City Sees 12 Fatal Overdoses In 2 Weeks
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.
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Medical Equipment Charity Opens On Whalley
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.
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Is That Kitchen Clean? Grade Plan Advances
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.
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Xylazine Overdose Deaths On The Rise
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.
New Haveners Speed To Camera Defense
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.
Safety, Resilience Sought After Shootings
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.
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Fair Haven Health Clinic Expansion OK'd
by | Jan 25, 2023 9:32 am | Comments (7)
A visual rendering of the planned new Grand Avenue clinic.
A Fair Haven neighborhood-anchoring healthcare center won permission to build 26 new clinical exam rooms — along with a food pharmacy, community space for job and digital literacy training, and a splash pad — all as part of a now-approved expanded Grand Avenue campus.
Mayor Tests Positive For Covid
by | Jan 24, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (3)
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker is working from home after testing positive Monday evening for Covid-19.
Alders OK 6-Year Nurses Union Contract
by | Jan 18, 2023 8:48 am | Comments (6)
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AFSCME Local 1303-467 President Cynthia Harris-Jackson at a vaccine clinic in 2021.
Local legislators unanimously approved a new long-awaited contract for school nurses, issuing future and retroactive raises for public health workers who have worked to keep schools and students safe throughout the pandemic.
Smokers Rejoice At Cannabiz Kickoff
by | Jan 10, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (37)
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Tony Negron -- who used to go to 1351 Whalley to work at Tommy K's video -- returns as a customer to wait for a dispensary's official opening there.
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Rick Woods lights up on the ride home to North Haven.
As Tony Negron stood in line to become New Haven’s first customer of fully legal recreational weed, the 40-year-old recalled sharing a first joint with his boys at 12 years old and then eating boxed mac n’ cheese.
How did he plan to celebrate his more grown-up purchase of adult-use marijuana on Tuesday? By taking his dispensary flower home and smoking it from the comfort of his jacuzzi on a paid day off from work.
Tent Citizen By Choice Builds Community
by | Jan 10, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (25)
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Nestor "grilling" eggs: “I don’t make so many plans. I live in the moment."
Nestor hooked a tank of propane to a silver grill he had recently rehabbed — and started counting each second to see how long it would take to boil two eggs on the outdoor device, showcasing the living arrangement he set up himself to survive as comfortably as he can at a West River homeless encampment.
City Preps For Legal Weed-Sales Rollout
by | Jan 9, 2023 5:20 pm | Comments (13)
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Licensed dealer Ray Pantalena.
Wait until you get home to break into your stash, don’t eat or smoke it all at once — and please keep it away from the kids.
Spicy Blend Offers Tripledemic Rx
by | Jan 3, 2023 11:58 am | Comments (0)
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A hot over-the-counter remedy this pandemic-flu-Covid season turns out not to require a prescription — and it goes down smooth while soothing your sinuses.
TAG Turns Into "Wellness Wednesday"
by | Dec 19, 2022 2:23 pm | Comments (2)
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First grader K'Jalee makes tasty treat for birds during Wellness Wednesday, an outdoors and inclusive successor to a talented and gifted program.
Students looking for color inspiration for their art class mandalas.
An Edgewood School first grader spooned sun butter and Cheerios onto a pinecone to feed a hungry bird.
Nearby, one of her fourth grade schoolmates found inspiration for a classroom art project in a pale-yellow house with green shutters.
And in an outdoor classroom area near Yale Avenue, an eighth grader weaved coral-colored yarn around two sticks to make a dream catcher to beautify her school, all as a part of a unique effort to address both social emotional challenges in the classroom and concerns about exclusivity in enrichment programs.
City’s Mental Health Coordinator Checks In
by | Dec 15, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (8)
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The city's new mental health initiatives coordinator, Lorena Mitchell.
City Hall’s first-ever “community mental health” coordinator is five months into her job — and focused on building peer-to-peer emotional support systems amid a shortage in formal clinical services.
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"VAXgiving" Campaign Offers Gift Cards -- And Billboard Fame -- For Shots
by | Dec 13, 2022 9:23 am | Comments (4)
New Haven Health Director Maritza Bond wants New Haveners to get vaxxed and boosted before the New Year — and to then send their seasonal family photos to the city for a chance to take part in a “picture perfect” public health campaign that will light up local televisions and billboards.
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Tortillería Collective Turns Up The Heat
by | Dec 12, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Semilla's Tortillería Collective co-founders: Ariana Shapiro, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Anabel Hernandez, Martina Perez, and Javier Gonzalez-Villatoro.
Freshly made tortillas, hot off the comal.
Standing over a hot comal filled with half-cooked handmade tortillas, Elizabeth Gonzalez pinched her thumb with her index and middle fingers to grip the corner of a puffy tortilla and flipped it over — showing in a single swift motion how she and a small group of worker-owner chefs hope to bring a Central American and Mexican staple to the streets of New Haven.
City's First Recreational Canna-Biz To Open Jan. 10
by | Dec 9, 2022 6:04 pm | Comments (5)
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Pharmacist and medical marijuana distributor Ray Pantalena: Cannabis legalization “took a little longer than most people wanted — but we’re just super excited to finally see it coming.”
Cannabis consumers aged 21 and up will be able to purchase legal joints, vape cartridges and marijuana flower at a Whalley Avenue medical dispensary come Jan. 10 — now that the state has signed off on the city’s first retailer of adult-use recreational weed selling to more than just patients.
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Padilla Passes Universal Health Torch
by | Dec 9, 2022 11:23 am | Comments (3)
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Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut President Frances Padilla at WNHH FM.
It turned out that universal health care couldn’t come to the Insurance State overnight.
It also turned out that hard work, year in and year out, could get the state closer.
Vaccine Shot Inspired Historic Gift
by | Dec 9, 2022 10:21 am | Comments (1)
Michael Taylor and LindyLee Gold at WNHH FM.
When people sink into the throes of addiction, they often neglect other health problems too.
Thanks to a $1 million gift, women working on tackling those addictions at a new recovery center in the Hill will simultaneously receive help with those heart or liver or other health problems as well.
Volcano Pose Helps Students Erupt, Cool Off
by | Dec 9, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (8)
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First graders erupt from mountain pose at Lincoln Bassett.
Lincoln Bassett School first graders took a break from their usual class instruction to witness a volcanic eruption.
Luckily, the eruption took place during a yoga lesson where the students locked their fingers together, pointed them to the sky in a mountain pose, and then made them burst apart into what resembled an explosive geological wonder.
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How A "Pain Doula" Got Me Through
by | Dec 8, 2022 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
I don’t really know Michael. I know he lives in Connecticut. I know he’s a nurse. I only know that much because he was my nurse for 12 hours from a late Sunday to early Monday.
But for those 12 hours or so he knew me better than anyone because I was almost nothing but pain and he was my companion.
Health Center Rezoning Wins Final OK
by | Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (1)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
Breakfast Delivery Warms Up "Tent City"
by | Dec 1, 2022 1:14 pm | Comments (5)
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Tent City starts morning with hot coffee, eggs and potatoes.
A West River encampment woke up to hot food and coffee after another crew of individuals experiencing homelessness arrived with frittatas and potatoes — plus the promise of second helpings and opportunities to grow solidarity across Greater New Haven’s unhoused populations.
Clinic's Parking, Expansion Plan Advances
by and | Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
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