Laura Glesby

New Haven

Local Journalist at New Haven Independent

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Articles

Three-Way Alder Races Headed For Morris Cove & Downtown

3 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

Three alder-hopefuls apiece are now running to represent Downtown/Yale’s Ward 1 and Morris Cove’s Ward 18, as more candidates have signed up to participate in this year’s municipal elections. That’s the latest update on soon-to-unfold alder elections, based on paperwork filed with the City Clerk’s office. The new entrants to the Ward 18 race are Zelema Harris, a Democrat, and Anthony Acri, a Republican.
Hill Heroes Honored

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by LAURA GLESBY The New Haven independentWait… Me? That thought seemed to flicker across seven faces, one by one, on Wednesday evening, as Hill Alder Kampton Singh doled out surprise honors to several community stewards. Singh brought a stack of official aldermanic citations to the annual joint Hill North & Hill South Community Management Team meeting on Wednesday evening.
Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits Press On

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by Laura Glesby The New Haven independentThomas Breen file photo Marquis Jackson (right) and Vernon Horn: One big step closer to trial for their wrongful-conviction suit. Bribes of heroin. Threats of arrest. Hours of interrogating a sex worker convulsing from opioid withdrawal.
Thief Takes The Cake

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by Laura Glesby The New Haven independentSomeone broke into Sandra’s Next Generation restaurant to steal two slices of pineapple coconut cake and a bottle of lemonade. The theft took place at around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, June 9 — one of the restaurant’s days off — according to Sandra’s co-owner Miguel Pittman. “I guess they couldn’t wait for us to open,” Pittman said.
Library Keeps Conscience From The Heat

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by Laura Glesby The New Haven independentShe had arrived at the downtown library on Monday morning for a respite from the 90-degree heat. The library branch was one of the city’s eight “cooling centers” open on Monday during the first heat wave of the summer. It was quiet, patrons relatively sparse. On the Ives branch’s ground floor, a handful of people browsed for books or clicked through computers. A couple of parents had brought their young kids.
A Family Comes Home As Funding Cuts Loom

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by Laura Glesby The New Haven independentRosa DeLauro: Now is the time to “stand up and speak up.”Ashley Bailey doesn’t remember living at 470 Howard Ave., where her father and grandfather raised her briefly as a baby. But her 13-year-old daughter will remember painting her bedroom walls teal inside that same house — now that Bailey is on track to purchase it as a first-time homeowner, with the help of state and federal programs that are in jeopardy under President Donald Trump.
Library Keeps Conscience From The Heat

4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

Conscience carried eight bags of belongings — everything she owned — to a ground floor table of the Ives library branch. She had arrived at the downtown library on Monday morning for a respite from the 90-degree heat. The library branch was one of the city’s eight “cooling centers” open on Monday during the first heat wave of the summer. It was quiet, patrons relatively sparse. On the Ives branch’s ground floor, a handful of people browsed for books or clicked through computers.
300 Mark Juneteenth At Waterpark

4 days ago | theinnercitynews.com | Laura Glesby

by Laura Glesby Laura Glesby PhotoThe Waverly contingent, including RJ and Lyric, after a full day at the amusement park. The best part of Quassy Amusement & Waterpark, according to six-year-old RJ, is “the black slide” — a waterslide tunnel that feels at first like “a black void,” until after a few twists and turns, “we saw the outside.”RJ was one of 300 New Haveners to spend Juneteenth at the Middlebury, Conn., amusement park as part of a subsidized trip arranged by Hill Alder Angel Hubbard.
A Family Comes Home As Funding Cuts Loom

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

Ashley Bailey doesn’t remember living at 470 Howard Ave., where her father and grandfather raised her briefly as a baby. But her 13-year-old daughter will remember painting her bedroom walls teal inside that same house — now that Bailey is on track to purchase it as a first-time homeowner, with the help of state and federal programs that are in jeopardy under President Donald Trump.
Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits Press On

1 week ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

Bribes of heroin. Threats of arrest. Hours of interrogating a sex worker convulsing from opioid withdrawal. One year after his exoneration for a 1993 murder, George Gould is suing the city, along with individual police officers, for using those tactics to allegedly coerce the testimony that sent him to prison for a murder he didn’t commit.