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This work just got a whole lot more expensive for NHPS.
The cost of clearing the first inch of snow from New Haven’s public school properties during winter storms jumped from around $19,000 to more than $49,000 this year — thanks to what one Board of Education-hired contractor described as spikes in the costs of fuel, insurance, and maintaining worn-down snow removal equipment.
Alders paved a road for the city to fine speeding drivers and red light runners with the help of traffic cameras — though they are poised to fund only half of the city positions the Elicker administration has requested for the rollout of those cameras in the upcoming city budget.
Fred Harris, with the mayor: "The fight is not over."
Six decades after leading a grassroots movement for racial, educational, and housing justice in the Hill while battling New Haven’s political leaders, Fred Harris returned to City Hall — to be recognized as a hometown hero.
A former Fair Haven Heights fabric-coating chemical factory could become a mix of private studios occupied by artists, small business owners, and small-scale manufacturers — as well as a site for self-storage.
Finance Chair Marchand, second from right, led committee in approving some — but not all — new city positions.
A key committee of alders endorsed a city budget with standalone housing code enforcement and parks departments, though with fewer positions than the mayor had wanted.
They also advanced a 3.49 percent rise in the mill rate, rather than the 3.98 percent increase the mayor had proposed.
Neighbors tired of smoke shops pushed back on a Hill native’s plan to turn a vacant Washington Avenue storefront from a place for cutting hair to a venue for cutting deals on sweatsuits and smoking paraphernalia.
Fair Rent's Wildaliz Bermúdez with new tenants union rep Zach Postle.
A cracked window at 1455 State.
Zach Postle and his neighbors got tired of waiting days and weeks and months for their landlord to respond to maintenance concerns like broken windows and busted heating, so they formed a tenants union — the sixth to officially file with City Hall, and the fifth created at an Ocean Management rental property.
A proposed rendering by Patriquin Architects of what a Union Station-adjacent development could look like.
It’s official: Union Station and its adjacent lots are now a “Transit Oriented Community,” where taller, denser developments supporting car-free living may soon take shape — so long as new housing builders can navigate an extra bureaucratic step.
... before filling the Aldermanic Chamber for Monday's vote.
The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
Advocates for the resolution protest at the Board of Alders in February.
Hundreds of people turned out to offer polarized and passionate testimony before the Board of Alders during an online hearing about a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza — a proposal that local legislators plan to take up for deliberations next week.
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Apr 24, 2024 10:31 am
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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
High school senior Thailynn Morehead, right, called for the budget to fund functional school bathrooms.
To 69-year-old Linda Randi, who’s worked as a paraeducator in New Haven Public Schools for 38 years, more funding for the Board of Education would mean “I wouldn’t have to work a second job.”
Specifically, she said, she’d no longer have to work a nightly six-hour shift waiting tables on top of her full-time classroom hours.
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Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez on Monday.
Surrounded by the somber portraits of white politicians and businessmen honored in the aldermanic chamber, Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez sketched a future of New Haven rooted in Black and Latino history.
As alders consider whether to legalize red light and speeding cameras in New Haven, Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed adding four new city employees to install and manage 20 such cameras in the next fiscal year.
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The former Doyle's dry cleaners at 203 Alden Ave.
The redeveloper of the former Doyle’s Cleaners on Alden Avenue has ditched plans to build a new specialty food store and will now construct six, instead of four, apartments there instead.
LCI's Javier Ortiz investigates conditions in a Vernon St. apartment.
Liam Brennan, hired by city to review LCI.
A former mayoral candidate has been tapped to guide future reforms to enhance housing code and blight enforcement at the Livable City Initiative (LCI), as the Board of Alders reviews a mayoral proposal to remove affordable housing development from that city agency’s work.
Michael Morand documenting history in the Grove Street Cemetery.
Michael Morand has received a five-year appointment to do — officially — what he has done unofficially for years: reveal New Haven’s hidden past to the people of the present.
Yet-to-be-deployed city-owned Chevy Bolts lined up at 200 Wintergreen.
A shortage of electric car chargers has left 27 city-owned Chevy Bolts sitting unused in a parking lot — revealing how the process of electrifying public vehicles is more complicated than just buying a fleet of cleaner-energy cars.
Joseph: "Verbal agreement" in place for med-office parking.
Should a planned new medical office building on a West River superblock be allowed to have 0 off-street parking spaces — when there’s a 700-space parking garage right next door?
(Updated) As New Haven completes the process of approving a new fiscal year budget, it will also start looking for a new budget director to craft next year’s plan.
