by | Oct 23, 2020 10:52 am | Comments (5)
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Kyasia Parker shows her new face shield to her mom, Nikki.
The masks had arrived. So Kyasia Parker sprinted door to door, rounding up her neighbors and friends — and keeping up the momentum in a grassroots pandemic-survival effort.
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:25 am | Comments (0)
On Thursday night artist Margaret Roleke smiled from her home in her garage studio, at an audience of 20 who had gathered virtually to hear her talk about her art practice and her show at Creative Arts Workshop — the first installment of CAW’s “Made Visible” series.
“I didn’t set out to be an activist artist,” she said. “I was creating work just to make people think.”
by | Oct 22, 2020 5:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Superintendent Tracey gets tested at King Robinson.
“It doesn’t hurt, but it just felt funny, like the test shouldn’t be all the way up my nose,” New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey said with a smile after getting swabbed for Covid-19.
by | Oct 22, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (1)
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Pre-Covid-19 activity at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning Center.
Two new Covid-19 cases were reported within the New Haven Public Schools system, one at East Rock Community Magnet School and one at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning Center.
Continue reading ‘Covid Cases Reported At East Rock, Mayo Schools’
by | Oct 22, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (0)
A play by a coalition of theater professionals, based on a Brazilian legend, is arriving just in time to make sure Oct. 31 feels like Halloween.
Continue reading ‘Theater Community Comes Together For Halloween’
by | Oct 21, 2020 5:35 pm | Comments (19)
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New Haven Academy freshman Jeremyah Newton, on virtual learning.
When New Haven Public Schools transitions to a hybrid of in-person and remote classes, around 8,800 students of the 20,000 in the district will stay remote-only.
by | Oct 21, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (3)
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City social services chief Mehul Dalal: “This is going to be a tough winter.”
City plans to protect the homeless from the cold and Covid-19 this winter involve working with the state to find 150 hotel beds for the housing insecure, and opening up two overnight warming centers and one daytime drop-in center by late November.
The city has also ended its Covid-19 testing agreement with Greenwich-based doctor Steven Murphy — who is two weeks away from opening a new office in the Dwight neighborhood, where he plans to keep his local testing operation going.
Continue reading ‘Covid Updates: Homeless Plan Previewed; City Drops Dr. Murphy’
by | Oct 21, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
The now-empty site of a factory by the Mill River that sent products to Home Depot could host warehouses for the delivery side of Home Depot, or another delivery-focused company like Amazon, by the summer of 2021.
by | Oct 21, 2020 10:42 am | Comments (0)
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Dystopian Sunflower I-III, Dystopian Lily.
The plants in Joyce Greenfield’s paintings are exquisitely rendered, but the paintings are more than just still-life studies. Something’s afoot in the composition. It’s a little eerie, maybe a little unsettling, and at the same time, the plants look tired. The titles of the paintings — Dystopian Sunflower, Dystopian Lily — offer a clue. The mood isn’t in the subject, but in the mind of the painter. If they weren’t painted during the pandemic, they might as well have been. They reflect the exhaustion many feel. And at the same time, they also reflect a dogged persistence — not only flowers growing in drought, but painters continuing to paint — that emerges as the theme of City Gallery’s contribution to City Wide Open Studios this year, running now in the gallery’s space on Upper State Street through Nov. 1.
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:11 pm | Comments (2)
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Soon-to-be city employee Michael Pinto.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Chief Operating Officer Michael Pinto, who led the effort to distribute hundreds of thousands of meals to school families after Covid-19 shuttered the local school system this spring, plans to leave his job on Nov. 25.
His next role will be back at City Hall, where he plans to work as an attorney on the city’s legal team.
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:33 am | Comments (3)
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East mural aimed at supporting local green initiatives.
I mailed my absentee ballot today, and I almost missed it. I was so focused on the people I wanted to vote for — and certain people I wanted to vote against — that I almost missed the block of text on the right-hand side of the ballot:
“Shall Congress prepare for health and climate crises by transferring funds from the military budget to cities for human needs, jobs and an environmentally sustainable economy?”
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Vote “Yes” To Move Military Money To New Haven’
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:30 am | Comments (0)
An animation classic with increasingly unhinged narration from actor James Mason. A more contemporary animated take on the same classic story. Which one held up better? Which came closer to capturing the spirit of the original Edgar Allan Poe classic?
On Monday night, a dozen people gathered virtually for the New Haven Free Public Library’s monthly Animation Celebration to hash it out.
Continue reading ‘NHFPL Animation Discussion Catches Spirit Of Season’
by | Oct 19, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
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NMS Director Noah Bloom with Gov. Lamont (right) at Monday’s arts announcement.
Arts nonprofits that have been pummeled by the Covid-19 pandemic have a new $9 million state relief fund to turn to for support in helping pay staff, cover student scholarships, and generally stay afloat during the ongoing economic downturn.
by | Oct 19, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Sous chef Nick Hurwitz-Goodman cooking at a pre-Covid event.
Nick Hurwitz-Goodman, a sous chef at the University of New Haven, was feeling fine. But Covid-19 was spreading fast on campus, so he decided to get tested.
Hurwitz-Goodman tested positive. Now he is stuck at home, uncertain if he’ll develop symptoms, worried about his coworkers who might also have been exposed to the virus.
Continue reading ‘Covid-Positive Chef: UNH “Bats Blind Eye”’
by | Oct 19, 2020 11:06 am | Comments (3)
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At the Trowbridge learning hub.
When sixth-grader Erielle Wright needed help with remote school, she used to call her mom at work. Now she asks one of the staff members at New Haven’s East Rock Park learning hub instead.
by | Oct 19, 2020 10:58 am | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top left: Howard K. Hill, Alisa Bowens-Mercado, Deborah Caviness and Ricardo Caliz.
As a second wave of the pandemic approaches and federal aid from this spring dries up, local Black and Hispanic small business owners turned to one of Connecticut’s U.S. senators with stories of struggle and resilience — and a plea for another round of government support.
by | Oct 19, 2020 10:33 am | Comments (0)
The Covid-19 pandemic forced Norwalk city employees, like those in the private sector, to work from home. Unlike other workers though, city employees have access to reams of sensitive information: tax records, HIPAA-protected health data, profiles of school children, arrest records and body camera footage.
With all of this information at risk, preventing a data breach is much more important than finding its cure, according to Connecticut cybersecurity experts.
by | Oct 18, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Bishop Woods third-grade teacher Alena Roberts preps lessons in her empty classroom.
Yellow-and-black striped tape divides the hallways. Stickers remind students to wear masks and stay six feet apart from one another. Zip ties keep each locker closed and off limits. Gallon-sized pumps of hand sanitizer wait at each school entrance.
These are some of the changes to Bishop Woods Architecture & Design Magnet School that await students when they are scheduled to start some in-person classes on Nov. 9.
Continue reading ‘Bishop Woods Air Filters Are In, Lockers Locked’
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:44 pm | Comments (1)
Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison partnered with her sorority sisters to bring food gift cards and hand lotion to the seniors of Dixwell and Newhallville.
Continue reading ‘Alpha Kappa Alpha Comes To Seniors’ Aid During Pandemic’
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (12)
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Buccitti: State “putting dollars ahead of human life.”
Bus drivers have begun opening the front doors to allow passengers to enter and pay their fares again — and many feel unprotected against catching the coronavirus.
by | Oct 16, 2020 9:59 am | Comments (7)
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Rodney Williams handing out free masks Thursday afternoon.
“Masks for my two grandkids and mother, please,” said Sandra Crockett.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Of Free Masks Fly In Newhallville’
by | Oct 16, 2020 9:24 am | Comments (2)
Covid-19 has killed, for now, the public’s return to the Yale University Art Gallery.
by | Oct 15, 2020 5:55 pm | Comments (0)
As the University of New Haven contends with a growing Covid-19 outbreak on campus, two other local colleges reported rising cases of the virus.
by | Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (1)
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Hocus Pocus!
Last night a snuggled up yet safely distanced crowd gathered downtown to watch a movie about three witches who rise from the dead on Halloween and wreak a bit of havoc in their own town of Salem. Pitkin Plaza on Orange Street was the setting for “Movies in the Plaza,” a weekly free event held every Wednesday since July and now being celebrated with spookier films in honor of the season.
by | Oct 14, 2020 3:26 pm | Comments (19)
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Recent increase in New Haven Covid cases (blue) mirrors statewide uptick (grey).
Just like the rest of the state and the region, New Haven has seen a recent uptick in new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The likely culprit? Small gatherings and mask fatigue.
Continue reading ‘Amid “Mask Fatigue,” New Local Covid Cases Triple; Trick Or Treating Discouraged’