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Sep 4, 2020 12:40 pm
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Charles Eugene Holiness and Shelly Holiness prepare for food delivery.
An SUV backed into Honda Smith’s Harper Avenue driveway in West Hills this past drizzly Wednesday afternoon.
Smith, the alder of Ward 30, emerged from her garage, clicking off her phone. Another batch of fresh food for those in need during the pandemic had arrived — and a team of volunteers was ready to get those boxes distributed.
Two dozen “youth ambassadors” in neon green “Elm City Communities believes” T‑shirts are becoming familiar faces in West Hills as they clean up streets and serve their neighbors.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 23, 2020 1:39 pm
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A jobs program on the west side of town to reengage teens. An expanded police presence on the east side of town.
The Housing Authority of New Haven/Elm City Communities ( HANH/ECC) is including those two features in a response to the uptick in violence in the city, particularly as it is affecting vulnerable residents in public-housing developments.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Jun 29, 2020 9:55 pm
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Ward 30 Alder Honda Smith with New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes.
West Hills Alder Honda Smith and other community leaders vowed to take back the streets in a press conference Monday night held in response to a recent uptick in gun violence.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 22, 2020 1:10 pm
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The Parks Commission gave approval for Common Ground High School to build a a secure, permanent out-of-doors structure, with fresh air blowing through, and large enough for a class all to be under the roof.
Top west side cop Lt. Elliot Rosa updates us on the whereabouts of the bear roaming Westville — and asks if “Boo-Boo,” who was last spotted roaming Orange, may be the same visitor.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 1, 2020 1:27 pm
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The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped West Hills Alder Honda Smith from connecting with residents, keeping her neighborhood cleaned up, and from going outside for a healthy walk around the neighborhood.
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Maya McFadden |
May 16, 2020 10:12 pm
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A donation from The New Haven Chapter of The Links Inc. helped Ward 30 Alder Honda Smith provide 50 West Hills families with $100 gift cards to Stop & Shop along with 500 masks, which Smith began distributing on Friday.
Rendering of project’s riverine bike path and pedestrian plaza.
Building new apartments on the grave of the old 500 Blake Street Cafe is a great idea. But what about the traffic? And what kinds of stores will go on the first floor?
Westville neighbors offered that support and unleashed those questions Wednesday night in a virtual gathering with a prominent developer about his plan to build on the lot that used to house the storied restaurant-bar-banquet hall.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 26, 2020 9:50 am
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The proposed new Valley Street apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved the city housing authority’s plans to knock down and replace 40 decades-old affordable apartments on Valley Street as part of a redevelopment project that the authority first got approved in 2017, and only recently learned will be funded in large part by the state.
Someone left a car running at the Citgo gas station on Whalley Saturday, went inside to the convenience store — and came back out to find someone else taking off with the vehicle.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 19, 2020 2:21 pm
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New pitched roofs going up at McConaughy Terrace.
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An architecturally historic New Haven apartment tower is getting a $1.47 million upgrade, while another public-housing complex across town, built in 1948 for returning World War II veterans, is in line for a nearly $1 million replacement of its ancient clay sewer lines.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 18, 2020 4:09 pm
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CFO Penn in foreground, with Superintendent Tracey.
The Board of Education is really not in deficit. It has just been chronically and systemically under-funded for the last 30 years, and you should write to your representatives, especially in the state to deliver that message.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 17, 2020 2:07 pm
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Pink or red or salmon-colored cards up in Westville.
Westvillians raised their pink cards — or were they salmon-colored? or red? — to give the thumbs up to support for a local longtime after-school program and a job training program that has been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
