Train Station Doubles As Vax Pop-Up
by | Dec 6, 2021 3:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Lois Ricketts get her booster.
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Plans OK’d For 35-Bed Temporary Emergency Room For Anticipated Covid/Flu Spike
by | Dec 2, 2021 3:43 pm | Comments (6)
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YNHH’s West Pavilion turnaround at Park and Howard, soon to be a temporary emergency room.
Yale New Haven Hospital won city permission to build a temporary 35-bed emergency room to accommodate a coming spike in Covid and flu cases — pending aldermanic approval that the six-month project won’t affect parking in the medical district.
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Paid Family Leave Program Gets Underway; Backers Celebrate At Claire’s
by | Dec 1, 2021 5:36 pm | Comments (12)
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Connecticut Paid Leave Authority CEO Andrea Barton Reeves at Wednesday’s event outside Claire’s.
State leaders converged on an appropriate spot Wednesday to celebrate the first day in which workers can sign up for benefits under Connecticut’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program: Claire’s Corner Copia.
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Social-Emotional Focus Continues In Person
by | Nov 26, 2021 12:06 pm | Comments (8)
Cepea “CJ” Burton with her students at Edgewood School: Remote pivot proceeds in classroom.
Schools have increasingly incorporated social-emotional learning into instruction time because of the mental health toll that the pandemic has had on students, teachers, and staff. In New Haven, where the concept was pioneered a half-century ago, that has meant going bigger on a concept that was already rooted in the district.
As was evident when morning meeting got underway in Cepea “CJ” Burton’s third-grade classroom.
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City Mask Mandate To Stay In Place
by | Nov 24, 2021 1:21 pm | Comments (36)
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Mayor Elicker: Mask mandate will remain in place.
As Covid cases are on the rise across Connecticut and the country, the mayor plans to keep New Haven’s mask mandate in place in a bid to curb transmission.
3 Hamden Cops Promoted After 2 Retire
by | Nov 23, 2021 10:31 am | Comments (2)
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Deputy Chief Kevin Samperi, Lt. Timothy Wydra, Chief John Sullivan, Sgt. Nathan Youngberg Monday night.
Hamden’s Police Commission filled one of two empty deputy chief positions Monday night — leaving the other seat open and waiting for an appointment by incoming Mayor Lauren Garrett.
Biz Boosters Embrace Big Tobacco
by | Nov 19, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (21)
Lamont at DISTRICT presser: “I like winning.”
Connecticut is “beginning to win” by attracting large, innovative, good-paying employers, Gov. Ned Lamont rejoiced in New Haven Thursday.
Lamont’s team’s Example A: The global tobacco giant Philip Morris International.
Back To Pre-Covid “Normal”? Not Any Time Soon
by | Nov 18, 2021 1:16 pm | Comments (21)
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YNHH top doc Thomas Balcezak: Vax, masking, testing will be part of our lives for at least another year.
Vaccines, masks, and testing.
Those three layers of protection will problem remain front and center of public life for at least another year, according to a top Yale doctor, as wave after wave of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to crash on the shores of a bygone, pre-pandemic “normal.”
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Infrastructure Law Paves Way For $40M Makeover Of Historic Lake Whitney Dam
by | Nov 12, 2021 4:06 pm | Comments (6)
As rain poured from the sky and Lake Whitney waters rushed to the falls, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal reflected on humanity’s dependence on clean water — and announced that $40 million of Connecticut’s incoming federal infrastructure dollars will go towards reconstructing Lake Whitney Dam.
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Mayor, Health Chief, Pastors Get Their Booster Shots — & Urge Public To Follow Suit
by | Nov 12, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (6)
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Pastors J.C Cadwallader, Roger Wilkins, and Timothy Keyl join Elicker and Bond in urging community members to get vaccinated and boosted.
Mayor Justin Elicker, Public Health Director Maritza Bond, and three local faith leaders finished their week with a “boost” — and spread the message that residents should schedule their own shots to help shrink the ongoing spread of Covid-19.
Real Estate Roundup: Heights Nursing Home Sold For $7.99M
by | Nov 12, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (3)
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RegalCare nursing home at 181 Clifton St.
A Bronx-based nursing home company has purchased the 150-bed RegalCare facility in Fair Haven Heights for just under $8 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.
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Blvd. Healthcare Center Evacuated After Bomb Threat
by | Nov 9, 2021 5:57 pm | Comments (1)
Updated: Yet another bomb threat — this time at a mental health and substance use treatment center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard — saw a building evacuated, people displaced, and streets closed to traffic as police investigated whether or not the danger was real.
At 7:22 p.m., the city police department announced that that area was clear, all roads were back open, and “it is safe to return to the area” as the Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate.
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Montessori Clinic Vaccinates 150 5-11 Year-Olds
by | Nov 8, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (5)
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Sixth-grader Samantha Braren getting her Covid-19 vaccine.
This story was submitted by Elm City Montessori seventh-graders Lillian Price & Winter Szarabajka.
Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) Friday hosted one of the first Covid-19 vaccine clinics for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Many families with young children showed up from around New Haven, particularly Westville, hoping to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
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Alders Endorse Regional Climate Pact
by | Nov 5, 2021 9:35 am | Comments (16)
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Thursday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Electric buses, lower taxes for low-income people, endorsed.
The Board of Alders set Connecticut’s Democratic governor and top state legislators a challenge Thursday: Find a way to make fuel sellers — and not the poor and working class — pay for transportation-related carbon emissions, and help save cities like New Haven from bearing the brunt of climate change and air pollution.
Kids’ Covid Vaccine Shots Available Beginning Thursday
by | Nov 3, 2021 1:11 pm | Comments (2)
Parents can now sign up their 5 – 11 year-olds for Covid-19 vaccination shots.
Yale New Haven Health is offering the shots at the Scranton Building at 200 Orchard St.
Caregivers can click here to sign up children who are 5 years older or above.
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Mayor Gets His (Flu) Shot
by | Nov 1, 2021 2:01 pm | Comments (5)
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Mayor Elicker gets his flu shot Monday.
Mayor Justin Elicker rolled up his sleeve and got vaccinated — against the flu, as part of a citywide effort to get shots in arms to protect New Haveners from more than just Covid.
Halloween Updates: Green ET Attacks New Haven Boy; Lead Paint Horror Tale Prompts Rescue Plan
by | Oct 31, 2021 8:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Melvin McKoy trapped by ET by the bank of the West River.
A New Haven human named Melvin McCoy found himself in the grip of a green extraterrestrial visitor on Halloween, while up the road a crew worked on freeing other New Haven humans from a real-life homegrown horror: lead-paint poisoning.
Hamden Partially Rescinds Mask Mandate
by | Oct 29, 2021 3:05 pm | Comments (3)
You no longer have to wear masks at any outdoor gatherings in Hamden or in any indoor public space except town facilities.
911 Plan Town Hall Reveals Communal Hurt
by | Oct 29, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (12)
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Nebiyou Masresha at Thursday night’s town hall on the city’s emerging “crisis response team” plan.
Speaking up, clockwise from top left: Sylvia Cooper, Marcus Spinner, Bill Morico, Krystal Augustine, Celeste Fulcher, Rick DelValle.
As an Afghanistan War veteran who suffers from PTSD, a suicide prevention specialist, and a social worker-in-training, Nebiyou Masresha knows what does not help a person experiencing a mental health crisis: A police officer pointing a gun in their face.
Westville Firehouse Cleared For Lead Clean-Up
by | Oct 26, 2021 10:48 am | Comments (3)
Firefighters and firetrucks have temporarily moved from Westville’s Fountain Street firehouse to the Ellsworth Avenue station pending completion of a clean-up.
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Covid Updates: Boosters Arrive; Hospitalizations Plummet
by | Oct 20, 2021 11:14 am | Comments (3)
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Getting jabbed at Wilbur Cross High School in March.
Booster shots are here for some — and coming soon for many more — according to Yale New Haven Health’s (YNHH) latest breakdown of who’s eligible to get their next doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, where they can go to get that jab, and why that extra shot is important.
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As Deadline Passes, Only 94 Yale New Haven Health Employees Remain Unvaccinated
by | Oct 18, 2021 3:21 pm | Comments (2)
Yale New Haven Health required 28,000-odd employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 — and all but 94 heeded the call.
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Elicker: 100% Comply With Vax-Or-Test Mandate
by | Oct 13, 2021 1:17 pm | Comments (7)
It worked.
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20-Year Newhall Soil Remediation One Step Closer to Conclusion
by | Oct 13, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (2)
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Assistant Town Planner Matthew Davis reviews the ELUR on Tuesday night.
Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday evening voted in favor of adopting a series of land-use restrictions for the town’s abandoned middle school.
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Horses Roam Park, On A Healing Mission
by | Oct 11, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (6)
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Ariana Akani meets Strawberry Sunday in Goffe Street Park.
On her fifth birthday, Ariana Akani made a new friend named Strawberry. If all goes well, Strawberry will return to New Haven and Ariana again in the spring — and perhaps offer her a ride.