by | Jan 22, 2021 2:15 pm | Comments (2)
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The order for a Super Supreme baked potato at Spuds Your Way in Hamden took owner and cook Jared Cohen either mere minutes — or over 12 hours — to prepare, depending on how you counted.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Jared’s Super Supreme Baked Potato’
by | Jan 22, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (26)
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Health Director Maritza Bond shows off new mass vaccination site.
Vaccination stations set up in the fieldhouse’s corridor.
A new gym-turned-vaccination site co-run by the city and Yale New Haven Health is slated to open Monday at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse — where nurses and medical volunteers will administer up to 1,400 shots each day, seven days a week.
by | Jan 22, 2021 11:20 am | Comments (7)
The new year means opportunities for Connecticut to grow through infrastructure, internet and the economy, according to Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin.
by | Jan 21, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (7)
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Mayor Elicker (second from right) helps cut the ribbon at The Neighborhodo Cafe on State Street.
City and state officials looking for a sign of small business hope amidst the ongoing pandemic found one — well, four — on Upper State Street, in the form of local restaurants still open during Covid.
Continue reading ‘4 Ribbons Cut For Resilient State St. Restaurants’
by | Jan 21, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (1)
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If you’ve gotten the shingles or flu vaccine before, you can handle a Covid-19 shot.
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by | Jan 21, 2021 10:21 am | Comments (1)
On Wednesday evening, Ann Cofta — one of the artists featured in “Urban Escapade,” an exhibit up in the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s Digital Grace gallery now through Feb. 8 — let an audience virtually into her New York studio to show how she represented the cityscapes around her through improvisational uses of traditional fiber art practices. The idea, she revealed, began when she inherited fabric scraps from a quilting friend.
“What can I do with these little tiny pieces?” she recalled thinking.
by | Jan 20, 2021 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Getting vaccinated at Yale’s Lanman Center at 74 Ashmun St.
The Lanman Center. Yale’s West Campus. Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse.
Each of those sites will soon hold “high-throughput” Covid-19 vaccination clinics to be run or co-run by Yale New Haven Health, as the regional hospital system expands its Phase 1b inoculations for residents 75 and up.
by | Jan 20, 2021 10:54 am | Comments (4)
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Seniors lined up to vote at Bella Vista, one complex targeted for vaccination “strike team”.
Strike teams of city nurses plan to bring the Covid-19 vaccine directly to homebound seniors, as the health department proceeds with the state’s phased rollout of pandemic-era inoculations and the elderly navigate tech and transportation challenges to receiving their shots.
by | Jan 20, 2021 10:29 am | Comments (1)
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Photog Roderick Topping gains following by capturing Covid-era New Haven.
by | Jan 19, 2021 9:01 pm | Comments (22)
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King-Robinson first grader Jade Lee: Good to be back.
Veresa Hardy picked her daughter up from King/Robinson School Tuesday afternoon for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic set in 10 months ago. Hardy was relieved that Alayah could learn in person again.
Not all Alayah’s expected classmates showed up to join her.
Continue reading ‘3,000 Return To School; Families Relieved’
by | Jan 19, 2021 4:47 pm | Comments (1)
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Music Haven string quartet members play on during an October concert.
Online programming. Student scholarships. Staff health insurance. And essential connections between young people and joyful creativity, even amidst such a joyless time as now.
Local arts nonprofit leaders pointed to those services as example of how they’ve spent state grant money to date as they struggle to stay afloat during the ongoing pandemic.
by | Jan 19, 2021 4:34 pm | Comments (1)
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SBA state director Catherine Marx.
Local small businesses can take another crack at landing Covid emergency relief starting Tuesday, as the federal government rolls out a second phase of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Continue reading ‘PPP, Part 2 Opens For Biz; Officials Advise New Haveners On How To Tap It’
by | Jan 19, 2021 9:20 am | Comments (16)
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Protest scene as some in-person schooling resumed in New Haven.
School buses headed out of the First Student company campus before dawn Tuesday morning to cries of “What disinfectant do you use?” and “We are here for you.”
by | Jan 18, 2021 6:35 pm | Comments (9)
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Nijija-Ife Waters: Protesting to get more plans for medically compromised students.
Some parents and teachers are planning to boycott New Haven’s first day back of in-person school Tuesday.
by | Jan 18, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (1)
MLK sponsors during Monday’s drop-off.
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Organizers of an annual indoors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day community teach-in took this year’s event across the street and outdoors Monday — with a lesson by example in community partnership.
Continue reading ‘Sororities’ MLK Day Event Moves Outdoors, Targets Needy Families’
by | Jan 18, 2021 4:56 pm | Comments (2)
(Opinion) Tuesday, after ten months of remote learning, New Haven Public Schools are scheduled to re-open for in-person learning based on the disputable assertion at the Jan. 13 Board of Education meeting that the SARS-CoV2 virus spread among children is minimal. While children seem to be less susceptible to life-threatening Covid-19 illness, many studies suggest that children are infected by the SARS-CoV2 virus at a similar rate as adults and that students can and do bring the virus home to their families.
Continue reading ‘Still Much Left To Learn About Kids & Covid-19’
by | Jan 18, 2021 4:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Preparing a Covid-19 vaccine dose at The Towers.
Monday is the first official day that New Haveners 75 years and older can start getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
They have several options for where to go for the shot.
by | Jan 18, 2021 10:33 am | Comments (0)
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King/Robinson security officer Tamara Boyd opens box of water bottles.
When King/Robinson elementary schoolers return to their classrooms on Tuesday — and find the fountains dry — each student will have a water bottle with their name on it.
by | Jan 15, 2021 12:14 pm | Comments (2)
Over 1,600 eligible seniors have signed up since Thursday night to be vaccinated by Yale New Haven Health — while the regional hospital system works with the city health department to set up a site at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse.
by | Jan 14, 2021 9:18 pm | Comments (14)
With the first day of resumed in-person, pandemic school days away, some New Haven teachers, parents and community leaders asked the district to pause on reopening until Feb. 1.
Continue reading ‘Union, Parent Letter Seeks School Reopening Delay’
by | Jan 14, 2021 4:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Hotel workers picket for obs and healthcare in June. The hospitality sector has been among economy’s hardest-hit areas during Covid.
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With roughly 6,000 New Haveners filing for continued unemployment amid the pandemic, agencies are directing more workers into telehealth and nursing assistant jobs — and fewer into Covid-stymied sectors like hospitality and higher ed.
Continue reading ‘Jobless Steered To New Sectors In Pandemic’
by | Jan 14, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (6)
When a new pot of $26 million pours into New Haven to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and racial inequities, much of it will flow to grassroots emerging leaders of color who too often miss out on philanthropy.
So promised Community Foundation For Greater New Haven President Will Ginsberg.
Ginsberg made that promise Thursday morning during a joint appearance with board Chair Flemming Norcott Jr. on WNHH FM’s “Love Babz Love Talk” program.
Continue reading ‘$26M “Step Forward” Targets Covid, Equity’
by | Jan 14, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (7)
Connecticut residents aged 75 years and older can now register to get vaccinated, as the state prepares to transition into the next phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout next week.
Continue reading ‘Vaccination Registration Now Open For Residents 75+’
by | Jan 14, 2021 10:34 am | Comments (0)
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Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor: Just had sore arm.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor got his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine when a patient did not show up for their vaccination appointment.
The only side effect he experienced was a sore arm.
by | Jan 13, 2021 6:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Hudson Street side of Whalley correctional facility.
It’s not easy deciding when to keep inmates in prison amid a pandemic. Richard Sparaco has that challenge — and said he is trying to strike the right balance between protecting public and protecting personal safety.