Clean City Crew Kicks Off Campaign
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| Mar 16, 2016 2:07 pm |As the city prepares to roll out Mayor Harp’s a “Clean City Initiative” in April, one of the biggest challenges it faces is how to ensure the initiative can be sustained.
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| Mar 16, 2016 2:07 pm |As the city prepares to roll out Mayor Harp’s a “Clean City Initiative” in April, one of the biggest challenges it faces is how to ensure the initiative can be sustained.
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| Mar 15, 2016 7:16 am |The Alpha Alpha Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. celebrated the first year of its inception.
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| Feb 12, 2016 7:37 am |What do world famous architect Cesar Pelli, renowned author Jelani Cobb, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and Connecticut Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez have in common? If you love New Haven children as much as we do, you can join these and other leaders for a rousing conversation over dinner in two weeks.
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| Jan 29, 2016 8:00 am |On Jan. 7, at the Abraham Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford, my wife (Sahar Usmani-Brown) was among the 55 new U.S. citizens sworn in at a naturalization ceremony.
In her case, it came some 14 years after — having grown up in New Delhi—she received a J‑1 visa, which was eventually followed by permanent residency in the U.S.: a “green card.”
Participants had to take an “Oath of Allegiance,” before everyone recited or read the Pledge of Allegiance, as well.
It appeared that, with the possible exceptions of Australia and Antarctica, every continent was represented among the 55 new citizens (eight of whom reportedly requested name changes).
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| Jan 7, 2016 5:26 pm |Thursday’s broadcasts on WNHH looked at the best films of 2015, artists in New Haven, and more.
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| Jan 7, 2016 11:46 am |The New Haven crew traveled to New Britain on Three Kings Day this week, to help McDonald’s franchisee Joseph Rodriguez throw a party for local kids, featuring toys and coats. Mayor Toni Harp, Dixwell top cop Lt. Sam Brown, and Metashar Dillon were joined by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal at the event.
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| Dec 24, 2015 3:11 pm |Cops showed up at the doors of two families in need, their arms filled with holiday gifts.
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| Dec 7, 2015 7:10 am | (The fire union submitted the following article.)
On Tuesday Dec. 1 members of Local 825, New Haven’s firefighter union, raised $1,000 and awareness for the national chapter of Movember.
Firefighters Anthony Avitable and Daniel Del Prete coordinated with a local salon to shave members’ mustaches at Tavern New Haven. Several members of the department grew mustaches over the month to garner attention and raise awareness of prostate cancer.
They reached out to a local salon in an effort to give exposure to a New Haven business. The salon, called “The Mane Room” at located at 155 Temple St., donated its services to shave the mustaches.
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| Nov 25, 2015 8:00 am | The following article was submitted by the youth agency LEAP.
Every year, right before Thanksgiving, LEAP holds its annual Thankful Dinner. LEAPers from all around the city come together in one location, to eat, play games, enjoy each other’s company, explain what they are thankful for and dance. Several hundred children, counselors and volunteers filled the Hillhouse High School cafeteria.
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| Nov 24, 2015 5:27 am |
On Thursday, Nov. 19, the Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) Psychology Department and its Journal of Student Psychological Research held a Forum on Early Literacy Experiences, the Brain, and Child Development. Held at the Adanti Student Center at SCSU with support also from the Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven, the event featured a panel of the following speakers:
*Perri Klass, M.D., national medical director of Reach Out and Read; columnist, New York Times
*Myra Jones-Taylor, Ph.D., commissioner of early childhood, State of Connecticut (1)
*Julia Irwin, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, SCSU; senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories
*Laura Raynolds, Ph.D., associate professor of special education and reading, SCSU; research affiliate, Haskins Laboratories (moderator).
Cheryl Durwin, Ph.D., professor of psychology at SCSU and a Literacy Coalition board member, was the event’s primary organizer. Christine Garber, Connecticut director of Reach Out and Read, was also instrumental. The audience included numerous early childhood teachers as well as various other educators, researchers, nonprofit staffers, and volunteers – not to mention parents.
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| Aug 4, 2015 5:34 am |Hundreds of parents and students in New Haven took part in the 8th Annual Back-to-School Rally, an event designed to bolster excitement and provide families with supplies and information relating to the upcoming 2015 – 2016 school year.
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| Jul 29, 2015 3:56 pm |Michelle Cole of Discovery to Cure sent in this report:
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro hosted nearly 100 guests at her East Rock home for a thank-you reception to honor supporters of Discovery to Cure at Yale School of Medicine, which advances the prevention, early detection and treatment of women’s reproductive cancers such as ovarian, uterine, cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers.
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| Jul 27, 2015 7:54 am |Jocelyn Roberson and her Newhallville decided they wanted to throw some love the way of the seniors who live in the Newhall Gardens complex — in the form a birthday party. For all the seniors.
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| Jun 12, 2015 7:48 am |Sue Peters, Alicia Vignola, Althea Brooks and Liliya Garipova submitted this article concerning their organization’s event.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) last week launched its first annual Health and Wellness Summit to recognize past and current efforts to make schools and the City healthier places to learn, live, work and play.
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| May 4, 2015 8:14 am |Wooster Square activist Peter Webster sent in this write-up and these photos. Click here and here for previous articles about this project.
The shabby, neglected dumping-ground called Russo Park, on the tiny connecting street between Chapel Street and Wooster Street, site of the Saturday Wooster Square City Seed Farmers Market, is being recast in splendor: Harvey’s Walk.
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| Apr 29, 2015 6:49 am |The following was submitted by Martin Torresquintero of the city parks department:
The Outdoor Adventure Program, in conjunction with the Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program. has launched the High School MT Biking Teams.
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| Apr 1, 2015 8:19 am |On Monday afternoon, instead of Solar Youth going to the library, the library came to Solar Youth.
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| Jan 6, 2015 2:13 pm | This article was submitted by Benjamin Shanbrom.
For many of us, coffee is a given — it’s there in the morning or late nights when we need it, and there isn’t much else to consider. It’s quite rare that we actually sit and ponder the incredible journey these little beans voyage through to make it to our cups.
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| Dec 23, 2014 12:24 pm |Elks Lodge 25 will honor three men who put safety in New Haven first at its first Public Safety Night awards ceremony.
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| Dec 22, 2014 4:06 pm |This article was submitted by the Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix, associate pastor at the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven and a member of the Malta Justice Initiative.
We find ourselves once again in the season between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the bell ringing Salvation Army troops have been deployed to malls and grocery stores across Connecticut.
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| Dec 15, 2014 7:45 am | This article was submitted by Rachel Heerema of the Citywide Youth Coalition.
The City of New Haven Youth Department, New Haven Public Schools, Yale University Urban Debate League and Citywide Youth Coalition hosted the first high school student debate tournament in New Haven.
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| Nov 26, 2014 9:23 am |Every year just before Thanksgiving, LEAP has its annual Thankful Dinner. This year’s was held Tuesday at the Elks Club on Dixwell Avenue. Over 350 LEAP kids and their counselors came together to have dinner and share what they are thankful for over the last year.
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| Oct 7, 2014 6:23 am |Six New Haven Fire Department recruits (pictured) ran in Sunday’s Tommy Fund Firefighter Relay in Westville. The runners carried a 50-foot-long fire hose inscribed with the names of New Haven firefighters who have perished in the line of duty.
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| Oct 6, 2014 8:27 am |The Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund honored two people and one New Haven nonprofit for their work in the community during this year’s Good Egg Celebration.
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| Oct 6, 2014 3:42 am |New Teacher-Developed Curricular Resources Available; Partnership Begins 38th Year
Curriculum units that teachers from 19 New Haven public schools developed as Fellows in four Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars in 2014 are available at this website. (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/)
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