by | Jun 28, 2021 8:48 am | Comments (4)
A mixture of caution and restlessness will turn Connecticut into a booming travel destination this summer, predicts Connecticut Interim Director of Tourism Christine Castonguay.
Castonguay joined WNHH FM’s “Municipal Voice,” produced and hosted by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, to discuss why more tourists might say, “Yes to Connecticut.”
by | Jun 24, 2021 7:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Matthew Gibbs, 17, practices with Hurdles Coach Milani Glass.
To’Rae Wright, 17, dashes ahead in a practice race.
(Updated Friday 2:08 p.m.): Hillhouse is sending seven track stars to the same arena where the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials just took place — thanks to some help from the community.
Continue reading ‘Update: Hillhouse Racers Head To Nationals’
by | Jun 23, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
Carla Garzón, 19, pencils out her desk design.
Look out IKEA —these desks only take a minute to build and take apart.
And they’re compostable.
Continue reading ‘Free Cardboard Desks Help Kids Learn At Home’
by | Jun 18, 2021 3:45 pm | Comments (15)
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Dr. Steven Murphy, at a city press conference in April 2020 — the same month Cigna started investigating him for Covid billing fraud.
A new federal court filing reveals that the insurance giant Cigna started investigating Dr. Steven Murphy for potential billing fraud as early as April 2020 — the same month the city signed on with the Fairfield County doc to lead the way in providing walk-up Covid tests across New Haven.
Continue reading ‘“Profiteer” Set Up In City Amid Fraud Probe’
by | Jun 18, 2021 3:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Rohn Lawrence and Jay Rowe light up the stage.
Toad’s owner Brian Phelps (center) with SBA CT Director Marx, Rep. DeLauro, and Sen. Blumenthal.
For the first time in 15 months, musicians took the stage at Toad’s Place — with the promise of more tunes to come, thanks to a federal bailout slowly making its way to shuttered venues across the country.
Continue reading ‘Toad’s Place Snags Fed Bailout $, Announces August Reopening’
by | Jun 15, 2021 8:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Incumbent Cicarella (left) won twice as many votes as his challenger (right).
Teachers have elected Dave Cicarella to be New Haven Federation of Teachers president — for the third time this term.
In the union’s re-re-election, 470 for Cicarella and 228 for his challenger Vincenzo Sullo.
The election do-over occurred under supervision by the U.S. Department of Labor, per the orders of a federal district judge this spring.
Continue reading ‘Cicarella Wins Right To Finish Term In 2nd Do-Over Teachers Union Election’
by | Jun 15, 2021 10:24 am | Comments (6)
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Literature class back in in-person session at New Haven Academy.
All New Haven Public Schools students will study in-person, five days a week starting on Aug. 30, for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
by | Jun 14, 2021 7:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Carmen Baskauf: Insurance billed $2,700+ for Covid test; collector still on her back a year later.
Debt collection threats keep coming to another New Havener who received a “free” Covid-19 test at a city-sponsored clinic run by Dr. Steven Murphy.
by | Jun 8, 2021 8:40 am | Comments (1)
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Monday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Tens of millions of dollars of federal pandemic-era aid flowed in and out of the Aldermanic Chambers, as city legislators approved a $26.3 million spending plan with one vote, and accepted another $25.3 million in federal aid with a second.
by | Jun 7, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (2)
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Dr. Tiffany Renee Jackson
A twice postponed Arts on Call performance got its chance to shine this past Saturday as renowned classical and jazz vocalist Dr. Tiffany Renée Jackson entertained and educated a grateful audience with a special Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn-centered program in a cozy shaded corner of Wooster Square Park.
by | Jun 7, 2021 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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Refugees receive vaccines.
On Saturday, in a small park to the side of the Yale Physicians Building, bubbles and pizza welcomed local refugee families as part of a Covid-19 vaccination pop-up.
by | Jun 6, 2021 4:53 pm | Comments (4)
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Dreamcatcher Green, second from left, makes fish pitch to mayor.
Mayor Justin Elicker stopped at 486 Howard Ave. to pitch neighbors on getting their Covid-19 vaccines. He received another pitch in return — for a giant, freshly-caught fish.
by | Jun 4, 2021 4:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.
Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.
The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU’
by | Jun 4, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (9)
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Superintendent Iline Tracey leads hikers up East Rock.
Principals Edith and Joseph Johnson, with one of their sons, Jacob.
The prospect of an almost vertical climb 366 feet up East Rock didn’t faze New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey.
The students, staffers and parents alongside her?
“If I can do it,” the 66-year-old vegan educator declared, “they can, too.”
by | Jun 3, 2021 3:49 pm | Comments (6)
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CFO Phillip Penn: Watch out for that funding cliff.
The New Haven Board of Education Wednesday night adopted a $198 million budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Though the board got millions less from the city than requested, this budget will not require layoffs or cuts, thanks to federal Covid-19 relief.
At the same time, a majority of board members voted down $5 hourly raises to parttime paraprofessionals, with the promise of some kind of raise before the end of the summer.
Continue reading ‘$198M School Budget Approved, As Fed Rescue $ Closes Deficit’
by | Jun 3, 2021 3:48 pm | Comments (1)
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The Diary Disk at Ives Library.
”I remember reading the same book over and over to my kids. Now they are doing the same thing to their kids. Ah, the joy of reading.”
This and other quotations covered a new Covid-era “Diary Disk” at main Ives Branhch public library, part of an art installation over the past year where people are given a prompt and they share their experiences by writing them on the disk.
Continue reading ‘“Diary Disk” Lands In Library To Preserve Communal Memories Of Rough Year-Plus’
by | Jun 2, 2021 12:06 pm | Comments (4)
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Testing at Murphy’s former Day Street Park site.
A pandemic-era folk hero who dares to challenge the “illegal and irresponsible” actions of an insurance giant?
Or an “opportunistic medical provider who followed the old adage of never letting a crisis go to waste”?
Those divergent takes on Greenwich-based Dr. Steven Murphy emerge in competing legal briefs newly filed in the ongoing case Murphy Medical Associates LLC v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company.
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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Kiana Flores, 17: It would be ridiculous if no federal aid went to climate relief.
New Haven Board of Education members have a chance of getting an A, but they will have to work for it.
They face tough grading from students involved in the New Haven Climate Movement. The students promise to dole out As only if the board spends $6.6 million in federal aid on climate education and upgrades.
Continue reading ‘Youth Climate Activists Grade Ed Board On Pandemic Aid Spending’
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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Principal Glen Worthy pitches health pathway to eighth-graders.
Starting this fall, Hillhouse students will be able to take enough biology, terminology and lab courses to skip a year of college — or enter the workforce right away in high-paying jobs.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Opens Pathway To Health Careers’
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:31 am | Comments (1)
“Build Yourself an Ark,” written by David Sasso, eases into its waltz time with a easy swing, a flourish from a mandolin. But Sasso’s voice carries instructions: “Gather some gopherwood and build yourself an ark.” It’s an immediate reference to the story of Noah’s flood, but it’s brought into the present via a form of traditional music that Sasso gives a modern twist. “Take along your loved ones; they may not all want to go / Don’t worry about your husband; he already knows,” he sings.
by | Jun 1, 2021 3:12 pm | Comments (0)
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YNHHS top doc: “A testament to the efficacy of vaccines.”
The number of Covid-19-positive in-patients has plummeted across the Yale New Haven Health System as more and more of the state’s population gets vaccinated.
Continue reading ‘YNHH: Covid Hospitalizations Keep Plummeting’
by | Jun 1, 2021 8:56 am | Comments (3)
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Senior Camp Wender weeds while junior Ahniya Holder waters.
Senior Johanyx Rodriguez: This color is making me happy.
High School in the Community (HSC) seniors returned to their school building after a year of remote school determined to leave a legacy.
For Camp Wender, that meant revitalizing an old school garden. For Johanyx Rodriguez, it meant creating a coral-colored senior lounge.
by | Jun 1, 2021 8:30 am | Comments (2)
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy knows that his constituents worry about being able to make ends meet. It’s his job to connect that worry to congressional solutions.
He sees the American Rescue Plan’s child tax credit as a solution. Property taxes, though, remain a barrier to affordability.
Continue reading ‘Murphy: Child Tax Credit Great; Property Tax “Nutso”’
by | May 31, 2021 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Cynthia Howard: My apartment looks like a New York loft.
Seven-plus years of work in childcare offered Cynthia Howard no cushion when divorce and surgery costs pushed her into homelessness.
She now has her own apartment again — thanks to her workplace’s efforts to break cycles of poverty in the childcare industry by providing free housing to employees.
by | May 28, 2021 3:15 pm | Comments (11)
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It’s June 1, and you’re at the corner of College Street and South Frontage Road. You were going to take South Frontage to I‑95 or I‑91 — but it’s blocked off with road construction signs. What now?
Take a deep breath and follow along. You can get there from here.
Continue reading ‘Don’t Panic! This Article Will Get You To I-95’