by | Jan 15, 2020 2:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Builder Shafiq Abdussabur with Alder Evelyn Rodriguez.
Development-weary Hill neighbors expressed sympathy for two ideas builders pitched Tuesday night: For-profit rental apartments to newly released prisoners. And non-profit permanent housing for veterans.
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by | Jan 9, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Rosa (left) and Dell (right) with CMT stalwart Marge Wiener.
All that’s changing is … a vowel.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
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by | Jan 9, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (5)
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Looking north on Quinnipiac Ave from East Grand.
The city has found $1.8 million for traffic-calming measures for speed-plagued Quinnipiac Avenue north of Grand Avenue to Foxon Boulevard.
Neighbors are glad to hear that. But as witnesses to repeated accidents and near-misses, they say they can’t wait the years for that money to move through the pipeline and improvements be implemented.
So they are proposing a spate of temporary, low-cost measures in the meantime.
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by | Jan 8, 2020 3:23 pm | Comments (7)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building.
Dwight neighbors voted to form a committee to negotiate with Yale New Haven Hospital to make sure that the community isn’t left behind by the latter’s planned new $838 million neuroscience center and St. Raphael campus expansion — especially when it comes to parking.
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by | Jan 8, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (5)
A worst-case flood would cause an estimated $15 billion in damage to 1,901 acres in the city’s most flood-prone neighborhoods with 3,689 people and 1,550 buildings, 162 of them historic and five critical facilities.
So it might be time to purchase flood insurance from FEMA, provider of these stats. If you do, you’ll get a 15 percent discount because we as a city rate high in preparedness and public education on the subject.
Continue reading ‘Flood-Plainers Get Plain Talk On Preparation’
by | Jan 3, 2020 1:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Voting members of the management team raise yellow cards to vote yes.
Fair Haveners gave the thumbs up to six nonprofits in their quest to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
First they wanted to know how the work specifically benefits people in the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Yellow Cards Raised In Fair Haven To Families, Seniors’