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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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Yale police arrest a student protester in the morning of April 22.
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The first night of the Beinecke Plaza encampment, on April 19.
More than 40 Yale student protesters who were arrested en masse at a pro-Palestinian encampment in Beinecke Plaza last semester are calling for a state judge to throw out their criminal trespassing charges on the grounds that they weren’t all properly notified before Yale police started making arrests.
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Frances Chartoff: “There’s nothing like love to make you feel good about yourself.”
Frances Chartoff, who turned 100 this year, is not a superwoman, any more than many other women of her time who lived, worked, and raised a family through the Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights Era, and so much more. Frances may not be a superwoman, but she is a SuperAger.
by | Aug 29, 2024 3:44 pm | Comments (32)
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Police union Prez Cotto and Mayor Elicker: Other side is to blame for no contract.
A long-expired police union contract is heading to binding arbitration, as the police union president and the mayor pointed fingers at one another for failing — so far — to get a new labor deal across the finish line.
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by | Aug 29, 2024 2:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Knox and Kenzl Ellis: Used to uniforms in New York preschool, ready for uniforms in New Haven kindergarten.
Eighth graders Nike, Kaylee, and Aaliyah with Principal Eugene Foreman (back right) and Troup Culture and Climate Specialist Da'Jhon Jett. As Kaylee said, "Nobody is going to want to be disrespectful with Mr. Jett. He's everyone's fave."
Troup kindergarteners Knox and Kenzl Ellis showed up to the first day of classes Thursday wearing matching green polo shirts and khaki pants — in line with the return of uniforms to the Edgewood Avenue public school.
After a pandemic hiatus, Troup’s administration has brought back its uniform requirement with the goal of encouraging higher levels of attendance by reducing the number of clothing decisions, and purchases, students and their families have to make.
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Water-damaged tiles in Kim Anderson's English classroom.
Special education staffers Melissa Pellino and Lauren Pollio: "This is what we do for the kids."
Wilbur Cross teachers rushed to prepare their classrooms for Thursday’s first day of school by hanging up posters of Angela Davis, signs reading “be brave,” and world maps — and by cleaning mold from walls, covering broken floor tiles with rugs, and mopping the floors of classrooms and bathrooms alike.
by | Aug 28, 2024 3:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Jim Farrales and Nancy Navarretta: This center is the "first of its kind" in the state.
The city’s non-cop crisis response team now has a central location on Winthrop Avenue where first responders can bring adults who need short-term help for substance use and mental health challenges — while keeping them out of hospitals.
by | Aug 28, 2024 2:37 pm | Comments (24)
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Student-led protests resume as the semester starts up.
Over 100 Yale students and allies marked the first day of classes by calling for a “Free, Free Palestine” on the steps of the Elm Street courthouse — as 14 students arrested on campus for protesting last spring returned to the courtroom to call for their misdemeanor trespassing charges to be dismissed.