All aboard one of the many new flights leaving from Tweed.
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Tweed Director Tom Rafter: "There's a number of different ways this could go."
It’s time to wait and see what the feds decide.
Tweed New Haven Airport Authority Executive Director Tom Rafter urged that patience and provided other process updates as he told a crowd of roughly 100 people at a contentious annual meeting that federal regulators should weigh in later this summer on the potential environmental impacts of the Morris Cove airport’s planned expansion.
Wildfire smoke still hovering over downtown Wednesday.
Update: The municipal office building at 200 Orange St. will be open from Wednesday at 6 p.m. through Thursday at 7 a.m. as a city-designated “area of refuge” for people needing a place to be indoors to escape the poor air quality, according to city spokesperson Lenny Speiller. On Thursday, all five city libraries will serve as areas of refuge during their normal business hours.
You might want to dust off that pandemic-era N‑95 mask — as New Haven’s air quality remains dangerously unhealthy for the second day in a row thanks the smoke of still-raging Canadian wildfires.
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Environmental advocate Aaron Goode, of the New Haven Bioregional Group was grateful the weather had held out Sunday evening for a group of about a dozen hikers to explore Sandy Point, which he called “one of the unique, special places in the bioregion.” It was also, as it turned out, a place where one could see New Haven and West Haven grappling with climate change and environmental stability nearly in real time.
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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Neil Geist with local oysters in hand and a fleet of student-built sharpies behind.
Freshmen Alex Spruill and Dan Lopez, who worked two months on restoring Tenacious's decking.
As a student at the Sound School in the 1980s, Neil Geist helped to build a full-size model of the historic New Haven oyster boat, a 35-foot sharpie called Tenacious.
The Tenacious was so perfect and sailed so well the folks at Mystic Aquarium wanted to exhibit her. But the sea gods were not as protective on land. En route the boat slipped off the trailer, on I‑95, and broke in half.
ESUMS junior Leah Mock gives the board a D for its work on reducing waste.
Class was in session for the Board of Education, and the assignment was to help save the earth.
A report card handed out by student-graders about the school board’s work on energy efficiency, reducing food waste and transportation emissions, and investing in a healthy and sustainable future looked pretty bleak: three C’s, one D, and an F.
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May 25, 2023 1:16 pm
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Now-retired ex-public works head Jeff Pescosolido.
Long-time city servant and public works director Jeff Pescosolido has stepped down, leaving Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Rebecca Bombero to fill his post until the Elicker administration finds a permanent replacement.
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Ella May with her food share cart capstone project.
Sound School senior Ella May is on a mission to help her school cut back on food waste — with the help of a cart and a nudge to her peers to place their uneaten, unopened foods on a share “table” in the cafeteria.
"Mass timber" apartments underway at Dixwell-Munson-Orchard.
Beulah's Darrel Brooks (right) celebrating the ongoing development with his father, and faith-based developer visionary, Theodore.
As a crane lowered wood panels made from Central European trees, officials celebrated 69 new “mass timber” apartments taking root in a long vacant lot — and envisioned a construction-industry revolution where carbon-capturing materials can be grown and processed closer to home.
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May 11, 2023 10:44 am
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Sixth graders Tiranke Keita, Grace Sherman, and Issac Oliver in Barnard's garden bed.
Barnard sixth grader Tiranke Keita dug a hole in the bed of her school’s garden, Grace Sherman filled it in with a handful of rich compost, and Issac Oliver nestled in a starter plant of lettuce — kicking off the Derby Avenue PreK‑8 school’s latest effort in hands-on, hands-in-the-dirt learning.
Digging up "worms" at Reggie Mayo school's new garden.
The romaine, zucchini, and radishes were going in, along with bright orange marigolds.
So were plastic “squooshies” of worms, lime-green butterflies, black-dotted ladybugs, and other creatures that pre-schoolers can now bury in the dirt and then dig up, not months hence at harvest time, but within seconds, and then call out a loud “surprise” at the remarkable re-finding of the object.
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Armory Community Garden founder Nadine Horton on Saturday.
Seven years ago and displaced from their long-time site on Carmel Street, Whalley/Beaver Hills community activist Nadine Horton and her gardening friends went looking for a new dirt-and-greens home.
When she came upon a narrow rectangular plot of overgrown grass, half a block long, tucked between the New Haven Correctional Center and the Armory, she fell in love — with a place, a symbol, and a possibility.
Medina, now getting ready to leave Peels & Wheels' longtime composting home at Phoenix Press in Fair Haven.
A Facebook farewell.
“Now I feel I’m more like a waste hauler than a visionary composter,” said New Haven’s pioneering organic-scraps-repurposer and eco-idealist Domingo Medina.
That’s because Medina now has to find a new place to make mulch thanks to the pending sale of the Fair Haven farm site that he and his pedal-powered composting colleagues have long called home.
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Pastor Wilkins with city climate czar Steve Winter (right) at Thursday's presser.
Solar panels powering Wilkins' Westville home.
Want to save roughly $900 a year on your electricity bill while also doing your part to wean off of planet-destroying fossil fuels?
There’s a solar panel for that — and a new city-backed campaign to get more such sun-powered equipment on the roofs of New Haven homeowners and landlords, with the help of a New Orleans-based company that promises energy cost savings through long-term solar panel leases.
Marta Quinones loading up rescued food from Haven's Harvest.
Sister Luisa Villegas stopped at a Peck Street food rescue operation to fill her Toyota up with bags of avocados and several gallons of milk to help make sure that Fair Haven immigrants don’t go hungry — and that excess food doesn’t end up in a landfill.
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The Trelleborg plant at 30 Lenox St.
A fabric-coating chemical manufacturer on Lenox Street has been fined over $305,000 for allegedly violating a federal air-pollution law — and must now clean up its act, or shut down entirely, by this summer.
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Save The Sound's Roger Reynolds joins enviro allies in lamenting the still-polluted state of English Station (pictured above).
Local environmental advocates gathered in front of a graffiti-laden gate cutting off the contaminated former English Station power plant from the public — and lauded a recent move by the state’s attorney general pushing United Illuminating to finish cleaning up the site or pay a $2 million annual penalty.
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Larry and Taylor King, ready to ride, even in the rain.
Staying not-dry-at-all on Valley St.
A cold spring morning downpour couldn’t keep father-son cycling duo Larry and Taylor King from riding for a good cause — to raise money to help keep their home city green, sure, but also to spend some quality family time outdoors and on two wheels, rain or shine.
Jemar, Jessica Marie, and Jebrell, the children of late teacher Marites Siervo, water a tree planted in their mom's memory.
Riverside Academy senior Davon Hardgrove shoveled dirt over the roots of a Zelkova tree planted in memory of a late principal who led his school through tough times — and pledged to continue her legacy of community service throughout his own life.
Joshua De Anda knelt to pull weeds amid a forest of oak trees — that towered, for now, barely above his knees.
In the process he has been helping his city and his country figure out how to enable the “king of trees” to thrive again and truly tower in its indigenous habitats.
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(l-r)Edward Dunar, Lee Osorio, Molly Johnson, Steve Winter, Chris Schweitzer
Imagine this: a completely electrified municipal vehicular fleet – all 600 cars and trucks; replacement of hugely polluting oil burners with high efficiency heat pumps in many of the poor homes that most need low cost and healthier energy; and the green day when composting kitchen scraps will be as routine and revenue-producing as recycling.
URI's Micael Freiburger and EMERGE's Michael Byrd set tree into its new home Monday afternoon.
Gov. Ned Lamont watched a linden tree take root on Asylum Street, and promised to help New Haven plant more shade in its heat-hampered “environmental injustice neighborhoods.”
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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
