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’
by | Jan 4, 2022 1:28 pm | Comments (25)
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Bike Life on parade in the Annex.
It starts softly. A faraway hum, a whisper in the night. As it approaches, you can feel it in your bones. Conversations stop. Drivers hold their steering wheels tighter. Pedestrians crossing the street hurry back to the sidewalk.
The motorcycles are coming.
by , and | Jan 3, 2022 6:49 pm | Comments (15)
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Principal Dan Levy: This isn't March 2020.
Administrators filled in to keep classrooms running and lunches served Monday, bus routes were combined, and teachers all received masks, as the New Haven and Hamden school districts resolved to remain open even as some suburban districts temporarily pulled the plug.
The hope remained by day’s end that kids can remain in schools despite the fact that Connecticut posted a record 21.5 percent Covid-19 test-positivity rate.
Meanwhile, New Haven’s teachers union president applauded the efforts to fill gaps but questioned whether they’ll prove “sustainable” — or if Connecticut should allow some remote learning to count as official school days.
by | Jan 3, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (12)
City staffer Shaunette James- Marquis with Covid tests and N95 masks to be distributed to the homeless on Monday.
City officials distributed thousands more Covid rapid tests and N95 masks Monday in the race to outmaneuver the Omicron variant.
Continue reading ‘Thousands Of Tests, Masks Distributed As Statewide Positivity Rate Hits 21.5%’
by | Jan 3, 2022 10:45 am | Comments (2)
When I slipped and fell one recent wintry morning, there wasn’t time to reflect on the late and beloved Dr. Mel Goldstein’s legacy, or his cheerful warnings about our winter weather.
On the other hand, as I tumbled backwards wondering where I would land and in what condition, even then I understood I should have known beforehand. I should have checked.
by | Jan 2, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (4)
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James Mase (in car) makes it to front of the line at Long Wharf site.
Both of New Haven’s Covid-19 saliva-test sites are scheduled to reopen Monday, according to city emergency management chief Rick Fontana.
by | Dec 31, 2021 12:29 pm | Comments (2)
YNHH Chief Clinical Officer Thomas Balcezak.
As the Omicron variant surges across the region, Yale New Haven Health has seen a fivefold increase in Covid-positive in-patients — primarily among the unvaccinated — leading to clampdowns on the hospital system’s visitation policy and at its testing sites.
by | Dec 30, 2021 10:44 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven is no longer able to hold a mass distribution of at-home rapid Covid tests Friday and Saturday — because the tests aren’t coming.
by | Dec 22, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (6)
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Mase (in car) finally makes it to front of the line.
James Mase waited for 45 minutes in a line of cars on Long Wharf Wednesday for the chance to spit in a tube — and then find out if the Omicron variant got him.
by | Dec 21, 2021 6:05 pm | Comments (52)
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Health crew departs J Crew en route Tuesday to their next surprise inspection.
Chris Smith completes hot dog sale moments before the bust.
Anthony Keys was “literally cleaning the walk-in” Tuesday at Junzi restaurant, he said, when a team of health inspectors swarmed in — and found him in violation of the city’s Covid-19 indoor mask mandate.
by | Dec 20, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (10)
SWAN Program Manager Jaclyn Lucibello reads the names of murdered sex workers; at right, group founder Beatrice Codianni.
Twenty community members gathered in a Fair Haven parking lot to remember sex workers who have died or gone missing — and to call on New Haven to protect the lives of every person who shares the city’s streets.
Continue reading ‘Rally Targets Violence Against Sex Workers’
by | Dec 16, 2021 4:05 pm | Comments (2)
Where to get vaccinated in New Haven.
The first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has been detected in New Haven.
by | Dec 15, 2021 4:50 pm | Comments (13)
Wilbur Cross' bottle filler machine: Prototype for what other schools are slated to receive in February.
Amid school-shooting threats and fights in the halls, New Haven Public School (NHPS) students are wrestling with a more prosaic concern these days: They’re thirsty.
Most public schools have no drinking water available because of the pandemic.
by | Dec 15, 2021 10:54 am | Comments (9)
Getting vaccinated on the Green in July.
Covid hospitalizations are on the rise — particularly, overwhelmingly, among the unvaccinated.
And three scenarios currently present themselves for emerging from a pandemic entering its third year.
Continue reading ‘Covid Hospitalizations Surge Among Unvax'd’
by | Dec 9, 2021 7:00 pm | Comments (9)
People will now be required to wear masks “indoors in any indoor public spaces” in Hamden, in the wake of the first report of someone in town testing positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
by | Dec 9, 2021 4:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Reeves demonstrates crossover around defender to teens.
Fair Haven’s “basketball Mecca” is returning to the Farnam Neighborhood House with the help of a New Haven native looking to give back to his city.