by | Aug 6, 2020 7:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Justin Elicker.
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked more power out of more New Haven homes than Hurricane Sandy, forcing the city Thursday to do triage — or tree-age — to get streets cleared.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Urges Patience During Post-Storm Clean-Up Tree-age’
by | Aug 6, 2020 7:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Vibrant fish, turtles, and other water critters have been popping up out of storm drains across New Haven this summer, reminding New Haveners to keep their trash away from the drains.
The last batch of these “runoff art” creatures came to life on Thursday in front of the Christopher Columbus Family Academy at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fillmore Street.
Continue reading ‘Storm Drain Creatures Emerge on Grand Avenue’
by | Aug 6, 2020 1:26 pm | Comments (4)
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Jose Dishmey Jr., Tyrese Yates, Caroline Scanlan, Steve Outlaw, and Adrian Huq.
Adrian Huq never got the opportunity to hug their friends or say goodbye to their teachers upon graduating this past June. It took a few days for it to hit that they would never be returning to school after students were forced to make a hasty departure from the campus when the public health situation worsened in the Spring.
Continue reading ‘First Tree Planted to Honor 2020 Graduates’
by | Aug 5, 2020 6:59 pm | Comments (16)
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A toppled tree on Lombard Street. Below: City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt clears the wreckage.
Police headquarters’ servers: Too hot to work.
City officials Wednesday surveyed the widespread damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and cautioned that it may take a week or longer for all of the 8,000-plus local homes still without electricity to regain power.
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Bobby Sullivan at work on Putnam Avenue.
At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, a branch was still completely blocking the westbound lane of Putnam Avenue.
by | Aug 5, 2020 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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Wambolt on the job Wednesday on Prospect Street.
City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt heaved a limb up and tossed it into the pile next to the yellow payloader. The rustling pile of wood and leaves was all that was left of a tree that had blocked almost two lanes of traffic on Prospect Street.
Prospect’s felled giant was one of over 200 trees broken and blown by Tropical Storm Isaias on Tuesday. And it was one more tree cleared from Wambolt and crew’s to-do list for Wednesday.
by | Aug 4, 2020 9:23 pm | Comments (8)
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Navigating post-storm Orange Street near East Rock.
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Power out at home, Shayna Reeves, Madison Dortche and Lawrence Grayson feed the the Edgewood Park ducks after the storm.
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Lynwood Place.
New Haven emerged from shuttered homes in the last hours of daylight Tuesday to survey the wreckage wrought by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and to begin the work of cleaning up.
Crews will be busy on Wednesday.
Continue reading ‘Isaias Socks City; Close To 20% Lose Power; Trees Toppled; Clean-Up Begins’
by | Aug 4, 2020 4:36 pm | Comments (1)
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A house with bad luck, and a tree with worse luck, on Treadwell Street.
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, about 34 percent of Hamden was without power as Tropical Storm Isaias tore through a town that has been cursed in the past by severe weather.
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Picnic tables set on school ground to serve as outdoor classrooms.
(Opinion) Very early into discussions about how to reopen schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, we were presented with a choice — either continue distance learning, despite its possibility of worsening achievement gaps, or risk the lives of students and staff by bringing them back into school buildings. But are those really the only two options?
by | Aug 3, 2020 6:16 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven residents should make immediate preparations to keep themselves and their families safe during the incoming Tropical Storm Isaias, Mayor Justin Elicker, Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana, and other city officials advised during a press conference Monday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Braces For Tropical Storm Isaias’
by | Aug 2, 2020 10:01 am | Comments (4)
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Streetlights on Goodrich Street in Hamden.
Light-pollution foes in Hamden are making a last stand now that the town has dropped a bid to buy streetlights from United Illuminating.
Continue reading ‘Streetlight-Sale Advocates Make Last Stand’
by | Jul 30, 2020 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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New Haven students want to learn more about climate change in school. This week, the Board of Education committed to helping them make that happen.
Continue reading ‘Students Win First Step Towards More Climate Education’
by | Jul 28, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (20)
The city still wants you to move your car on street-sweeping day, but it won’t tow to make that happen.
Continue reading ‘City Won’t Tow Anymore For Street Sweeping’
by | Jul 27, 2020 10:04 am | Comments (2)
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In the parking lot behind the Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, members of the New Haven Lions Club teamed up with Barnard Principal Bob McCain for a first-time “Shred Event” fundraiser.
by | Jul 22, 2020 9:37 pm | Comments (17)
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Olive and Wooster greenspace, where sign reads: “Plantings donated by the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team.”
A 40-foot utility support pole has arisen on a flowerbed at the corner of Wooster and Olive streets to help make way for a new 299-apartment complex.
Neighbors aren’t pleased.
by | Jul 15, 2020 4:41 pm | Comments (2)
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Section of UI’s construction plans.
For the next few months, parking around Wooster Square will be tighter than usual thanks to a United Illuminating (UI) construction project that began Monday.
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (21)
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Dead fish floating down the Mill River in East Rock.
The water at Lighthouse Point is safe to swim in again, and the acute crisis of Monday’s two million-gallon sewage spill appears to be mostly over — even if dead fish can still be found floating along the Mill River.
But, local environmentalists cautioned, the threat of more sewage flowing into fresh water remains, thanks to the region’s old and decaying infrastructure and its combined sewers that mix storm runoff and sewage.
Continue reading ‘After Spill, Concerns Turn To Infrastructure’
by | Jul 8, 2020 4:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Alex Amendola: Healthy water starts with healthy forest.
The “whodunit”in the woods by the West River is now a “hedidit.”
by | Jul 8, 2020 1:56 pm | Comments (30)
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Tony Alvarado, with his crab trap, by the Mill River Wednesday.
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Hole caused by sewer main collapse on Whitney Avenue.
Thanks to a corroded sewer pipe, millions of gallons of sewage flowed into the Mill River on Monday, and the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) had to scramble to stop the spill and reroute the sewer while it fixes a collapsed sewer main.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, New Haven officials urged people not to swim or fish in the Mill River or Lighthouse Point Park.
Continue reading ‘Sewer Break Pours 2M Gallons Of Sewage Into River; Swimming, Fishing Discouraged’
by | Jul 2, 2020 3:03 pm | Comments (8)
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A whodunit has arisen in the woods of West Hills.
by | Jun 17, 2020 8:41 pm | Comments (3)
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A trail on the 40-acre Brooksvale extension.
Hikers in Hamden looking for a respite in the woods of Hamden’s Brooksvale Park will soon have about 40 more acres through which to walk on their socially distanced outings.
by | May 29, 2020 9:25 am | Comments (1)
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The zoning district in question covers the border between Downtown and the Hill.
Committee alders gave a unanimous thumbs up to a proposed zoning change designed to pave the way for a greener city.
Continue reading ‘Green Standards For Big Buildings Advance’
by | May 26, 2020 3:43 pm | Comments (3)
Youth climate activist Adrian Huq.
Metropolitan Business Academy senior Adrian Huq came up with an alternative idea for marking graduation in lieu of in-person commencement or good-byes: a parting gift in the form of a class tree.
by | May 26, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (14)
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The tornado of 2018 mostly spared the wooded mountainside next to Dawn Talmadge’s house at the end of Hunting Ridge Road in Hamden, and when she looks north she still sees a thick canopy of oaks and maples.
If a solar developer gets its way, the 15 acres of forest by her house will not be as lucky.
Continue reading ‘Solar Farm Would Clear 15 Acres Of Forest’
by | May 22, 2020 4:52 pm | Comments (3)
Peterkin: “Up for the challenge.”
Two paths led Brent Peterkin to his present challenge — steering New Haven’s green brigades into a new era of equity.