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Mandy Management tenants Noela, Mlebinge, and Jacqueline in the Clarion hotel lobby on Wednesday, waiting to go home.
After a two-night stay in a Hamden hotel, a family of nine Congolese refugees moved back to their Dickerman Street apartment on Friday morning — where, for the first time this winter, the heat came on.
by | Jan 16, 2025 9:44 pm | Comments (27)
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U-ACT protester Mell: “Show me the law telling me I cannot walk up those steps!”
Alexis Terry in the tent on City Hall's first floor.
Four dozen people showed up to City Hall on Thursday night to protest a city policy of issuing 72-hour eviction notices upon discovering outdoor encampments — leaving a symbolic tent outside the mayor’s office after a standoff with police.
by | Jan 16, 2025 1:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Thursday's presser at DISTRICT.
Bracing for Trump II tariffs and protectionism, the Lamont administration has launched a $25 million effort to try to build out “strategic supply chains” closer to home — in an effort to get ahead of potentially higher prices for imported goods.
by | Jan 16, 2025 9:27 am | Comments (8)
One last tobacco store could soon be allowed...
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...here? As circled in red in map above.
New Haven could soon have room for only one more smoke shop — specifically on one block of industrial Water Street cut off from the rest of the city by I‑95.
by | Jan 15, 2025 3:57 pm | Comments (15)
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Dalonna Jackson (center) with her sister Curnijah Howard and aunt Jaychelle Jackson.
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Police Chief Jacobson hugs Daily's grandmother, Theresa Howard, before the start of Wednesday's presser.
(Updated) In front of dozens of family members and friends and police officers and city leaders, all grieving the murder of 17-year-old Daily Jackson while they expressed gratitude for the arrest of his 17-year-old alleged killer, Dalonna Jackson walked to the microphone to pray.
She prayed for the teen accused of killing her brother.
by | Jan 15, 2025 1:46 pm | Comments (36)
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Alder Caroline Smith: Let's find a compromise.
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So long, 15 Edwards relief proposal.
The city’s zoning board unanimously rejected a local landlord’s plan to build 23 apartments atop a vacant former Edwards Street firehouse after a marathon hearing saw skeptical neighbors and pro-housing advocates debate over how much density should be allowed in this stretch of East Rock, and across the city at large.
Continue reading ‘Zoners Douse Edwards Firehouse-Apartment Plan’
by | Jan 15, 2025 12:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top left: Latrice Hampton, Kathy Bridges, Wanda Faison, and Alexis Terry.
At the front of the 55th Love March.
Latrice Hampton, Kathy Bridges, Alexis Terry, and Wanda Faison gathered at a Lawrence Street Baptist Church separately but for a common purpose Wednesday — drawn by a place of worship that has been in their families for generations, called by a civil rights icon-honoring “love march” that has been in their lives for decades.
by | Jan 15, 2025 9:36 am | Comments (7)
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Winter: We're not on track for 2030. Elicker: That assessment's "premature."
New Haven is one step closer to one more electric garbage truck — but still under 10 percent of the way to its goal of a fully electric fleet by 2030.
Continue reading ‘With Trash Truck Approval, City Steps Electric’
by | Jan 14, 2025 4:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Mom Latasha Brown at vigil with photo of her son Tashawn, 18, the day after his killing.
Photos of Suggs included in U.S. Attorney's Office court filing.
A fight broke out at the U.S. District courthouse Tuesday after a judge sentenced a 20-year-old to nearly 21 years in prison for his gang involvement and the murder of Tashawn Brown, almost four years after the 18-year-old’s death at Edgewood Park.
by | Jan 14, 2025 1:07 pm | Comments (4)
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COMPASS crew member Nanette Campbell on a call.
Is COMPASS a Yale-backed public relations stunt — or a good faith and effective effort to improve crisis response services all across New Haven?
Alders sought answers to those questions, and received testimony and data bolstering the program’s cause, as they advanced a plan to extend the police-alternative pilot for another year.
Continue reading ‘Crisis-Response Pilot Seeks 1-Year Extension’
by | Jan 14, 2025 9:30 am | Comments (14)
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Mayor Elicker (at the mic) in Hartford on Monday.
(Hartford) Mayor Justin Elicker and Supt. Madeline Negrón made the trip to the state’s capital Monday — to stand alongside mayors and superintendents from Bridgeport, Stamford, Waterbury, and Hartford and deliver a collective call for state government to up its public education funding by $545 million.
by | Jan 13, 2025 3:22 pm | Comments (14)
The Green, as drawn in 1879 by Bailey & Hazen. Note the state house on the Upper Green, behind the Center Church, built in 1831 and demolished in 1889.
And the view from 1824, as engraved by Doolittle.
From a “market place” to a burial ground to a venue for government and education and worship, the Green has seen many different uses over the years.
“However, the one constant over four centuries there is also that the space has been for the public good.”
Continue reading ‘City Historian: The Green's Constant Is Change, & "Public Good"’
by | Jan 13, 2025 10:09 am | Comments (14)
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Local investor Roberts: Wanted to buy, but didn't have enough $ for auction deposit.
A Fair Haven foreclosure auction brought out no new bidders — leaving the property to fall into the hands of the federal government, and the current tenant bracing to find a new place to live.
Continue reading ‘Feds Prevail At Quiet Foreclosure Auction’
by | Jan 10, 2025 3:19 pm | Comments (18)
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W. Matthew Harp, right, and his attorney Kirt Westfall.
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The since-cleaned-up backyard of 75 Brewster.
One man’s trash is another man’s tenant’s loose tires, copper pipes, and splintering wooden cart of debris and furniture.
Local landlord W. Matthew Harp floated that idea at a series of back-to-back civil citation hearings involving some of his properties, which saddled him with nearly $20,000 in fines.
by | Jan 10, 2025 1:43 pm | Comments (11)
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Yondr pouches, now not just for Barnard.
Cellphone-restricting pouches are officially headed for all New Haven middle and high schools, now that alders have approved a nearly $371,000 contract with the tech-securing company Yondr.