by | Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (1)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
by | Dec 6, 2022 4:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Fire Chief John Alston addresses the family of Thomas Mieles.
A month after a car struck and killed 27-year-old firefighter Thomas Mieles on the I‑91 highway, the Board of Alders honored his service to the city with citations issued to the late Fair Havener’s family members.
Continue reading ‘Alders Honor Family Of Firefighter Killed In Highway Crash’
by | Dec 6, 2022 12:32 pm | Comments (26)
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Paul C. at the "Tent City" encampment on the West River.
City officials and local professionals concerned with combatting homelessness gathered at City Hall to sound the alarm on a growing housing crisis — as they considered ways to pay for more affordable places for New Haveners to live.
Continue reading ‘Homelessness Advocates Brace For "Tidal Wave"’
by | Dec 6, 2022 9:05 am | Comments (19)
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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 bought. (AI-generated lightning not included.)
Should a once-in-a-lifetime flood of federal money be used to fund more gas-powered public safety vehicles, while the city contends with a looming climate crisis and one of the highest asthma rates in the country?
Alders raised those questions — even as they moved ahead the Elicker Administration’s proposal to use $4.5 million in federal pandemic-relief aid in part to buy new non-electric police SUVs and fire trucks.
Continue reading ‘$4.5M Fire Truck, Police SUV Plan Advances’
by | Dec 1, 2022 5:36 pm | Comments (12)
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Career High's Jonathan Berryman with Board of Ed VP Matt Wilcox Wednesday.
The Board of Education has hired a national search firm to try to find the next city schools superintendent by March — raising public concerns that the process to find Iline Tracey’s replacement needs to be longer and more community-focused.
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Alder board prez Walker-Myers, Elicker: Let's talk about it.
Four-year terms for local elected officials are back on the table, according to a new memo describing the mayor’s and the Board of Alders president’s priorities for debate in a once-in-a-decade charter revision process.
by | Nov 30, 2022 5:08 pm | Comments (9)
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Jim Turcio looked down from 14 stories above New Haven and marveled at a landscape that has been changing before his eyes — with his OK required at every step.
Continue reading ‘Turcio, City's Building Boom Boss, To Retire’
by | Nov 29, 2022 5:25 pm | Comments (11)
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Crump (center): Cox's life expectancy "severely compromised" if he doesn't get the right care.
Richard “Randy” Cox heralded the arrests of the five New Haven police officers who left him permanently paralyzed a step towards justice — while the 36-year-old New Havener’s family and legal team slammed state prosecutors for not bringing heavier charges against those same cops.
by | Nov 29, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (7)
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Stone St. houses, slated for demolition ...
... to be replaced by 65 new apartments.
A Branford-based developer plans to knock down four rented single-family houses and build 65 new apartments for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, according to a new 17-year local tax break application for a project slated to go up in the shadow of West Rock.
by | Nov 28, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (20)
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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair.
Five city cops have been arrested on two misdemeanor charges apiece for their roles in the June 19 incident that left 36-year-old New Havener Richard “Randy” Cox injured and paralyzed while in police custody.
by | Nov 23, 2022 10:45 am | Comments (0)
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Arabic interpreter Nuha Ibrahim and attendee Rajaa Abdella at Sunday's workshop.
(Updated with response from city) Camila Guiza-Chavez asked a roomful of women — mostly refugees, many facing housing insecurity — if anyone had applied for the city’s new federally funded, pandemic-era housing assistance programs.
“No,” was the unanimous reply.
Then she asked if anyone in the room had even heard of these programs. She was met again with a resounding: “No.”
by | Nov 23, 2022 9:55 am | Comments (0)
144 more apts., en route to Blake St.?
Local legislators cleared the zoning path for 256 new mostly market-rent apartments to be built in Westville and Long Wharf.
Continue reading ‘Alders Approve Plans For 256 New Apartments’
by | Nov 23, 2022 9:30 am | Comments (16)
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So long, fares? Alders endorse permanent holiday.
A week before the state legislature gathers to vote on whether CT Transit buses should remain fare-free through April, the Board of Alders formally called on state government to make public buses free to ride forever.
Continue reading ‘Alders To State: Make Bus Rides Free Forever’
by and | Nov 22, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (16)
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The approved new Wooster Square monument.
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The Wooster Square Monument Committee at the site of the past and future statues on Tuesday.
(Updated) The group charged with coming up with an Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park gathered at the site of the past and future monuments on Tuesday to celebrate a major milestone for the project — and to kick off a $300,000 fundraising drive.
by | Nov 21, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (2)
Assistant Chief McCarthy shares safety tips on lithium-ion batteries.
Check lithium-ion-powered vehicles and devices regularly for damage. And make sure to use manufacturer-sanctioned chargers, rather than potentially unsafe off-brand replacements.
Top fire department officials delivered that advice during a City Hall workshop focused on how to prevent explosions of increasingly ever-present lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from electric cars and bikes and scooters to laptops and smartphones.
Continue reading ‘Explosion Wary, Alders & Fire Officials Focus On Electric Vehicle Safety Tips’
by and | Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Clinic's Parking, Expansion Plan Advances’
by | Nov 14, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (6)
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The soon-to-be-resurrected Hill Cooperative Youth Services Building.
Plans to bring a former Trowbridge Square community center back to life took a big step forward as the Board of Alders formally accepted $1.5 million in state funds to renovate and reopen the Hill Cooperative Youth Services community center, formerly known as the Barbell.
Continue reading ‘Alders Accept State $ For Barbell Revival’
by | Nov 14, 2022 8:49 am | Comments (12)
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Blake Field: State-funded upgrades en route.
Parks and fields across the city — as well as a flood-prone westside road — are a big step closer to receiving long-awaited improvements, now that the Board of Alders has formally accepted state money earmarked to make those upgrades a reality.
by | Nov 11, 2022 3:00 pm | Comments (14)
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360 State St.
The city has received a one-time windfall of $2.7 million in deferred building permit fees from the now-former owner of 360 State St., thereby closing out two parallel developer deals that date back more than a decade.
by | Nov 11, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (3)
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Officer Chad Curry at Thursday's Board of Alders meeting.
After one bullet grazed his ear and another lodged in his shoulder, Officer Chad Curry got up to chase the man who fired at him.
The Board of Alders honored that perseverance and service in an official citation Thursday evening, just over a month after a shooting injured the police officer.
by | Nov 10, 2022 2:01 pm | Comments (13)
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Ready for pandemic-relief-funded repairs?
The Elicker Administration is looking to spend $4.5 million in federal pandemic-relief aid on new fire trucks, new police department SUVs, and comprehensive repairs to the city’s aging fire hydrants.
by | Nov 9, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (18)
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A contingent of Wilbur Cross community members, including Board of Ed Student Representative Dave John Cruz-Bustamante, art teacher Melody Gallagher, and soccer captain Matteo Festa.
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A lightly muddy Blake Field on Friday afternoon.
Broken ankles. Used syringes. Mud-induced match cancellations. Low morale.
Those were just a few of the high school sports-related obstacles that Wilbur Cross coaches and students spoke out about having to surmount time and again, as they successfully urged alders to move forward with long-awaited upgrades to the East Rock Athletic Complex.
Continue reading ‘Student-Athlete Pleas Power Field Repairs’
by | Nov 9, 2022 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
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A seven-year plan to convert an empty Elm Street bridal shop into seven stories’ worth of new apartments took another step forward after the building’s new owners won a key city approval.
by | Nov 8, 2022 3:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Among the 400 same-day registrants (as of 4 p.m.) lining up to vote at City Hall.
Yale School of Management student Brittany Swanson waited too long to send in an absentee ballot to vote against celebrity physician and Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania this election.
So she instead found herself at City Hall, registering to become a New Haven voter to throw some last minute support towards Connecticut’s Democratic ticket.
Continue reading ‘Pennsylvania Transplant Votes Blue Thru EDR’
by | Nov 8, 2022 9:53 am | Comments (3)
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The proposed new Wooster Square Park monument.
A laborious and sometimes controversial process to replace the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park took a big step closer to completion — as alders favorably recommended a new Italian-American-heritage-celebrating monument, which could cost $250,000 in privately raised funds to build.
Continue reading ‘Alders Endorse Columbus Statue Replacement’