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Hill Health Wages, Traffic Fears Rise

by | Jan 20, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (1)

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Danger zone: Navigating treacherous Hil Health parking-lot trek.

Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor announced that all center employees now earn at least $16 an hour — well ahead of the state’s gradual transition to $15.

Meanwhile, Taylor worries that one of his center’s staffers or hundreds of daily patients will be hit by cars blowing through the crosswalk in front of the Columbus Avenue main entrance.

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Support Withheld For Homeless Housing

by | Jan 17, 2020 8:49 am | Comments (8)

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Angela Hatley: Hill shouldn’t be regional “repository.”

Future home of Portsea Place.

The planned conversion of a former Hill homeless shelter into rent-subsidized apartments for housing-insecure young adults earned pushback from neighbors fearing an overly dense rooming house” for needy tenants from throughout the region.

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Neighbors Direct City $ To Hungry Seniors

by | Jan 17, 2020 8:45 am | Comments (4)

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Hill South Management Team Communications Director Angela Hatley announces grocery store gift card idea.

Over 100 food insecure seniors in the Hill are slated to receive $50 worth of free help each with their grocery store bills thanks to the neighborhood management team’s decision about how to use its annual participatory budgeting” allowance.

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Census Hiring Lags

by | Jan 16, 2020 4:14 am | Comments (11)

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All the census tracts marked in red (which are most of them) have insufficient local census takers signed up.

Unless more neighborhood people apply for 2020 federal census-taker jobs, the city runs the risk of having outsiders come in for whom fewer doors will be opened.

That could lead to a lower count and less federal government money for the next decade.

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Wolfe Tenants Decry “Terrible” Conditions

by | Jan 14, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (23)

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Tenant leader Bethea: “The first thing I smell in the morning is crack.”

If you could smell this photo of a second-floor hallway at the Robert T. Wolfe Apartments, your nostrils would be hit by the heavy, musty stench of mildew mixed with acrid smoke.

The seniors and disabled who live there have become used to those smells in the hallways and stairwells. They describe their eight-story tower across from Union Station as beset by drug dealers and drug users, homeless people and prostitutes, leaky roofs and public urination.

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Family Seeks Answers, Arrest In Fatal Crash

by | Dec 11, 2019 3:24 pm | Comments (3)

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Grant’s sister Ashley Johnson leads a family press conference outside police headquarters. Below: James Grant.

The family of a motorcyclist who died in a Winthrop Avenue car crash called on the police to release more details about their investigation and to charge the suspect not just with moving violations, but with the death of their loved one.

Police brass pledged to stay in close contact with the family, and explained that the more serious charges will be filed when officers are confident they can secure a conviction.

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Who’s Welcomed To Build In The Hill?

by | Nov 22, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (31)

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Abdussabur making his case.

Hill neighbors proved a tough crowd as visitors pitched them on four different ideas: planting tiny houses” on sliver lots; creating supportive housing for ex-offenders reentering society; funding housing for homeless youth; and rehabbing a rundown city-owned Rosette Street home for resale to an owner-occupant.

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Controversial Recovery Center Advances

by | Nov 19, 2019 9:08 am | Comments (10)

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Hill opponents Calvin Counsel, Leslie Radcliffe, Maxine Harris, Howard Boyd, and Miguel Pittman observe the vote.

A community health center’s plans to build a $20 million, 52-bed in-patient addiction recovery center in the Hill won a key approval after an impassioned, divided vote that saw two neighborhood alders argue that the area is already oversaturated with social services.

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Treatment Center Plan Delayed Amid Opposition

by | Nov 13, 2019 8:57 am | Comments (4)

The current facility on Cedar Street

A controversial planned construction of a new $20 million, 52-bed in-patient addiction recovery center on land that the Cornell Scott Hill Health Corp. community health center already owns at 232 – 236 Cedar St. encountered another delay Tuesday night. Community members hailed it as a victory.

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Shot, Paralyzed — & Not Giving Up

by | Nov 1, 2019 2:39 pm | Comments (6)

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Jayden Ortiz, at rehab clinic: “I want to inspire and keep pushing.”

Jayden Ortiz spent one morning this week practicing multiplication and rounding decimals with his math tutor — and practicing getting from his bed to his wheelchair to his desk and back with his physical therapist.

The 12-year-old Hill native doesn’t spend his days at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy or his nights at his family’s Howard Avenue home, as he did last year. Instead, he has spent the past three months at a rehabilitation center, steadily recovering after being hit in the chest by a stray bullet while on vacation in Puerto Rico.

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Anti-Nuke Activists Found Guilty

by | Oct 31, 2019 12:24 pm | Comments (1)

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Colville, at left, at home in the Hill the week before trial.

The founder of the the Hill’s Amistad Catholic Worker House and six fellow peace activists have been found guilty of all felony and misdemeanor charges related to their breaking into a Georgia naval base last year and spraypainting peace signs and pouring symbolic blood onto nuke-carrying submarines.

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Soul Food Expansion, Howe Apts. OK’d

by | Oct 31, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (8)

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Sandra’s at its current location on Congress Avenue.

Zoning commissioners Wednesday night signed off on the planned expansion in the Hill of a popular soul food restaurant. They granted parking relief for a planned 44-unit apartment complex in Dwight. And they approved a new resident-run cafe in a planned affordable housing complex in West River.

All in 15 minutes.

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