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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘City’s Mental Health Coordinator Checks In’
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.
Continue reading ‘"VAXgiving" Campaign Offers Gift Cards -- And Billboard Fame -- For Shots’
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Volcano Pose Helps Students Erupt, Cool Off’
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Clinic's Parking, Expansion Plan Advances’
by | Nov 17, 2022 12:19 pm | Comments (3)
Daycare approved for 97 Whitney Ave.
An Orange-based Hebrew day school is one big step closer to opening a new childcare center at the vacant site of a former private school on Whitney Avenue, thanks to a unanimous vote of support by city zoners.
Continue reading ‘Daycare, Housing OK'd; Convenience Rejected’
by | Nov 16, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (1)
Dr. Ece Tek, Chief Medical Officer, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold’s grandson Ari Kroop; Michael Taylor, CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold, President of the Amour Propre Fund and recently named Chair of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Foundation board; and local attorney Keith Bradoc Gallant, who assists with the Amour Propre Fund.
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has received the largest donation in its 55-year- history, a $1 million infusion that will support a wellness center within a new facility for women in recovery from addiction.
Continue reading ‘Record Donation Supports Hill Health Center For Women In Recovery’
by | Nov 15, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (22)
Mark Colville serves a hungry passerby named Michelle his homemade pasta and meatballs during a recent meeting of the Unhoused Activist Community Team at 266 State St.
Antar Adams: Done searching for housing. “All the low-income spots are taken."
A year after a tentative plan to convert a Long Wharf hotel into housing for the homeless fell apart, the city is considering a second attempt to invest federal pandemic-relief dollars towards stable long-term shelter for the unhoused.
Meanwhile, those with nowhere to sleep but the streets, bracing for the start of winter, are upping their demands on local government for safe places to stay, public bathrooms and city-funded storage units.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Hotel Plan Scrapped. What's Next?’
by | Nov 3, 2022 3:18 pm | Comments (3)
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83, 85, and 87 Woolsey (the three houses pictured from right to left): All slated for demolition to make way for a new larger parking lot.
A Fair Haven community health center won permission to knock down three houses and build a larger surface parking lot — as it moves forward with a plan to create an expanded neighborhood-anchoring medical campus.
Continue reading ‘Health Center's Demolition, Parking Plan OKd’
by | Nov 3, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Green Party gubernatorial candidate Michelle Bicking at WNHH FM.
Get ready to ride the rails from Sprague to New Haven in half an hour — aboard the Michelle Bicking Express.
Continue reading ‘Guv Candidate Boosts Transit, Single-Payer’
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients’
by | Nov 1, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (19)
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COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell hear out Ollie Cooper, who's homeless, and share information about possible housing.
Key players at crisis-team launch: Mayor Justin Elicker (at left) and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who secured $2 million, in top photo; city resilience director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo (center); community services chief Mehlul Dalal.
Social worker Yichu Xu and “peer recovery specialist” Nanette Campbell reported for duty Tuesday to start helping cops and firefighters deal with emergency calls — and pilot a new way of dealing with people in crisis.
by | Nov 1, 2022 11:11 am | Comments (2)
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
Continue reading ‘Safety, Candy Abound At Ashmun Trunk-Or-Treat’
by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
Continue reading ‘"Abstinence," Not Methadone, Set For CVS Site’
by | Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm | Comments (5)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.