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Clara Hill at City Hall after her swearing in: Ready to “be the change.”
The path to a swearing-in Tuesday for one of New Haven’s 20 new cops-in-training began during national protests over race and policing.
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“This is a very community oriented police department,” Chief Sullivan tells the new officers upon their hiring.
Hamden Police Department’s patrol division has grown by three members after the Police Commission approved a series of promotions and hirings Monday night.
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Who gets suspended? Who gets protected? Sgt. Jasmine Sanders, Sgt. Louis DeCrescenzo, and now-retired Lt. Mark O’Neill.
Should a sergeant be suspended for six months for mishandling a domestic violence case involving a drunken firefighter who later killed himself?
Or is the acting police chief’s recommended discipline too harsh— focused on just one individual, while letting politically favored supervisors off the hook?
The Board of Police Commissioners wrestled with those questions, and launched a broader look into how department brass has, and hasn’t, held its officers accountable, at a disciplinary hearing Monday evening.
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Newly appointed TT&P director Sandeep Aysola and LCI director Arlevia Samuel at City Hall on Monday.
The mayor has tapped the city’s acting Livable City Initiative (LCI) director to take over as the permanent head of City Hall’s neighborhood development and housing code enforcement department—and has picked a local transportation consultant to lead Transportation, Traffic & Parking (TT&P).
Continue reading ‘Elicker Picks New LCI, Transportation Directors’
by | Nov 23, 2021 2:27 pm | Comments (11)
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Regina Rush-Kittle, tapped by the mayor to serve as city CAO.
Wowed by her resume and decades-long commitment to public service, alders advanced the appointment of an ex-Marine, state trooper, police officer, and state emergency management deputy commissioner to a top City Hall “coordinator” role.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Marine City Hall “Coordinator” Nomination Advances’
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Deputy Chief Kevin Samperi, Lt. Timothy Wydra, Chief John Sullivan, Sgt. Nathan Youngberg Monday night.
Hamden’s Police Commission filled one of two empty deputy chief positions Monday night — leaving the other seat open and waiting for an appointment by incoming Mayor Lauren Garrett.
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Teachers union challenge slate members Leslie Blatteau, Michael Soares, Mia Comulada Breuler, Kirsten Hopes-McFadden, Jonathan Berryman, and Jennifer Graves.
A “Fighting for Our Future” challenger slate is running its campaign the way it plans to run the teachers union if elected in two weeks — pushing for member re-empowerment and “circular” leadership.
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Police Commissioner Tracey Meares and retired police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur, a Beaver Hills alder-elect, came out in favor Thursday of conducting a nationwide search for the next New Haven police chief.
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Fire Chief Merwede and Police Chief Sullivan: Looking for new hires.
Eleven public safety officials — including Hamden’s two deputy police chiefs — announced their impending retirements on Wednesday to the town retirement board.
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Hillhouse seniors Rafael Cruz and Aliyah Osman.
With the help of a new Hillhouse-Gateway Community College automotive program, Hillhouse senior Rafael Cruz can spend his school day working toward his dream of owning a mechanic shop in Puerto Rico.
Continue reading ‘Auto Program Revs Alternative Career Path’
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Arpita Neogi and Alok Agrawal pick up marriage license Tuesday.
Getting hitched in New Haven is about to become just a little bit easier — as a plan advanced to reclassify two Vital Statistics Division positions to allow those employees to sign off on marriage licenses and certificates.
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Members of Cicarella/DeLucia slate at Goodfellas campaign kick-off.
Dave Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, is looking to get re-elected next month with a slate of educators promising strength in continuity and experience to accomplish unfinished goals.
Continue reading ‘Cicarella Slate Set For Teacher Union Vote’
by | Oct 20, 2021 9:27 pm | Comments (13)
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Brian Wingate (left) and other Local 35 members vote on Wednesday.
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Local 34 leaders erupt into cheers as the contract is ratified.
At a time when union-management clashes have grown nationwide, a different story emerged Wednesday night in New Haven: Yale’s two main unions voted to ratify new five-year contracts.
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Participants sign off on AWS training program Monday.
The state is partnering with its community colleges and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Connecticut residents with technology training opportunities to fill some of the 40,000 posted computing “cloud” jobs available as of last year.
Continue reading ‘Amazon, State Unveil Cloud Job-Training Initiative At Community Colleges’
by | Oct 18, 2021 3:21 pm | Comments (2)
Yale New Haven Health required 28,000-odd employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 — and all but 94 heeded the call.
Continue reading ‘As Deadline Passes, Only 94 Yale New Haven Health Employees Remain Unvaccinated’
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Nan Chen: I want to help others.
If a pitch made Tuesday evening pans out, Nan Chen will be patrolling his Fair Haven neighborhood. As Officer Nan Chen.
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United Way President Lisa Tepper Bates: “The work isn’t easy.”
United Way of Connecticut is proposing that businesses help people “get back to work” with an equity approach.
Continue reading ‘United Way Makes Flexibility Pitch To Lure Back Workers’
by | Sep 28, 2021 5:57 pm | Comments (38)
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Yale union members and supporters at a Prospect Street rally in May.
Yale and its blue-collar and clerical and technical worker unions have struck a tentative agreement for new contracts that would cover more than 5,000 university employees over the next five years.
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Monday’s virtual Board of Education meeting.
Part-time workers at New Haven Public Schools will now make a minimum of $14 per hour, thanks to a Monday evening vote by the city’s Board of Education.
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Bumps Part-Timer Min Wage Up To $14 / Hr’
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Eddie Blue talks about cutting his hours to care for his kids — who thrived in Pre-K — during the pandemic.
Selena Calderon has “lost a few jobs” trying to land an early childcare slot for her 1‑year-old.
She told two U.S. senators about that in the hope that they can help fix the problem on a national scale.
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Officials at schools, health care facilities, and child care centers now have the details about how the state expects them to carry out the mandate that employees either get vaccinated for Covid-19 or qualify for and then comply with the terms of an exemption.
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by | Sep 15, 2021 8:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Rafael Ramos at WNHH FM: “Government can impact people’s lives.”
After 25 years making sure porches didn’t crumble and the heat stayed on in renters’ apartments, Rafael Ramos is taking on a new challenge: making sure kids don’t eat lead paint at home and diners don’t eat poison at restaurants.
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The postman always rings nice: Maiorano in Front Street Park, which he remembers as the Schiavone scrap yard in his youth.
Carol Manago was thrilled to see Chris Maiorano back in the neighborhood. Even if he didn’t have his mail satchel with him.
Her pooch Chico was less thrilled.
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City Health Director Maritza Bond (right) gets vax’d last December.
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As reporting deadline passes for mayor’s vax-or-test mandate.
Continue reading ‘894 City Workers Vax’d; 247 Opt For Testing’
by | Sep 10, 2021 4:08 pm | Comments (8)
Training Commander Lt. Rob Maturo, Andrea Moore, Tonisha Berrios, Adrian Tudor, Marelyn Vega, Chantel Davis, and Deputy Commander of Training Sgt. Shayna Kendall at Friday’s swearing-in.
Five more police officers are beginning training as the police department works to beef up its ranks amid a spike in violent crime.