Co-Op students Shay, 14, and Shianna, 13, on their way back home to Fair Haven after Sep. 6's early dismissal.
After high heat and broken air conditioning systems sent students home early two days in a row last week, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Superintendent Madeline Negrón has established an “extreme temperature protocol” that considers closing school buildings if classrooms get above 80 degrees.
Next up, she plans to put together a long-awaited district preventative maintenance program.
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Sep 6, 2023 2:33 pm
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Svetlana Frazeur and Lenochka, heading home early on Grand.
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Co-Op students Shay, 14, and Shianna, 13, on their way back home to Fair Haven.
Svetlana Frazeur had to pick up her daughter Lenochka from Pre‑K at Fair Haven School at noon on Wednesday — before rushing off to retrieve her son from Benjamin Jepson School, before rushing off to her 1 p.m. shift at an ALDI’s grocery store — as early dismissals due to high heat and broken air conditioning systems shuttered schools citywide.
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Aug 25, 2023 5:10 pm
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The English Station power plant, hidden behind graffiti, back in May.
United Illuminating will have to pay up for breaking a promise to remediate a Fair Haven power plant after state utility regulators formally accused the company of mismanaging English Station — and of failing to prioritize New Haven residents over profit.
ClimateHaven CEO Ryan Dings: “We’re an incubator, accelerator, and a convenor.”
Yale post-doc Wangbiao Guo has just received a patent for a multi-stage system that captures carbon from the air by the use of algae.
All he needs for the next step is about $500,000 to finance a pilot/prototype to begin to take the product to market — and that’s why he was enjoying an American Snappy Lager Thursday night over at 770 Chapel St.
Climate change has emerged as a defining issue in a Morris Cove alder race, as a six-term incumbent focused on nuts-and-bolts environmental upkeep faces a challenge from an activist determined to stop an expanding airport.
Brennan, in front of supporters, in front of "climate hero" parking lot.
One of the keys to curbing local carbon emissions amid an ever-worsening climate crisis might just lie in a Newhallville parking lot on Albertus Magnus College’s campus.
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Aug 23, 2023 8:20 am
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Adam Matlock.
Adam Matlock, executive director of the nonprofit Winnett Food Forest in Hamden, was moving from garden bed to garden bed with an empty bin. Soon, that bin and another one like it would be filled with fresh greens and a few tomatoes — part of the week’s harvest from a new approach to growing food that leans hard on community and sustainability.
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A seemingly new fence — and new graffiti — at English Station.
A state utility regulator cited growing graffiti and revolving project management as reasons to doubt United Illuminating’s (UI) promise to fix up a long-abandoned and toxic power plant — and as reason to fine the company over $1 million annually until the regional power company follows through on the remediation.
UI, in turn, has shot back against that proposed financial penalty, denying claims of mismanagement, refusing accountability for any vandalism of the site, and accusing the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) of violating due process.
Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
Journalist, documentary filmmaker, and musician Lindsay Skedgell wants to hear about it all. She’s starting a new journal called Heel and Hive that “explores the environmental and climate landscape of our times, our relationships to nature and ecology” — focusing on the region we live in.
Digging holes and planting flowers in the peanut on Friday.
Crackling thunder and a downpour of rain didn’t stop roughly 15 Westville neighbors from venturing outside Friday morning on a traffic-calming-infrastructure-beautification effort.
Every single school day, New Haven’s 314 school buses spew out pollution fouling our air, increase the risk of asthma and even cancer to students and drivers, and exacerbate global warming.
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Jul 7, 2023 1:21 pm
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The Yale Golf Course: 800 trees coming down, 2,000 going up?
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Alders Festa, Punzo, Ficklin, and Miller at Thursday's CSEP meeting.
Yale plans to cut down roughly 800 trees at the university’s Upper Westville golf course, and plant another 2,000 in their stead, in order to create more grassy space for hitting the links — prompting pushback from neighbors and local environmentalists about the potential harms of felling so much wood.
A 2022 New Haven Climate Movement “Stop Climate Freefall” rally.
Young climate activists are calling again for the Board of Education to set aside funds for free bus passes for students to help New Haven’s public school district reduce air pollution and make it easier for students to get to and from school.
Smokey skies overhead at Orange and Elm at 1:30 p.m.
The smoke from Canadian wildfires has plunged New Haven’s air quality to dangerous levels again, prompting the mayor to warn “sensitive groups” like older adults, pregnant women, children, and those with asthma to take extra caution.
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Jun 30, 2023 9:15 am
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After decades of stasis, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Olin Corporation have taken the first steps toward remediating the Powder Farm in southern Hamden, with an eye to transforming the over 100-acre parcel of land from environmental hazard to forested public park. But there’s still a long road ahead.
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Jun 23, 2023 11:05 am
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Long Wharf Responsible Growth Plan vision of city's waterfront to-be.
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City Plan Director Laura Brown on Thursday.
Glass-fronted first-floor retail spaces to create walkable neighborhoods and protect upper-level housing from floods. Density bonuses that encourage residential builds similar to apartment developments downtown. Street designs that calm traffic and create enough space on sidewalks for pedestrians and, say, outdoor seating for restaurants.
Those are just a few of the goals and anticipated land-use standards to be included in the city’s proposed new zoning regulations for the Long Wharf district, which top city officials unveiled in the latest effort to encourage “responsible growth” in New Haven’s mostly industrial waterfront.
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Jun 23, 2023 10:39 am
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Butler Street in Southern Hamden.
Since I was a small child, I have thought about the lack of access to open space in the Newhall community. Southern Hamden is, for the most part, overdeveloped with the exception of a few spots of green spaces. There are just a few places where someone could sit under a tree and get respite from the sun.
But what if there was a 102.5‑acre oasis sitting in our backyard? What if the long-dormant “Powder Farm” became a public space with walking paths?
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Jun 22, 2023 1:28 pm
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FEMA Flood Hazard Information map; areas of 1 percent annual chance flood hazard shaded in blue.
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City Plan Director Laura Brown: "The closeness of water that makes the city vulnerable also makes it desirable."
Rising sea levels. More hurricanes. More intense rainstorms. As a coastal city, New Haven has had to think about all that water more than many other places in the country, especially when that water has ended up submerging its streets.
This has resulted, recently, in greater coordination with neighboring towns and state and federal agencies. It has also made waves in a few of the city’s development projects — most notably Long Wharf and Tweed — as the city balances its immediate economic needs against the coming climate challenges.
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Jun 21, 2023 12:39 pm
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City climate czar Steve Winter: e-bikes are a "big step to fill gaps in our transit system"
Eco-minded New Haveners looking to get out of their cars and onto two battery-assisted wheels will soon be able to apply for up to $1,500 in state-subsidized vouchers to help cover the costs of purchasing a new electric bicycle.
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Jun 16, 2023 10:56 am
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Jamila Hokanson, Sasha Lehrer, Jordan Sloshower, Damian Paglia, Stephanie Kilpatrick, in West Rock Wellness's art gallery.
A team of clinicians and wellness instructors has opened a new mental health center in Westville, offering everything from psychotherapy to mind-body medicine to ketamine-assisted psychedelic therapies.
This panoply of offerings is unified by their greater aim to create connection and community.
Kishaun Jenkins: Celebrating "the coolest spot to be."
A Boston-based affordable housing developer has dropped its plans to buy a Kensington Street public park and construct 15 new apartments in its stead — prompting the Elicker administration to move to end a related years-long lawsuit on the grounds that the contested public greenspace will remain public and green.
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Jun 14, 2023 3:19 pm
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DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes at Wednesday's Edgewood Park press conference.
John Cavaliere saw reason Wednesday to hope that water won’t stream into Lyric Hall in future rainstorms, now that state money is on the way to plan how to protect the heart of Westville from future floods.
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Jun 14, 2023 11:14 am
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2019 model New England Golf Cars cart: Gas for now, electric soon?
Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.
