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John Lugo on ULA’s 4-times-a-week pandemic outreach radio show.
Spanish-language digital guides on emergency food pick-ups and renter protections. An undocumented worker relief fund. “Honkathons” outside of federal immigration buildings on behalf of crammed detainees.
A leading city immigrant and workers’ rights group has turned to efforts like these during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The tube goes over the ears and across the face like a glasses frame. Unlike a pair of glasses though, the tube is hollow and can push out oxygen into a hood to prevent medical professionals from catching Covid-19 while they work to save other people’s lives.
New Haven and Hamden school bus drivers will continue to get paychecks during the Covid-19 pandemic –- now not just because of a contract but also thanks to an executive order from Gov. Ned Lamont.
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Construction continues at 87 Union St. and at the intersection of Lafayette and Congress Ave. (below).
Even as much of the city’s economy has ground to a halt amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, construction workers are still donning their hardhats every morning and heading out to New Haven’s many construction sites — which busy city developers are furnishing with extra hand sanitizer, social distancing mandates, and more frequent porta potty cleanings.
ShopRite’s Javier Diaz: “We have to work. People have to survive.”
As he stood outside of Stop & Shop bringing shopping carts from the parking lot to the store’s entrance, William stopped to ponder whether he could now be considered a first responder.
A shuttle driver for Propark Mobility, who up until two weeks ago earned $14 an hour driving hospital employees between Yale New Haven Hospital’s campuses, is now in bed at one of those campuses struggling to breathe with a bad case of pneumonia caused by Covid-19, while her employer has stopped paying her.
Nearby, in the intensive care unit, her husband is on life support. Up until last week, he cleaned buses for CTtransit at its garage in Hamden. Then, at the end of the week, he was the first CTtransit worker to test positive for the virus.
At the same time he immediately agreed to help the city house firefighters and cops in student dorms amid the Covid-19 outbreak, University of New Haven President Steven Kaplan was wrestling with tough financial financial decisions on campus.
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City trash truck driver Rudolph High and laborers Thomas Pittman-Dennie and William Telford (below): Keeping the city clean.
Rudolph High has driven through snowstorms and heavy traffic and bouts of bad health during his nearly three decades working for the city’s Department of Public Works. This is his first time helming the wheel of a city trash truck during a global pandemic.
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Arts Council Executive Director Daniel Fitzmaurice on Thursday’s Zoom announcement.
Artists in New Haven can now apply for a $1,000 check to help with the economic downturn created by the Covid-19 public health crisis.
This New Haven Creative Sector Relief Fund launches on Thursday, through the efforts of the city arts department and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
Students and buses at Hamden’s Church Street School.
While teachers can count on their contracts to keep them paid during the Covid-19 shutdown, bus drivers in Hamden have been left without a paycheck, and with few clues about whether they will remain unpaid.
Thanks to different contract language, New Haven’s drivers are OK for now.
With chairs stacked on tables after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered all dine-in restaurant service closed on March 16, most Hamden restaurateurs have managed to stay afloat for now with deliveries and takeout. But they’re scraping the bottom of the pan, they said, and some may soon be baking their last batches and flipping their last pies.
While schools are closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, school employees will continue to get their paychecks. This includes part-time employees, at least through mid-April.
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Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel campus, just after classes were canceled for the remainder of the semester.
As businesses and organizations across the country cut back on staffing because of the economic havoc wrought by the Covid-19 virus, Quinnipiac University notified faculty and staff Monday afternoon that their salaries will take a hit from the virus.
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Jasmine Medina: “I’m freaking out.”
CTtransit bus operator Jasmine Medina bought her baby-blue mask online. Her black rubber gloves she bought from a hairdresser, because it was the only place she could find them. From her employer, she got … silence.
Until Thursday night, when the state announced new policies aimed at protecting drivers, including directions to enter buses through the back door.
Qulen Wright at Ninth Square Market II Caribbean Style, one of the restaurants pivoting to take-out.
A local professor has begun a Google Doc to help inform people how to support restaurants that are pivoting to take-out and delivery amid a statewide order to close dine-in service.
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Simon Obas: Up for pre-disciplinary hearing.
An oversight board told the Achievement First charter network to continue looking into allegations that Amistad High School’s principal misreported student suspensions.
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Industrial Flow Solutions’s newly acquired Fair Haven site. Below: Director of Operations Matt Blackwell promises capital investment.
An industrial pump manufacturer plans to make at least $385,000 in capital improvements and hire 14 new employees at its recently acquired Fair Haven factory in exchange for the city giving up its right to take back a 1.84-acre undeveloped parking lot on the site.
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NHPS pitches potential hires.
Jobs from firefighter to police officer to census taker were on display Saturday for some of New Haven’s newest community members as well as others seeking work.
Recently fired city Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett: Will fight back.
Mayor Justin Elicker took action this week on a challenge he inherited upon taking office this January: He fired city Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett.
