Ethel Berger, Jeanette Sykes, and Robyn Porter divvy up streets.
Sadie Flowers has seen her block of Hazel Street address crime and grow more peaceful as community connections tightened.
“We don’t want to go back,” Flowers, who has lived on the street for 35 years, said as she signed a petition against the APT Foundation’s plans to move offices and a methadone clinic nearby on Dixwell Avenue.
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Governor Ned Lamont.
In a bright hallway of the recently abated Catholic Charities Child Development Center, Gov. Ned Lamont gathered with city leaders Thursday to urge the state legislature to bring statewide lead enforcement standards up to New Haven’s level.
New Haveners can see each other smile inside a store or office again without breaking the law starting on March 7, as city officials announced an upcoming partial end to an indoor mask mandate.
Two incarcerated individuals died and one correctional officer was revived with Narcan Thursday after suspected fentanyl overdoses at the Whalley Avenue jail.
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High Bazaar: On hold for now.
Hamden’s “High Bazaars” will most likely be postponed for at least another week while the town establishes a clearer pathway to keep the large-scale cannabis jamborees safe, secure and compliant.
Health Director Bond: Pressed to hire candidate she didn't want.
The city plans to offer the vacant public health nursing director job to a candidate the city’s health director does not think is best for the role — after the Civil Service Commission, in a divided vote, forced the issue.
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Feb 22, 2022 1:47 pm
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Dalal: Take time to do it right.
The start date for a pilot program of the Elicker Administration’s non-cop emergency response initiative has been pushed back yet again — as the city looks to sign on a subcontractor to train, employ, and supervise social workers and mental-health professionals to respond to certain 911 calls.
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Feb 19, 2022 10:50 am
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Hamden's High Bazaar crew inside the Cellar On Treadwell: Saturday's event has been canceled, as announced via Facebook.
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High Bazaar is taking an indefinite hiatus, as the lead organizer of Hamden’s weekly commercial cannabis parties canceled Saturday’s event while he seeks “proper permitting” from town government.
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Feb 17, 2022 5:20 pm
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Mayor Elicker (right) with Health Director Bond and social services director Dalal on Thursday.
Only 19 out of 625 people who received mishandled Covid-19 vaccines from New Haven’s health department have returned to the city’s clinic for do-over shots so far, city officials reported Thursday afternoon as they defended their handling of the screw-up.
The update, explanation, and defense took place at a press conference held by the entrance to the city health department at 54 Meadow St.
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Feb 16, 2022 5:03 pm
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Attorneys Michael Keane and John Martin, with Dr. Steven Murphy outside federal court Wednesday.
A pandemic “profiteer” — or was it a pandemic hero? — sought justice Wednesday from the greed of cold-hearted faceless insurers … or were they his victims?
Judge Janet Bond Arterton will have to sort all that out after hearing arguments Wednesday involving the latest adventures of Dr. Steven Murphy.
The question at hand: Should doctors — even those criticized as pandemic hustlers — be allowed to sue insurance companies that balk at reimbursing them for the alleged costs of Covid tests?
Even as Covid cases drop across the city and state, Yale has seen an “unprecedented number of undergraduates” test positive for the novel coronavirus — largely because of unmasked on- and off-campus parties.
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Feb 15, 2022 10:16 am
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Do-over Central: Outside 54 Meadow St. vax clinic.
Shaquan Browne thought he was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as he prepared to head back to his home country of Guyana later this week.
Then he got a call from the city health department, letting him know that there was a problem with the last vaccine dose he received — and that he needed to come back to the clinic for another shot in the arm.
Mayor Elicker: 100s need new shots because of storage snafu.
The Elicker Administration is now recommending that some 650 people get re-vaccinated against Covid-19 because the previous doses they received from the city had been improperly stored.
Mayor Justin Elicker and Health Director Maritza Bond revealed that information Friday at a 4 p.m. press conference, and in a follow-up email press release sent out after 11 p.m.
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Feb 3, 2022 9:00 am
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Travel nurse Coltan Jacobson at YNHH: Plans change; staying in town.
Coltan Jacobson drove 22 hours from Minnesota to New Haven to take care of Covid-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital. Soon after he arrived, he got Covid.
Even in 12 weeks, Connecticut can find a way to enable more people get mental-health help.
So proclaimed State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, who vowed to work with his colleagues to pass legislation to that effect during the “short session” that begins at the Capitol on Feb. 9.
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Jan 31, 2022 3:09 pm
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As a blizzard’s worth of snow melts into Lake Whitney, a 160-year-old dam is keeping Hamden and New Haven safe from flooding — and a host of politicians and Regional Water Authority employees are working to keep the historic dam safe from collapsing.
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Jan 27, 2022 8:50 am
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Kim Harris and Barbara Vereen speak out against the APT Foundation's planned move to Newhallville.
Four hundred and fifty people have signed their names in opposition to a methadone clinic’s planned move to Newhallville, with organizers just getting started.
Paras union leader Hyclis Williams: Double standard seen.
Classroom aides say they’re getting the raw end of the stick — being told to quarantine at home but not necessarily getting paid for the time, unlike teachers.
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Trevor Cadhey: When is mental health day not "skipping school?"
Hamden High Freshman Trevor Cadhey knows he’s allowed to take up to two “mental health days” off from school this year, but he isn’t sure under what circumstances he should use them.
School staffers and Board of Education members are grappling with the same question facing Cadhey and his peers — what is a mental health day? — while determining how to translate new state legislation concerning kids’ psychological health into district policy.
