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May 3, 2021 3:55 pm
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Hole caused by July 2020 sewer main collapse on Whitney Ave.
Who — or what — caused 2.1 million gallons of sewage to spill into the Mill River last summer?
Was it sulfuric acid? Deferred maintenance? Old and neglected pipes? Or was it an unavoidable, if unfortunate, accident — for which the regional sewer authority should not be blamed or penalized?
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May 3, 2021 9:21 am
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Students Sindau picking up trash around Long Wharf Park.
Fifty middle and high school students descended on Long Wharf Park Sunday for a trash cleanup organized by 19-year-old Gabriela Garcia-Perez, a current first-year University of New Haven student.
Trailbazer Team uses hedge shears to officially open trail.
Solar Youth’s Trailblazers celebrated Earth Day by cutting the official opening ribbon on a new trail that connects West Rock’s Westville Manor and Rockview developments.
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Apr 23, 2021 9:56 am
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Freddy B channels John Lennon’s classic with Earth Day demosntrators.
At the direction of local musician Freddy B, New Haveners marked Earth Day by singing, clapping and waving posters to the chorus of the anti-war classic “Give Peace A Chance.”
Top city attorney Pat King: City working through 450 active cases.
The city appears on the brink of settling a lead paint lawsuit, while preparing to argue who has the right to sue whom over the fate of a Dwight playground and a retired fire union president’s pension.
DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes: We need nature-based climate change solutions.
More trees planted in the Hill. Less pollution in the West River.
These are some of the ideas for what to do with $1 million now available from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a longtime cap-and-invest program for power plants in the northeast.
Israel Estrada, Linda Neaton, Juel Crawford, Jenni Butman, Sarah Moore gather in neighbor’s yard.
A backyard cleanup at a homebound elderly woman’s yard served as a good deed, a “vaccination celebration,” and a reminder of community for volunteers ready to emerge from pandemic isolation.
One of three PurpleAir sensors set up to monitor air.
Three small, white domes will soon be able to tell Dwight neighbors exactly how much pollution is floating around their neighborhood as they brace for an influx of up to 1,000 new cars a day.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 14, 2021 10:25 am
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The Board of Alders City Services and Environmental Policy Committee’s Tuesday night virtual hearing.
In a unanimous vote, the Board of Alders City Services and Environmental Policy Committee Tuesday night advanced a proposal to have city government convert all its buildings and vehicles to electric power.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Apr 12, 2021 1:55 pm
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Volunteers outside John C. Daniels School.
Cigarette butts, bottle caps, plastic wrappers, and needles disappeared throughout the Hill as part of a spring cleaning event that took place at four locations in the neighborhood Saturday.
Frank D’Amore documents construction piles on Pardee Street.
City inspectors conducting New Haven’s latest “clean and safe neighborhood sweep” Thursday came across the Annex’s potential next illegal junkyards — and took steps to prevent them.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 7, 2021 10:20 am
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First row, left to right: Alders Charles Decker, Abigail Roth at Tuesday night’s hearing.
Second row: Alders Adam Marchand, Rosa Ferraro-Santana, Richard Furlow.
Third row: Alders Frank Douglass, Eli Sabin, Jeanette L. Morrison.
A proposal aimed at limiting pre-dawn noise from downtown garbage collection met with general support from alders, but not yet a vote to advance it.
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Courtney Luciana |
Apr 6, 2021 3:35 pm
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Richard Watkins (at right) with fellow crew members Tuesday morning.
Two serviceberry trees went up Tuesday in Bill and Kate Washington’s front yard — marking the start of another season in New Haven of planting new life not only in the earth, but among people returning home from prison.
Fewer people will step on needles. Fewer kids will be picking them up. And drug users may find a phone number to get life-saving help to save their lives.
That’s the idea behind a plan to bring secure syringe disposal kiosks to New Haven streets.
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Courtney Luciana |
Apr 5, 2021 9:56 am
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Organizers and participants at Saturday’s basket giveaway with top neighborhood cop Lt. John Healy (second from right.)
Friends of Kensington Playground and Upon This Rock Ministries distributed 45 Easter baskets and 30 bags filled of canned goods to Dwight residents on Saturday.
The giveaway was a part of Friends of Kensington Playground’s ongoing mission to save the pocket park on Kensington after the city sold the property to The Community Builders, INC. (TCB) to build affordable housing.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 31, 2021 6:03 pm
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Local climate activists outside City Hall in 2019.
The city plans to spend $60,000 on a new sustainability-focused staffer.
Local climate activists are pushing city government to dedicate $1.1 million to promote reduced emissions, clean energy jobs, and climate education.
And a state legislative committee advanced a regional climate and transportation accord that could see hundreds of millions of dollars spent over the next decade on cleaner public transportation in air-polluted communities like New Haven.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 31, 2021 1:47 pm
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CT WFP Senior Organizer Luis Luna: Now is time for transformative action.
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8 pillars of the THRIVE agenda.
With the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in the rearview and a nationwide debate over a $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill about to start, labor activists have launched a campaign to pressure the federal government to keep spending big — this time with a focus on jobs and the climate crisis.
Diesel buses, be gone? TCI seeks electrifying impact.
New Haven is the 11th most dangerous city in the country when it comes to asthma rates, asthma-induced emergency department visits, and asthma-related fatalities.
A new regional initiative touted by local and state advocates seeks to curb that urban air quality harm by capping greenhouse gas emissions and investing in more sidewalks, bike lanes, and electric buses — a move opponents say will only hurt Connecticut residents in the form of a higher gas tax.
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Courtney Luciana |
Mar 23, 2021 4:49 pm
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Firefighters Hector Torres and David Tortora decontaminating cars.
Jim Fitzmaurice: I know that the property is contaminated, but my grandfather ran for this place for so many years while they knew it was contaminated and nobody said anything.”
Russell Street family now has a legal, and a physical, mess to clean up if it wants to hold onto its property.
