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At 54 Meadow: "We are the union... the mighty, mighty union!"
Vereen: "I really didn't think it was going to take this long."
After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.
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Architectural rendering of Dewitt Street redevelopment.
The redevelopment of a former housing cooperative in the Hill will soon net 64 new (mostly) affordable apartments, with another 40 units set to be renovated over the next two years — thanks to a second alder-approved tax break.
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Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm
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David Germaine: Transitional housing "gives you a chance to get back on track."
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): Bill's import isn't "abstruse."
Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
Yale New Haven Health announced on Friday a five-year, $500,000 unrestricted gift to Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, in support of the health center’s Recovery and Wellness Center and “advancing health equity.”
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Dec 17, 2024 2:19 pm
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(Updated) A 38-year-old man named Hassau Powell was found dead last week in a Yale New Haven Hospital office building, apparently from a medical problem.
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Dec 9, 2024 3:25 pm
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The late Uzziah Shell, as shown in a photo shared by family members at Saturday's funeral.
Friends wore shirts that read Forever 16 with a photo of Uzziah Shell. Ushers handed out tissues to grieving classmates. Mothers wrapped their arms tightly around their kids. A portrait of Uzziah holding a sign reading “I’m Thankful For” and adorned with colored Post-Its smiled from the altar.
That was the scene on Saturday at Life-Giving Water Church on Howard Avenue, where a packed house of friends, family, and city leaders gathered to celebrate the life of Shell, the 16-year-old Riverside Academy student who was shot and killed on Goffe Street late last month.
Robert Harris: “When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable."
The tiny shelters (right) behind 203 Rosette.
A group of unhoused neighbors have taken to sleeping two or even three to a room inside unheated pre-fabricated tiny shelters that are still standing in a Rosette Street backyard.
“When we do bundle up, it’s tolerable being in there,” said Robert Harris, as he pointed at a row of white Pallet shelters. “But sometimes it’s colder in these because it can be like an ice box.”
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Dec 5, 2024 9:26 am
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At Betsy Ross's Winter Fest: High school performers, coming soon.
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School (BRAMS) will have an inaugural ninth grade class next year — as the district works to transition the 5 – 8th grade middle school to a 7 – 12th grade high school in order to better accommodate students’ high demand for arts instruction.
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Nov 1, 2024 8:49 am
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It’s two photos of people engaged in the same act — one a child and one an adult — practicing a custom centuries old. For the viewer, it’s a glimpse into a space usually not seen outside the community.
The label below the photo on the left quotes an Afghan woman named Seema: “Prayer is very important for us and our children. We start teaching our children to pray when they are about 5 years old; mainly mothers are the ones who teach them at home. When bad things happen, Afghan women go to Allah and ask for help. My husband had an accident, and this is my 5‑year-old daughter; after prayer, she is saying her du’as and asking for help for her dad. Here she is holding a tasbih and wearing the hijab, at this age they only wear the hijab for prayers. I’m so happy when I see them praying to God — to Allah.” As Aryana, quoted at the bottom of the photo to the right, says, “Afghan women love their religion and trust God.”
Homelessness, policing on the agenda for Hill CMT.
Hill South neighbors pressed the mayor, the police chief, and their district’s top cop to do more to build up the ranks of the city’s police department — and to work harder to address homelessness in the neighborhood.
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Oct 11, 2024 3:37 pm
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Fire Chief Alston on Friday.
Make sure you have functional smoke detectors in your home, and a designated area of refuge outside, and a working knowledge of how to “PASS” a fire extinguisher.
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At the Washington Ave. metal scrapyard.
A four-acre scrapyard in the Hill can continue to recycle 100 tons of metal per day, after securing a five-year special permit renewal from the City Plan Commission.
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Sep 27, 2024 10:16 am
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The infamous Kimberly-Boulevard intersection.
Raised crosswalks, designated left-turn lanes, elevated bike lanes, and improved signaling are coming to the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Kimberly Avenue — after that state-owned intersection saw nearly 200 car crashes in two years.
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Sep 27, 2024 9:59 am
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Protest organizer Kerry Ellington: “The police could have chosen a nonviolent alternative."
Conley's cousins Tamara Flint, Ronisha Moore, and Maya Harris, at Thursday's protest.
A week to the hour after a fatal confrontation between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley, protesters gathered at the car wash where the shooting took place — to criticize law enforcement for how they handled last Thursday’s attempted arrest, and to describe Conley as more than just his criminal record.
Myra Smith: "I feel powerless when it comes to this population."
Myra Smith walked into the Wilson Library Branch with her mind made up about supervised substance use centers: “It is NOT coming to the Hill. It’s not.”
She left with more openness to the concept as a way to address the opioid crisis that has overwhelmed her neighborhood. “I’m not saying I’m totally against it. This sounds wonderful,” she said — as long as it’s implemented with care for the surrounding community.
(Updated) Angel Hubbard bested Miguel Pittman in Monday’s special election for Ward 3 alder — but by less than 20 votes, which means city election officials will have to recount the ballots by hand before the results are final.
Renderings for the future of the Church Street South site, including a "central green" pictured here, were revealed...
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...at a packed meeting on Thursday.
Townhomes shift into high-rises as the buildings transition from the Hill to Downtown, anchored by a “central green.” In the mix is a coffee kiosk, an outdoor theater, and a pedestrian promenade.
A team of architects and designers sketched out those ideas on Thursday for a future mixed-use, mixed-income development at the vacant site of the former Church Street South housing complex and the current Robert T. Wolfe public housing apartments.
Thomasine Shaw, next to BZA member Gemini Rorie: The proposed poultry market would have been too close to people, "endangering their health."
The Board of Zoning Appeals denied a proposed poultry market with on-site, on-demand chicken slaughtering on Tuesday night, following a stream of contentious public testimony that invoked concerns about Islamophobia, bird flu, and the wellbeing of the neighborhood.
