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Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

Today is New Haven’s 387th birthday: the anniversary of the day a Puritan settling party from England landed here by way of Boston to try their fortune in the wilderness....

Many Happy Returns

Today is New Haven’s 387th birthday: the anniversary of the day a Puritan settling party from England landed here by way of Boston to try their fortune in the wilderness....

CSA PSA

CSA PSA

A community-supported agriculture program, or CSA, entails paying a local farm in advance for a recurring, usually weekly, share of its summer-to-fall harvest. The arrangement offers stability for farms—especially the...

CSA PSA

A community-supported agriculture program, or CSA, entails paying a local farm in advance for a recurring, usually weekly, share of its summer-to-fall harvest. The arrangement offers stability for farms—especially the...

This Week in New Haven (April 21 - 27)

This Week in New Haven (April 21 - 27)

Earth Days, birthdays and mirth days lie ahead. Monday, April 21Urban Resources Initiative, a “community forestry” program straddling town and gown, has 10 volunteer opportunities listed this week, from a...

This Week in New Haven (April 21 - 27)

Earth Days, birthdays and mirth days lie ahead. Monday, April 21Urban Resources Initiative, a “community forestry” program straddling town and gown, has 10 volunteer opportunities listed this week, from a...

Resetting the Bar

Resetting the Bar

The mark of a great bar is its power to make someone else’s place feel like it’s yours. That’s how the barroom at Da Legna, back when it was located...

Resetting the Bar

The mark of a great bar is its power to make someone else’s place feel like it’s yours. That’s how the barroom at Da Legna, back when it was located...

Moving Target

Moving Target

Missing a thing for years is embarrassing when it’s your job to take notice, but it’s even more embarrassing when the thing is shaped like crosshairs on a bullseye. Yesterday,...

Moving Target

Missing a thing for years is embarrassing when it’s your job to take notice, but it’s even more embarrassing when the thing is shaped like crosshairs on a bullseye. Yesterday,...

Making a Name

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...