by | Jan 20, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (0)
Viruses are going to do what viruses do – it’s the medical system’s job to figure out how to deal with them.
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by | Jan 17, 2022 10:38 am | Comments (7)
Cars lined on Butler Street for food pickup.
A crew showed up at a Shelton Avenue church not to chant prayers or hear a sermon — but to help a community stay fed and protected during a particularly tough stretch of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jan 14, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (4)
The Covid-19 pandemic ravaged people’s mental health — but may also have opened a door to fix a longstanding mental health problem.
Continue reading ‘Looney's 2022 Priorities: Mental Health, Special Ed’
by and | Jan 14, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (13)
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NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey and Mayor Elicker at Friday's presser.
Five seventh-graders went to the hospital Friday after ingesting THC-laced candy at school, while a half-hour later a paraprofessional at a separate school was arrested for bringing a loaded handgun on the premises.
by | Jan 13, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (20)
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Among those at Wednesday's virtual meeting, clockwise from top left: State Rep. Toni Walker, Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris, State Rep. Robyn Porter, Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith.
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Former Elm City Prep building at 794 Dixwell, now owned by APT.
Newhallville spoke out with a clear voice: It doesn’t want a new methadone clinic in the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Blasts Methadone Clinic Plan’
by | Jan 13, 2022 3:13 pm | Comments (7)
Depressed by all the official statistics showing Omicron surging out of control? A more precise measure — drawn from New Haven’s wastewater — suggests the Covid-19 variant may have already peaked and is actually declining.
by | Jan 12, 2022 2:40 pm | Comments (7)
Samod Rankins and Gary Tinney: New Haven firefighters sounding the diversity alarm in Hamden FD.
Two “Firebirds” who pressed the fight for racial justice in New Haven’s fire department have set their sights across municipal lines — in hopes of using their lived experience to help Hamden’s department reflect the increasingly diverse town it serves.
by | Jan 12, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Yale New Haven Health Chief Clinical Officer Thomas Balcezak.
The number of Yale New Haven Health patients hospitalized with Covid has surged by nearly 40 percent over the past two weeks — as the regional hospital system continues to struggle with staff shortages and as the city prepares to distribute thousands of additional at-home test kits and N95 masks during the ongoing Omicron-induced surge.
by | Jan 11, 2022 5:03 pm | Comments (7)
Reelected board leaders Edward Joyner, Yesenia Rivera, Matt Wilcox.
At 1st 2022 Board of Ed meeting:
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Driver Daniel Pizarro, Junta's volunteer Art Director, and Bruni Pizarro, Junta's executive director, delivering Covid tests.
Taina Cintron began to come down with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and cough. Cintron, a 20-year-old college student, was unsure about what to do with her grandmother coming home the next day from the holidays. Results from the PCR test she took would not come back for “another eight days”; her boss wanted a test result before returning to work.
Continue reading ‘Junta Connects Latinos To Covid Tests, Masks’
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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La estudiante universitaria Taina Cintron comenzó a sufrir dolor de garganta, congestión nasal y tos. Cintron, una estudiante universitaria de 20 años, no estaba segura de qué hacer con su abuela que regresaba a casa al día siguiente de las vacaciones. Los resultados de la prueba de PCR que tomó no volverían por “otros ocho días”; su jefe quería un resultado antes de volver al trabajo.
Continue reading ‘Junta conecta a latinos con pruebas de Covid y máscaras’
by and | Jan 11, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (16)
More masks. More tests. The option to go remote — just for a few weeks until the Covid-19 Omicron-variant surge passes.
Teachers are pressing those requests at a statewide “wear-black” event planned for Wednesday. Some students and board members joined in those requests at Monday night’s New Haven Board of Education meeting. And New Haven teachers union President Leslie Blatteau went into depth on the issue — and its place in the current national political dialogue — during a Tuesday radio appearance.
Continue reading ‘Teachers Press State For More Masks & Tests, & Short-Term Remote Option’
by | Jan 9, 2022 8:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett will be able to “show up” safely for a scheduled meeting as planned Monday morning, even though she has tested positive for Covid-19.
Continue reading ‘Omicron Hits, But Doesn’t Stop, Hamden’s Mayor’
by | Jan 7, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (10)
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Elizabeth Street resident Marcus Pearson in front of 794 Dixwell: Methadone clinic relocation is "a good idea" for neighbors in need of treatment.
A methadone clinic and healthcare nonprofit plans to relocate from Long Wharf to Newhallville, after purchasing a Dixwell Avenue former middle school building for $2.45 million.
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (28)
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Khalil Alsankary at Chap's: Will be "hard to keep going."
After struggling to survive a Covid-clobbered holiday, owners of downtown restaurants learned they may see little relief when Yalies return to town.
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
Maliik Tinney waits online outside the Cornell Scott center on Dixwell.
From Long Wharf to Dixwell, people lined up for hours to get tested for Covid-19 as the Omicron variant continued to rage.
Continue reading ‘Test Message Received; Vax Message Muddled’
by | Jan 6, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (15)
District Nine Republicans choose their leadership.
Hamden Republicans shed their face masks Wednesday night and congregated at Devonshire Hall to endorse the future faces of the party’s town committee — with the goal of building a stronger coalition of conservatives to serve as a “viable alternative” to the town’s new liberal administration.
by | Jan 5, 2022 5:04 pm | Comments (14)
ESUMS's Aron Meyer.
Aron Meyer received the text Tuesday at 9:54 a.m. In 11 minutes, students would return to his classroom.
He decided to move fast.
by | Jan 5, 2022 3:55 pm | Comments (9)
City emergency management chief Rick Fontana with at-home two-test kit.
The city plans to give out roughly 8,000 at-home Covid-19 testing kits to New Haven residents only at two mass distribution sites on Thursday — as the Omciron variant continues to knock teachers, police officers, firefighters, and school bus drivers out of work.
by | Jan 5, 2022 2:31 pm | Comments (6)
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DuBois-Walton (fourth from left) at 2019 groundbreaking for Rockview Phase II.
The Omicron variant kept a majority of maintenance workers off the job this week at New Haven’s housing authority.
That hadn’t happened before since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Even the boss had to work remotely.
That hadn’t happened before, either.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton Navigates Omicron, Regional Housing Challenges’
by | Jan 5, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (12)
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Newly appointed Department of Community Resilience Acting Director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo.
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The mayor has tapped city social-services staffer Carlos Sosa-Lombardo to be the inaugural acting director of the Department of Community Resilience — a new city agency charged with finding a data-driven, coordinated response to social issues ranging from homelessness to mental health disorders to drug addition to prison reentry.
by | Jan 5, 2022 12:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Maritza Casanova Spell picks up a test kit for a friend with Covid symptoms, during grassroots Fair Haven distribution.
At Fair Haven’s health hub, the Covid-19 test positivity rate neared 45 percent. Hundreds of people needing tests were turned away.
Suzanne Lagarde knew she needed help. And she knew where to turn: the community.
Continue reading ‘How Fair Haven Swung Back Into Action On Covid Tests’
by | Jan 5, 2022 9:41 am | Comments (5)
Cars lined up for Tuesday distribution.
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Pablo Colon, daughter Angelica with tests they needed last month.
Desperate Amazon workers, exposed family members, and hundreds of others jammed the streets outside a shuttered Hamden High School late Tuesday afternoon in hopes of getting their hands on the last batch for now of town-provided at-home Covid-19 tests.
by | Jan 4, 2022 5:15 pm | Comments (11)
Firefighters, cops, and teachers continued to scramble to fill gaps and keep government working Tuesday as the state’s Covid-19 infection rate hit 23.85 percent and the number of hospitalized patients in Greater New Haven soared to 539 amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
by | Jan 4, 2022 1:48 pm | Comments (3)
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Nominee Rhonda Caldwell at a 2019 rally calling for the firing of Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton.
A new day for Hamden’s police commission has come into view after five nominees won the first of two needed votes to take over — and promised to bring heightened transparency and a more diverse outlook on public safety.
Continue reading ‘Auguring New Direction, Hamden Cop Commission Nominations Advance’