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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.
by | 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.
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 | Sep 11, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (2)
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Barbour at deposit spot.
New Haven’s landfill might have had 139,000 pounds more waste it in it — if not for 2,600 mattresses that have been recycled since January 2019.
Continue reading ‘Bed-der Method Found For Handling Old Mattresses’
by | Sep 3, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
City police arrested two 26-year-old New Haveners and charged them with criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, as part of the department’s efforts to crack down on a recent surge in local gun violence.
by | 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.
by | May 18, 2020 3:15 pm | Comments (1)
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A celebratory drive-by for New Haven’s American Medical Response (AMR) workers was the first of its kind for communications response operators (CRO) Conswella Sessions and Maria Luna.
by | May 8, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (3)
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Lesleh Galvin, a mother of two, was met with the pleasant surprise of two free kids’ books while visiting Bishop Woods School to pick up free breakfast and lunch meals-to-go after having a hectic week.
by | Mar 4, 2020 5:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Looking east on East Grand Avenue.
“Yale: Respect New Haven”
Just what do those signs really mean?
Do they mean something like: “Yale, just cough up more bucks for the city’s strapped coffers”? Then why shouldn’t the signs put the message more clearly , as in, “Yale, Pay More Taxes”?
Continue reading ‘“Yale Respect New Haven” Signs Deconstructed’
by | 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.
by | Feb 21, 2020 2:51 pm | Comments (6)
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Mayor Elicker Friday at Dunkin Donuts.
A decorated but beaten U.S. army vet walked into a Dunkin Donuts Friday looking for justice — from New Haven’s mayor.
Continue reading ‘Dunkin Runs On Justice Talk, At Mayoral Coffee’
by | 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.
by | Feb 11, 2020 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
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The Hemingway Center condo complex on Eastern Street.
Two investors spent over $1.1 million buying 19 different condos on the far east side of town, one year after the same investors spent nearly $1 million buying 18 condos on the city’s far west side.
by | Feb 5, 2020 10:33 pm | Comments (2)
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With results far clearer than those partially reported in Iowa, residents on the east side of town completed a months’ long process and used a version of ranked choice voting to approve a wide range of projects to improve the Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Q Meadows Approves Butterflies, Traffic Calming, Historic Markers’
by | Feb 5, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (23)
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Lt. Rentkowicz pitches neighbors on Amazon’s crime-reporting app.
The rise of Ring has spawned privacy concerns.
So long block watches. Hello … Neighbors by Ring?
That was the word from District Manager Lt. Jason Rentkowicz at Tuesday night’s Quinnipiac East Management Team (QEMT) meeting.
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Heights Pitched On New Traffic-Slowing Measures’
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Flood-Plainers Get Plain Talk On Preparation’
by | 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.
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Quinnipiac East Weighs Oyster Murals Vs. Traffic Calming’
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Wine Merchant Toasts Bridge-Closing Delay’
by | Dec 4, 2019 2:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Welcome to Route 80.
Eyzaguirreexplains SSD steps.
When you’re on a pedestiran-unfriendly state road conducive to car-flung litter and dominated by two out-of-town big-box chains, creating a special services district (SSD) to keep the district safe and clean is a heavy lift.
Quinnipiac Meadows neighbors took up the challenge.
by | Oct 14, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (7)
City police arrested 48 people and towed 10 vehicles in a drag racing bust on Foxon Boulevard.
by | Sep 18, 2019 9:50 pm | Comments (2)
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A First Student bus drives through Fair Haven Heights in 2017.
Six elementary school students were taken to the hospital after a car collided head-on with their school bus.
by | Sep 9, 2019 11:57 am | Comments (68)
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Vehicles seized by police.
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Undercover cops seize dirt bikes on the east side Sunday.
On a day of wild pack rides on New Haven streets, police caught up with and arrested nine dirt bikers and ATV drivers — and faced 50 – 60 riders who circled and tried to steal a cop cruiser.
by | Jul 3, 2019 12:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Welcome to Route 80: Scene by the Shell station. Marottoli, below.
Vinnie Marottoli would like to have a “Return To Sender Party” clean-up along Route 80.
The idea: Collect Walmart’s litter, Dunkin’s, 7 – 11’s, Taco Bell’s. Segregate each business’s litter and then return their very own bagged stuff right back to them.