by | May 3, 2022 7:49 pm | Comments (19)
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Going electric: Mayor Elicker pulls up in a borrowed Logan Prodigy.
Mayor Justin Elicker arrived on two wheels, of course, for an official kick-off to New Haven Bike Month — but for the first time, he did so with an electric assist.
by | May 2, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (1)
A leading environment-themed youth program in the city, Solar Youth, has named a new executive director, Candace Wright (at left in photo).
by | Apr 29, 2022 3:54 pm | Comments (3)
Church street students...
... plant a sunset red maple tree outside their school.
Church Street Elementary students took turns Friday shoveling soil over the roots of a young red maple tree — and played their parts in planning safer, shadier and more stimulating school grounds for future generations.
Continue reading ‘Church Street Students Celebrate Arbor Day By Planting Saplings’
by | Apr 27, 2022 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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With four hours of sometimes passionate debate, Fair Haven Heights environmental activists succeeded in putting off renewal of the permit for the solid waste transfer station at 19 Wheeler St. on the Quinnipiac River.
Continue reading ‘Transfer Station's Permit Renewal Fought, Delayed’
by | Apr 26, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (8)
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EMERGE and URI workers planting serviceberry trees on Sherman Avenue.
Caroline Scanlan, who submitted this article, is URI’s GreenSkills Program Manager.
This spring marks a major milestone for the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) — the planting of our 10,000th tree!
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Bob Lamothe points to osprey circling above.
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Lamothe's portrait of a Cape May Warbler.
As Bob Lamothe walked along the Mill River, he positioned his Canon camera towards the sky, prepared to capture birds in flight — and was reminded of shared migration patterns that help people and avians alike call back and forth between their homelands.
by | Apr 11, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (1)
Earl McCoy Jr. at work.
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Youth gather to clean up Shepard Street Garden.
A decade ago Addie Kimbrough was teaching her son how to cut grass and prune bushes. Now that he’s 23 years old, she’s teaching a new generation of neighborhood youth about yard work.
by | Mar 31, 2022 5:48 pm | Comments (4)
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DOT Deputy Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto (center) with State Rep. Vincent Candelora (to his right) during Tuesday visit to Hamden bus garage.
Vincent Candelora showed up at Hamden’s CT Transit bus maintenance and storage garage — not to catch a ride, but to ask questions.
by | Mar 29, 2022 9:20 am | Comments (5)
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Goode leads urban explorers into wilderness, clears invasive species.
Environmental advocate Aaron Goode, loppers in hand, smiled as he looked over the hikers who had just waded through ankle-deep mud to get around a fence built across Hemingway Creek, behind the Bella Vista apartment complex.
Continue reading ‘Heights Wilderness Explored; Invaders Felled’
by | Mar 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (7)
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Draft rendering of new apartment building.
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Kensington Playground.
Maybe the developer will build around the trees?
A city-hired attorney offered that defense in state court during the latest hearing about whether or not New Haven violated a state environmental law by agreeing to sell a Dwight public greenspace.
Continue reading ‘Park Case Q: Might Trees Remain Standing?’
by | Mar 1, 2022 4:04 pm | Comments (2)
Closed sidewalk on Davis Street, waiting for White to repair it.
White: Cross-border comity.
Stephen White, Hamden’s new town engineer wants stronger sidewalks, safer crosswalks, and a continued partnership with his counterpart to the south, New Havener of the Year Giovanni Zinn.
White, a past project manager with New Haven’s engineering department under Zinn, is one of three appointees Mayor Lauren Garrett announced Monday will be moving into Government Center. Garrett also named Safija Farooqui the acting chief assessor and Jeffrey Naples assistant fire chief.
Continue reading ‘New Hamden Town Engineer Aims For Safer Streets’
by | Feb 22, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (26)
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Project design.
A Wooster Square developer’s altered plans for a 13-story apartment complex include more affordable housing and sidewalk improvements — drawing a mix of praise and criticism in its quest for support.
by | Feb 11, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (20)
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Elected officials and airport boosters tout 100 days of Avelo Airlines flying in and out of Tweed.
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Avelo Airlines announced plans to announce “several” new destinations from Tweed in a matter of “days, not weeks,” as the budget carrier celebrated 100 days of flying in and out of the Morris Cove-based regional airport.
Long-awaited deals on airport operations with Avports and with Uber, on the other hand, remain elusive.
Continue reading ‘Budget Airline Celebrates 100 Days At Tweed’
by | Jan 31, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (4)
82 Crestway: Soon to be "paradise"?
A business owner who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines has reached a court settlement with the town of Hamden — and has an opportunity to restore an industrial property covered in illegally dumped waste back into the home of Paradise Landscaping.
by | Jan 31, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
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As a blizzard’s worth of snow melts into Lake Whitney, a 160-year-old dam is keeping Hamden and New Haven safe from flooding — and a host of politicians and Regional Water Authority employees are working to keep the historic dam safe from collapsing.
Continue reading ‘RWA Invited To Apply For $20M For 2nd Lake Whitney Dam’
by | Jan 29, 2022 3:50 pm | Comments (13)
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Snow piling up on Orange St. Saturday morning.
A winter storm that walloped parts of the Northeast dropped roughly nine to 12 inches of snow on New Haven Saturday.
by | Jan 24, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Looking from Long Wharf towards the industrial port in the Annex: Federal funds to be used to deepen the channel to allow for more, larger ships.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Monday's presser.
Look for more room for bigger ships carrying steel, cement, and oil to New Haven’s industrial waterfront — and less room for climate-change-exacerbated storm surges to inundate the streets and highway on Long Wharf.
Continue reading ‘$220M+ In Harbor-Boosting Fed Funds Celebrated’
by | Jan 21, 2022 11:29 am | Comments (2)
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Then-Lt. Gov. candidate Susan Bysiewicz with American GreenFuels staff at a campaign stop in 2018.
The industrial New Haven Terminal, with American GreenLeaf's rented property outlined in green in the bottom right.
An Annex plant that turns vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel won permission to expand its industrial waterfront operations — with a plea from City Plan Commissioners to do its best to swap out asphalt with concrete when possible to minimize its impact on a warming planet.
Continue reading ‘Biodiesel Expansion OK'd Amid Asphalt Concern’
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:30 pm | Comments (7)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Panayotakis and Chief of Staff Sean Grace at new round table.
Out went the plush purple couch in the mayor’s office. In came a round table with four chairs and a Purell centerpiece.
by | Jan 19, 2022 2:34 pm | Comments (4)
The feds are all in.
Continue reading ‘Feds Come Through With $160M For Coastal Climate-Change Plan’
by | Jan 17, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (5)
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Construction site.
A crew is pulling up asphalt from a dead end as part of the next phase of constructing the Mill River Trail.
Continue reading ‘Work Begins On Third Phase Of Mill River Trail’
by | Jan 7, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Martin Ramos: "Go for a straight line in the fluffiest spot."
Local 424 Union Prez Dave Lawlor at public works HQ after an early morning driving a snow plow through Westville: "We'll get the job done."
Martin Ramos aimed for the fluffiest looking spot of snow he could find and dug in — as he, along with New Haveners across the city, spent their morning shoveling their way out of a heavier-than-expected first snowstorm of the new year.
by | Jan 7, 2022 12:00 pm | Comments (8)
ISO New England's control room.
Franklyn Reynolds sees a green wind blowing our way — and he hopes to harness it to tackle climate change.
Continue reading ‘Note To Prez Joe: Help Us Pilot Green Hydrogen’
by | Dec 23, 2021 3:28 pm | Comments (1)
1959 Lutheran church located at 3860 Whitney now sold to "Church of Christ LLC."
Northern Hamden will see three acres of previously private woods preserved and opened to the public — as well as a currently confidential congregation emerge within a 60-year-old church — in 2022.
Those are two upcoming developments described by sellers, buyers, donors, and donees in Hamden’s latest series of property transactions. (Check out the chart lower down in this story to see sales filed in the past week.)
Continue reading ‘Hamden Real Estate Roundup: Open Space Preserved, Churches Merged’
by | Dec 15, 2021 4:21 pm | Comments (21)
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Airport bound: Boarding the 206 Wednesday on Chapel Street.
Here’s the secret code to getting to the airport: As you board the 206, tell the bus driver you’re heading to Tweed, so he’ll know to make an extra stop.