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BAR Monday set a new bar for safe dining and drinking: It is requiring all patrons to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to enter the premises.
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by | Aug 9, 2021 3:09 pm | Comments (20)
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Mayor Elicker at a City Hall presser in May: First mayor in state to issue new order.
New Haven’s new citywide mask mandate is now in place — covering all indoor public and private spaces, and lasting until “such time as it is amended or earlier terminated.”
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Symone White masked up outside Walmart: Taking no chances.
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Elicker: “Common-sense” step.
Amid a Covid-19 resurgence, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker ordered people to wear masks in public indoor spaces in the city, while Hamden Mayor Curt Leng “strongly recommended” that his town do the same.
by | Aug 4, 2021 2:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Eighth and ninth-graders during Tuesday’s class.
Summer camp continued for one group of teens in New Haven this week, as they learned about how government catches up with sexual predators and about the science of scamming.
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by | Aug 3, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (6)
Board Prez Tyisha Walker-Myers: Vaccinated, back in the chair.
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That’s not Zoom: Alders in City Hall Monday night.
New Haven’s Board of Alders returned to in-person public meetings for the first time since the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic — then voted to protect lives of pedestrians on “Death Boulevard” and to push D.C. lawmakers to save lives with universal health insurance.
by | Aug 2, 2021 11:05 am | Comments (2)
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A Summer of Fun field day commenced at Hillhouse High School with adaptations to keep students safe from Covid.
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by | Aug 2, 2021 10:09 am | Comments (10)
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Sharie Evans: “That’s it?”
This skateboarder’s decisive lure: “Coolattas, iced coffee, donut.”
Jason Kozikowski: Gave into vaccine for golf and beer.
Outreach workers stopped by her diner and convinced waitress Yoseline Diaz to overcome her fears and pop three blocks over to a clinic to finally get that Covid-19 vaccine.
A $25 Dunkin Donuts gift card convinced a 23-year-old skateboarder to stop making “excuses.”
Sharie Evans drove by signs for the clinic and decided … it’s time.
And Jason Kozikowski and Bill Forrest decided hitting the links and the pubs in Ireland outweighed continuing to “wait and see” how the shots affected others.
Those reasons helped propel a spike in recipients at one local vaccine clinic— offering hope that minds can still be changed among the vaccine— hesitant as the region wrestles with a resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by | Jul 30, 2021 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
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UniteCT Director Dawn Parker (right) with Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz and Mayor Elicker.
As the federal eviction moratorium is set to expire this weekend, local and state officials gathered at City Hall to urge tenants who are behind on rent to tap into $400 million in pandemic-era relief designed to keep Connecticut families in their homes.
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by | Jul 30, 2021 1:19 pm | Comments (26)
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Health Director Bond (at the mic) with Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz, city attorney Kevin Casini, and Mayor Elicker at Friday’s presser.
The Elicker Administration is “exploring” a vaccination mandate for city employees, and is strongly encouraging — though not requiring — that New Haveners wear masks while indoors in public places, regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated.
by | Jul 29, 2021 4:35 pm | Comments (4)
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YNHH’s Tom Balcezak at Thursday’s presser.
Yale New Haven Health has seen Covid-related hospitalizations increase nearly five-fold over the past two weeks, as the more infectious Delta variant spreads across Connecticut and the nation.
by | Jul 28, 2021 10:02 pm | Comments (4)
Two New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) K‑4 summer camps closed this week after six people involved in those camps tested positive for Covid-19.
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Mayor Justin Elicker waving to his daughter on the bus in January.
All public school students taking the bus this fall will need to be masked up while onboard. Bus drivers, however, will not be required to be vaccinated.
by | Jul 28, 2021 9:53 am | Comments (0)
The song “Go Down Moses” may be familiar, but the New Haven-based Afro-Semitic Experience’s take on it isn’t. It starts with the rhythms, stretching through the Caribbean and back to West Africa, the sense of the interlocking drums propelling everything. And above the impassioned vocals, there’s a trumpet drenched in effects, creating its own small universe of sound. It feels new but drenched in history — which is fitting for Freedom Seder, the Afro-Semitic Experience’s latest album and one that has a history of its own.
by | Jul 26, 2021 1:03 pm | Comments (7)
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Shahkim Khalil gets his shot, for his kid and his job.
Lamont Douglass gets his shot, because work required it.
After nearly half a year on the fence, Lamont Douglass decided Monday to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Why now, so relatively late in the pandemic? Because his employer required him to.
by | Jul 22, 2021 1:40 pm | Comments (14)
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NHPS Asst. Superintendent Paul Whyte: “No official way to check who has and hasn’t been vaccinated,”
When students return to public school next month in Hamden and New Haven, they will need a mask to enter — but they won’t necessarily need to have received Covid-19 shots.
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by | Jul 21, 2021 9:01 am | Comments (2)
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Tyrick B. Keyes New Haven Basketball League try-outs Tuesday.
Hill Health nurse Jonathan Johnson fields vaccine concerns.
In the memory of a teen whose life was cut short by gunfire, organizers gathered 70 teens with the aim of making basketball shots on the court — and receiving Covid-19 vaccine shots in their arms.
by | Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am | Comments (3)
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Whitaker giving Scott Martin a cut during nurses’ pitch: “I don’t want my opinion to be everyone’s opinion.
Two city Health Department nurses set up class in a barbershop. The topic at hand — Why should we trust the Covid-19 vaccine? — elicited straight talk about why people choose to remain unvaccinated.
by | Jul 16, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Asani Hall receives the Pfizer vaccine at St. Paul’s pop-up.
Some finally had enough information to feel comfortable. Others wanted to travel safely. Some came for the free pizza.
Whatever the reason, 30 people got their first Covid-19 shots Thursday, after six months of waiting, at a church pop-up that’s part of New Haven’s race to stay ahead of the Delta variant and contain the pandemic by reaching the unvaccinated.
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by | Jul 14, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (0)
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Getting vaxx’d at Wilbur Cross in March.
The rise of the Delta variant across Connecticut and the country should most worry one population in particular: those who continue to hold out on getting vaccinated.
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by | Jul 12, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (2)
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Hernan Muralles, at right, seized chance for a convenient shot — then brought back his buddy David Briley.
New Haven’s vaccination ground game — finding ways to lure Covid-19 vaccination hold-outs to get shots, one by one — found 19 takers at the gas pump.
by | Jul 7, 2021 5:32 pm | Comments (5)
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Health Director Bond (right) getting vaccinated in December.
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More than 61 percent of New Haveners over the age of 12 have gotten at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The city’s next challenge on the path to “herd immunity”: Convincing at least 23,500 more city residents to get a shot or two in the arm.
by | Jul 6, 2021 6:12 pm | Comments (11)
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Appointments only: An aspiring firefighter presents guard Steve Asprelli with one of a steady stream of requests for access to 200 Orange.
Starting Thursday, New Haveners may be able to walk into not just a crowded bar or restaurant or sporting event or store — but also the municipal government office building at 200 Orange St.
by | Jul 5, 2021 2:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Stephen Ross and Jason V. Watts outside their soon-to-open restaurant and music spot.
Jason V. Watts and Stephen Ross are bringing food from across the African diaspora — from jollof rice to jerk chicken to collard greens — to the spot the former home of the high-end Indian restaurant Thali.
The new restaurant, Jazzy’s Soul Kitchen and Lounge, is slated to officially open at the corner of Orange and George in September.
by | Jun 30, 2021 5:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Clockwise from top left: YNHHS VP Vin Petrini, CEO Marna Borgstrom, and Chief Medical Officer Thomas Balcezak.
Yale New Haven Health will soon require all 28,000-plus of its employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. It’s already 81 percent there.
by | Jun 28, 2021 2:45 pm | Comments (4)
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Meryem Bostanci interviews Shelagh Laverty at QU media camp.
Asked by interviewers to demonstrate a hidden talent, rising Wilbur Cross senior Shelagh Laverty touched her tongue to the tip of her nose.
The group was practicing man-on-the-street interview techniques at a media production camp at Quinnipiac University. Rather than asking strangers policy questions, however, the teens asked their classmates to show off talents, jokes and victory dances.