by | Oct 28, 2021 3:31 pm | Comments (67)
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Ward 18 candidates Republican Steve Orosco (not vaxxed) and Sal DeCola (not saying).
Tweed New Haven’s Airport’s expansion is on the ballot this coming Tuesday, as a five-term incumbent Morris Cove Democrat squares off against a Republican challenger for the Board of Alders seat in Ward 18.
by | Oct 20, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (10)
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Sean Scanlon and Andrea Corazzini down Tweed-bound brew.
Sean Scanlon tried his first-ever cup of coffee Wednesday — after toasting a deal to bring an outpost of New Haven’s popular G Cafe to the growing airport he oversees.
by | Oct 1, 2021 12:21 pm | Comments (5)
A student was admitted to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation after being discovered with a “noose fashioned with a shoestring” inside a Nathan Hale School bathroom.
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by | Sep 23, 2021 9:17 pm | Comments (32)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
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Avports CEO Jorge Roberts with Tweed Airport Authority Executive Director Sean Scanlon at City Hall for Thursday night’s vote.
Lauding the prospect of more jobs, fewer government subsidies, and an environmentally conscious approach to developing a larger airport, the Board of Alders Thursday night unanimously approved a new 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
by | Sep 23, 2021 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
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A flooded Tweed in July.
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Temporary trailers and storage containers (in gray) slated for improved west terminal.
Tweed’s airport management company won city permission to install a handful of new temporary, modular trailer buildings below base flood elevation to allow for expanded check-in, security and catering services at the existing Morris Cove airport.
by | Sep 21, 2021 4:41 pm | Comments (37)
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Rendering for rebuilt airport.
A proposed amendment to a 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority would scrap a section on eminent domain, mandate decennial performance reviews, and require the authority and the airport’s management company to study and — “to the extent feasible” — implement a passenger carbon offset program.
by | Sep 15, 2021 1:33 pm | Comments (17)
Avelo, the fledgling airline company creating an eastern hub at Tweed New Haven Airport, plans to begin daily nonstop flights to West Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 16.
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by | Aug 31, 2021 7:46 am | Comments (19)
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Airport chief Sean Scanlon (right) with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal at May’s Tweed expansion announcement.
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After hours of debate about the length of the term and about who stands to profit, a committee of alders unanimously advanced a proposed 43-year agreement between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
by | Aug 26, 2021 7:06 am | Comments (10)
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Renovation, parking plans for New Haven side of airport property.
After a debate that concluded that climate change was not on the agenda, Tweed New Haven got the final sign-off Wednesday night to spend $5 million preparing its airport for new nonstop Florida flights.
by | Aug 25, 2021 8:52 am | Comments (14)
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Jorge Roberts & Sean Scanlon, prime movers behind airport expansion deal, at WNHH FM: First pleasure flights, then business.
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Rendering for rebuilt airport.
Jorge Roberts can picture hydrogen-powered, passenger-filled, autonomous airplanes — aka “drones for adults” — descending and ascending at Tweed New Haven one day without needing a runway.
by | Aug 22, 2021 6:06 pm | Comments (17)
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Elicker (right) at Emergency Operations Center for storm briefing.
After causing New Haveners to prepare for a hurricane, Tropical Storm Henri shifted course and wrought its havoc elsewhere.
by | Aug 19, 2021 12:25 pm | Comments (34)
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Avelo’s new map: New Haven’s contribution to climate change?
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Tweed chiefs Sean Scanlon, Matthew Hoey at Thursday announcement.
(Updated) On the heels of an announcement of new flights to four Florida airports, Tweed New Haven Airport unveiled — and sparked hours of climate-change-influenced debate over — plans to add 271 parking spaces and renovate the existing terminal and administrative buildings into separate spaces for departures and arrivals.
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by | Aug 16, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (15)
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Candidates John Carlson, Steve Orosco, and Anthony Acri talk with neighbor Carol Landino (left) at meet-and-greet.
Republican candidates seeking to reenergize their local party this fall gathered in a Morris Cove open space not for a picnic — but to promote a platform that includes protecting New Haven parks.
by | Aug 3, 2021 2:13 pm | Comments (20)
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Kensington Playground (for now).
New Haven’s Republican mayoral candidate Tuesday came out in support of neighbors organizing to save a neighborhood playground and to kill a deal to expand Tweed New Haven Airport.
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by | Jul 22, 2021 9:38 am | Comments (14)
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Airport authority director Scanlon: There’s a risk to doing nothing. City Plan Vice-Chair Mattison: But what about the risks of this deal?
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Planned partnership with Avports.
City planners advanced a proposed four-decade lease that would allow for a larger Tweed New Haven Airport, with a lingering set of questions: How financially and environmentally risky is this airport expansion plan? And how does that stack up to the costs of doing nothing?
by | Jul 15, 2021 2:50 pm | Comments (3)
Grab your suit and sun block — New Haven’s Lighthouse Point Park beach is reopening Thursday afternoon now that the water has been deemed safe for swimming.
by | Jul 14, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (12)
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The scene at Tweed Friday, when the terminal was flooded with a foot of water from Tropical Storm Elsa.
The two leading candidates for mayor split Tuesday night on the next steps in considering a deal to expand Tweed New Haven Airport.
by | Jul 10, 2021 10:51 am | Comments (7)
The city’s Health Director has temporarily closed the beach at Lighthouse Point Park as the city investigates a potential storm-related sewage spill into the water.
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by | Jul 9, 2021 1:10 pm | Comments (26)
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The scene at Tweed Friday, when the terminal was flooded with a foot of water from Tropical Storm Elsa.
Two words rang out during a Thursday evening Zoom call: eminent domain.
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by | Jul 6, 2021 9:05 pm | Comments (40)
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Tweed deal outlines revealed in May; fine print was released Tuesday.
The runway lengthens, a new terminal and garage get built, and the name “New Haven” remains under newly released terms of a proposed 43-year lease between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
The deal includes lifting of a weight limit on local aircraft — and the teeing up of a long-term sub-lease with a deep-pocketed private investor.
Those terms, and many more, were revealed Tuesday in a new proposed amended and restated lease and operating agreement between the city and the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority and a proposed ordinance amendment.
by | Jul 5, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (36)
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal with airport chief Sean Scanlon at May expansion announcement.
Opponents of the $70 million privately funded plan to expand Tweed-New Haven Airport have formed a new organization to fight it, called 10,000 Hawks.
Their aim is to watch like hawks as the plan’s details, to be executed by public Tweed’s private operational managers, the Goldman Sachs-owned Avports, progress into what they fear will be a noisy polluted reality.
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by | Jun 28, 2021 5:17 pm | Comments (6)
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Kids play on the splash pad at Lighthouse Point Park.
At Lighthouse Point Park Monday afternoon Mayor Justin Elicker and Youth and Recreation Director Gwendolyn Busch Williams announced the opening of city-run camps, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) youth ambassador program, a new driving safety program, and other activities as part of a post-pandemic “Summer Reset” initiative.
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by | Jun 17, 2021 11:58 am | Comments (11)
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Tweed Airport Manager Sean Scanlon at May’s expansion announcement.
Avelo Airlines has committed to investing $1.2 million in upgrading Tweed New Haven Airport’s existing terminal, as the airline prepares to kick off new flights out of the East Shore airport starting in September.
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by | May 6, 2021 11:06 am | Comments (73)
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Airport Manager Sean Scanlon (center) at Thursday’s airport expansion press conference at Tweed (below).
Tweed New Haven is embarking on a $70 million privately funded expansion, with a new four-gate 74,000 square-foot terminal and daily service from a new airline.
by | Mar 19, 2021 12:04 pm | Comments (5)
Morris Cove residents are asking the city to put more speed bumps, raised intersections, bike lanes, and better sidewalks on Lighthouse Road as it spreads around money on planned safe-streets upgrades.