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Murphy Pops Into Town To Push Covid Relief For Summer Youth Programs, Food Distribution

by | Feb 8, 2021 7:38 pm | Comments (3)

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Chris Murphy in New Haven Monday.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made two New Haven stops Monday to discuss his efforts to bring back federal funding for youth summer enrichment programs and the FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act.

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Dunkin’ King Expands New Haven Realm

by | Oct 30, 2020 10:55 am | Comments (2)

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One of the DEKK Group’s latest Dunkin’ Donuts buys, at 323 Whalley.

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Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee king Konstantino Skrivanos (third from left) at 2018 charity gala.

A Massachusetts-based mega-franchisee” bulked up its regional fast food holdings by purchasing three local Dunkin’ Donuts outlets for $4.6 million, in the city’s latest property deals.

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Breonna Taylor March Shuts Down Whalley

by | Sep 25, 2020 2:36 am | Comments (35)

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Protest dance party breaks out at Whalley and Sherman.

Marching on Chapel Street near Park Street.

Two dozen young Black women jumped and danced and sang in the middle of the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Avenue as several hundred fellow protesters sat in the street and blocked traffic on all sides.

Black women matter!” the group cheered, a portrait of Breonna Taylor held aloft nearby. Black women matter!”

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One Tree Done, 200 To Go

by | Aug 5, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)

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Wambolt on the job Wednesday on Prospect Street.

City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt heaved a limb up and tossed it into the pile next to the yellow payloader. The rustling pile of wood and leaves was all that was left of a tree that had blocked almost two lanes of traffic on Prospect Street.

Prospect’s felled giant was one of over 200 trees broken and blown by Tropical Storm Isaias on Tuesday. And it was one more tree cleared from Wambolt and crew’s to-do list for Wednesday.

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Leaders Vow Action Amid Violence Wave

by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)

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Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.

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Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.

Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”

Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.

New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.

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Government Seeks Safe Streets Solutions

by | Feb 28, 2020 8:46 am | Comments (13)

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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, Lt. Sean Maher, and city transit chief Doug Hausladen: The city is responding.

Urban planner Carolyn Lusch takes notes at Thursday’s meeting.

Safe streets activists got a crash course in the methodical grind of local government as three city department managers presented their immediate responses and longer term plans for addressing the recent surge in traffic-related deaths and injuries.

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Biz Renewal Plan OK’d; Grand, Affordability Dropped

by | Dec 11, 2019 5:28 pm | Comments (6)

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Grand Avenue looking east from Olive Street: No longer part of the plan.

Rezoning skeptics at Tuesday night’s hearing.

Grand Avenue and affordability mandates were both dropped from a long-in-the-works rezoning initiative that now advances to the full Board of Alders with only Whalley Avenue slated to be affected.

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Biz Renewal Plan OK’d; Dixwell Dropped

by | Nov 21, 2019 2:35 pm | Comments (7)

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Dixwell rezoning skeptics Jayuan Carter, Jonny Shively, Patricia Solomon, Lillie Chambers, Carla Chappel, Lisa McKnight.

Long-in-the-works zoning changes designed to promote dense, sustainable, and affordable development along New Haven’s commercial corridors” moved ahead for Whalley Avenue and Grand Avenue — and have been temporarily dropped for Dixwell Avenue, with neighbors thanking city staff for heeding their concerns about potential gentrification.

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