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If the Yale researchers monitoring our sewage are correct, we have around 13 times as many Covid-19 people as we did last month.
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by | Nov 10, 2020 6:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Dwight neighbor Pat Wallace posts flyer at Pizza House on Howe.
Pat Wallace and Jane Comins have been walking the rescue beat, going address by address to save historic houses in the Dwight neighborhood before developers buy them and knock them down.
by | Nov 10, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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School nurse E.J. Antinozzi on the job before the pandemic.
Covid-19 may have one positive — if temporary — impact on city schools: Each building should finally have its own dedicated school nurse.
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by | Nov 10, 2020 11:35 am | Comments (5)
Tracey: Probe sought.
First Student waited days to tell the city that 27 bus drivers were coming down with the coronavirus — leading outraged school officials to demand a reckoning for the “negligence” that ended with a two-week shutdown.
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by | Nov 10, 2020 11:08 am | Comments (1)
The return rise of Covid-19 has led Yale New Haven Hospital to ban most patient visits.
by | Nov 9, 2020 7:20 pm | Comments (11)
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Sgt. William in Weeds Cafe on Dixwell Avenue.
When Sgt. William Onofrio stopped into Odie’s Place, owner Elias Defaranos had three and a half more hours in which to serve his pizzas, and he was well aware of it.
by | Nov 9, 2020 6:11 pm | Comments (2)
Carrie Giarnese signing Monday’s press conference for the hearing-impaired.
As a new Covid-19 wave spreads through New Haven, officials are doubling down on keeping city offices safe and looking into who spread obscene threats through one school’s remote-learning cybersphere.
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by | Nov 9, 2020 2:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Sen. Blumenthal (right) with Mayor Elicker at Monday’s presser.
Richard Blumenthal made a post-election pitch to his Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate: Start negotiating now over a new Covid-19 relief package worth at least $2.2 trillion.
Families and small businesses and state and local governments hurting during the pandemic cannot wait a minute longer.
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by | Nov 9, 2020 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Biden appointee Marcella Nunez-Smith at work at Yale.
It’s official: New Haven will have Joe Biden’s ear as he crafts a Covid-19 policy, thanks to the appointment of Yale’s Marcella Nunez-Smith to co-chair the president-elect’s coronavirus advisory board.
by | Nov 9, 2020 11:08 am | Comments (5)
Shandra Patton teaches preschoolers from her Troup classroom.
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Aiden Palmer at pre-announcment back-to-school event.
When Careene Stephenson broke the news to her 4‑year-old son Aiden Palmer that his in-person preschool classes would not start this November after all, he asked, “No school? No friends?”
by | Nov 9, 2020 11:04 am | Comments (1)
When it was announced this past summer that all courses at Yale University would be online and gatherings would continue to be limited due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Margherita Tortora, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese, had to decide what to do about the annual Latino and Iberian Film Festival she organizes. “I said, ‘I have two possibilities: cancel or do it online,’” said Tortora, though in her heart she knew there was only one choice she could possibly make.
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by | Nov 8, 2020 6:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Tuesday was too long to wait to send love heavenward to Sharon Clemons.
So hundreds of the beloved salon owner’s friends, family members, and customers lined the sidewalks on both sides of State Street Sunday with balloons ready to soar.
by | Nov 8, 2020 5:59 pm | Comments (6)
Over the course of two days, 115 Quinnipiac students learned they had Covid-19 — causing the university to go into “high-risk” lockdown mode.
A smaller outbreak has led to a partial lockdown of three Yale residential colleges.
by | Nov 8, 2020 4:28 pm | Comments (2)
Facing a city shutdown, Walmart met a 72-hour city deadline to show it’s taking Covid-19 more seriously.
by | Nov 6, 2020 4:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Clyburn (at right) checks in on Reishana Morrison.
As Covid-19 sweeps through New Haven again, Delphine Clyburn is knocking on doors to help her community stay strong.
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by | Nov 6, 2020 1:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Lilla Mae Holness at 100 years old.
Over the course of a century, Lilla Mae Holness — “Miss Holness” to family, “Aunt Mae” or “Lilla Mae” to friends — has been a sister and a mother figure, a legendary strawberry shortcake baker and a staple at the monthly Pokeno games.
These friends and family came by foot and SUV to wish the New Haven native a happy 100th birthday.
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:26 am | Comments (1)
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For stop number six of his community mask-giveaway mission, Rodney Williams distributed 10,000 adult and kids’ masks Thursday afternoon to Fair Haveners.
by | Nov 5, 2020 6:28 pm | Comments (10)
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Hundreds of families have chosen not to enroll their preschoolers and kindergarteners in New Haven Public Schools this year.
The sudden decline is part of a statewide drop in enrollment driven primarily by the youngest grades. In New Haven, the preschool program has shrunk by 13.5 percent and the kindergarten class has shrunk by 19.6 percent.
by | Nov 5, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (26)
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Adjoa “Monday” Ofosu-Adu sprays down customer’s cart Thursday.
Shopper Rose: Leaves house only to go to the store.
New Haven’s health department gave the Foxon Boulevard Walmart outlet 72 hours to clean up its Covid-19 act or shut down.
Shoppers were upset to learn about conditions at the store, but also concerned about where else they would buy food and clothes.
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:51 pm | Comments (1)
Quinnipiac University is facing an outbreak of Covid-19 — and moved all classes temporarily online as a result.
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Smart: Has half a crew left.
(Updated) The secretary of the state is sending people to help train New Haveners to plow through a data backlog involving absentee ballots after a Covid-19 case send 12 city workers into quarantine.
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by | Nov 4, 2020 6:26 pm | Comments (0)
This week saw Covid-19 cases at seven New Haven schools, as cases continue to rise in the city and its suburbs.
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by | Nov 4, 2020 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
What began as a call about a fight led to a shutdown of a bar and grill over Covid-19 violations.
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New Haven’s magnet schools are down 202 students in the wake of the decision to start the school year with remote-only learning. And a $3 million state grant is in jeopardy.
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by | Nov 4, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (1)
I kept dropping the apple while frantically trying to peel it. But I was doing my best to follow the lead of my instructors at Sanctuary Kitchen. Clumsy fingers and perilous peeler aside, my kitchen slowly filled with the scent of fresh apples — as did, I assume, the kitchen in every other tiny square on the Zoom call.
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