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Dec 13, 2024 9:21 am
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Altered Futures.
This month there’s a small stretch of forest in City Gallery on Upper State Street — evergreens, ferns, moss — surrounded by a patch of dirt. It might take a moment to see that the plants aren’t rooted in the dirt, however. Rather, they’re planted in a woven aluminum boat, redolent of an ark. It will allow them to leave the gallery alive; maybe it will protect them from what’s coming.
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Dec 5, 2024 9:24 am
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As the Olin Corporation, with oversight from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), continues its testing at Six Lakes, a.k.a the Powder Farm, to determine the extent of contamination from decades of arms testing and waste dumping, Six Lakes Coalition has finished a round of its own surveying — for community input into what neighboring residents would like the future of the now-forested acreage in southern Hamden to look like.
The resulting report finds that “neighbors desire public open space at Six Lakes that will allow them safe access to a quiet, natural area and provide a gathering space for the local community.” The report was feted Wednesday morning at a gathering at the edge of the property, in which local and state officials reiterated their support for the effort to turn Six Lakes into a public park.
New Haven's industrial port: Watch out, enviro scofflaws.
AG Tong: “Gulf Oil ran a defective operation and falsified records to cover its tracks."
An oil tank operator in New Haven’s industrial port has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a state lawsuit that accused the company of falsifying inspection reports and undertaking construction and demolition without pulling the proper permits.
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Nov 1, 2024 3:53 pm
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The electric crane, at New Haven's electrifying port.
DeLauro: These types of investments are "the gift that keeps on giving."
None of the three federal legislators standing on a pier in New Haven Harbor Friday afternoon mentioned the presidential and congressional elections that are days away.
But, in their remarks celebrating $34 million newly set to wash ashore on the city’s industrial port, they all made an argument that is central to the political legacies of Biden-era Democrats.
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Sep 30, 2024 3:14 pm
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Temporary office, ticketing, and passenger-waiting trailers can stay for another three years on Tweed’s New Haven side — as the regional airport works to build up a new terminal in East Haven by 2027.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 11, 2024 9:49 am
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English Station: Oh the potential, oh the decay.
A derelict power plant. A neighborhood school. A vibrant community history of hardship and resilience. And the ticking clock of climate change.
All these elements came together in the first of a series of walking tours — a collaboration among several public and nonprofit entities put together by Anstress Farwell, president of the New Haven Urban Design League — focusing on the decommissioned and toxic English Station power plant and the Mill River District in Fair Haven.
At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Tweed’s operators are looking to keep in place for another three years temporary office, ticketing, and passenger waiting trailer buildings on the New Haven side of the airport property, as they continue to try to relocate the terminal to a new larger permanent structure on the East Haven side.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 28, 2024 8:39 am
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Eyes on the Planet.
They’re eyes, but they’re taking in a universe of shifting shapes and colors. The piercing structures of the irises only accentuate how the rest of the eyes are swimming with color. In the middle of each pupil is an astronaut, which throws the scale of the image into question. On one level, it’s all fun and inviting. On another, it’s disorienting. The astronauts could be exploring a colorful new dimension. They may also be in danger.
As truck after truck barreled through New Haven’s industrial port district Monday afternoon, the asthma-inducing particulate matter in the air at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Alabama Street reached 29.5 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³).
That compared to 16.4 outside Mitchell Library and 28 outside Tweed Airport and 21 by the Hill South police substation at the exact same time.
City government is now collecting and making public that data through 11 recently installed air quality sensors, which shine a light on just how much hazardous haze New Haveners take in with every breath.
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Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
Q Meadows Alder Theresa Morant: “Yes! A safer neighborhood, finally!”
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Route 80, make way for slower traffic, including in front of the 270 Foxon Blvd. hotel-turned-shelter.
Traffic calming medians and lighting are one step closer to coming to a six-lane stretch of Route 80, also known as Foxon Boulevard, thanks to $1.6 million in state funds that city government has now officially accepted.
Nappésoul's Gregory Smith, José Gragirene, Laquaya Smith, and Madison Foster tend to a baby chicken.
It's pond time, on Butler Street.
Last week, the pond in Nappésoul’s Newhallville backyard was just a hole in the ground.
By Wednesday morning, with the help of a federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant, the hole had turned into a filtered, aquaponic pond system, with koi fish and minnows on the way.
DEEP's Katie Dykes announces $450 million EPA grant.
Union Station will be “the greenest train station in the United States of America” thanks to “heat pumps, heat pumps, heat pumps,” made possible by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new climate pollution reduction grant program.
So promised officials as they gathered at the train station to announce grants allocated to Connecticut under the program — including $9.5 million worth for New Haven.
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Jul 18, 2024 9:19 am
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Watch out, George Baldwin, that's a sand shark!
Students test for salinity, temperature, and "conductivity."
The traffic from the Q Bridge rumbled overhead, oblivious to the scene below at the mouth of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers, as two students on a small Sound School boat lowered a piece of scientific equipment into the water, at surface and at depth.
The reason: to continue a years-long project of gathering data about the Mill River and, in turn, foster a better relationship with it.
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Jul 17, 2024 9:26 am
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Six Lakes last fall.
Trails for wheelchairs and strollers. A pavilion for events and education programs. Kayaking and fishing.
All these ideas and more emerged from a meeting at Thornton Wilder Hall at Miller Library in Hamden, held by Six Lakes Park Coalition, as the coalition invited the public to submit input on what a future state park in the middle of Hamden might look like, and how it might best serve the community around it.
The senior living community known as The Towers at Tower Lane will be receiving $20 million to improve conditions and reach broader environmental goals, thanks to HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP).
