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Sample bowls: Pitaya on the left, Greens on the right.
Patti Ochsendorf filled two cups with a green and pink smoothie base each, then topped it with crunchy honey granola and blueberries, strawberries, mango, and pineapple. The green color came from kale and spinach blend. The pink color came from pitaya, also known as dragonfruit, which has a rough exterior with a pink or white inside.
by | Nov 3, 2020 10:14 am | Comments (10)
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New Haveners gave “President Trump” a beating hours just before the election polls opened in Fair Haven.
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:56 pm | Comments (2)
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Superintendent Iline Tracey: Most disengaged students do have computers and internet.
It is the ninth week of school and 3percent of New Haven Public Schools students still have not logged onto virtual classes at all. Another 11 percent, or 2,126 students, are logging on sporadically.
by | Oct 26, 2020 11:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Police, protester confrontation on May 31.
After a five-month internal review, the police chief announced that local officers who pepper sprayed a crowd of anti-police brutality protesters amidst a tense, 12-hour standoff this summer “acted within the color of the law,” “were professional,” and will not be disciplined.
He also said the incident convinced the department to adopt different tactics in subsequent protests.
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Current plan for the former Coliseum site.
(Opinion) When I first came back to New Haven in 1971 I was told by everyone to focus on the problems of the poor and the disadvantaged. Forty years later I see the mood of the City seems not to have changed. Affordable housing is critically important but there are several much larger issues which need to be the focus of our discussions, all of which conclude making the project financially successful for all income classes.
The current controversy over the Coliseum site is focused strictly on affordable housing, a subject which, by itself, is a nonstarter.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Coliseum Site Needs A Neighborhood Builder’
by | Oct 21, 2020 1:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Monk, with his truck of food on Tuesday
“I’m planning on giving this to over 200 veterans,” said Conley Monk Jr (pictured), a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps.
Monk said that at a food drive he attended that was hosted by the Kingdom International Economic Development Corporation Tuesday morning in the Hill.
by | Oct 7, 2020 1:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Lead plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, at announcement of lawsuit.
The proposed $18.75 million settlement of a years-in-the-works Church Street South class action lawsuit lurched ahead with a new, streamlined structure — and a local civil rights attorney’s hopes that a state court system largely shuttered by the pandemic will resume grinding its gears to allow for hundreds of tenants displaced from the mold-infested former apartment complex to finally get paid.
Continue reading ‘Slowed By Covid, Church St. South Settlement Advances’
by | Oct 6, 2020 3:47 pm | Comments (1)
Mendy Paris with attorney Ben Trachten. Below: 540-580 Grasso lot.
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Two New Haven landlords picked up a 10-acre office complex in the Hill for $6.85 million — with the hope that a sea of surface parking will attract business tenants, even during a pandemic.
by | Oct 6, 2020 11:33 am | Comments (6)
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Attorney Rosenberg (right), McCrea seal deal after auction.
Quan McCrea bought a half-burnt house on Stevens Street at a foreclosure auction as an investment — in herself, her family and her community.
Continue reading ‘Foreclosure Recycles Affordable Hill Home’
by | Oct 5, 2020 10:44 am | Comments (14)
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Recovered paintball gun.
It looked like two men were carrying AK-47s in the Hill early Monday, and firing them — at passersby, then at cops.
Continue reading ‘2 Men Arrested After Spraying Public, Cops With “AK-47” Paintballs’
by | Sep 29, 2020 3:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Frances Padilla: Coverage for pre-existing conditions at risk.
1.5 million: That’s how many people who have pre-existing conditions in Connecticut. They constitute nearly half of the state population.
That’s potentially how many people who might lose their health insurance if the Supreme Court repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
by | Sep 24, 2020 4:34 pm | Comments (9)
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Jose Paez and Darin Latimore.
Jose Paez has been a child psychiatry fellow at the Yale School of Medicine for only three months, and he’s already been singled out as a person of color.
Continue reading ‘Docs, Nurses, Aides Mourn Breonna Taylor Decision’
by | Sep 22, 2020 10:26 am | Comments (2)
The following was submitted by Edward Joyner II of the organization Men Achieving Leadership, Excellence, and Success.
by | Sep 17, 2020 10:28 am | Comments (3)
Lisa Deane speaks this month at overdose awareness event at state Capitol.
A woman who lost her 23-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose in 2018 has launched a campaign to provide scholarships for trade school education as an alternative for kids who might otherwise migrate into the deadly drug life.
She intends to offer the $1,000 scholarships dedicated to a kid in each of New Haven’s neighborhoods, beginning with Hill South.
Continue reading ‘Mom Brings Overdose Prevention Quest To Hill’
by | Sep 16, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (2)
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The youngest remote learners at the Boys & Girls Club hum to themselves as they seek to concentrate on their Chromebooks.
The 6‑year-olds were singing, older students were on their phones and fifth-graders were tossing a mini basketball. Amid all that, Da’quay Jeffries was able to concentrate —better than at home.
by | Sep 10, 2020 4:27 pm | Comments (19)
Inside historic Union Station.
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Mayor Elicker and state transit chief Giulietti sign “letter of intent.”
Union Station will begin its second century with a bus hub in the works, new stores replacing planned new parking spaces, and the city in control of operations for 55 years.
State and local leaders — whose governments had been fighting over control and design of the station for decades — announced a proposed agreement to that effect Thursday afternoon at an event marking the historic train station’s 100th anniversary.
by | Sep 9, 2020 9:25 am | Comments (18)
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The former Welch Annex School at 49 Prince St.
Alders unanimously granted Stamford developer Randy Salvatore a 17-year tax break for his planned conversion of the derelict former Welch Annex School in the Hill into 30 affordable apartments.
Continue reading ‘Welch Annex Apartments Catch A (Tax) Break’
by | Sep 8, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Orange St. construction site today … and next year (below).
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City planner Donna Hall looked west towards a dug-up intersection, rumbling construction vehicles, a surface parking lot, and a mini-highway separating the Hill and Downtown — and described a new pedestrian-safe connector that is now less than a year away from completion.
by | Sep 3, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (3)
City police are now investigating the August shooting death of an 8‑year-old boy in the Hill as a homicide.
by | Sep 2, 2020 3:14 pm | Comments (1)
The city police department is investigating the June death of a 33-year-old West Haven woman on Arthur Street as a homicide, after the state Officer of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that she had died due to strangulation.
Continue reading ‘Police Investigating Arthur Street Death As Homicide’
by | Sep 1, 2020 4:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Career High School student Joshuwa Papalotzi picks up a laptop from Ron Atkinson.
Joshuwa Papalotzi picked up a laptop, a charger, and words of encouragement from staff at Career High School, as the city and the public school system hustle to ensure that every student is well equipped for an all-online start to the school year.
by | Sep 1, 2020 8:57 am | Comments (8)
(Updated)—A 52-year-old Hamden man named Eric Joseph Pechalonis was struck and killed Monday night at the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Orange Avenue.
Police have arrested the 39-year-old driver and charged him with driving under the influence, with more charges set to come.
by | Aug 31, 2020 9:56 pm | Comments (2)
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Mayor Elicker presents Williams with a key to the city.
Local boxing champ Tramaine “The Mighty Midget” Williams took home an honorary key to the city, in recognition of the 27-year-old Hill resident’s nationally-renowned athletic achievements.
by | Aug 31, 2020 8:36 am | Comments (11)
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The latest “Meet the Mayor” community conversation with Justin Elicker, in Trowbridge Square Park.
A small but outspoken crowd of Hill residents gathered with Mayor Justin Elicker to talk about how to fix neighborhood violence.
One proposed solution: The Hill needs more residents to apply to become police officers.
by | Aug 24, 2020 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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Raised crosswalk under construction on Long Wharf in lead-up to weekend races.
Police made eight arrests, towed nine vehicles, and issued 34 summonses and tickets in a crackdown on illegal drag racing.