by | Oct 26, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (22)
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Alder Sal DeCola and challenger Lisa Milone when they competed for the same alder seat in 2015.
A (successful) petition urging write-in candidate Campion: "Run Susan Run!"
This November, Morris Cove residents will see two names on their ballots — and have the option of writing in a third — as they decide whom to support for Ward 18 alder.
by | Oct 19, 2023 6:42 pm | Comments (23)
Images of the crashed-into car posted to NextDoor.
A Morris Cove resident has sued Alder Sal DeCola and two neighborhood police officers after DeCola crashed into her parked car in February, drove away from the scene and allegedly conferred with the district’s top cop on how to pressure her not to press charges.
by | Oct 19, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (4)
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Nathan Hale's Trudy Anderson on the Spanish-teaching job in class.
Nathan Hale Spanish teacher Trudy Anderson showed the seasons el invierno, la primavera, el verano, and el otoño on her classroom Smart Board then asked students “¿Cuál es tu favorito?”
“El verano,” answered Cameron Troutman.
“¿Por qué?” Anderson followed up.
“Es mi cumpleaños,” Troutman responded.
Continue reading ‘Language Learners Dive Head First Into Spanish’
by , and | Sep 12, 2023 3:59 pm | Comments (9)
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Star Gilliams (center) with Harris & Tucker pollsters Memori Jones, Kauren Gaines, Shamar Sheppard at Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville: "I'm concerned about what happens to this neighborhood."
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Erica Rodriguez and Isiah Miller, side by side, but for different candidates, on Chatham Street in Fair Haven.
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Sam Tolkin, with 3-year-old Oliver, on Townsend Ave in Morris Cove: Brennan's "got the chutzpah to say how important education is.”
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Barbara Dozier, at Roberto Clemente in the Hill: "It's always important to vote."
(Updated) Shamar Sheppard peered up at Jazmine Williamson, a clipboard and pencil in hand. “Did you vote today?” he asked. “Who did you vote for?”
Continue reading ‘Scenes From The Polls: Kids Count In Newhallville’
by | Sep 7, 2023 5:06 pm | Comments (56)
NextDoor photos of car that got hit.
(Updated with further comments from Alder Sal DeCola) One evening in late February, Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola crashed his car into a neighbor’s parked vehicle on Hervey Street — and then drove away.
Now, less than a week before DeCola faces a political challenger in the Democratic primary, the incident has resurfaced on social media and police are investigating a new anonymous Internal Affairs complaint alleging that the alder received favorable treatment from neighborhood cops at the time.
by | Aug 25, 2023 10:19 am | Comments (19)
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An Avelo plane ...
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... and a mid-July flood at Tweed Airport.
Climate change has emerged as a defining issue in a Morris Cove alder race, as a six-term incumbent focused on nuts-and-bolts environmental upkeep faces a challenge from an activist determined to stop an expanding airport.
by | Aug 1, 2023 2:30 pm | Comments (41)
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Movimiento Cultural: "Sing it with us! Hello Avelo! Hello Avelo!"
“¡Yo soy Boricua, pa’ que tu lo sepas!”
These shouts of celebration and of Puerto Rican pride rang out over Tweed’s tarmac as a host of city and state officials and airport boosters celebrated new direct flights from the East Shore to San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting in November.
by | Jul 27, 2023 9:44 am | Comments (6)
Miguel Cardona (center, in blue suit) with PRU's board on Wednesday.
The nation’s top education official came to the Cove Wednesday night to pledge his support for the city’s new superintendent and fellow Boricua, as part of a hundreds-strong celebration of New Haven’s Puerto Rican community.
by | Jul 25, 2023 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Monica Loomis sampling the Lamb's Ear.
“It feels like flannel,” said Monica Loomis of the Lamb’s Ear that Giulia Gambale had distributed to her.
Continue reading ‘Gardeners Time Travel At Pardee-Morris House’
by | Jul 21, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (47)
Travelers react to latest Tweed flood.
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Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
Continue reading ‘Sunday Storm Sparks Thursday Tweed Debate’
by | Jul 13, 2023 12:16 pm | Comments (26)
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right) won the ward committee's endorsement by just 2 votes ...
... as Mayor Justin Elicker prevailed by 15, on Wednesday.
Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola narrowly beat back a challenge from a Tweed airport expansion critic to win his neighborhood’s Democratic Party endorsement for reelection — as Mayor Justin Elicker coasted in a crowded field towards securing that same East Shore party-insider group’s support — in the first votes to take place this municipal election year.
by | Jul 5, 2023 12:18 pm | Comments (4)
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Pablo Sumba, marveling at the mouth of a freshly caught porgy ...
... at Lighthouse Point Park on the day before July 4th.
Pablo Sumba and his family left their land-locked home in Waterbury early in the morning to fit in as many waterfront activities as they could during a pre-holiday trip to Lighthouse Point Park — including fishing, swimming, grilling (some of the 12 porgies they caught), and just hanging out with five-month-old baby Lucas, who lay on a blanket on the green grass nearby.
Continue reading ‘Catching Porgies With Pablo At Lighthouse Point’
by | Jun 8, 2023 9:09 am | Comments (37)
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All aboard one of the many new flights leaving from Tweed.
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Tweed Director Tom Rafter: "There's a number of different ways this could go."
It’s time to wait and see what the feds decide.
Tweed New Haven Airport Authority Executive Director Tom Rafter urged that patience and provided other process updates as he told a crowd of roughly 100 people at a contentious annual meeting that federal regulators should weigh in later this summer on the potential environmental impacts of the Morris Cove airport’s planned expansion.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Push Back As Tweed Waits For FAA's Enviro Decision’
by | Apr 24, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (26)
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Who's playing identity politics? Squaring off in Wooster Square Park over the Columbus statue removal, in 2020.
Mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur made a play for East Shore voters by calling for tax cuts for airport neighbors and questioning the removal of Wooster Square Park’s Christopher Columbus statue.
In the process, he and incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker ended up accusing each other of playing “identity politics.” Neither meant it as a compliment. Or as having the same meaning.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Clash On Columbus Statue Removal’
by | Apr 12, 2023 1:59 pm | Comments (14)
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Mayoral candidates take on West River encampment's demise.
a) The city responded well in its controversial dismantling of the West River homeless encampment.
b) The city needs to amp up the pressure for greater state and federal funding for rental subsidies.
c) The city needs to convert more publicly-owned property into affordable housing, and promote the same on private land.
d) The city needs to collect better data on how many people are actually experiencing homelessness in New Haven.
e) The city never should have shut down the encampment at all.
That multiple choice set’s worth of perspectives came through as five mayoral candidates hashed through housing policy, and sought to differentiate themselves from the pack, during the first citywide candidate forum this mayoral election season.
Continue reading ‘Debate Q: The Lesson Of Tent City Was ...’
by | Apr 3, 2023 11:33 am | Comments (36)
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Ready for departure for a larger airport?
“No to Tweed expansion; yes to EIS.”
“How does destroying the Cove make New Haven a better place?”
“Stop paving our wetlands.”
“This is all greed.”
That panoply of protest signs in the lobby of East Haven High School’s auditorium offered a harbinger for the direction of the public meeting to come regarding the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Airport.
Continue reading ‘Enviro Review Contested At Turbulent Tweed Talk’
by | Mar 24, 2023 5:31 pm | Comments (16)
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Jorge Oquendo (pictured) Friday became the one millionth customer to fly to or from Tweed New Haven Airport since Avelo Airlines set up shop here 17 months ago.
Or did he?
Continue reading ‘Millionth Avelo Customer Takes Off From Tweed’
by | Mar 23, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Tweed supporters, critics, and innocent bystanders have 15 extra days to weigh in on the potential environmental impacts of a larger regional airport, now that the federal government has lengthened the public comment period for the airport’s draft Environmental Assessment (EA).
Continue reading ‘Public Comment Period Extended For Tweed Environmental Assessment’
by | Mar 2, 2023 4:53 pm | Comments (55)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
After roughly a year and a half of study, Tweed New Haven Airport and a national aviation consultant have published a federally mandated environmental assessment of the airport’s expansion plans — opening the review up to 45 days of public comment, and bringing the airport one step closer to constructing a new terminal and extending the current runway.
by | Feb 24, 2023 8:45 am | Comments (23)
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Each of Tweed's lots was bursting with cars on a Thursday morning when this reporter visited the scene.
One of who knows how many lawn signs on a Morris Cove home protesting Tweed expansion.
Tweed New Haven Airport is growing 34 more parking spaces to better accommodate the flood of cars consistently competing for spots on site — as environmentalists and neighbors continue to fight expansion of the regional airport located along a wetlands-filled Morris Cove property.
by | Feb 10, 2023 2:55 pm | Comments (27)
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"Ms. B" helping a student-actor get ready for Newsies, Jr. in January.
Briana Bellinger-Dawson left her “dream job” as an arts educator at Nathan Hale School earlier this month after deciding that she could no longer afford to work part-time and not receive the support she needed to get her teaching certification.
Her departure has left a community of Morris Cove families already feeling the beloved teacher’s absence — and speaking out about their frustration that the city’s public school district didn’t do enough to hold onto a life-changing role model who went above and beyond to bring performing arts to city students.
Continue reading ‘Praise, Frustration Follow Star Teacher's Departure’
by | Jan 2, 2023 3:43 pm | Comments (3)
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U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, Judge-elect Carchia, retiring Judge Graves at swearing-in ceremony.
Surrounded by family, friends, fellow Democratic politicos, and his two probate court predecessors, Americo Carchia took the oath of office as New Haven’s new probate judge during a lunchtime celebration at a waterfront Morris Cove restaurant.
Continue reading ‘Probate Judge Torch Passed At Carchia's Swearing In Ceremony’
by | Oct 27, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Tweed airport won permission to build 203 new “temporary” parking spaces in anticipation of heightened holiday travel demand at the current New Haven terminal — and in advance of the planned construction of a new larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
by | Oct 18, 2022 5:20 pm | Comments (32)
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Tweed Director Scanlon: "A week away from submitting a draft."
Tweed’s airport authority is roughly a week away from submitting to the federal government a draft environmental assessment report — bringing the Morris Cove airport that much closer to realizing its plan to extend the runway and build a new, larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
Continue reading ‘Tweed Environmental Assessment Almost Done’
by | Oct 7, 2022 3:02 pm | Comments (8)
Thursday's City Plan Commission meeting.
Three city parks and a flood-prone west side road are slated to receive millions of dollars worth of upgrades thanks to a bevy of state and federal aid coming New Haven’s way.
Continue reading ‘Parks Upgrades En Route Thanks To State, Federal $’