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Shower power: Russell & co. at the drive-through shower.
The Covid-19 pandemic forced Angela Russell to cancel a family celebration she’d been planning. So she came up with an alternative — a communal drive-through baby shower.
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“Crawling into bed / a busy head / Later that it gets / the more I stress / Anxious now to sleep / the cycle creeps / on and on and on / right through the dawn.”
So begins “Too Hungry to Eat,” the latest single from New Haven-based multi-instrumentalist Addy Edward, a meditation on pent-up frustrations and the anxiety of an emptiness that cannot be filled, themes that have become more common than not as the world continues to find a balance between safety and searching for a way to keep themselves occupied and entertained. For Edward — full name Adam Bensen — this included developing a new approach to his music.
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by | Jan 3, 2021 6:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Black Lives Matters protest (pictured) sought school-cop abolition.
A committee formed in the wake of this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests seems to have reached a consensus: Police officers should stay in public schools, with changes to how they operate.
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Turcio and Bond on patrol New Year’s Eve.
Two months after shutting down a Halloween party at Anthony’s Ocean View over Covid-19 public-health violations, the city’s inspection task force marched back to the scene — this time, by invitation.
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Supt. Iline Tracey, at right, checks conditions at Bishop Woods School in October with Mayor Justin Elicker and Asst. Principal Flo Crisci.
After 10 months at home, New Haven elementary school students are to return to in-person learning four days a week in mid-January.
Superintendent Iline Tracey made that announcement in a letter posted on the Board of Education website on New Year’s Eve.
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City nurse Kara DelVecchio gives city Health Director Maritza Bond one of the first local doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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One of Stacy Attenberg’s colony cats.
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Bond at one of countless 2020 Covid press briefings.
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Director Bond, on a mission: Delivering a Covid shutdown notice.
Maritza Bond thought she was returning home to New Haven after 19 years to fix the city’s lead-paint enforcement.
Then the Covid-19 pandemic swept in — and thrust her into the forefront of New Haven’s public-health response.
She was ready.
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Covid victims (clockwise from far left) Marion “Curtis” Hunt, Elwood Srowro, Sharon Clemons, Thayer “Ted” Baldwin, Louise Endel, Danny Newall, Maria Fiore.
Homicide victims (clockwise from far left) Kiana Brown, Dayshon Smith, Kaymar Tanner, Howard Lewis.
Pioneers, prophets and MVPs: Marjorie Rosenthal, Steve “Stezo” Williams, Celeste “CeCe” Staten Gilchrist (top row); Mitchell Young, Noemie Rodriguez, Sheila Masterson (middle row); Brian McGrath, Jack Kramer, William Celentano Jr. (bottom).
by | Dec 23, 2020 5:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Rodney Williams on Nov. 5 in Fair Haven, at one of a half-dozen neighborhood mask giveaways he led across the city.
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Phi Beta Sigma fraternity members outside Stop & Shop in September, preparing for door-to-door food delivery.
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YNHH nurses and medical personnel celebrated on April 9 in a honk-a-thon led by firefighters and police.
During a year of unprecedented hardship, New Haveners stepped up to help their neighbors survive — with packets of masks, with boxes of food, with backpacks and cash and emergency healthcare.
Thanks to their efforts, 2020 will be remembered not just as a time of great suffering, but as a time of generosity and support as well.
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Mayor Justin Elicker lends a hand at Wednesday’s pre-holiday distribution.
As the holidays approach, city staff distributed 7,000 masks to Fair Haveners Wednesday to prevent the spread of Covid in one of the city’s hotspots.
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by | Dec 22, 2020 9:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Michelle Smith is struggling to help her second grader learn from home. She got some help Tuesday from her son’s school, Roberto Clemente Elementary School.
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by | Dec 22, 2020 5:09 pm | Comments (7)
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Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s pick for education secretary, shown at an Oct. 21 Hamden school mock presidential election.
Miguel Cardona — who has helped New Haven schools close the digital divide during the pandemic, while retreating from forcing the schools themselves to reopen — may soon steer education policy nationwide.
by | Dec 22, 2020 2:23 pm | Comments (4)
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Housekeeper Everlana Allen with fellow workers at a protest outside the Omni earlier this year.
With promises to combat racism as a public health crisis and protect the economic livelihoods of working-class New Haveners, alders unanimously approved a new “recall law” that requires local hotels give laid-off former employees first dibs at returning to their old jobs.
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Kindergarten is a key grade for building reading skills and setting good attendance habits. The school system’s Office of Youth, Family and Community Engagement (YFCE) gave that message to families on Monday with 700 brown paper bags of toys and books.
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by | Dec 22, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (1)
Public health board appointees Gregg Gonsalves and Alice Forrester.
Yale infectious disease expert Gregg Gonsalves and local mental health clinic leader Alice Forrester won unanimous votes of approval to help guide New Haven’s ongoing response to the pandemic and other public health challenges as members of the city’s Board of Public Health Commissioners
by | Dec 22, 2020 10:49 am | Comments (1)
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Board of Alders virtual meeting on Monday.
The city received an unexpected holiday season gift from the state budget office: $3.1 million in state-allocated federal funds to help cover municipal public safety and public health costs related to Covid-19 the city’s response to Covid-19.
by | Dec 21, 2020 3:34 pm | Comments (2)
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Ketkeo Rajachack with daughter Christine Son at Pho Ketkeo.
Ketkeo Rajachack learned to make khao poon from her mother to sell from an open-air tent in Laos. Now she cooks and sells the dish at her Temple Street restaurant, Pho Ketkeo.
by | Dec 21, 2020 10:32 am | Comments (5)
The infamous Women’s Issues section, now holding a wider variety of selections.
State Street book & performance space closing doors next week.
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Celebration Saturday on Gorham as crew lifts Hill out ambulance.
Danton Hill returned home from the hospital Saturday — after surviving an eight-month bout with Covid-19, including 77 days in the intensive care unit, and warnings to his wife that she might need to “pull the plug.”
by | Dec 18, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (16)
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Nicole Beverley, Natima, Marlou: Disconnected.
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Elsa Holahan and her mother, Erica: Web working just fine.
In a house in Fair Haven, Natima Adote dropped out of her virtual social studies classroom at Edgewood School as her internet failed.
In a house in Westville, Elsa Holahan finished her virtual class at James Hillhouse High School without interruptions.
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“Sweet Sorrow,” the newest song from Thabisa, begins with a pulsating guitar line that suggests both melancholy and movement
“Even in strange times, I’ll find my strength,” Thabisa sings. “Even when I’m down, I’ll stand tall / Do you ever feel you don’t belong? / Sometimes I wish I wasn’t born.”
That’s all before the rhythm comes sneaking in — and, in time, crashing in — as the song builds in intensity, and Thabisa uses her voice to become an entire chorus.
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Shades of red mark percentage of students at each grade level who count as chronically absent.
One out of three New Haven Public Schools students is missing enough school during the Covid-19 pandemic to count as “chronically absent.”
by | Dec 17, 2020 6:15 pm | Comments (6)
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Ronald Taylor: Sign me up
Yale infectious disease doctor Onyema Ogbuagu gets vaccinated Tuesday.
In the aftermath of his brother-in-law’s sudden death from the Covid-19 virus last week, Ronald Taylor isn’t taking his health for granted. He’s ready for his Covid-19 vaccine shot when it becomes available.
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