Breeze Launches First Tweed Flights
by | Dec 10, 2024 3:36 pm | Comments (6)
For the first time in 20 years, there’s more than one airline operating out of Tweed New Haven Airport.
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Avelo Announces 4 More Tweed Routes
by | Dec 9, 2024 2:16 pm | Comments (7)
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Avelo steps on Breeze's big week.
The race is on — as one budget airline announced four more flight destinations from Tweed, a day before another budget airline plans to kick off its tenure at the Morris Cove airport.
Scenes From The Polls: Kids Cast "Ballots" For ... Tax Relief?
by , and | Nov 5, 2024 6:58 pm | Comments (19)
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Memori votes for Kamala Harris.
As dozens of children lined up to drop “ballots” into a “ballot box” in a Newhallville-based kid election, 9‑year-old Memori cast a vote for Kamala Harris, while 11-year-old Syair cast a vote for Donald Trump.
The issue most on their minds? Tax policy.
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Tweed Terminal Expansion Lands $4M
by | Nov 1, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (26)
Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
New Haven’s airport has received a $4 million federal boost to help construct a new 81,000-square-foot terminal that will include four more gates.
"Turnaround" Troup Principal Honored At Gala
by | Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (4)
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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."
As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated “turnaround” school.
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3-Year Renewal OK'd For Temporary Tweed Trailers
by | Sep 30, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (8)
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Temporary office, ticketing, and passenger-waiting trailers can stay for another three years on Tweed’s New Haven side — as the regional airport works to build up a new terminal in East Haven by 2027.
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New Haven Legal Aid Turns 60
by | Sep 26, 2024 10:35 am | Comments (10)
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Keynote speaker Rev. Barber: "Poverty is a structural reality."
Rev. William Barber had a message for dozens of legal aid staffers and supporters: After 60 years of serving New Haven, don’t “rest your case” against poverty.
Barber, the co-chair of the revived national Poor People’s Campaign and a professor at Yale, was the keynote speaker at a gala for New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA), an event that filled the beachside venue at Anthony’s Ocean View on Wednesday night.
Renewal Sought For Temporary Tweed Trailers
by | Sep 9, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (26)
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Tweed’s operators are looking to keep in place for another three years temporary office, ticketing, and passenger waiting trailer buildings on the New Haven side of the airport property, as they continue to try to relocate the terminal to a new larger permanent structure on the East Haven side.
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Shoreline Walk Reveals The Gray & The Green
by | Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (4)
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
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"Uncle Chip" Collins Celebrates 100
by | Jul 16, 2024 9:12 am | Comments (4)
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Milton Collins: Now 100, doesn't look “a day over 80.”
As guests entered Milton “Uncle Chip” Collins’s 100th birthday party at Amarante’s Sea Cliff, they might have had trouble distinguishing the World War II vet, beloved New Havener, aesthete, and now centenarian from a crowd of dancers. However, Collins could be found by the band, grooving along to swanky jazz.
NHPS Frustration Fuels "Goodbye Picnic"
by | Jun 21, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (13)
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LeQuire (right) and students at Tuesday's "goodbye picnic."
Hillhouse rising senior David Coardes discovered his love for painting thanks to high school art teacher Rebecca LeQuire.
On a sunny afternoon at Lighthouse Point, he gathered with a handful of classmates to say goodbye to LeQuire — not because Coardes is graduating, but because LeQuire is leaving the district after what she says have been years of complaints insufficiently addressed by central office.
Soccer Fields Named For Doug Rae
by | Jun 10, 2024 9:44 am | Comments (4)
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Doug Rae with Dave Rodriguez of CT Junior Soccer Association ...
... at Saturday's dedication ceremony in East Shore Park.
A spirited group of 75 gathered on the edge of the East Shore Park soccer fields on a sunny, wind-swept Saturday morning for a dedication ceremony honoring Doug Rae — who founded New Haven Youth Soccer in the early 1980s with a vision that “players from all backgrounds can develop as members of the community through mentoring, teamwork, and friendship.”
Cove Warning: As Airport Grows, We Suffer
by | Jun 4, 2024 12:26 pm | Comments (48)
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John Laudano faces off with Avports spokesman Andrew King.
More than 100 Morris Cove neighbors rang the alarm bell for Tweed representatives at a three-hour meeting Monday night, cautioning that the regional airport’s continued growth in plane traffic, routes, and passengers has led to a steep decline in their quality of life.
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Garden Club Celebrates 100
by and | May 29, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (2)
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Joann Durand, Carla Farrell, Janice Markey and Rose Chatterton planting bulbs at the Garden Club's Blue Star Memorial.
This Citizen Contribution was submitted by Carla Farrell and Fran Belviso, co-presidents of the Morris Cove Garden Club.
On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, The Morris Cove Garden Club celebrated its 100th anniversary with a tea at The Estate, formerly known as the Townshend Mansion. The Estate is a beloved and historic site in the Morris Cove section of New Haven. We were honored to have Federated Garden Club President, Karin Pyskaty, in attendance, along with our most venerable members: Margaret Ottenbriet, Tina Doyle, and Josephine Farricelli, who is 104 years young!
Homeless Care Visionary Hailed On Retirement
by | May 23, 2024 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Continuum Prez Patti Walker (right) and successor Jim Farrales.
More than 300 people filled Anthony’s Ocean View in Morris Cove to hug and celebrate Patti Walker, a local social-services leader with a big picture vision of human dignity and a big heart to go with it — who will be retiring from her leadership role at Continuum of Care after more than four decades at the helm.
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Defunct Grenade Found At Tweed
by | May 8, 2024 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
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The inert grenade was ultimately surrendered to TSA.
A passenger tried to bring a hollowed-out grenade on a Tweed Airport flight to Charleston — prompting security to close the terminal for over an hour on Wednesday morning, while police confirmed that there was no safety threat.
A Shoreline Walk Thru The "Real" & "Ideal"
by | Apr 24, 2024 8:40 am | Comments (7)
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Trekking towards Morris Creek.
About 30 people took a walk through Morris Cove, from Lighthouse Point Park to East Shore Park and back again, to see for themselves the route the city has proposed for the Shoreline Greenway Trail — and to see what other routes, or detours off the main route, might be possible.
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Zayne Ali Thomas Scholarship Fund Established
by | Feb 22, 2024 2:15 pm | Comments (4)
The following was submitted by Hamden Hall Country Day School.
After losing their 14-year-old son in a tragic bicycle accident in May 2022, the family of Zayne Ali Thomas of New Haven has established a scholarship fund at Hamden Hall Country Day School where he had been a student.
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$2.5 Million Fed Subsidy Lands At Tweed
by | Feb 15, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (14)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
"Ultrafine" Pollution Enters Tweed Debate
by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)
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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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Tweed Flights Starting To Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville
by | Feb 6, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (16)
New Haveners will be able to fly directly to Atlanta from Tweed New Haven Airport four times a week beginning May 2, as part of the of the latest expansion of flights.
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145 Embark On First Flight To Puerto Rico
by | Nov 15, 2023 8:41 am | Comments (34)
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Liborio and Maria Ayala, getting ready to return to PR...
... on inaugural Avelo flight from Tweed to San Juan.
Maria Ayala and her father Liborio drove from Bridgeport to Morris Cove early Wednesday morning to kick off a visit to their old home in Puerto Rico — as two of 145 passengers on the inaugural flight from Tweed New Haven Airport to San Juan.
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DeCola Prevails As Challengers Split Ward 18 Alder Vote
by and | Nov 7, 2023 9:50 pm | Comments (22)
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Sal DeCola, reelected for a seventh term, with supporters.
(Updated) Six-term incumbent Democrat Sal DeCola has retained his seat — by winning less than 40 percent of the vote at the polls — in a three-way alder race to represent Morris Cove’s Ward 18.
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Election Day Feelings Run Hot In Cove
by | Nov 7, 2023 12:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Cyn Chegwidden, Janis Astor del Valle, and Amy Myers: Voting Campion, and anti-charter revision.
Fabian Baca: DeCola is "always in touch with the neighbors."
Confusion and anger about the formulation of the charter revision question. Strong feelings about an alder who left the scene of a car crash.
Those were among the passionate sentiments of voters leaving the Ward 18 Nathan Hale School polling site Tuesday morning on Election Day.
Thru Grief & Joy, Gala Honors Public Servants
by , , and | Oct 27, 2023 11:11 am | Comments (5)
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Board President Tyisha Walker-Myers (right) and colleagues remember late Alders Renee Haywood and Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
The 12th annual Black and Hispanic Caucus gala honored community stalwarts both living and gone, in a night of dancing, selfies, hugs, and tears.
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