by | Nov 19, 2024 12:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Ismail Abdussabur: Looking forward to "more time at home."
The Board of Alders unanimously approved a long-awaited, six-year police union contract — to applause from an audience of police officers who have worked for two years without a contract.
by | Nov 18, 2024 2:39 pm | Comments (72)
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Assistant Principal Clarino and Principal Gethings: To be separated come January?
Worthington Hooker parents and teachers are looking for answers about the uncertain future of their school’s leadership — including at Board of Education meetings, where some have spoken out against potential plans to transfer the East Rock elementary and middle school’s assistant principal.
Continue reading ‘Hooker Crew Calls For School Leaders To Stay’
by | Nov 18, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (16)
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Alder Smith, U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, Board Chair Kilpatrick, and Interim Director Draughn: With Biden bucks, "use it or lose it."
Eco-friendly housing planned for 34 Level.
Three electric vehicle charging stations, 4,000 square feet of rooftop solar, and energy-efficient appliances will be built into an entirely electrified affordable senior apartment complex in West Rock — thanks to a newly secured $450,000 federal grant.
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by | Nov 18, 2024 10:44 am | Comments (13)
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Sherry Chapman: “The trauma to families is immeasurable and life lasting."
342 flags marking each life lost on CT's roads since last November.
Carri Roux had expected to find her son, Luke, back at the house after she finished walking the dog. But he was missing.
He never made it home.
Two years later, at a locally hosted memorial for lives lost on Connecticut’s roads, Roux described how scenes from that horrible day remain “etched” in her memory — and how a serious statewide focus on traffic safety could prevent future tragedies.
by | Nov 15, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (23)
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Landlord and Alder Kampton Singh: Licenses are not a problem because "I follow the rules."
Bill Santillo walked into City Hall with an open mind, ready to learn about a landlord licensing program he’d once staunchly opposed.
by | Nov 15, 2024 2:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Bohannon, on the job 27 years and counting: "I make myself available to make the ship run smooth."
Kindergarteners greeted Benjamin Jepson Building Manager Mark Bohannon with hugs and fist bumps as the school’s top custodian prepared to escort them from the gym to their classrooms — as part of a daily morning ritual that goes well beyond taking out the trash.
But it includes plenty of that, too.
by | Nov 15, 2024 11:12 am | Comments (6)
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Church Trustee Lee and Pastor Hardy talk up elevator benefits.
A second-floor meeting room at City Hall was temporarily transformed into a standing-room-only celebration of a religious community — as parishioners of St. Matthew’s Unison Free Will Baptist Church turned out in force to support adding an elevator to make their sanctuary more accessible for the elderly and disabled.
by | Nov 14, 2024 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
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"Hammock Home, Hammock Home, don't let us down! New Haven is a union town."
“Mold, mice, potholes, trash! What are you doing with our cash?”
A dozen tenant advocates chanted that message on Thursday, calling for the new property manager of an east-side apartment complex to negotiate a lease with their union.
by | Nov 14, 2024 3:21 pm | Comments (41)
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Sen. Winfield (right), with Alder Marx: "Most of the kids are not repeating and do not belong in jail."
A chronically under-staffed police department 90 officers short meets a national post-pandemic rash of juvenile vandalism, car thefts and life-threatening joy riding that makes everyone feel unsafe.
That “perfect storm” for policing that has arrived in New Haven was analyzed in a crime and safety-focused Westville-West Hills Community Management team meeting Wednesday night.
Continue reading ‘West Siders Press Pols On Car Theft Quandary’
by | Nov 14, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (2)
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Lala McClain (right), with Will Tuttle: "This is a beacon of hope for me today."
Kevin DeSilva seemed to experience the impossible — he was in and out of the DMV in under an hour, and he didn’t even have to leave New Haven’s city limits.
by | Nov 13, 2024 4:21 pm | Comments (9)
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Kacey Daley: "There's so much diversity with algae."
Mayor Elicker (center right) and UNH Prez Jens Frederiksen join students and city officials to cut the ribbon on Wednesday.
University of New Haven (UNH) senior Kacey Daly peered through a microscope at some red algae from the Long Island Sound — in a second-floor lab at a city-owned waterfront building that is newly occupied by marine biology students like her.
by | Nov 13, 2024 2:49 pm | Comments (28)
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At Tuesday's BZA meeting, where commissioners heard plans ...
... for 8 rent-reduced apartments to rise at Lombard ex-laundromat site.
An empty Fair Haven lot that once sparked a high-profile arson trial could soon be the site of eight new affordable apartments.
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by | Nov 13, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (18)
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Candidates Gary Hogan and Claudette Robinson-Thorpe.
Former Alder Jill Marks: "I am a victim" of the Kia Boys.
Abe Vail stood up in the middle of an alder candidate forum to ask 50 of his Beaver Hills neighbors a question.
“Show of hands,” he said: How many people here have had cars stolen, allegedly by TikTok-inspired teenagers who call themselves “Kia Boys”?
Nearly a dozen hands shot up.
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by | Nov 12, 2024 6:20 pm | Comments (9)
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Is that NYPD Blue... in Wooster Square?
And who's the lady in white?
Ohh, it's a film shoot! For "The Monster."
In front of large computer screens and a focused film crew, a woman in a white dress walked up to a Wooster Square brownstone pretending to be New York City.
She reached the top of the entrance. Before she could open the door and walk inside, she stopped, turned, and walked back down the stairs — ready to repeat those moves again and again, as part of a new horror movie being filmed in part in New Haven.
by | Nov 12, 2024 2:32 pm | Comments (17)
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Shovels up, for the Monarch ...
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... the new Monarch apartments, that is ...
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... and not the former linen-cleaning company (pictured).
The “route men” are long gone from the former Monarch Cleaners in West River.
So are the pleas of “Uncle Sammy, you got a summer job for me?” that sisters Cathy Dziekan and Jan Lougal still remember their dad being asked by extended family in need of work.
But the history of their family’s long-time laundry business will live on — in the name and in the story behind 64 new affordable apartments now on the rise on Derby Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Cleaners Ground Broken For 64 Apartments’