by | Aug 28, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (11)
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Nadine Horton, gardening outside the Armory: What about a wintertime indoor mega-garden and farmer's market for the historic building?
More planning for the future of the dilapidated Goffe Street Armory is on the horizon, with the help of $250,000 in state funding.
by | Aug 27, 2024 4:16 pm | Comments (15)
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NHPS Supt. Negrón: Focus is on filling math, science, special ed vacancies.
Good news: New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has 22 fewer vacancies than it did this time last year.
Not so good news: The public school district still has nearly 200 staff positions left to fill, with the start of classes just around the corner.
Continue reading ‘Vacancies Down, A Little, At School Year's Start’
by | Aug 27, 2024 1:10 pm | Comments (12)
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So long, 949 Whalley's western addition?
The Church of Scientology has paid local taxes for the first time in 14 years for a vacant former furniture store in Westville Village — and is now looking to demolish part of that neglected property as part of a long-delayed renovation.
Continue reading ‘Scientologists Pay Taxes, Ready Partial Demolition’
by | Aug 27, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (24)
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The building proposed for 34 Level St.
A plan to build 50 new affordable apartments for seniors in West Rock took a key step forward, as alders endorsed a 39-year tax-break deal for the housing authority development to-be.
Continue reading ‘Affordable Senior Housing Tax Break Advances’
by | Aug 26, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (43)
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Trucks, ships, and particulates, in the Port.
Connecticut Ave and Alabama St.
As truck after truck barreled through New Haven’s industrial port district Monday afternoon, the asthma-inducing particulate matter in the air at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Alabama Street reached 29.5 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³).
That compared to 16.4 outside Mitchell Library and 28 outside Tweed Airport and 21 by the Hill South police substation at the exact same time.
City government is now collecting and making public that data through 11 recently installed air quality sensors, which shine a light on just how much hazardous haze New Haveners take in with every breath.
by | Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (6)
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
Continue reading ‘ARPA Update: Vo-Tech School Still In The Works’
by | Aug 26, 2024 9:27 am | Comments (2)
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Kismet Douglass: “One day, I’d like to have an event space of my own.”
Momma Kiss's jerk chicken, rice, and pigeon peas.
Kismet Douglass hurried from pot to pot under the shade of her tent at the Q House Farmer’s Market, where the “global flavors” of Momma Kiss Kitchen Cuisine were on display.
In one pot she cooked Jamaican jerk chicken with rice and pigeon peas, and in another, Thai curry vegetables with jasmine rice — all served up as part of a food business showcase featuring 10 local culinary entrepreneurs.
by | Aug 23, 2024 4:10 pm | Comments (47)
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Charles Warner, Jr.: "We would have had a different city economically, educationally, politically" with the 1831 Black college.
Warner's pin.
A resolution before the Board of Alders would issue a formal apology for the city’s actions preventing the founding of a local Black college in 1831.
Continue reading ‘City Apology Proposed For Blocking Black College’
by | Aug 23, 2024 3:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Shaylah McQueen-Lee: "Never give up on kids."
Step by step on Grand Avenue Friday morning, Shaylah McQueen-Lee walked towards her near future as a K‑2 teacher at Benjamin Jepson School — marking her return to the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district after graduating from Hillhouse more than a decade ago as both valedictorian and a teen mom.
by | Aug 23, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (22)
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Giulia Gambale: Known was a source of motivation and community.
The coworking space: Relatively quiet, closing in October.
Remote workers, local artists, and self-employed entrepreneurs who currently rent desks at Known will have to find a new place to work by mid-fall.
by | Aug 22, 2024 7:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Harris, and the band, at Thursday night's convention crescendo. Below: the crowd.
New Haven delegate Audrey Tyson invites U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to join her in dancing to Stevie Wonder performing on night 3.
Chicago — Beyonce never performed as rumored at the United Center Thursday night — but Kamala Harris did.
Harris received a pop star’s reception as she delivered an acceptance speech as the first-ever Asian-American and Black female Democratic Party presidential nominee, at a convention that marked a new era in political conventions as political theater.
by | Aug 22, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (47)
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Elm City Market: Moving from 360 State to "Square 10."
(Updated) A downtown grocery store that has anchored a luxury apartment complex at Chapel and State streets for more than a decade will be closing up shop this fall — with plans to move two blocks down the road to a mixed-use development currently on the rise at the former Coliseum site.
by | Aug 22, 2024 11:22 am | Comments (11)
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Just kidding: Arvinas won't be relocating here, after all.
One of New Haven’s biggest biopharma success stories won’t be moving into 160,000 square feet of brand new office and lab space at the 101 College St. biosciences tower after all — and has agreed to pay $41.5 million to nix its lease and stay put in Science Park.
by | Aug 21, 2024 5:56 pm | Comments (2)
Chicago — Bernie Sanders did stand-up Wednesday. To urge labor Democrats to stand up to their own party.
by | Aug 21, 2024 2:44 pm | Comments (11)
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State ed commissioner Russell-Tucker: Fewer phone distractions, better student mental health.
Cellphones should be kept out of the hands of elementary and middle school students, and their use should be restricted — but not outright banned — for high schoolers.
The state Board of Education handed down those recommendations Wednesday as they voted to encourage, but not require, public schools across Connecticut to limit students’ use of “personal technology” during the school day in a bid to cut down on distractions in the classroom.