by | Mar 19, 2018 4:39 pm | Comments (59)
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Nemerson testifying: Techies will drive 15 minutes to an airport.
Hartford — New Haven officials urged lawmakers here to pass a bill that will allow a 1,000-foot extension of Tweed-New Haven Airport’s runway — and, the officials claimed, help the region and the state compete for high-tech jobs.
by | Mar 6, 2018 5:14 pm | Comments (1)
New electricity, new plumbing, new kitchen, new bingo board and sound system.
Add to that new noise-attenutating ceiling-borne panels that look like flying sculptures.
Throw in new flooring, windows, lights, furniture, carpeting, and a paint job of such bright wall colors that Margie Staggers, who is partially blind, can take delight in them.
Continue reading ‘Renovated Senior Centers Show Off Their Youthful New Looks’
by | Feb 16, 2018 1:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Lisa Milone, at left in photo, at this week’s management team meeting.
Planning is underway for a walking trail that will bring East Shore’s history alive.
Continue reading ‘History Trail In The Works On The East Shore’
by | Feb 15, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Joe Bertolino with the East Shore management team.
Southern Connecticut State University’s president popped in to the Lighthouse Road fire station the other night — to check in with his neighbors.
by | Jan 11, 2018 9:28 am | Comments (6)
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The harbor, where main channel begins beyond the breakwater and would be extended into the Sound, as well as deepened.
You dredge, deepen and extend the New Haven harbor channel to bring in bigger ships leading to more efficient business.
Then you take the sand, silt, and other stuff you’ve hauled out of the depths and use it to shore up washing away beaches, to create new shellfish habitats and salt marshes. Who knows? Maybe you even find three of Fort Hale’s three missing 1779 cannon.
That rosy picture of an invigorated harbor all depends on one big “if”: If the dredged out material is biologically safe —non-toxic, and suitable for such beneficial uses.
Continue reading ‘Plan Previewed For Deepened Harbor Channel’
by | Dec 6, 2017 4:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Nyberg accepts the Polly Sweeten Excellence in Sports Award.
The Farnam Community recognized some hometown heroes at its 10th Sports Celebrity Breakfast.
by | Nov 1, 2017 8:22 am | Comments (1)
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Is that Marge & co. — or the Cross and Cox families?
Bart and Lisa patiently waited to climb a small set of steps up to a porch of a trim white house where an odd couple, a witch and Santa who lived there, gave them candies.
“Hey Bart!” cried out their grandfather. “What you get for me?”
by | Oct 27, 2017 4:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Lawlor in all her splendor Thursday night.
The Black and Hispanic Caucus took time out from its annual benefit for the city’s youth and seniors to honor a woman who truly has the keys to the city, Pattie Lawlor.
by | Oct 25, 2017 12:39 pm | Comments (2)
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Mayor Harp joins Paley at the table of honor.
They celebrated buying, rehabilitating, and selling scores of homes to first-time homeowners and in the process revitalizing a stretch of Newhallville that many had given up on.
Not on the agenda but very much part of the event was also celebration of the return to action of the man who has lead that effort for decades: founder and executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services, who has returned from a life-threatening stroke to be the very model of optimism and resiliency.
by | Oct 13, 2017 8:18 am | Comments (24)
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Van Hoesen reciting pledge at GOP nominating convention.
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DeCola chairs committee meeting.
Republican Donald Trump won far more votes in Morris Cove’s Ward 18 — 830 — than anywhere else in New Haven last year. Which might seem like a boost for one of the 27-year-old GOP candidate for alder there this fall.
Until you find out that he actually voted for Hillary Clinton in that election.
by | Sep 26, 2017 6:09 pm | Comments (3)
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New Brewery Square Seawall and Q River outlet pipe.
New Haven has built a lot of “green infrastructure,” like those Lots of green infrastructure like bioswales that catch run-off. It is also monitoring the elevation of new buildings in flood plains.
Continue reading ‘City Scores A “Perfect” Seven For Flood Preparedness’
by | Sep 25, 2017 2:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Management team chair Milone with vice-chair Jennifer Spata.
Worried about recent car break-ins on her block, Chris Mullaly brought a question to her neighborhood community management team meeting: How do we start a block watch? The answer turned out not to be so simple.
by | Sep 21, 2017 3:56 pm | Comments (36)
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Visser, left, and Doyle engage in the friendly flag discussion.
Morris Cove is ready to fly Old Glory in the neighborhood — but not sure if if other countries’ flags belong in the display at all.
by | Sep 12, 2017 1:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Sandra Trevino at Friday night’s gala.
Following months of internal turmoil, the executive director of a Fair Haven-based agency that has helped lead New Haven’s emergence as a “sanctuary city” for Latino immigrants is stepping down.
by | Aug 22, 2017 3:47 pm | Comments (14)
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Paca stumping at the East Shore Senior Center.
Mayoral candidate Marcus Paca had a date with an older woman. Actually, it was a date with about 20 older women. But it almost didn’t happen.
by | Aug 7, 2017 4:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Larson and Makres in front of 109 Burr, with the airport behind.
If Kim Makres’s tidy beige ranch house were any closer to Tweed New Haven Airport, it would almost be on the runway.
Close as it is, it picks up 97 percent less noise than it used too from the planes landing and taking off perhaps 75 yards away. As for the cars racing by on Burr Street to catch those planes, she doesn’t hear a single engine revolution or the slap of a tire.
by | Jun 28, 2017 7:44 am | Comments (60)
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Cruz (at center) at an East Shore community meeting before his transfer.
New Haven police reassigned a sergeant running the East Shore district because an alder there objected to having a Latino in charge of the neighborhood, a state human rights agency has concluded.
by | Jun 22, 2017 7:51 am | Comments (3)
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Kendrick at Wednesday night’s gala.
A trailblazer who developed “a monument to education” downtown isn’t saying goodbye. She’s saying godspeed.
by | Jun 20, 2017 12:34 am | Comments (1)
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Nathan Hale graduates on a celebratory carousel ride.
“When life hands you mystery meat, just wear the buns,” said Elizabeth Johnston, an 8th grade writing teacher at Nathan Hale School.
Continue reading ‘Nathan Hale Grads Say Good-bye To “Mystery Meat”’
by | Jun 12, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (0)
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Lighthouse Point Park
Temperatures soared into the high 80s on Sunday, creating an ideal day for the beach — and for the New Haven Health Department 17th annual lead education picnic.
Continue reading ‘City Gets The Lead (Word) Out At Lighthouse’
by | May 8, 2017 3:09 pm | Comments (5)
Tweed (above); John Cirello at WNHH (below).
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John Cirello has been around the runway and back on one of New Haven’s longer-running conflicts: Whether Tweed-New Haven should become a bigger, busier commercial airport.
by | May 1, 2017 12:08 pm | Comments (1)
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E4E’s Justin Boucher high-fives a student at Nathan Hale’s Breakfast of Champions.
Nathan Hale School Dean Michele Ricci pulled a student out of each classroom and handed them a sealed invitation.
“Go put it in your backpack,” she told the kids.
“I’ve never been before,” one said.
“My mom’s going to be so happy,” chirped another.
At the week’s end, the select group arrived for a celebratory breakfast at 8:15 a.m. and gleefully wolfed down scrambled eggs and syrupy pancakes, as administrators complimented them for their good behavior over the last quarter.
by | Mar 10, 2017 1:11 pm | Comments (6)
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The new pier design.
A belated silver lining benefit from the destructive rage of Hurricane Sandy was delivered to neighbors in Morris Cove Thursday night: The design for the pier to replace the Fort Hale Pier, which that red-letter storm battered and destroyed back in 2012.
by | Feb 16, 2017 5:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Looking north on Russell Street at Clifton.
The engineering experts said the intersection did not meet national criteria — not enough traffic volume, nor reported crashes of the right kind were documented.
Continue reading ‘Data Weighed, Overriden On New Stop Signs’
by | Dec 6, 2016 9:08 am | Comments (22)
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Bombero with Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks Monday.
The Board of Alders said yes to the city hosting a temporary ice rink in the East Shore this winter, but Mother Nature will make the final decision.