WNHH Community Radio

On this episode, host Shafiq Abdussabur sits down in the studio with Duncan Goodall, owner of Koffee? on Audubon, to talk about how community meetings with police can go toward remedying neighborhood crime. This is the second episode in Abdussabur's series "Community Wellness, Block By Block."

The executive director of LEAP and senior fellow with the Center for American Progress Fund weighs in on the proposed new Union Station garage, Trump "fascism," and swimming.

On this episode, host Michelle Turner talks to Jeanette Sykes, founder of The Perfect Blend mentoring group in New Haven.

Doug Losty of New Haven and Marjorie Bonadies of Hamden describe their candidacies for state legislative office on Nov. 8.

Welcome to This Day In Veterans Benefits History as your time-traveling host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff Wurstle of the New Haven Museum camp out with vets of the Civil War back in 1875 as their politically powerful organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, is holding a camp fire and carnival around where Edgewood Park is today, with lots of prizes, raffles, and games being offered to the old soldiers and their families.

Welcome to To a Tale of Two Professors on This Day In New Haven History as your host Allan Appel and his regular time-traveling companion, Jason Bischoff Wurstle of the New Haven Museum, peer over the shoulder of two local profs on this date in 1875: Othniel Marsh of Yale is a a pioneering palentologist in the "Bone Wars," discovering new specimens in the west and bringing them back for a future Peabody Museum; the other prof is teaching the latest dance craze at the Loomis Temple of Music and is inviting over to a "hop."

Welcome to This Day in Epizooty History as your host Allan Appel and his regular time-traveling companion from the New Haven Museum, Jason Bischoff Wurstle, hang out with the livestock of the Fair Haven and Westville horse railroad companies in 1875. Seems the horses are coughing, sneezing, and losing appetite in an outbreak of the old equine epizooty.

Welcome to This Day In Police Crime Blotter History as your host Allan Appel and regular time-traveling companion Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum take you back to a day in 1875 when a clerk at Malley's swiped some gold shirt studs; a carpenter in Morris Cove burned down his boss's barn; and a Fair Haven octogenarian out oystering got stuck in the mud.

Welcome to This Day In Railroad Giveback History as your host Allan Appel and regular time-traveling pal Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum take you back to this generous day in 1875, when the consolidated New Haven and Northampton Railroads opened the new depot near the present Union Station and offer to make land from the site of the old depot available for a city market to make up for "a good part of the life and activity lost by the construction."

On this episode, host Lucy Gellman talks to Maureen Johnson, president of MLJ Consulting & Services and board member of JHop Homelessness Outreach Project, about JHop's upcoming "Extravagant Cookout for the Homeless," at 12-4 p.m. on Sept. 24 at New Haven's Scantlebury Park.