by | Jan 25, 2023 9:32 am | Comments (7)
A visual rendering of the planned new Grand Avenue clinic.
A Fair Haven neighborhood-anchoring healthcare center won permission to build 26 new clinical exam rooms — along with a food pharmacy, community space for job and digital literacy training, and a splash pad — all as part of a now-approved expanded Grand Avenue campus.
by | Jan 24, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (3)
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker is working from home after testing positive Monday evening for Covid-19.
by | Jan 24, 2023 1:55 pm | Comments (21)
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Wilcox: "Not all board members would be able to meet in person."
Local legislators endorsed Board of Education Vice President Matt Wilcox’s bid to serve another term on the city’s school board — after grilling the mayoral appointee on the board’s online-only meetings and fractured parental trust.
by | Jan 24, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (23)
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Two-families on the rise: A construction worker on the job on Downing St.
The only contractor to respond to a city bid to build a new two-family house in the Hill won the contract at a price of $690,000 — or roughly $246 per square foot — raising questions about just how much it costs to construct small-scale residential developments in New Haven in 2023.
by | Jan 23, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (12)
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In Hamden, tree branches turn into mulch with the help of a tub grinder. Could New Haven do the same?
Leaves and branches that fall from New Haven trees might someday be revived as municipally managed mulch and top soil, thanks to a Westville alder’s new legislative proposal.
by | Jan 19, 2023 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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At Tuesday's Board of Alders meeting.
Local legislators signed off on a new higher salary for City Hall’s human resources director position — as the Elicker Administration has now filled that previously vacant role with a new hire.
Continue reading ‘City Hires New HR Manager; Alders OK Salary Bump’
by | Jan 16, 2023 5:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Wilcox testifies at 2019 confirmation hearing at City Hall.
The mayor has tapped Board of Education Vice President Matt Wilcox to serve another term on the city’s school board.
by | Jan 16, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (6)
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Immigrant rights organizers, advocates at City Hall presser.
Immigrant workers spoke out against alleged wage theft and on-the-job abuse at a City Hall press conference focused on beefing up whistleblower protections.
Continue reading ‘Immigrant Workers Protest Alleged Wage Theft’
by | Jan 13, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (8)
Reuel Parks: "When we are unwilling to intervene, we miss an opportunity to prevent the worst outcome."
An ex-parole officer and clinical therapist who grew up “dodging violence” in the Bronx has been chosen to lead the city’s new office of violence prevention — and to use his lived and professional experience to help quell cycles of brutality.
Continue reading ‘City Hires First Violence Prevention Coordinator’
by | Jan 9, 2023 5:20 pm | Comments (13)
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Licensed dealer Ray Pantalena.
Wait until you get home to break into your stash, don’t eat or smoke it all at once — and please keep it away from the kids.
by | Jan 9, 2023 1:57 pm | Comments (3)
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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.
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Science Park Development Corp's David Silverstone: "I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt."
Science Park’s redevelopers are still planning to knock down an abandoned factory building saturated in toxic oil and marked by broken glass.
They’re now one small step closer to realizing that goal, as alders advanced a grant application that would cover a portion of the $10 million they need to demolish and remediate the derelict former site.
by | Jan 6, 2023 11:09 am | Comments (3)
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Environmental advocate Marjorie Shansky: “I don’t know when the last time New Haven amended their inland wetland regulations was. I don’t even know if it complies with the law.”
Map shows delineation of wetlands from standard soil by Wilbur Cross track, which has been approved for conversion into synthetic turf.
Inland wetlands advocates are urging city decision-makers to beef up their environmental education, training and expertise in order to help protect New Haven’s endangered ecosystems.
Continue reading ‘Enviros Chart Path To Wetlands Protections’
by | Jan 5, 2023 9:39 am | Comments (13)
Renderings of The Monarch (top) and West Ridge Apartments (bottom left): Both OK'd for local tax break deals.
Local legislators signed off on two decade-plus tax break deals for two different affordable housing plans that will see 129 new apartments built in Beaver Hills and West River.
by | Jan 4, 2023 2:44 pm | Comments (10)
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Newly OK'd Charter Revision Commissioners: former LCI head Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, former Probate Judge Jack Keyes, and former JUNTA director Sandra Trevino.
The former head of the city’s anti-blight agency, the director of a prominent college scholarship program, a retired former probate judge, and two alders from opposite sides of the city are some of the New Haveners tasked with reviewing the city’s fundamental governing document in the months ahead.
Continue reading ‘9 Approved For Charter Revision Commission’
by | Jan 4, 2023 11:47 am | Comments (2)
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Fair Haven Alder Jose Crespo calls on colleagues to pray for the city Tuesday.
Prayers, tears, and a collective sense of grief hung over the first Board of Alders meeting of the year as local legislators mourned a brutal few weeks of gun violence that closed out 2022 and began 2023.
Continue reading ‘Violent Stretch Weighs Heavily On Year's 1st Alder Meeting’
by | Dec 23, 2022 10:32 am | Comments (13)
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Tyisha Walker-Myers at WNHH FM.
The relationship between police and the community improved in 2022 — and the Board of Alders helped make that happen by doing their job.
So argued Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers.
Continue reading ‘Board Prez Keeps Focus On Policing, Schools, Housing’
by | Dec 21, 2022 10:41 am | Comments (4)
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More plow trucks, coming soon?
The Elicker Administration has proposed spending $1.3 million in federal pandemic-relief aid on buying new trucks and parks maintenance vehicles for the city’s public works department.
Continue reading ‘$1.3M Plow Truck, Parks Vehicle Plan Pitched’
by | Dec 20, 2022 1:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Ford promotional images for the Interceptor SUV that the NHPD wants to purchase and the electric Mach-E Mustang that the NYPD recently bought. (AI-generated lightning not included.)
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on the Elicker Administration’s plan to spend $4.5 million in federal pandemic-relief aid on new police cars, fire trucks, and fire hydrant fixes.
by | Dec 19, 2022 8:54 am | Comments (11)
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Shelley Smith and second grader Maite at New Haven Reads tutoring site.
The Elicker Administration is looking to spend $3 million in federal aid to build out a new math and literacy tutoring program designed to help up to 1,500 public school students catch up on lost learning during the pandemic.
by | Dec 16, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (33)
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LCI Board Member Nadine Horton (left): "Rewarding bad behavior." LCI Director Arlevia Samuel (right): "Investing in community.”
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The derelict former Monterey Jazz club on Dixwell.
A debate about how to revitalize the Dixwell neighborhood without rewarding a megalandlord for bad behavior has delayed a key vote on the Elicker Administration’s plans to buy four rundown properties for a combined sum of $1.3 million.
by | Dec 16, 2022 2:42 pm | Comments (20)
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NHPS dropout prevention workers canvassing during the pandemic.
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NHPS's Dania Torres and Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin on Thursday.
When Dania Torres knocks on a student’s door, she doesn’t know if she’ll find a kid sick with the flu, a teen wrestling with substance use, a parent reeling from domestic violence, or a family preparing for the fallout of an eviction.
As a New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) dropout prevention worker, Torres is tasked with visiting the homes of students who have missed several — or sometimes most — days of school.
She explained the myriad of challenges that lead kids to build up absences and fall behind in school during a workshop on that very topic of chronic absenteeism hosted by the Board of Alders Education Committee.
by | Dec 15, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (8)
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The city's new mental health initiatives coordinator, Lorena Mitchell.
City Hall’s first-ever “community mental health” coordinator is five months into her job — and focused on building peer-to-peer emotional support systems amid a shortage in formal clinical services.
Continue reading ‘City’s Mental Health Coordinator Checks In’
by | Dec 12, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (24)
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Executive parking space: Steve Winter on day one with his work wheels.
New Haven’s new climate czar woke up at 4 a.m. Monday thinking about the planet — then pedaled two wheels through icy slush to help his city save it and create jobs in the process.
by | Dec 8, 2022 9:54 am | Comments (10)
The Board of Alders officially kicked off New Haven’s once-a-decade charter revision process by voting to focus a to-be-empaneled commission’s attention on 10 different considerations — including whether or not to grant four-year terms for the mayor and alders, and whether or not to drop residency requirements for some city department heads.
Continue reading ‘Alders Establish Charter Revision Commission’
by | Dec 7, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (15)
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Blake St. tenants union members winning official recognition from Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Wildaliz Bermudez (center).
A group of Blake Street renters delivered a 31-name petition to City Hall — and officially became New Haven’s first legally recognized tenants union.