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Laura Glesby | Apr 8, 2025 3:09 pm
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A 2021 vigil honoring Camryn "Mooka" Gayle at the corner now named after her.
“I told you, I told you,” cried Elizabeth Robinson. “I wasn’t gonna give up.”
She was talking to the memory of her 17-year-old daughter, Camryn “Mooka” Gayle, about the Newhallville intersection where Gayle died in a car crash in 2021.
Thanks to a Board of Alders vote Monday night, that intersection is now officially designated “Camryn’s Corner.”
Pullen: First comes the letter, then comes the tax bill.
The Elicker administration is stepping up efforts to collect car taxes, by hiring a firm to help identify motor vehicles that aren’t — but should be — on the city’s tax rolls.
Doug Coffin, Next Door founder and owner, at closing night.
Teary eyes graced Next Door’s dining room Sunday night as pizza-lovers took in the sights and smells of the beloved pizza restaurant for the last time. It was Next Door’s last day in business before closing its doors forever.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain | Apr 7, 2025 10:04 am
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Avelo will start deportation flights out of Arizona in May.
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Mayor Elicker: "For a company that champions themselves as 'New Haven’s hometown airline,' this business decision is antithetical to New Haven’s values."
(Updated with comments from Mayor Elicker) The budget airline that has made Tweed its East Coast hub is now working with the Trump administration to run deportation flights out of Arizona.
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Laura Glesby and Jordan Allyn | Apr 6, 2025 5:49 pm
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All eyes (and phone cameras) on newly inaugurated Yale Prez McInnis.
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Meanwhile, pro-Palestine student protesters remained masked amid fears of legal retaliation.
Yale has “endured,” said newly inaugurated university President Maurie McInnis, through “the breeze of public criticism” over the course of centuries.
Outside, that “breeze” seemed more like a storm — from frosts over federal funding at peer institutions to the thundering chants of pro-Palestine protesters across the street.
Fair Havener Ana Paola Juarez: "Everyone is so on edge in my neighborhood."
Scenes from Saturday's rally on the Green ...
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... where protesters said to Trump and Musk: "Hands off!"
“Let’s talk about hands off,” New Haven Federation of Teachers President Leslie Blatteau said to roughly 2,000 fellow protesters on the Green on Saturday. “First, hands off our curriculum.”
Shelly Altman, from Jewish Voice for Peace, continued, “Hands off the mouths of students who cry out for an end to the genocide in Gaza.”
Gretchen Raffa, from Planned Parenthood, zoomed out further, “Hands off our bodies.”
Climate activist Sena Wazer added, “It is not only about saying ‘hands off’ to the federal administration. It is also about saying ‘step up’ to the last of our elected officials.”
Pleased passenger Kaye Pugh: “I like smaller, friendlier airports.”
Chris Smith, from Meriden, had his flight out of Tweed to Charlotte cancelled at the last minute, got little help on site, and he was number 71 waiting on his telephone for customer service for rebooking or refund.
Hamdenite Anna Collins, on the other hand, was over the moon at how smooth her flight was back from Houston, where she was visiting her grandmother. Leaving from Tweed instead of Newark saved her hours of travel with two rambunctious little ones, and the price was right. Amazing, she quietly declared.
Between those two poles of pleasure and pain was also a range of views on the flying experience courtesy of the two discount carriers, Avelo and Breeze, in and out of the rapidly growing Morris Cove airport.
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Thomas Breen | Apr 4, 2025 1:43 pm
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (second from right) and lead teacher Vincent Squeglia (right) help cut the ribbon on new lab at Hillhouse.
Hillhouse and Wilbur Cross high-schoolers now have the chance to work on lathes, mini-mills, 3D printers, and other high-tech gadgetry as they train during class time on developing the skills needed to land a job in modern manufacturing.
... preparing food that Jerome Hauser, Jr. served up to guests like James Davis, in the Hill.
Jerome Hauser, Jr., Diamond Tree, Zelinda Clark, Tony Evans, and Rev. William Mathis had half an hour to go Thursday before the expected lunchtime rush at a newly opened soup kitchen in the Hill.
The fried chicken, beef, hash browns, and corn were hot. The takeout containers were stacked and stickered. Motivated by a commitment to feeding the hungry, the crew was ready to serve.
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Maya McFadden | Apr 3, 2025 9:56 am
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Newly minted PLTI grads Murray, Brown, and Taylor.
Four young New Haven moms seeking out a village of support for their families celebrated finding exactly that, and so much more — as they became the latest cohort to graduate from a 20-week leadership training course.
Jacqueline Beirne (with Kimberly Hart and Laurie Sweet): "The parents are overwhelmed."
“I don’t even want to call them kids,” said Kimberly Hart as she described the visceral fear of watching teen drivers speed, swerve and swirl up Shelton Avenue.
An hour later, after an emotional dialogue about the car-stealing “Kia Boyz” in Newhallville, Hart made the observation: “They’re babies.”
City Engineer Zinn: This project presents "a generational opportunity to create a first-class active transportation connection."
Looking north on Whitney, from Canner: Road diet en route.
The city’s Engineering Department plans to wrap up final designs for the northern section of a long-delayed, traffic-calming reconfiguration of Whitney Avenue this month — with construction expected to start later this year.
