by | Jun 17, 2022 9:59 am | Comments (7)
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Domestic workers Thursday calling for rights and recognition.
Over 20 domestic workers and their families gathered in a church sanctuary to call for sick days, maternity leave, and healthcare — and to celebrate their day-to-day work, without which “the world stands still.”
by | Jun 14, 2022 11:15 am | Comments (3)
After ten years of serving Hill Central Music Academy in various instructor and administrative roles, Nicole Brown will next helm the the school as its newly approved principal.
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Arvinas summer interns at Thursday's event.
Samantha Tice is getting a chance this summer she’d been waiting for — to break into New Haven’s booming bioscience industry.
“I’ve always had a natural interest in science and I wanted to do something impactful,” Samantha Tice, a Masters student at the University of New Haven said. Now, an internship doing oncology research and testing drug interactions at Arvinas is providing her with the perfect opportunity to break into the bioscience industry.
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by | Jun 7, 2022 11:56 am | Comments (13)
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Izzi Geller: Familiar with challenges of gaining certification.
(Opinion) Teacher departures are up across the country and the summer will bring even more resignations. With many New Haven teachers leaving the profession altogether or leaving our district after being recruited by higher-paying ones, the call for “stepped-up retention efforts” is important. Still, that focus should be coupled with efforts to recruit future educators who are already living in New Haven. We need creative solutions to address the barriers that stand in the way of New Haveners entering the teaching profession.
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by | Jun 3, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (37)
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Gas-powered leaf blowers: lifeline or life-destroying?
Alder Avshalom-Smith: Blowers hurt breathers; ban hurts businesses.
The environmentalists said: The persistent roar of gas-powered leaf blowers pollute the air and cause long-term health and environmental damage.
The landscapers whose income currently depends on those leaf blowers said: Advocates who want to ban them are out of touch.
“I want to see how many calluses they have,” said one professional.
by | Jun 2, 2022 5:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Commissioner Russell-Tucker and State Rep. Toni Walker with Gov. Lamont at SCSU Thursday.
Gov. Ned Lamont came to Southern Connecticut State University Thursday to announce that his administration has set aside $2 million in grants to help aspiring teachers a fighting chance at financially making it through school.
by | May 27, 2022 8:30 am | Comments (3)
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Erick Russell at party convention accepting the Democratic endorsement for state treasurer.
A leading local labor advocacy group has thrown its political weight behind Erick Russell’s campaign for state treasurer — in advance of August’s contested Democratic Party primary, which will see two New Haveners on the ballot.
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by | May 26, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (11)
Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven "shouldn't be indebted to a system that doesn't work."
Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way kids learn to read — how she believes New Haven is ready to follow the state in making the shift.
by | May 25, 2022 8:53 am | Comments (12)
Tracey: You earned it.
Full-time and part-time New Haven Public School (NHPS) employees who have been bearing the brunt of staff shortages, upticks in violence, and learning gaps will be thanked for their commitments to the district with $1,000 and $500 retention bonuses.
by | May 23, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (36)
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Asst. Chief Jacobson (right) supporting neighbors at a Fair Haven protest.
Jacobson, with daughter Kelli, at Monday's presser.
After a nationwide search, Mayor Justin Elicker has reached within the police department for a new chief, selecting Karl Jacobson to be the city’s next top cop.
by | May 22, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (4)
John Tarka.
The Board of Education is scheduled to vote Monday night on a slate of new appointments and transfers, including the selection of John Tarka as the new principal of Wilbur Cross High School.
by | May 19, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Timmy Turner.
Timothy Turner was walking across the Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue in the pouring rain sporting a Chicago Bulls Bucket hat, a sweatshirt, and jeans. He didn’t have an umbrella, but he still wore a bright smile across his face.
by | May 17, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
Superintendent Goeler with Asst. Superintendent Chris Melillo and schools CFO Tom Ariola.
Four months after Hamden schools’ superintendent announced his retirement, one of the town’s assistant superintendents is also planning a move out of the district — to become the new leader of Newtown’s schools.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Asst. Schools Superintendent Plans To Leave District’
by | May 11, 2022 5:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Town Clerk Karimah Mickens swears in Wydra.
Elijah Gomez.
Timothy Wydra began a two-step ascension to the top of police department — and invoked the murder of 15-year-old Elijah Gomez in promising to tackle gun violence.
Continue reading ‘As Teen Murder Rattles Town, Hamden Promotes A Top Cop’
by | May 11, 2022 3:30 pm | Comments (11)
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Hi/Bye: Outgoing 911 Director Stratton, at March press conference announcing his appointment.
A month and a half after taking over the city’s 911 call center, Kevin Stratton is leaving City Hall — with the future leadership of the turmoil-wracked department now up for grabs.
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Changing of the guard: CAO Rush-Kittle (left); retiring Chief Dominguez.
New Haven’s embattled acting police chief is clearing out of 1 Union Ave., and the mayor is breaking from precedent in choosing whom to put in her place.
Continue reading ‘Dominguez Clearing Out; Mayor Taps CAO, Not Asst. Chief, To Run NHPD Temporarily’
by and | May 9, 2022 1:36 pm | Comments (13)
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Chief John Sullivan at an "all-abilities dance party" the HPD co-sponsored with community groups.
Hamden Police Chief John Sullivan is retiring after a quarter-century with the department, effective next Monday.
by | May 9, 2022 12:45 pm | Comments (2)
Symone Roberts, Kettia Saint-Surin, Joanna Ishmael, and Michaelin Thomas: Help overcoming the debt trap.
Aspiring teachers like Symone Roberts will soon be able to fill vacant teacher roles in Hamden — and diversify the ranks — thanks to a program boosted by an infusion of federal money.
by | May 9, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (14)
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Principal Edith Johnson at a 2019 rally on behalf of a Cross student being detained by ICE.
Students at New Haven’s two largest high schools will return in the fall with new principals in charge.
by | May 6, 2022 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Timothy F. Wydra.
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett has nominated Captain Timothy Wydra to fill the role of deputy police chief, more than five months after the non-union position was first left vacant by a retiree.
by | May 3, 2022 11:31 am | Comments (9)
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Ahmad Ward, Morgan Brown, Mike Nice, Latoya Smith at job fair.
Aspiring teachers learned of opportunities in New Haven classrooms, as New Haven’s schools seek to fill 100 vacant classroom positions by teaming up with local colleges and universities to help more educators gain teacher certification.
by | Apr 29, 2022 9:46 am | Comments (1)
Labor Day is Sunday, and labor is ready.
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by | Apr 28, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (13)
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The scene at Wednesday's rally.
Graduate student teachers marched alongside hotel workers on closed-off downtown streets in support of two new unionization drives: a revived 30-year-old campaign at Yale, and one at the Graduate New Haven (née Duncan) hotel.
Continue reading ‘Grad Students, "Grad" Hotel Workers On The March’
by | Apr 19, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (7)
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Local 33 graduation student-worker organizers, and hunger fasters, in 2017.
Former Local 33 Vice President and current East Rock Alder Charles Decker on Monday: Yale grads deserve a union.
After several years of hibernation, UNITE HERE Local 33 is back — ready to re-block some streets and resume a decades-long push for a union for Yale’s graduate students, teachers, workers, and researchers.
Continue reading ‘Yale Grad Union Preps Return To The Streets’