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Attn. Walmart: City Might Shut You Down

by Courtney Luciana & Paul Bass | 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.

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Pandemic Poll Workers Answer The Call

by Sophie Sonnenfeld & Courtney Luciana | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)

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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.

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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.

Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.

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Bishop Woods Air Filters Are In, Lockers Locked

by Emily Hays | 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.

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Body Cam Shows Walmart Dispute, Arrest

by Thomas Breen & Paul Bass | May 28, 2020 10:13 pm | Comments (26)

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Officer prepares to mace alleged shoplifter.

(Updated) A tense encounter between a police officer and an alleged shoplifter at the Walmart off Exit 8 ended with two officers injured and the suspect charged with assault on a police officer and larceny in the fifth degree.

Newly released police body camera footage shows the officer approaching the 29-year-old man as the latter is engaged in a verbal dispute with a store employee, spraying him with mace after a brief foot chase through the store, and holding him to the ground and arresting him as the man shouts in disbelief.

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Empty Shelves, Worries In Aisle 15

by Emily Hays & Maya McFadden. | Mar 4, 2020 9:03 am | Comments (0)

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New Haven newcomer Siiri Luukkonen scours the CVS shelves.

Siiri Luukkonen sheepishly grabbed a few bottles of hand sanitizer from a nearly empty shelf at the CVS Pharmacy downtown.

She was one of the lucky ones, as fretful shoppers cleared store shelves citywide of products that may — or, according to experts, may not — help them avoid coming down with the virus now called COVID-19, aka coronavirus.

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Black Inventors Get Their Due

by Maya McFadden | Feb 12, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (0)

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Assistant Principal Tianko Ellison: Idea grew over years.

Erin Palmer and Nicholas Clement with their display.

One thing the fire extinguisher, guitar, super soaker, and pressure cooker have in common? They were all invented by African Americans.

Thanks to the students of the Ross Woodward School, those and other African American inventions are showcased in a Black History Month gallery.

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Heights Pitched On New Traffic-Slowing Measures

by Allan Appel | Jan 9, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (5)

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Looking north on Quinnipiac Ave from East Grand.

The city has found $1.8 million for traffic-calming measures for speed-plagued Quinnipiac Avenue north of Grand Avenue to Foxon Boulevard.

Neighbors are glad to hear that. But as witnesses to repeated accidents and near-misses, they say they can’t wait the years for that money to move through the pipeline and improvements be implemented.

So they are proposing a spate of temporary, low-cost measures in the meantime.

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Flood-Plainers Get Plain Talk On Preparation

by Allan Appel | Jan 8, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (5)

A worst-case flood would cause an estimated $15 billion in damage to 1,901 acres in the city’s most flood-prone neighborhoods with 3,689 people and 1,550 buildings, 162 of them historic and five critical facilities.

So it might be time to purchase flood insurance from FEMA, provider of these stats. If you do, you’ll get a 15 percent discount because we as a city rate high in preparedness and public education on the subject.

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Q East Neighbors Trash Garbage Plan

by Allan Appel | Dec 9, 2019 4:37 pm | Comments (2)

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With calls of ​“stop trashing New Haven” and ​“don’t dump on us,” a local activist rallied a management team to write a formal letter of opposition to a local recycler’s proposal to accept wet or putrescible garbage down in the port district.

Residents also agreed to up the ante of their protest by showing up an hour before a Dec. 18 City Plan Commission meeting and to make their point with paints and posters as well.

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Quinnipiac East Weighs Oyster Murals Vs. Traffic Calming

by Allan Appel | Dec 6, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (1)

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Guns Down/Books Up’s Ray Wallace, center, with Young Knights Elizer Diaz, left, and T.J. Yuio

Enhance the municipal canoe launch at Clifton Street. Fund a school-based anti-bullying program that culminates in a musical production. Beautify storm drains near local schools with images of fish. Paint a mural of an oyster near the Q River. Deploy pavement marking and bright textured paint to narrow the avenue and slow the traffic.

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Wine Merchant Toasts Bridge-Closing Delay

by Allan Appel | Dec 5, 2019 3:41 pm | Comments (1)

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Tortora with a bottle of nero d’avolo, which he sold to a reporter during the course of an interview.

The original plan was for the Grand Avenue Bridge to close as early as this fall to begin 18 months of renovations..

That would have killed a big part of the holiday business for Ben Tortora, Fair Haven’s only wine merchant, who runs Grand Vin right by the bridge.

Now the start of construction has been pushed back past Christmas — and Tortora is driving back and forth across the bridge to make the personal deliveries at the heart of his business’s success.

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