The James Logan Courier

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations

Applications will be available starting Friday (Nov. 4) for eligible New Haven Unified School District residents interested in being considered for a provisional appointment to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Board of Education.

President Michelle Matthews outlined during the Board meeting this week the procedure to be followed to replace member Kevin Harper, who has resigned his position, effective at the end of the calendar year, because he is moving out of the District.

By Elizabeth Wellington
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

Boyz II Men have always straddled two generations: Twenty years ago, the Grammy-winning teenage quartet crooned with the passion of old-school swooners. Dressed in urban-preppy ice-blue jeans and letter jackets, the young boys of R&B kept their sounds fresh with a new jack swing baseline.

These days Boyz II Men are a trio: Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris (no relation), and Shawn Stockman. (Former baritone Michael McCrary has been in a running dispute with the group.) They are the older cats in a cyber-driven industry dominated by electronic beats. They still sing love songs with voices like well-tuned instruments, but instead of infusing up-tempo tracks with hip-hop, the group is embracing technology: Think Boyz II Men Facebook page and app.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night agreed to move ahead with the process of calling a special election next May, to ask New Haven voters to approve a parcel tax to relieve some of the budget pressures caused by the state’s ongoing financial crisis.

The Board also approved commissioning a community survey to gauge which priorities are most important to voters and the tax level they would be willing to support. The survey likely would take place during the first week of January, so that results could be available before the election filing deadline, Feb. 2.

From Wikipedia:
Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an American abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.

Born in Pike, in what is now Wyoming County, New York, Fairbank grew up in an intensely religious family environment. Listening to the stories told by two escaped slaves whom he met at a Methodist quarterly meeting, he became strongly anti-slavery. He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory. Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada.


Read Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times: how he "fought the good fight" to Prepare "the Way." By Calvin Fairbank and Laura Smith Haviland, free from Google Books.