by | Jul 31, 2020 4:47 pm | Comments (28)
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Swabbed at Day Street Park: Quick test, delayed results.
I got a swab stuck up my nose for 15 seconds at Day Street Park — and didn’t find out until a week later that I was negative for Covid-19.
The Fairfield County doctor in charge of the operation billed my insurance company over $1,900 for the “visit.”
by | Jul 20, 2020 9:20 am | Comments (9)
Rosa Mcooter, Jessica Earl, and Dottie Green at Saturday’s giveaway.
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) worked with the Heavenly Hands Food Pantry on Edgewood Avenue Saturday to give away 150 bags of sanitary supplies to combat “period poverty.”
by | Jul 15, 2020 4:40 pm | Comments (3)
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With adjustments made for the pandemic, LEAP is running its annual free summer program this summer for 340 children and teens in part virtually, in part in-person.
by | Jun 22, 2020 9:51 am | Comments (14)
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Possible autonomous vehicle models for the pilot program.
Driverless shuttle.
A plan to pilot self-driving shuttles that would circle between Yale New Haven Hospital buildings has stalled, hitting a roadblock of skeptical alders.
by | Jun 18, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (21)
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Kensington Park, pre-bulldozer.
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Site plan for the proposed development.
In an emotional three-to-three vote, city parks commissioners deadlocked on whether to OK a land swap turning over Kensington Park for 15 affordable housing units, or to preserve an under-used small oasis with 100-year-old trees.
by | Jun 9, 2020 4:04 pm | Comments (2)
Kristina Crivellone’s schedule for her scattered first graders.
Kushe Darden and Kaleb, age 7.
Kushe Darden’s son is supposed to be at school for the majority of the single father’s 47 to 70-hour workweek. Now, with pandemic-era distance learning in place, Darden is responsible for whether his 7‑year-old Kaleb learns anything on any given day.
by | Jun 5, 2020 10:29 am | Comments (1)
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Masked at the management team meeting.
Two Dwight-based groups have received money from Yale to address the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic with food assistance, face masks and menstrual supplies.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Channels Yale Donations Into Tampons, Masks’
by | Jun 4, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (3)
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DeBorah Davis Scholarship winner Sam Koroma and his mother.
When Sam Koroma moved from Sierra Leone to the United States, he did not expect ever again to participate in community service. He had gleaned from U.S. television shows and movies that his future home has no poverty.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Students Win Scholarships For Recycling, Trash Cleanup’
by | May 26, 2020 7:40 pm | Comments (3)
Twenty New Haven faith leaders led by example by getting tested for Covid-19 despite being asymptomatic Tuesday at the Murphy Medical Associates testing site on the corner of Day Street and Chapel Street.
by | May 8, 2020 10:33 am | Comments (3)
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Renter Herminio Rivera: Looking forward to a new floor.
The owner of Dwight’s sprawling Kensington Square development has the money to start building new apartments in a park and to begin a second phase of rehabbing existing apartments.
by | May 6, 2020 5:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Nurse volunteer David McIntosh swabs Melinda Torres at Day Street testing site. Below: Your intrepid reporter gets tested.
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Madeline Torres tilted her head back ever so slightly as David McIntosh stuck a nasopharyngeal swab up her right nostril for three seconds to gather the nasal secretions necessary to see if she has Covid-19.
Moments later, I sat in the same white plastic fold-out chair and stared ahead as McIntosh leaned in to push a narrow stick tipped with nylon up my nose.
by | Apr 27, 2020 4:51 pm | Comments (1)
Steven Murphy discusses newest test center, at Monday’s virtual briefing.
A new testing site is slated to open Wednesday on a basketball court in one of New Haven’s Covid-19 “hot spots,” in the Dwight neighborhood.
by | Apr 16, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (6)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building. Below: The proposed expanded St. Raphael’s campus development.
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Wednesday night’s virtual City Plan Commission meeting.
(Updated) The City Plan Commission unanimously signed off on Yale New Haven Hospital’s plans to build a new neuroscience medical research and treatment center on an expanded St. Raphael’s hospital campus, that will have a total of nearly 2,500 on-site parking spaces by the time construction is complete.
When that might be? Well, no one knows for sure, as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown out the window the hospital’s previous construction timeline.
Continue reading ‘Neuro Plan Approved; Construction Delayed’
by | Apr 12, 2020 8:32 pm | Comments (11)
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Brian McGrath, at Porky’s on Grand Avenue, 2012.
Brian McGrath, a leading civic voice in New Haven for over 40 years with a permanent glint in his eye that reflected a love for mixing it up with political friend and foe alike, has died at the age of 73 after a years-long bout with cancer.
Continue reading ‘The Irrepressible Brian McGrath, 1946-2020’
by | Apr 6, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Construction continues at 87 Union St. and at the intersection of Lafayette and Congress Ave. (below).
Even as much of the city’s economy has ground to a halt amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, construction workers are still donning their hardhats every morning and heading out to New Haven’s many construction sites — which busy city developers are furnishing with extra hand sanitizer, social distancing mandates, and more frequent porta potty cleanings.
by | Mar 31, 2020 6:24 pm | Comments (11)
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Hunt’s niece Faith Mann reads at Tuesday’s graveside memorial.
Mask-wearing pallbearers carry Hunt’s casket.
Marion Marcus Curtis Hunt, better known as “Curtis” to friends and “Kirky” to family, loved to sing opera around the house.
He had an insatiable appetite for good food and education. And he dedicated his professional life to helping New Haveners at the margins — those struggling with addiction, those suffering from HIV — get quality, stigma-free healthcare.
It was in that capacity that the humble 57-year-old became the first New Havener to die of Covid-19 — and the first to be buried with the virus firmly in mind.
Continue reading ‘1st Covid Victim Buried — With Extra Care’
by | Mar 30, 2020 10:47 am | Comments (0)
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Calvary Baptist Church Minister Emily Cui introduces the five central points of her sermon.
The streets are quiet. Are you also internally quiet enough to hear God?
Minister Emily Cui asked her congregants that question on Sunday morning, with the help of YouTube Live.
Continue reading ‘Mandarin Sermon Message: How To Love Others During A Pandemic’
by | Mar 24, 2020 3:48 pm | Comments (5)
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Local funeral home directors Bill Iovanne, Howard K. Hill, and Eddie Gist: Preparing for the pandemic.
Local funeral homes are scaling back memorial services, stepping up cleaning routines, closely counting protective equipment supplies, and seeking out increased refrigeration capacity as they brace for a potential increase in business because of a potential wave of coronavirus-related mortalities.
by | Mar 24, 2020 10:32 am | Comments (2)
Bethany Watkins.
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Immanuel Baptist crew prepares meals to go.
“People’s need for a meal isn’t going to change just because of this crisis,” Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church soup kitchen head Bethany Watkins said as volunteers helped her to put on a version of the church’s weekly soup kitchen modified to keep people safe, and fed, amid the spread of Covid-19.
by | Mar 9, 2020 7:55 am | Comments (9)
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Stoplight here on the way?
New stoplights on George Street, lights that sync with each other on MLK, new walk signals with countdowns on Derby Avenue: These are parts of a suite of upgrades that could come to Dwight with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center.
by | Mar 5, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (0)
Police don’t know the name or whereabouts of the man who allegedly started two Christmas Day fires in the Dwight neighborhood, including at the historic Walter Camp house. But they do have video of him near the scene — and are hoping someone might recognize him.
by | Mar 5, 2020 5:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Alder Evette Hamilton at Dwight meeting.
Dwight neighbors have fleshed out details of a plan to avoid growing pains with the Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned neuroscience center: smooth traffic flow and welcome more employees to the neighborhood
by | Feb 21, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (3)
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The partially demolished historic Walter Camp house.
Someone intentionally set the Christmas Day fire that ravaged the historic Walter Camp house at 1303 Chapel St.
The question now is: Who did it?
by | Feb 19, 2020 6:21 pm | Comments (2)
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A photo of Gilberto Molina and his girlfriend, Rosaura Diaz. Below: Molina’s family mourns at their Kensingston Street apartment.
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Gilberto Molina loved to paint seascapes and tinker with cars. He’d spend hours lying in bed with Beats headphones wrapped around his ears, and would get up in an instant if his sister or brothers or mom needed his help.
He was quiet and kept to himself. And his family misses him desperately after he was struck and killed by a car on Columbus Avenue earlier this week, the latest fatality in a season of pedestrian carnage on New Haven streets.
by | Feb 5, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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School CFO Penn: New Haven behind by an “awful lot of money.”
Dwight neighbors examine school district’s proposed plan.
Mark Griffin had a front-row seat at opening night of a new neighborhood road show starring local education officials — and left vowing to write to his representatives from New Haven to Hartford to Washington, seeking more money for public schools.