by | Apr 20, 2021 6:01 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Elicker announces$6.3M proposed “summer reset” spending.
A citywide youth ambassador program. Fixed up city playgrounds. Drop-in centers for the homeless. Street outreach workers focused on preventing summer violence.
Those are just a few of the programs the city hopes to fund this summer with $6.3 million in federal Covid relief.
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:31 am | Comments (0)
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City Health Director Bond (right) getting vaccinated in late December.
The city Health Department has teed up two new initiatives that — pending state and federal approval — would make it easier for local communities of color to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Continue reading ‘City Seeks Millions To Boost Vaccine Equity, Health Literacy Campaigns’
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (5)
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Alder Clyburn (at right) checks in on constituent Reishana Morrison during the pandemic.
Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn knows what it means to struggle. And she’s tired of it.
But, Clyburn said Monday night in the annual Black & Hispanic Caucus State of the City address, there’s much work yet to be done — to forge a better life for herself and her community. So she and her legislative colleagues aren’t bowing out yet.
by | Apr 20, 2021 8:44 am | Comments (0)
A drunk monk. A woman plagued by ghosts from the past. And a Sleeping Beauty much more in charge of her own story than the traditional fairy tale let on. These were a few of many ideas and arresting images swarming around the films of Kihachirō Kawamoto, a Japanese animator of puppet maker who was the subject of the latest installment of the New Haven Free Public Library’s “Animation Celebration,” hosted by Library Technical Assistant Haley Grunloh.
by | Apr 16, 2021 2:59 pm | Comments (14)
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NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey: “Money, money everywhere.”
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The city’s typically cash-strapped school system has a big challenge, and a big opportunity: Figuring out how to spend $136 million in pandemic-induced federal relief over the next few years without getting hooked on the short-term dough.
Continue reading ‘Schools Q: How To Spend All That Federal $’
by | Apr 15, 2021 8:52 am | Comments (3)
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School of Rock rocking.
Pitkin Plaza Wednesday evening played host to a rock ‘n’ roll show, not live on stage, but in a film celebrating the fun and excitement of being part of that world.
School of Rock, the beloved 2003 comedy starring Jack Black, was the second of this year’s weekly “Movies in the Plaza,” the free outdoor film series presented every Wednesday at 8 p.m. by the Town Green District.
Continue reading ‘“Movies in the Plaza” Rocks Into Another Season’
by | Apr 14, 2021 10:01 am | Comments (0)
Josh Onyango shares ways to get vaccine appointment.
The familiar faces of a team of Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) doctors dropped in to the monthly online Hill North Community Management Team meeting Tuesday night to keep the community in the loop about the Covid-related updates, including new concerns about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Continue reading ‘YNHH Docs Update Neighbors On Vaccines; J&J On Hold For now’
by | Apr 14, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (1)
The uneven rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has highlighted disparities in health care — and mistrust many people of color have in the health care system.
by | Apr 13, 2021 9:30 pm | Comments (48)
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Karen DuBois-Walton at Tuesday’s presser.
Spend $10 million of New Haven’s incoming federal pandemic relief on police accountability and gun violence prevention.
Karen DuBois-Walton issued that fiscal call to action Tuesday evening, detailing for the first time since she announced her exploratory bid for mayor some of her top policy priorities for City Hall.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton: Use “Rescue” $ vs. Violence’
by | Apr 13, 2021 10:55 am | Comments (4)
The city has cancelled a pop-up vaccination clinic Tuesday and will use only Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for the time being, after the federal government announced concerns about the potential connection between the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and an extremely rare, severe type of blood clot.
Continue reading ‘City Cancels Vaccine Clinic, Stops Using J&J’
by | Apr 12, 2021 8:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Jackson, 17, gets first Pfizer dose from Dr. Donald Levine.
While 17-year-old Jackson Elberson rolled his sleeve up to get his first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, his father stood by his side nervous but hopeful he was making the safest choice for his son.
Continue reading ‘Students Head To School During Vacation — For Vaccines’
by | Apr 12, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Al Proto: Grand was the Avenue of the Americas.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
by | Apr 12, 2021 9:38 am | Comments (1)
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Buzz Gordo.
A toast of “cheers” with glasses raised was replaced with the phrase “welcome home” past Friday night at Cafe Nine, when the aptly nicknamed “musician’s living room” reopened for live music with a limited number of in-person patrons allowed in under Covid-19 guidelines.
by | Apr 9, 2021 10:11 am | Comments (3)
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The daffodils are out, spring after spring.
I looked for the woman I used to see at the Mill River every day. I found new life and new faces in her place.
by | Apr 8, 2021 9:21 am | Comments (6)
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“I’ve got a summer now”: Lucas Bosch flashes his vaccination card at Salperto Park pop-up.
Danielle Desanti was eager to land a vaccination appointment — so when an opportunity arose Wednesday, she raced to grab it.
by | Apr 7, 2021 2:07 pm | Comments (4)
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Anna models a tie-turned-headscarf.
“La Bottega” has opened within the Skappo storefront.
Anna Sincavage will sell dresses in the morning and lasagna in the evening — all from 59 Crown St.
That’s the plan now that the family behind Skappo Italian Wine Bar is taking advantage of lower indoor dining demand to convert one corner of their restaurant into a new mini-shop, La Bottega.
by | Apr 7, 2021 2:06 pm | Comments (6)
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rivers.
(Opinion.) The results of the New Haven school choice system are out. It’s a good time for our city’s most privileged families to think about how we talk about our “wins” and “losses” in this lottery.
Continue reading ‘Parents: Disrupt The “Good School” Narrative’
by | Apr 7, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (1)
On the doors: Bond gives Rebecca Ford handouts for friends.
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Director Bond takes down Tori’s registration information during Farmington Canal Trail walk-and-talk.
“She’s ready to get vaccinated!” pediatrician Tamiko Jackson-McArthur called out to city Health Director Maritza Bond.
by | Apr 7, 2021 9:48 am | Comments (1)
At Tuesday’s giveaway: From right to left: Rodney Williams, Darren Smith, Robert Carter, Booker Washington, Karen DuBois-Walton.
Four minority contractors gave back to their community Tuesday by handing out thousands of masks and hundreds of hand sanitizers to people in West Hills,
Continue reading ‘Minority Contractors Give Back With West Hills Mask Giveaway’
by | Apr 7, 2021 9:15 am | Comments (2)
Don’t raise taxes. Pause the minimum wage increase. Entice remote workers to Connecticut.
These measures will help Connecticut chart a path out of the pandemic-related recession, in the view of Yankee Institute Policy Director Ken Girardin.
Continue reading ‘Yankee Institute Offers Take On Economic Recovery’
by | Apr 6, 2021 2:03 pm | Comments (2)
The plate was set for a return to social dining.
A friend who recently moved to East Rock called last week inviting us to a dinner party.
A dinner party? Leave the house? Eat with other people? Change my sweatpants?
by | Apr 6, 2021 12:59 pm | Comments (15)
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Elizabeth Rosenthal: Feels pandemic’s toll on her clients.
For the first time in her 15 years as a legal aid lawyer, Elizabeth Rosenthal felt tears welling up as she addressed a judge.
by | Apr 2, 2021 12:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Sweeper operator Robert Roberts turns the Pelican Thursday on day one of spring street-cleaning season.
That parking space looked big enough for maybe a sedan. But a city street sweeper?
Robert Roberts was undaunted. He’d been here before.
by | Apr 1, 2021 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Public heath nurse Judith Medor gives Harper first Moderna dose at a pop-up clinic held at Newhallville’s First Calvary Baptist Church.
The author: Hesitant.
After listening to Leslie Douglas-Churchwell talk in depth about the severity of getting infected with Covid-19, I thought: Maybe I should get the vaccine after all.
by | Apr 1, 2021 2:22 pm | Comments (5)
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Hill Alder Ron Hurt gets vaccinated at Career High School popup clinic on March 20.
When public schools close for April recess later this month, the city plans to open a Covid-19 mass vaccination clinic at Career High School in the Hill with the explicit goal of providing shots for eligible New Haven youth.
Continue reading ‘City Plans Covid Vaccine Clinic For High Schoolers During April Recess’