by | Dec 4, 2020 3:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Volunteers clearing the Mill River Trail.
It’s easier to clean up rivers in rural and suburban settings than in a busy city, given obstacles like accessibility and private property interests.
Meanwhile, urban waterways like our Mill River have received less clean-up funding than they need and deserve.
Continue reading ‘$100K On Horizon For Mill River Clean-Up Projects’
by | Dec 3, 2020 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Speaking out at hearing: supporters Lauryn Kearney and Frank Warrecke (top and bottom left), opponent Crystal Ayala (right).
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Crystal Ayala looked out from her Fairmont Avenue home and warned of odors, rodents, and plummeting property values if the city allows an Annex transfer station to collect suburban wet trash.
Lauryn Kearney looked at that same plant — and described it as one of the city’s “cleanest facilities,” a dedicated employer that deserves to expand.
by | Dec 1, 2020 2:54 pm | Comments (17)
From action to enaction: Task force members Kiana Flores, Latha Swamy,
Sixteen citizens will help New Haven figure out how to end community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2030.
by | Nov 25, 2020 1:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Paradise lot on Nov. 4.
Illegal dumpers with years of violations failed again to win government permission to clean a mess they made for their neighbors.
by | Nov 23, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (15)
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Ex-factory slated for demolition.
The final remains of the old Winchester Arms factory — a now-rotting building that reeks of oil on a hot summer’s day — is slated to be replaced with a new mixed-use apartment complex.
Dixwell residents pressed a redevelopment team on whether they and their neighbors will be welcomed there.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Presses Rebuilders On Rents, Jobs’
by | Nov 23, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
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“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the unnamed trail,” Deamonte Godley announced to a group of 15 at a trailhead just off Wayfarer Street near the Westville Manor complex.
Continue reading ‘Solar Youth Blaze Trail In West Rock’s Woods’
by | Nov 20, 2020 4:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Wilkins Guadalupe helped elm trees launch a second shot at surviving in the Elm City.
In the process, he was embarking on his own second-chance survival quest.
by | Nov 19, 2020 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Ra Hashim and crew plant on Fairmont.
Seven green-thumbed colleagues from across the city — and the state, country, and world, for that matter — gathered in the Annex on a frigid fall morning with one shared goal: To beautify a concrete stretch of Fairmont Avenue with seven newly planted trees.
by | Nov 19, 2020 2:12 pm | Comments (6)
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Murphy’s Wheeler St. site: ready to expand?
A years-long fight over proposed expansion of an Annex waste-transfer station sparked a three-hour land-use debate — pitting a defense of jobs and corporate responsibility against warnings of malodors, vermin, a polluted river, and plummeting property values.
by | Nov 19, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (9)
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A protest sign opposing the Kensington Playground sale.
New Haven’s mayor joined a national coalition seeking more money for urban parks — while a group seeking to save an urban park in his backyard sued the city for selling it.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Joins Parks Group, As (Another) Parks Group Sues City’
by | Nov 18, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (3)
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At work in Dixwell: Mullins, Hashim, Tisdale, Hopkinson, Neary, Scanlan.
Ash trees are dying in New Haven. On Frances Hunter Drive, a new tree took root.
by | Nov 18, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (1)
William Ruiz, of New Haven’s new coffee roasting company, Bequest Coffee Roasters, knows and understands the power of a good cup of coffee powered by good beans. A graduate of Collab + CitySeed’s Food Business Accelerator program, Ruiz has opened Bequest online first, and is ready to deliver good beans to the people of New Haven and beyond.
For once, there’s a good thing to keep us awake at night.
by | Nov 17, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (6)
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Crew member Ra Hashim steadies Hallock Street’s newest tree.
William Tisdale and the rest of his team hauled concrete slabs onto their work truck, opening a rectangle of ground wide enough for a 300-pound hawthorn sapling.
On a street without many trees, they found space between the curb and the sidewalk to make room for new life to grow.
by | Nov 16, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Holiday spirit uprooted Monday on the Green.
As the pandemic ramps up again, apparently even the weather wasn’t feeling the holiday spirit — as a storm toppled the city Christmas Tree on the Green.
by | Nov 11, 2020 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Nicole Davis amid the dumped mess to be cleared for a pocket park.
A community dumping ground in Fair Haven is poised to become a greenspace full of bio-retention features and fun and environmental education for neighborhood kids
by | Nov 5, 2020 11:37 am | Comments (6)
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The state has tentatively sided with an Annex waste-processing facility owner’s expansion quest.
Mayor Justin Elicker weighed in on the side of neighbors who oppose it out of fears that the air would get even dirtier in what is already one of the state’s most intensive asthma clusters.
Continue reading ‘Trash-Processing Plant Plan Wins Temporary State Approval; Elicker Vows Fight’
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:33 am | Comments (3)
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East mural aimed at supporting local green initiatives.
I mailed my absentee ballot today, and I almost missed it. I was so focused on the people I wanted to vote for — and certain people I wanted to vote against — that I almost missed the block of text on the right-hand side of the ballot:
“Shall Congress prepare for health and climate crises by transferring funds from the military budget to cities for human needs, jobs and an environmentally sustainable economy?”
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Vote “Yes” To Move Military Money To New Haven’
by | Oct 13, 2020 4:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Trimming a tomato plant at a Goffe Street community garden.
The city has been awarded two federal food grants worth a total of $590,000, which will be used to develop a local urban agriculture master plan and build out a citywide community composting program.
by | Oct 12, 2020 9:42 am | Comments (12)
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The newly vacant parcel, next to the office building at 89 Shelton.
A dilapidated former nuclear factory building has been taken apart piece by piece, and hundreds of containers of asbestos, lead dust, and uranium-contaminated debris have been trucked out of Newhallville — clearing a Shelton Avenue brownfield for a new use after decades of toxic disrepair.
The question now is: What will fill that space next?
by | Oct 7, 2020 1:40 pm | Comments (5)
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The full group.
A Tree of Life was planted in the shadow of West Rock to honor New Haveners killed by gun violence.
Continue reading ‘Tree of Life Planted At Homicide Memorial’
by | Oct 1, 2020 11:44 am | Comments (32)
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Dwight neighbors gather in Kensington Park to testify at virtual hearing against land swap for new apartments (below).
The Community Builders, Inc.
City plans to trade Kensington Playground for 15 new affordable apartments won a key aldermanic approval — but not before over a dozen Dwight neighbors gathered in the public greenspace to voice their live-streamed, virtual opposition to replacing urban parkland with housing.
by | Sep 28, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (3)
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Colorful fish, tadpoles, and other marine life took over the intersection of Quinnipiac Avenue and Hemingway Street Saturday, thanks to 30 volunteers who painted an environmental awareness project that also aimed to calm traffic.
by | Sep 26, 2020 8:45 pm | Comments (13)
One year after hundreds of New Haveners marched on the Green Friday to demand action on climate change, new and returning protestors gathered Friday evening to make a renewed statement
Continue reading ‘Teens Lead “Wake Up New Haven!” Climate March’
by | Sep 25, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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A backhoe at Paradise Landscaping in September.
The Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission spent nearly three hours heaping a pile of ire almost as deep as the rocks and dirt at 82 – 92 Crestway on Rus Boyarsky and his illegal landscaping operation.
Then it stalled his only path forward with the town for another month.
Continue reading ‘“Paradise” Remediation Stalled, As Politically Connected Scofflaw Hits A Wall’
by | Sep 25, 2020 9:21 am | Comments (2)
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New Haveners, take heart: our poop indicates that citywide Covid-19 infections are stable, at least for now.