Mia Rubirosa homers in the first inning against Shelton to break the WHHS career HR record with her 10th. She hit her 11th later in the game.Mia Rubirosa homers in the first inning against Shelton to break the WHHS career HR record with her 10th. She hit her 11th later in the game.Mia Rubirosa homers in the first inning against Shelton to break the WHHS career HR record with her 10th. She hit her 11th later in the game.Christian Mullins competes in the 300m hurdles versus NDWH and Hamden. Johnny Chen helps the Westies defeat Platt Tech 7-0. The team was on a four-match win streak.Joaquin Baldo ..read more

Here ‘tis, m’dear, April just popped into the picture. With Easter early this year, we can now settle into a slight, ever sooo small, respite before the big summer slog through all the things we do around these parts. April is a time to get things organized as we move toward the warmer weather and things that have to do with summer. In our little corner of the universe, that means the City Council will be holed up in its chambers perusing the budget document Herroner announced two weeks ago. In fact, tonight at the Actors Colony in the Harriett North Room, the annual budget public hearing ..read more

Mayor Dorinda Borer and members of the city’s Blight Enforce￾ment Task Force hold a news conference in the Harriet C. North Community Room of City Hall on March 27 to herald a new campaign to fight blight in West Haven. The announcement featured remarks by Borer, who was flanked by more than a dozen task force members. Blight has been an ongoing problem in the city for decades. With a new administration comes an innovative approach. Flanked by representatives from several city departments as well as the police and fire services, Mayor Dorinda Borer announced a new initiative to clean up th ..read more

The public gets its one and only opportunity to critique and review Mayor Dorinda Borer’s $182.7 million budget, announced two weeks ago. A public hearing is set for tonight in the Harriet North Community Room of City Hall, 355 Main St. at 6:30. The annual public hearing is the first step before the City Council goes into a monthlong review process before finalizing a budget ordinance on the first Thursday of May. Whatever review and alteration made by the council; the final product must be approved by Municipal Accountability Review Board (MARB) under the Tier IV status given West Haven as ..read more

By Rich Lowry Syndicated Columnist Karl Marx would be proud. Bernie Sanders has proposed taking another step toward the philosopher’s envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-day workweek. Marx wrote how in communist society, workers would be liberated to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, raise cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.” Needless to say, that’s not how communism turned out. Yet the belief that work is basically a capitalist imposition that is unnatural and bad for people ..read more

Make your voice heard Tonight, Mayor Dorinda Borer’s newly proposed budget goes to the public in the first and only public hearing on the plan. The City Council meets in special session in the Harriet North Meeting Room of City Hall at… The $182.7 million spending package for the fiscal year beginning July 1 is just under a $10 million increase from the last fiscal year of $173.4 million. It includes a $2 million increase in the Board of Education side of the ledger, the first time in several years the school system has seen an increase in city funding. Of paramount interest to the average ..read more

Richard Salvatore Castiglione, 86, of North Branford passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 16, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital after being stricken at home. He was the beloved husband of Carmela Candelora Castiglione, and they would have celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in June. Richard was born in New Haven on June 22, 1937, lived in Florida, then West Haven where he graduated High School. He attended CT School of Electronics & was the son of the late Eugene and Teresina “Tessie� Giuliano Castiglione. He served his country faithfully in the U.S. Army. A professional p ..read more

The Shops at Yale is pleased to announce the return of its popular Annual Appetizer & Dessert Crawl, showcasing Downtown New Haven’s diverse culinary offerings while raising money for local non-profits. New this year, The Shops at Yale is organizing a series of three crawls on Saturdays April 13, May 4 and June 8 from noon to 3:00 p.m. During the Appetizer & Dessert Crawls, guests will enjoy appetizer and dessert tastings from 13 popular restaurants and eateries at The Shops at Yale for only $20, plus a $3.18 processing fee. Participati ..read more

Standing around the honorary plaque memorializing the dedication of the new lecture hall are (from left): Patricia Bellmore, Pamela’s mother, husband Scott Gardner, her father Harold Bellmore, daughter Mackenzie Gardner, and James “Jim� Bellmore, her brother. By Dan Atkinson Voice Writer During her renowned career as an administrator and later principal of West Haven High School, the late Pam Gardner harbored the dream of building a lecture hall at WHHS where students could “transcend� traditional book-learning they do in classes. While the effort to build a lecture hall was long and ..read more

The West Haven Department of Parks & Recreation hosted its annual Easter Egg Hunt on the field and grounds of Painter Park. Families gathered for the many activities and games that surrounded the hunt, and had a special visit from the Easter Bunny ..read more