynes signaled Cross’s next play on the court with a raised fist in the air and set up her teammate Sirraya Pratt for an open...
View ArticlePickleball Complex OK'd For Valley Street
Design for one of the planned courts. Break out the paddles, because indoor pickleball is coming to town.
View ArticleLady Governors Taste Victory
KaNai Goodwin-Kellman prepares for a rebound as teammate Harmoni Thomas shoots a free throw. In a neck-and-neck 11th game of the season, the Wilbur Cross Lady Governors eked out their first win Monday...
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