Cross girls' locker room, photo courtesy of Cross counselor Mia Comulada Breuler.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) leaders said the district needs 33 more tradesmen to just begin working towards addressing its thousands of building-disrepair work orders — while the head of the school system’s custodial union called for more in-house hiring, and less private contracting.
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Sep 26, 2024 3:45 pm
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Union Station, get ready for some new neighbors ...
... at the TOD coming soon-ish to the east parking lot?
Four developers are in the running to build up a state-owned surface parking lot adjacent to Union Station — as part of a transit-oriented development that is likely still several years away from breaking ground.
Four days before his public school district operations consultant contract is set to expire, Mike Carter is still “undecided” as to whether or not to stay in the post — or, potentially, return to his former top City Hall job.
Regina Rush-Kittle: "I do not have a job in Hartford. I do not have a job in Hartford. I do not a job in Hartford."
(Updated) Three months after New Haven changed the law to allow one top city official to remain in her job, that official is packing up and leaving town.
Two handmade signs, only one still legible, commemorate the Grand Avenue block where Malik Jones died.
Norm Clement joined a dozen public testifiers early in September to call for an official corner sign honoring Malik.
The words “Justice For Malik” have nearly faded from one hand-painted wooden board nailed to a Grand Avenue post.
A more durable sign bearing Malik Jones’s name may soon rise alongside it — inscribing the memory of a bright, adventurous 21-year-old whom an East Haven cop shot to death in 1997.
Finance Chair Marchand: "There’s a fair amount of money that has not been spent.”
More than three years after a flood of federal pandemic-relief aid started to make its way towards New Haven, the Elicker administration has spent less than half of the $115 million received by the city — and now has two years to get the rest out the door, or potentially have to give some of that money back.
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Democratic Registrar Shannel Evans: “I believe [early voting] went great, besides the numbers.”
New Haven voters will have a chance to cast their ballots early in the November election from Oct. 21 through Nov. 3 at City Hall — where about 10 parking spots will be reserved for voters.
Dr. Robinson, at July's corner renaming committee hearing.
The corner of Dixwell Avenue and Argyle Street will now have a new name — honoring a pioneering psychologist, researcher, and volunteer local historian who still calls Dixwell home.
The Elicker administration has now won aldermanic approval to advertise affordable homeownership and rent assistance programs at the Shubert Theatre and on a Water Street digital billboard, with the help of one-time federal pandemic-relief aid.
Liam Brennan: Looking for enforcement mechanisms "everywhere we can."
With hopes of building a faster housing code inspection system with more teeth, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) under its new director is moving away from the courthouse and toward municipal fines.
A plan to build 50 new affordable apartments for seniors in West Rock took a key step forward, as alders endorsed a 39-year tax-break deal for the housing authority development to-be.
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Aug 26, 2024 11:14 am
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Students at MATCH, a new manufacturing training program that received a city ARPA grant.
A future vocational training hub for New Haven Public Schools students could offer tracks in building, manufacturing, technology, health, and transportation — per the city’s latest plan for millions of dollars of one-time federal aid that were allocated for various trade education initiatives two years ago.
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Aug 22, 2024 2:14 pm
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345 Norton St.: One of 3 homes newly eyed for daycare.
New Haven’s daycare “desert” is about to grow a bit more green, in the form of three new or expanded group child care centers in Fair Haven and Edgewood.
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Aug 20, 2024 3:10 pm
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Mike Gormany: Working on the weekends to help new city budget director transition into the role.
The Elicker administration has contracted with the city’s former budget director to help the city’s new budget director transition into her role, with an indefinite agreement that pays $55 an hour for up to 19 hours a week.
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Aug 19, 2024 3:37 pm
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67 Winchester: Now approved for expansion.
A plan to build new bedrooms atop a derelict Winchester Avenue home’s backyard won approval the second time around — after calls for more, quality housing beat out concerns about neighborhood change.
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Aug 19, 2024 2:14 pm
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402 Crown St.: 2 apartments, coming up?
A vacant former Crown Street car rental center is slated to become two new apartments — after the landlord’s attorney explained that now is not the best financial time to knock down the commercial structure and build a big new building in its stead.
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Aug 13, 2024 9:22 am
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Tax Abatement Chair José Crespo, speaking in support of movie theater tax deal.
Alders voted to forgive more than $10,000 of interest on several years worth of unpaid taxes on “personal property” like movie screens, popcorn machines, and digital video projectors at New Haven’s last — now-closed — movie theater.
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Aug 8, 2024 5:45 pm
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Anais Nunec: "I wanted to cry, it was so amazing."
Junior Miss Puerto Rico Lysella Pujols and Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven Alanna Herbert.
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As rain came down, this year’s Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven, Alanna Herbert, stepped to the microphone and filled the Green with her voice as she sang the national anthem. Behind her was the Puerto Rican flag, grand and waving in the wind, ready to be raised.
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Black Wall Street organizers Adriane Jefferson (right), and The Breed's Rashad Johnson and Aaron Rogers: "This is not just a festival. It is a movement."
A fashion show, film festival, investing summit, and 200-vendor fair on the Green are all on tap for this year’s third annual Black Wall Street – an example of city staff and local entrepreneurs teaming up to “turn the hate from the past into hope for the future.”
Kiki Moreno and Fernando Morales: Formerly homeless, currently calling for better shelter hours.
Upon This Rock to revive the Grand Avenue shelter.
One of the city’s go-to homeless shelter contractors is slated to revive a shuttered 65-bed facility on Grand Avenue, with case management and healthcare services on site.
Alders voted to allocate $500,000 toward that effort — part of just over $1 million approved on Monday evening for helping people with nowhere else to go.
New Budget Director Shannon McCue and Tax Collector Karen Gauthier.
Mayor Justin Elicker has appointed two new members to his administration, according to a Tuesday press release: Shannon McCue as city budget director and Karen Gauthier as city tax collector.
