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Organizer Georgia Goldburn: Industry "on brink of collapse."
Facing an industry-wide implosion, childcare providers across Connecticut plan to close down for two hours on Tuesday morning to protest for more funding.
by | Mar 10, 2022 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Trudy Anderson at WNHH FM.
Trudy Anderson can tell you four different ways to say pen — in Spanish alone.
by | Mar 9, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (31)
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Money up front: Torres gases up the shuttle.
Shakira Rodriguez Torres spent $90 filling half her tank with 19 gallons of gas Wednesday at the Long Wharf Mobil — and she wasn’t pleased.
by | Mar 9, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (13)
Capt. Zannelli: New policy in line with state mandates.
Police commissioners unanimously signed off on a new alcohol and drug policy that adds anabolic steroids to its list of prohibited substances, and that maintains a departmental ban on marijuana use — even though the state has newly legalized recreational cannabis.
Continue reading ‘New Police Drug Policy Approved; Cops May Not Toke’
by | Mar 9, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (4)
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Newly promoted detectives, clockwise from top left: Allyn Wright, Maegan Moran, Samantha Romano, and Larnell Jackson.
City police commissioners unanimously signed off on 10 new promotions designed to fill vacancies in the detective bureau.
by | Mar 2, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (9)
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Starting fresh: Ex-offenders Robinson and Shabazz picking up litter.
Abdullah Shabazz woke up at 2 a.m. Wednesday, showered, said his prayers, read the Quran, then caught the bus from Bella Vista to Grand Avenue to start cleaning up the street — and keeping on a straight path.
by | Mar 1, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (30)
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Chief Alston directing response to 2018 K-2 poisonings on Green.
Fire Chief John Alston argued to a panel of alders weighing his reappointment that the change he has sought to make in his department was bound to be unpopular.
Firefighter union members agreed he’s unpopular — and countered that the change the department needs is in leadership, citing low morale and aging equipment.
Continue reading ‘Alston Reappointment Hearing Reveals Rift’
by and | Mar 1, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (16)
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Anti-mask protesters crowd outside the BOE Monday night.
While most Connecticut schools drop mask mandates, New Haven’s and Hamden’s boards of education Monday night voted to keep their policies in place.
by | Feb 28, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Georgia Goldburn: "Stunned and appalled" at governor's budget.
Early childhood centers are warning of a crisis that could lead to mass closures and skyrocketing fees, if the government doesn’t act soon.
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by | Feb 21, 2022 5:08 pm | Comments (6)
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Ralph Liuzzi displays his mozzarella's flexibility to visiting senator.
A Hamden cheese manufacturer is aging as well as the products it sells — and is stretching its story further across town as business booms.
by | Feb 21, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (23)
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Leslie Blatteau.
Teachers union President Leslie Blatteau delivered these remarks during a Board of Education public comment period.
In one month, we will arrive at the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic permanently impacting our school system, our community, and the way we teach and learn. It is clear that so much has changed. Ask anyone who is working in our schools, and they will tell you: the unprecedented exhaustion and anxiety, and the erosion of trust that is central to the health of any organization, are causing people to question why they show up to school everyday.
Continue reading ‘2 Years Into Pandemic, We Need To Move Forward Together’
by and | Feb 18, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (7)
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Renewed mission: Violet Harlow, John Cavaliere, Andre Marti at work.
Restoration is in full swing at Westville Village’s hub of reinvention.
by | Feb 18, 2022 10:04 am | Comments (1)
Beonce Fraser learns about SPRINT intern program at Thursday's fair.
Business and marketing student Beonce Fraser, 20, didn’t consider working in the bioscience industry until she learned about a search for summer marketing interns in the field.
Continue reading ‘Bioscience Careers Beckon At Internship Fair’
by and | Feb 14, 2022 5:15 pm | Comments (63)
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Sophomore Jayla Anderson: Protest "got out of hand."
Students marched on the classroom of an English teacher — and she was subsequently placed on leave — after she allegedly used a racial epithet in a classroom discussion about the use of a racial epithet.
by | Feb 10, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (2)
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Marcia LaFemina: "I always wanted it to be in Fair Haven."
Marcia LaFemina is looking to transform a vacant Fair Haven industrial building into a community hub where manufacturing trainees can take bilingual classes, sign up for energy assistance, and receive diapers for their kids.
by | Feb 4, 2022 4:12 pm | Comments (21)
New Elicker Administration appointees. Clockwise from top left: Fair Rent's Wildaliz Bermúdez, Labor Relations' Wendella Ault Battey, aldermanic liaison Barbara Montalvo, and City Plan's Laura Brown.
A new leadership crew at City Hall came into focus Friday, as Mayor Justin Elicker announced appointments for the directors of City Plan, Fair Rent, and Labor Relations, as well as for a liaison to the Board of Alders.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Picks New Leaders For City Plan, Fair Rent, Labor Relations’
by | Feb 3, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (6)
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Travel nurse Coltan Jacobson at YNHH: Plans change; staying in town.
Coltan Jacobson drove 22 hours from Minnesota to New Haven to take care of Covid-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital. Soon after he arrived, he got Covid.
by | Feb 2, 2022 4:56 pm | Comments (29)
An F is a 50. Not a zero.
At least for the purposes of calculating New Haven public school students’ grades. At least for now during the pandemic.
Asst. Schools Superintendent Ivelise Velazquez informed teachers of that policy in an email message.
Continue reading ‘Teachers To Start Grading At 50, Not Zero’
by | Feb 2, 2022 10:09 am | Comments (0)
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Cherelle Carr with sister Shenae at Tuesday's promotional ceremony.
As she and her colleagues took the oath to become New Haven police sergeants, Cherelle Carr thought back to when she almost went to school to be a lawyer.
by | Feb 1, 2022 4:01 pm | Comments (6)
Areas of Goeler's proposed budget that show cost increases.
Teachers’ time, bus rides, and building maintenance will all cost more in the upcoming school year — but how Hamden will choose to manage rising prices remains to be seen.
by | Jan 31, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
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Jermaine Smith and Ra Hashim at construction site on Crown.
The word on Crown Street Monday was “level up.”
by | Jan 31, 2022 11:46 am | Comments (11)
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On the way out: City Plan Director Aicha Woods, Fair Rent's Otis Johnson, Elderly Services chief Migdalia Castro.
Through a mix of department-head retirements and non-reappointments, the Elicker Administration will soon have a host of new faces in — and former Harp appointees out of — various leadership positions in City Hall.
Among the agencies to receive new leaders are the City Plan Department, the Fair Rent Commission, and the Elderly Services Division.
by | Jan 28, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Cannabis crew boning up Wednesday night.
Brandi Marshall: “I’ve got the product. I need the capital.”
Days before Connecticut starts accepting applications for cannabis licenses, 50-plus home-growers, sellers, and consumers of the plant gathered to share business strategies, discuss the history of the war on drugs, smoke joints, order beer, and eat boxes upon boxes of pizza from East Rock’s One 6 Three.
They’re boning up on the rules and preparing to go legit in an emerging industry they’ve already entered. They also vow to keep their grassroots community growing as corporate vultures swoop into the marketplace.
by | Jan 26, 2022 10:21 am | Comments (2)
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Departing schools chief Goeler: Conversation shifted when "citizens" became "taxpayers."
Jody Goeler has a message for his successor as they pick up the unfinished work of desegregating Hamden’s schools: Have a strong set of beliefs — and learn how to listen to others.
by | Jan 25, 2022 3:27 pm | Comments (12)
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Paras union leader Hyclis Williams: Double standard seen.
Classroom aides say they’re getting the raw end of the stick — being told to quarantine at home but not necessarily getting paid for the time, unlike teachers.