by | Apr 19, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (11)
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A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
by | Apr 18, 2023 12:02 pm | Comments (15)
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Mohamed Lamine behind the counter at the newly opened smoke shop at the old Egidio's Hair Studio on Orange Street. (Below)
A former Orange Street hair salon has newly opened its doors as a smoke shop.
Several months after a former Chapel Street cellphone store shuttered to become a smoke shop.
Not long after the former Ann Taylor on the Green cycled through its afterlife as a rapid Covid testing site to become — wait for it — a smoke shop.
Continue reading ‘Surprise! Downtown Gets ... Another Smoke Shop’
by | Apr 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (12)
State Rep. Robyn Porter: "It's birth injustice we're talking about."
More rooms for moms to lactate at work and more Black mothers breastfeeding their babies.
by | Apr 10, 2023 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Workshop attendee Nathalie Garcia: "You just need to be ready and know how to take care of yourself and others."
A box of Narcan nasal spray.
Shrunken pupils, shallow breathing and blue nail beds are signs that someone may be overdosing on opioids — and cues that more New Haveners may now be able to pick up on, thanks to a library-hosted class educating the public on how to intervene in such situations.
by | Mar 29, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (9)
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Getting swabbed at Murphy's former Day Street test site in May 2020.
Another federal judge dismissed another one of pandemic “profiteer” Dr. Steven Murphy’s million-dollar lawsuits, after finding that doctors do not have the right to sue insurers under the CARES Act for withholding Covid-test reimbursements.
by | Mar 27, 2023 8:46 am | Comments (3)
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A sample of Tierra Soap Co.'s offerings.
For some, a bar of soap is a common household item that helps them get their body clean. For Tierra Soap Co., a bar of soap has become a fusion of art, wellness, and culture as well as a way to connect to earth, nature, and community.
by | Mar 22, 2023 4:53 pm | Comments (25)
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City social services director Mehul Dalal, Yale epidemiologist Robert Heimer, and DESK leader Steve Werlin: All in support of harm reduction center pilot.
City public health experts and homelessness-services advocates traveled to Hartford — online and in person — to support a proposal to counter a fatally rising tide of local opioid overdoses by providing a safe area to consume drugs under medical supervision.
by | Mar 21, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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State Rep. Juan Candelaria, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Legarde and Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller accept the symbolic check Tuesday.
A Fair Haven-anchoring community health center has landed $3 million in federal funds to help cover the costs of constructing a new neighborhood clinic — as that same center gears up to tear down nearby apartments and relocate tenants in service of a broader campus expansion estimated to cost up to $40 million.
Continue reading ‘$3M From Feds Boost Health Clinic Expansion’
by | Mar 10, 2023 2:56 pm | Comments (10)
Health Director Bond and Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz on Friday.
“Let’s be the 21st state to pass this legislation!”
With those words of encouragement, city Health Director Maritza Bond joined Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz in Fair Haven to call on Connecticut to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills.
by | Mar 7, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (19)
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Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg: "This is an inappropriate place" for a methadone clinic.
APT patient Jeffrey Culp: "What happens to the people where this place saved their lives?"
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
Continue reading ‘Patient Presses Politician On APT Critique’
by | Mar 7, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (3)
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The APT Foundation's 495 Congress Ave. building and parking lot.
The following writeup was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg chronicling his five days of traveling around to different methadone clinics in and near New Haven.
Click here to read Goldenberg’s recent opinion essay in the Register laying out various proposals for how the city should handle local methadone clinics. Click here to read a recent Independent article about how the Elicker Administration and the APT Foundation are looking to move the clinic’s main Congress Avenue location to a new building on Long Wharf.
Goldenberg plans on holding a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday outside APT’s Congress Avenue site to talk about his methadone clinic policy proposals.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: My Week Visiting Methadone Clinics’
by | Mar 6, 2023 10:52 am | Comments (3)
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Transition Clinic's Nadine Horton and Lisa Puglisi at WNHH FM.
Lisa Puglisi and Nadine Horton are helping ex-offenders reintegrate into society by tackling one of the least-discussed challenges.
They’re looking for Connecticut to discuss that challenge more — and send more helpers.
by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Mar 1, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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BOMUS second graders in cup-stacking competition.
Special education teacher Rebecca Smith shows off hula hooping skills.
Hula hooping, dance parties, coloring, and team cup-stacking competitions helped the students and staff of the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School (BOMUS) decompress mid-school year.
by | Feb 27, 2023 4:05 pm | Comments (0)
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James Rawlings, visiting Wall Street for Founders Day.
With his feather-adorned Stetson hat firmly on his head, James Rawlings visited the New York Stock Exchange for a “Founders Day” celebration of successful Black businesspeople — and returned to New Haven fired up about how to inspire a next generation of corporate leaders and healthcare advocates.
Continue reading ‘Sickle Cell Awareness Advocate Pays Wall Street A Visit’
by | Feb 23, 2023 3:00 pm | Comments (3)
A statewide health-justice nonprofit will soon have another New Havener at the helm.
Continue reading ‘Taylor Mendez Takes Up Universal Health Care Torch’
by and | Feb 20, 2023 11:36 am | Comments (2)
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Nine minutes. That is the amount of time that Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin required chest compressions when he had a cardiac arrest on the football field on Jan. 2. And while Hamlin has since recovered, many – including Hamlin himself – are crediting these chest compressions, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), with saving his life. In Hamlin’s case, CPR was performed by professionals, however it should be known that anyone can learn to do CPR – and should learn – because it could be the difference between life or death.
by | Feb 15, 2023 10:57 am | Comments (0)
Company founder Yael Porat; New Haven trial chief Edouard Aboian.
A nonagenarian is waiting in New Haven for three five-milliliter syringes to arrive from overseas — and help her walk outside the house again and avoid having a limb amputated.
Continue reading ‘Blood-Disease Breakthrough Tested In New Haven’
by | Feb 14, 2023 3:57 pm | Comments (7)
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In town Tuesday announcing first $1.5 million in Juul bucks: DMHAS Deputy Colleen Harrington, Attorney General William Tong, city Maritza Bond, Mayor Justin Elicker, community services chief Mehul Dalal.
The state’s attorney general joined New Haven officials to proclaim the death of cool — at least for a certain e‑cigarette manufacturer.
by | Feb 7, 2023 1:27 pm | Comments (8)
Twelve people have died from overdoses in New Haven over the past two weeks, marking a rapid increase in substance use deaths.
by | Feb 6, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (3)
New Haveners in need of wheelchairs, bath seats, walking sticks and more can now borrow those supplies for just a dollar from a Whalley Avenue pharmacy, thanks to a newly opened outpost of a medical equipment charity.
Continue reading ‘Medical Equipment Charity Opens On Whalley’
by | Feb 2, 2023 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
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City health inspector Brian Wnek (right) at Krauszer's in the Cove.
Proposed grading system for food establishments.
The next time New Haven’s restaurants sit for a Health Department test, customers may get to see the grade.
That would be the case if the Board of Alders passes a new legislative proposal submitted by the city’s health inspection agency.
Continue reading ‘Is That Kitchen Clean? Grade Plan Advances’
by | Jan 31, 2023 9:17 am | Comments (0)
Health Department PSA.
A growing number of overdose deaths in New Haven can be attributed to a potent veterinary tranquilizer that’s becoming more prevalent in the human drug market.
by | Jan 30, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (51)
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DOT Commissioner and New Havener Garrett Eucalitto: "Intent" of speed cameras is not to surveil people, but to keep them from getting killed.
Yale medical student Aishwarya Pillai “Zoomed” up to Hartford to tell state legislators about the crushed skulls and other carnage she’s seen patients endure in the wake of local car crashes — and to relay her own experience nearly getting run over on South Frontage Road while trying to leave her shift at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Pillai recalled those gory details in a virtual plea made during a hybrid online/in-person public hearing at the State Capitol, where a host of New Haveners expressed their concerns with growing road dangers and then called on the Connecticut legislature to enact traffic safety measures — including allowing for speed and red-light cameras — to help cut down on future car-driven damage to life and limb.
by | Jan 27, 2023 9:12 am | Comments (1)
Shirley Lawrence: Support is needed for traumatized residents.
Newhallville neighbors issued a resounding call for mental health support in the wake of violence at their latest management team meeting.
Continue reading ‘Safety, Resilience Sought After Shootings’