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Democratic Registrar Shannel Evans: “I believe [early voting] went great, besides the numbers.”
New Haven voters will have a chance to cast their ballots early in the November election from Oct. 21 through Nov. 3 at City Hall — where about 10 parking spots will be reserved for voters.
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At Cordova's funeral service Friday.
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Celestino Cordova: Borinqueneer and community advocate.
Dedication to service for others, personal resiliency, and don’t forget those family pig roasts on local beaches beginning at 3 a.m. (It takes time to roast a whole pig.)
These were some of the values and memories evoked Friday morning at a solemn burial mass for Celestino Cordova, one of the New Haven Puerto Rican community’s true trailblazers.
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City transit director Sandeep Aysola: This is "the single largest grant the city has received for transportation" in a long time.
Coordinated traffic signals, raised intersections, safer pedestrian crossings and two directions of car traffic will be coming to a 1.6‑mile stretch of Chapel Street by 2029 — or, maybe, sooner — thanks to an $11 million federal grant newly received by the city.
by | Sep 6, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (11)
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New liaison Alex Guzhnay and former liaison Barbara Montalvo.
Former Yale/Downtown Alder Alex Guzhnay is back as a regular presence at Board of Alders meetings — this time, as the mayor’s new legislative liaison.
Meanwhile, his predecessor Barbara Montalvo is moving on to a new position in Stamford after over 11 years working in City Hall.
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Miguel and Sandra Pittman, on the Hill campaign trail.
Shauna Williams-Smith had never been visited by a local politician before this week. She also didn’t know about the Board of Alders, let alone the special election to replace former Ward 3 Alder Ron Hurt later this month.
But on Wednesday, Miguel Pittman showed up at her Stevens Street door to pitch his run for the neighborhood legislative role — and won a pledge of support from a Hill resident newly engaged with local politics.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Commits To Community, Communication’
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Sarah Diggs: Heading from NHPS to TFA.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has yet another vacancy to fill: The administrator in charge of filling vacancies.
Continue reading ‘NHPS Recruitment, Retention Chief Resigns’
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At the scene of Friday's bomb squad investigation.
A 22-year-old man who regularly returns bottles for cash at Stop & Shop was picking up empty cans on Orange Street when he found three metal canisters.
He decided to throw those objects away after noticing how rusty they were — an action that ended up snarling downtown traffic for hours, having City Hall evacuated, activating the city police’s bomb squad, and leading to his arrest on three felony and two misdemeanor charges.
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Vent trouble at Cross, the day before the start of school.
Wilbur Cross’s library will be closed for at least a week as the city’s public school district gets rid of air-borne mold spores — as part of its response to unkempt building conditions at the city’s largest high school at the start of the school year.
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NOA on Crown St. According to downtown's top cop, "This establishment poses an immediate danger to its customers, the commercial businesses that it adjoins, pedestrians, and vehicular traffic."
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Liquor permit suspension sign now up at NOA.
The state has suspended a Crown Street Thai restaurant’s liquor permit after an early Saturday morning shooting — following a stabbing last year and numerous complaints over the past two years — led investigators to believe that the business is being run “in a manner that imperils public safety.”
Continue reading ‘Restaurant's Liquor Permit Suspended After Shooting’
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Catching the bus on the Green.
That state has awarded New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) $175,000 to continue providing its high school students with public bus passes not just to get to school and extracurriculars but now also to jobs, internships, and college courses, and then back home.
Continue reading ‘More Public Bus Passes En Route For Students’
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Gildemar Herrera: I was "wrongfully dismissed."
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has fired Local 3144 President Gildemar Herrera after a months-long investigation into a $6 million cybersecurity theft concluded that she “failed in the performance of her duties” as the city school district’s information technology director.
by | Sep 3, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (24)
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Osvaldo Hernandez gets ready to ride to Wilbur Cross ...
... as parking authority's Norm Forrester and Doug Hausladen cut the ribbon on a revived bike share.
One hundred e‑bikes are now available to rent by the minute at 30 stations across the city — to help New Haveners like Osvaldo Fernandez make the active commute from a doctor’s appointment in Fair Haven to soccer practice at Wilbur Cross.
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Ward 3 alder candidate Angel Hubbard kicks off the campaign launch: “I will never judge anyone for having an addiction. We do need programs.”
Rafael Rodriguez and Steven Fontanez (right) are working hard to help themselves and others out of addiction, as they told Hubbard, Valerie Boyd, and Justin Elicker.
Steven Fontanez is running out of time. He has only a few days left to stay at a sober housing program, and he hasn’t had luck finding an apartment.
Giselle Orosco is running out of patience. She’s tired of guessing whether the people who lie down outside her house are overdosing or merely asleep.
Angel Hubbard is running to be an alder for them both.
by | Sep 3, 2024 9:39 am | Comments (1)
“I tend to see skateboarding as almost a kind of dance, a conversation with the terrain around you,” says J. Joseph in the documentary Fly, a silent film about skateboarding in New Haven that has inspired a new local album.
Continue reading ‘Skating Film, Album Put Right Foot Forward’
by | Aug 30, 2024 5:13 pm | Comments (52)
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Liam Brennan: Looking for enforcement mechanisms "everywhere we can."
With hopes of building a faster housing code inspection system with more teeth, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) under its new director is moving away from the courthouse and toward municipal fines.