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Tuesday's 117 Alden Ave. fire.
Battalion Chief Greg Carroll speaks at the scene.
Dozens of firefighters raced to Alden Avenue in the Westville flats Monday afternoon to battle a two-alarm fire that displaced two people.
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IRIS Executive Director Salem: Responding to vanishing federal support.
New Haven’s flagship refugee resettlement agency is closing its main doors at 235 Nicoll St. and shifting to remote work and satellite locations after losing millions of dollars in federal funding.
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Lights off: Inside the basement Gateway Community College outpost of Literacy Volunteers.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven fired five of its six employees as it launched a “deep dive” audit into its “dire” finances.
Continue reading ‘In "Dire" Straits, Literacy Nonprofit Fires Most Of Staff’
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Chappy, a grey seal pup whose wanderings onto the streets of New Haven won the hearts of citydwellers and made him a viral social media star, has died.
The cause was digestive disease, according to Mystic Aquarium, where Chappy was being treated at the Animal Rescue Clinic.
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Renee Hartman got the last laugh on Adolf Hitler.
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Firefighter Dan Kisluk on scene Tuesday.
For the second time in a month, firefighters Tuesday raced to the abandoned clock factory on Hamilton and Wallace Streets.
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Yusuf Gürsey, who lived on Whalley Avenue and did not have a car.
Seventy-year-old scholar and city peace commission member Yusuf Gürsey died Sunday night after a car fatally struck him — and then fled the scene — while he was walking near his home on Whalley Avenue.
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Edgewood School students get a look.
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Sisters Corinne Weston, Tina Weston, and Terry Lyn Weston take in the view at Lighthouse Park beach.
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Molecular medicine PhD student Dominique Sims and endocrinology student Frankie Villalobos on an "eclipse date" outside Leitner Observatory.
As 92 percent of the sun vanished from New Haven’s sky Monday afternoon, it seemed like 92 percent of the city came outside to pause their daily routines to experience a moment in nature together.
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The latest storm fashions on display on the Edgewood Mall.
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West Elm Street.
The city has drivers in 36 trucks out racing to get as much of the new snowfall off the streets as possible Tuesday before the roads get icy.
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With New Haven expecting 6 to 10 inches of snow Tuesday, the city is encouraging residents to stay smart and safe.
Continue reading ‘Storm Closes Schools, Delays Avelo Flights’
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Area first responders attended a special training session on electric vehicles at the Michael E. Grant Regional Fire School off of Ella Grasso Boulevard.
Continue reading ‘Firefighters Get Ready For The Next EV Fire’
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Deshawnnae Mims and Jeremiah Smart at Yale New Haven Hospital with newborn Jay’Lon.
The newest New Havener arrived Saturday at 12:47 a.m.
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Protesters at a Black Lives Matter march in June.
The Board of Alders unanimously adopted nearly 50 recommendations seeking to recognize and undo the negative health impacts caused by systemic racism against Black, Native American, Asian, and Latino residents.
Continue reading ‘Alders Adopt Plan To Fight Racism In Public Health’
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Alders from the Health & Human Services Committee with members of the Racism As a Public Health Issue Working Group at Thursday’s hearing.
Alders heard ideas Thursday night about how to tackle racism’s public-health effects, and voted to affirm them.
Continue reading ‘Alders Advance Plan For Tackling Racism In Public Health’
by | Dec 16, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Mayor Elicker at Wednesday’s snowstorm presser.
A citywide parking ban during the coming snowstorm goes into effect Wednesday at 9 p.m. Wednesday — with tow trucks at the ready to pull away violating vehicles, including on narrow streets.
Continue reading ‘Where To Move Your Car During Storm Street Parking Ban’
by | Dec 16, 2020 2:35 pm | Comments (7)
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Julio Perez and his fellow public-works crew members are ready for the blizzard predicted to hit New Haven starting tonight. They have the payloader and the sand to show it.
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First doses administered Tuesday afternoon to five YNHH employees.
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Man of the hour: Omari Bright drops off the goods Tuesday morning.
A hopeful new chapter in the Covid-19 pandemic began Tuesday afternoon as a dose of the vaccine that Onyema Ogbuagu worked on went into his arm.
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Two maintenance workers died and three people were injured Friday morning during a steam explosion that occurred in the basement of an outer building at the West Haven Veteran Affairs (VA) hospital campus.
Continue reading ‘Explosion Kills 2, Injures 3 At VA Hospital’
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Justin Elicker.
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked more power out of more New Haven homes than Hurricane Sandy, forcing the city Thursday to do triage — or tree-age — to get streets cleared.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Urges Patience During Post-Storm Clean-Up Tree-age’
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A toppled tree on Lombard Street. Below: City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt clears the wreckage.
Police headquarters’ servers: Too hot to work.
City officials Wednesday surveyed the widespread damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and cautioned that it may take a week or longer for all of the 8,000-plus local homes still without electricity to regain power.
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Navigating post-storm Orange Street near East Rock.
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Power out at home, Shayna Reeves, Madison Dortche and Lawrence Grayson feed the the Edgewood Park ducks after the storm.
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Lynwood Place.
New Haven emerged from shuttered homes in the last hours of daylight Tuesday to survey the wreckage wrought by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and to begin the work of cleaning up.
Crews will be busy on Wednesday.
Continue reading ‘Isaias Socks City; Close To 20% Lose Power; Trees Toppled; Clean-Up Begins’
by | Aug 3, 2020 6:16 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven residents should make immediate preparations to keep themselves and their families safe during the incoming Tropical Storm Isaias, Mayor Justin Elicker, Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana, and other city officials advised during a press conference Monday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Braces For Tropical Storm Isaias’
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Remsen Welsh leads the protest.
Nearly 100 protesters marched from the Green to police headquarters to issue a renewed call to defund the police.
Continue reading ‘Youth Leaders Renew Call To Defund The Police’
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Hundreds of cars jammed the streets of Downtown New Haven from Hillhouse Avenue all the way to the Yale School of Medicine during rush hour Wednesday to demand that “Yale respect New Haven.”
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Columbus removed from pedestal, en route to undisclosed location.
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Pro-removal activists cheer the moment.
At 1 p.m. Wednesday, after a week of debate and a morning of sometimes violent conflict, a city-hired crew removed the statue of Christopher Columbus from Wooster Square Park.
A screaming match turned into a brief racial fight in the park earlier Wednesday morning as a crowd waited for a late crane to arrive to remove the statue of the 15th-century explorer.
Watch the altercation above. (A Columbus statue supporter threw the first punch at around the 4:10 mark in the video.)
The crane finally arrived hours later. Watch live in the above video as, amid protests and singing and chants of “Take it down!,” a crew removes it.
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East Haven man detained for attacking pro-removal activist.