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Thomas Breen | Oct 30, 2024 11:14 am
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The early Wednesday fire at 36 River.
More than 100 firefighters from New Haven and surrounding towns rushed out to River Street early Wednesday morning to put down a four-alarm fire — with no reported injuries, so far — as exploding vehicle gas tanks contributed to a high-intensity blaze.
An East Rock landlord won permission to boost the number of apartments at a Humphrey Street house from six to 15 — after a local attorney pointed out that the existing building contains four floors, not three, and therefore has enough gross floor area to accommodate the higher unit count.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Honda Smith with firefighters from Engine 15 who work with kids at The Shack ...
... as artist David Coardes stands before mural of Alder Smith painted by Imani Roberts.
In the midst of a spirited game of Bingo among a group of senior citizens at The Shack, there was an interruption. It was U.S. Senator Chris Murphy stopping by — to get an up-close look at what makes the West Hills community center work so well.
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Paul Bass and Thomas Breen | Oct 28, 2024 1:47 pm
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Officers arrest homeless advocate Mark Colville.
Police made seven arrests of activists for the unhoused and removed four tents on the Upper Green Monday after a weekend of negotiations over the city’s latest homeless encampment.
Cherene Cotter: "To have a president come in and deport immigrants… I can’t do that.”
U.S. Sen Blumenthal (right) addresses Saturday's crowd.
With a closing pitch centering abortion access and worker power, local and state elected officials gathered on Dixwell Avenue to rally for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot — especially Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential contest with former President Donald Trump.
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Maya McFadden | Oct 28, 2024 10:13 am
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Principal Foreman: On a mission to "Transform Troup."
As more than 90 percent of Troup School’s students have been showing up for classes so far this year, Troup School Principal Eugene Foreman showed up to a Morris Cove gala — to be recognized for helping turn around the reputation of a state-designated “turnaround” school.
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Thomas Breen | Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm
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Robert Cardone, out on bail: Fighting object-discarding"felony."
Robert Cardone pushed a shopping cart filled with black plastic crates and an orange traffic cone along Elm Street — killing time during another day out of jail, out of work, and still shrouded by a “bullshit” bomb-suspect criminal case.
... at the intersection of Valley & Blake in Westville.
On a recent afternoon at Pickleville CT, the new Westville indoor pickleball facility along Blake Street and Valley Street near Whalley Avenue, Winny Sanchez was “dinking” for the first time in her life.
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Nathaniel Rosenberg | Oct 25, 2024 10:51 am
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Supt. Negrón (center): School security down from 100 in 2010, to 56 today.
The number of security guards in city public schools is down 44 percent in more than a decade, resulting in a shortage that sometimes forces the district to shuffle officers around to multiple schools over the course of a single day.
Property Manager Amanda Naranjo (center) helps cut the ribbon ...
... on "the Archive" on Chapel St.
Downtown renters looking for a shiny new two-bedroom apartment can now spend $3,399-plus per month — to live in a two-building, 166-unit complex that has risen from the ashes of a pair of long-vacant Chapel Street lots.
Homelessness, policing on the agenda for Hill CMT.
Hill South neighbors pressed the mayor, the police chief, and their district’s top cop to do more to build up the ranks of the city’s police department — and to work harder to address homelessness in the neighborhood.
PSAP chief Joe Vitale (center): Frontier "equipment failure" potentially to blame.
By 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday, it was clear: the city’s 911 operators had a problem.
When they tried to make calls from the system’s landline phones — whether to check in on a civilian in trouble or connect with another department — they were met with a fast stream of discordant beeps.
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Allan Appel | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm
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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.
Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.