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The Yale Golf Course: 800 trees coming down, 2,000 going up?
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Alders Festa, Punzo, Ficklin, and Miller at Thursday's CSEP meeting.
Yale plans to cut down roughly 800 trees at the university’s Upper Westville golf course, and plant another 2,000 in their stead, in order to create more grassy space for hitting the links — prompting pushback from neighbors and local environmentalists about the potential harms of felling so much wood.
The entrance to 45 Church St.: Pot shop coming soon?
A long-vacant Classical Revival former bank building at Church and Crown streets could have a new life — as a medical and recreational cannabis dispensary.
The Board of Alders “reluctantly” approved a one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract between the Board of Education and First Student that would have been nearly $1 million cheaper had the school board not turned down an initial multi-year deal with the bus company.
Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
The Elicker administration plans to borrow and transfer up to $16 million from the city’s latest budget surplus to cover the uninsured portion of a $45 million police-misconduct-and-paralysis settlement.
Sarah Miller, center, proposes Board of Ed reform by charter.
Despite a push from dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) community members, alders decided not to amend the city charter to restructure the Board of Education to include mandatory seats for current public-school parents.
Alders Tyisha Walker-Myers, Sarah Miller, and Kim Edwards hear public testimony...
...as Unidad Latina en Acción activists like Nayeli Garcia protest stringent meeting rules.
Alders dropped an effort to amend the city charter to allow non-citizens to serve on city boards and commissions at the advice of legal counsel — after 20 activists filled the local legislative chambers with chants of “no justice” and held up posters of local immigrants with blacked-out eyes and mouths.
Soon-to-retire Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal in April 2021.
Mehul Dalal will be stepping down from his role as the city’s top social services administrator for a policy advisor job in state government, and the mayor plans to replace him with the founder and executive director of a Blake Street public charter school.
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Jun 27, 2023 6:46 pm
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Ocean renters on Whitney Ave Tuesday afternoon.
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Ocean's Shmuel Aizenberg and attorney Ian Gottlieb in court Tuesday morning.
Renters at a West River apartment complex gathered at City Hall to form New Haven’s second officially recognized tenants union — and then rallied outside of Ocean Management’s offices to demand collective bargaining around rents and maintenance — on the very same day that their landlord showed up in court to be prosecuted for six new housing-code-violation cases.
Fair Rent Commission Director Wildaliz Bermúdez (right): "Tenants report there is evidence of advanced mold behind bathroom walls" at 234 Fillmore.
Fair Rent commissioners dropped a Fillmore Street tenant’s rent down to $1 per month in a bid to pressure her landlord to speed up repairs to a dangerously unhealthy property with water-damaged ceilings and walls and allegedly beset with mold.
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
Hilaria Ogando joins calls for Board of Ed parent representation, more elected members, and mayor's removal.
Hilaria Ogando wants someone on the Board of Education who knows what she knows: what it’s like to have so many substitute teachers in her child’s school, to hear about persistent bullying, to lose the lottery for a coveted magnet school seat.
“Parents, we see what’s happening in the schools every day, and we see what our children need,” Ogando said through a translator.
Mayor Elicker (center) at "summer fun" presser at Lighthouse Park.
Summer has officially begun — and New Haven is ready for it, with movies in the park and free basketball lessons and open swims and summer-slump-combatting reading challenges on tap.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 16, 2023 11:12 am
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Patricio Ramirez ready to take a shower at Power in a Shower on the Green earlier this week.
Alders moved forward plans to boost funds for a mobile shower program and social workers in the public libraries, as part of two new city contracts designed to help New Haven’s growing homelessness population.
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Jun 15, 2023 11:57 am
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NHPS COO Thomas Lamb: "Busing prices have increased."
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A one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract that is set to start in less than a month took another wheel-spin forward — even as local legislators criticized school board members for putting them in an unfairly tight spot.
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2019 model New England Golf Cars cart: Gas for now, electric soon?
Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.
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Health Department's current rented home at 54 Meadow.
Health Director Bond and Acting Controller Gormany Monday.
The city’s Health Department plans to stay in rented office and clinic space on Meadow Street through the end of the year as renovations wrap up at its new publicly owned headquarters to-be on Chapel Street.
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Renderings of apartment buildings one step closer to rising, clockwise from top left: Strong School, Chapel & State, Munson & Henry, Miller Street.
Alders paved the way for 212 more affordable apartments to materialize in four different neighborhoods — including at the former Strong School on Grand Avenue — along with two education initiatives for hundreds of kids and adults.
Police Chief Jacobson and Lt. McDermott at Tuesday's committee meeting.
Watch out, Long Wharf music blasters — the volume on your $10,000 car-attached speaker systems may be lowered soon, now that alders have advanced a bill that would lead to higher fines and confiscated equipment for illegally loud motor vehicles.
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In support: 884 Prez Kymberly Bray and 3144 Prez Gildemar Herrera.
Over 800 city workers have a contract for the first time in nearly three years, now that the Board of Alders has approved two key labor agreements that grant long-awaited raises to public employees.
Micro-transit pilot plans, with proposed service area in brown.
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Transit director Aysola: "Always a challenge to move people away from driving their cars."
(Updated) Imagine a city-run Uber equivalent that provides on-demand electric van rides for the same amount it costs to ride the bus.
But only within certain neighborhoods of New Haven. And only if the seven-seat vans are full of passengers looking for a more climate-friendly alternative to single-occupant cars.
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Elicker: "We do things as fast as we can." Goldenberg: "I think three months is more than enough time" to respond.
What’s a reasonable amount of time for the city to take to respond to a public-records request?
A mayoral challenger has raised that question as he continues to seek a decade’s worth of methadone-clinic-mentioning government emails that he first asked for nearly three months ago.
The mayor, meanwhile, stressed how time-consuming it can be to appropriately answer asks that cover such large topics and periods of time — especially in a city where roughly 10,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are submitted each year.
Top row, in favor of the contract: Philip Modeen, Raymond Jackson, Robert Mignosa; Middle row, in favor of the contract: Justin Augustine Sr., Charles Blango, Thomas White; Bottom row, against the contract: Helen Rosenberg, Michael Mahon.
An overdue labor agreement for one of the city’s largest unions was hailed by proponents for awarding substantial raises to most — and decried by some municipal employees who won’t get as much of a salary bump.
Current library admin and incoming top city librarian Maria Bernhey.
A current city library administrator and New York Public Library veteran has risen the ranks to become the next head of New Haven’s national award-winning public library system, roughly one year after the death of the city’s former top librarian.
