by | Dec 15, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (11)
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Hill Central literacy teacher Bee Marshall at a July rally.
A new teachers union contract that would trade a pay freeze this year for no layoffs or medical premium increases over the next three years advanced towards a final full Board of Alders vote later this month.
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by | Dec 14, 2020 12:27 pm | Comments (3)
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Safe Haven at 204 State St.
The 33 formerly homeless residents of a supportive-housing complex will have access to on-site medical treatment, after a Ninth Square nonprofit won permission to boost wraparound services.
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by | Dec 11, 2020 4:42 pm | Comments (26)
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Health Director Bond at presser: Ready to spread gospel.
• 1st up: frontline workers, 1st responders, frail seniors.
• Other shots start “in a few weeks.”
• Goal: 100 a day.
• “Medical Reserve Corps” volunteers sought.
• Moderna preferred over Pfizer.
• Pop-ups, Meadow St. site planned.
• Public education campaign readied.
• City positivity rate soars to almost 3x “red zone” minimum.
• YNHH bed-occupancy hits 75 percent.
• New wave slams Fair Haven hardest.
• 120 new hotel beds for homeless.
by | Dec 11, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
City Angels Baseball Academy players and coaches in the dugout this summer.
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A view of what the prospective indoor batting cage at 31 Fulton St. will look like.
A Fair Haven-based youth baseball league plans to build indoor batting cages in an Annex warehouse to offer needed after-school activities for young New Haveners.
by | Dec 10, 2020 5:08 pm | Comments (19)
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Elicker (left), Lamont (right): As goes New Haven, so goes Connecticut?
(Analysis) One is named Ned. One isn’t.
One plays piano. The other, guitar.
Other than that, as the mid-point arrives in their first terms in office, it can be hard to tell Connecticut’s governor and New Haven’s mayor apart.
Continue reading ‘Mid-1st Term, “Nedicker” Navigates Crises’
by | Dec 10, 2020 11:07 am | Comments (39)
Alder Furlow: This wasn’t about affordable housing.
Concerned about drugs, traffic, and violence, Upper Westville neighbors convinced city zoners to stop a two-family home from becoming a rooming house.
by | Dec 9, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (8)
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Clockwise from top left: Local pastors Steven Cousin, Boise Kimber, Hector Otero, and John Cotten.
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Fair Haven’s Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, future learning hub site.
Four churches in Fair Haven, Dixwell, and Newhallville won permission to run daycare centers-turned-learning hubs — to offer relief to working parents who can’t leave their kids home alone during the day, and reliable internet and in-person educational support to students.
by | Dec 8, 2020 5:36 pm | Comments (11)
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Alders Abby Roth and Richard Furlow: Who’s the public?
As a law is passed to disclose side labor contracts and agreements — to select group alders, not public.
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:57 am | Comments (6)
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School nurse E.J. Antinozzi on the job before the pandemic.
Every school will have a nurse — whenever schools reopen for in-person learning — thanks to an $850,000 budget transfer approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (6)
On Monday night, the Board of Alders awarded veteran New Haven Register reporter Mary O’Leary an official citation in honor of her five decades of local reporting and on her retirement. Below is a transcription of the citation, which can be downloaded here.
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:49 am | Comments (11)
Dirt bikers, beware.
A new law passed by the Board of Alders Monday night raises the highest possible fine for anyone caught illegally driving dirt bikes or ATVs on city streets, parks, or sidewalks from $99 to $2,000.
by | Dec 7, 2020 5:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Chief Reyes with Assistant Chiefs Jacobson and Dominguez, at a July presser.
City police arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of shooting a 28-year-old local in the head at a Long Wharf gas station three days ago, among nearly half-a-dozen other local crimes recently solved.
That’s happening at a time when the cops are more stretched than ever: 21 officers are currently off duty because of Covid-19, including 11 who have recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Continue reading ‘Shooting Arrest Made; Covid Sidelines 21 Cops’
by | Dec 4, 2020 12:28 pm | Comments (9)
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Ward 25’s Harriet Welfare at the polls, one of the hundreds of heroes who helped New Haven pull off a smooth Election Day.
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Ballot dropboxes outside 200 Orange: Busiest “voting booth.”
New Haven’s city/town clerk’s office tabulated a record 14,212 absentee ballots in this year’s general election — and will use a faster state tracking system next time to minimize voters’ confusion about whether their ballots counted.
Continue reading ‘Election Autopsy: “Heroics,” AB Confusion’
by | Dec 4, 2020 11:45 am | Comments (15)
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Housekeeper Everlana Allen with fellow workers at a protest outside the Omni earlier this year.
If New Haven proceeds with ordering the Omni Hotel to give laid-off workers first dibs at returning to their jobs, it will be testing a creative new interpretation of state law.
by | Dec 3, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (7)
Gov. Ned Lamont Thursday rolls out 3-part statewide strategy for distributing the vaccine at state presser.
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Mayor Elicker, health Director Bond, development chief Piscitelli at city presser.
As the Covid-19 “dark winter” approaches, Mayor Justin Elicker issued an executive order Thursday requiring employers to craft and post “return to work” policies and inform the city about employees who test positive for the coronavirus.
The executive order takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m.
The city can revoke licenses or shut workplaces if employers violate it.
by | Dec 3, 2020 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Speaking out at hearing: supporters Lauryn Kearney and Frank Warrecke (top and bottom left), opponent Crystal Ayala (right).
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Crystal Ayala looked out from her Fairmont Avenue home and warned of odors, rodents, and plummeting property values if the city allows an Annex transfer station to collect suburban wet trash.
Lauryn Kearney looked at that same plant — and described it as one of the city’s “cleanest facilities,” a dedicated employer that deserves to expand.
by | Dec 2, 2020 6:12 pm | Comments (8)
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Temple Plaza: Wake-up noises start before dawn.
Local plans to crack down on noisy 4 a.m. trash and recycling trucks have caught the industry’s attention — and New Haven companies are seeking a compromise.
by | Dec 1, 2020 2:54 pm | Comments (17)
From action to enaction: Task force members Kiana Flores, Latha Swamy,
Sixteen citizens will help New Haven figure out how to end community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2030.
by | Dec 1, 2020 11:40 am | Comments (5)
Among the new CRB members, clockwise from top left: Melvin Counsel, Devin Avshalom-Smith, John Pescatore, John Peralta, the Rev. Samuel Ross-Lee.
New Haven’s reinvigorated Civilian Review Board won’t hear its first case until Spring 2021 at the earliest. But the panel met for the first time to start getting ready.
The police-misconduct review panel — which has been reborn with subpoena power and staff — held its first meeting Monday night by Zoom.
by | Nov 30, 2020 6:50 pm | Comments (24)
Negotiators, clockwise from top left: Fernandez, Weisselberg, Alvarez, Gormany, Piscitelli.
Mayor Justin Elicker has dispatched a team with both long governmental experience and youthful perspective to hammer a deal with Yale for greater support for the city.
by | Nov 25, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
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The new Together New Haven Marketplace website.
Shop online, if you can. Shop in-person, if you must.
But no matter what, city officials implored, during this Covid-heavy holiday season, please shop local.
by | Nov 25, 2020 1:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Common Ground senior Dayanara Chacon shows off a new mask.
Common Ground High School seniors unveiled a fashionable fix designed to slow the spread of Covid-19: a social media mask-wearing campaign in which young people show off their favorite face coverings, and encourage their peers to do the same.
by | Nov 25, 2020 1:06 pm | Comments (13)
Public health board appointees Gregg Gonsalves and Alice Forrester.
Curfews and fines won’t save lives in this pandemic. Nor will shaming.
More testing, masks, and counseling will work better, testified two experts on tap to help guide New Haven’s public health approach during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Nov 24, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (2)
Harm Reduction team at presser, clockwise from top left: Health Director Maritza Bond, SWAN’s Beatrice Codianni, Yale’s Rick Altice, Communisty Services Administrator Mehul Dalal, new coordinator Christine Rodriguez, Dionna King of Vital Strategies.
A new coordinator has come to town to help take New Haven’s overdose-prevention work to a new level.
by | Nov 24, 2020 10:51 am | Comments (2)
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Yesenia Rivera at January ed board meeting.
School board President Yesenia Rivera won a confirmation vote to serve another four years, after alders grilled her about children left behind by online learning, and about lengthy, contentious, and chaotic meetings held under her leadership.
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Prez Grilled, Wins Reappoint Vote’