by | Mar 3, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (15)
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Passing it down: Officer Torres with Officer-in-Training Evans.
Newly minted cop Daniel Evans kept the 212 CT Transit bus in sight. He also kept his distance.
Evans turned to the officer seated beside him to ask: Is this the right move?
by | Mar 2, 2023 3:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Patricia Tynan picked up a coffee to go from the Humphrey Street Dunkin’ on her way into work Thursday, but this time she ordered a decaf.
Continue reading ‘Word On Nicoll Street: Big Picture Comes In Focus’
by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Mar 1, 2023 2:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Started young, still painting: Matt Bleythings and Robert Picagli at work site Wednesday.
In their fathers’ footsteps, Robert Picagli and Matt Bleything picked up the tools to prepare a century-plus-old Dwight building to house new generations of renters.
Continue reading ‘Word On Kensington Street: Paintbrushes Pass Down’
by | Mar 1, 2023 11:56 am | Comments (19)
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Diving in: Leslie Blatteau at WNHH FM.
School fights and lockdowns. Teacher flight. Staff shortages. Fights for funding. Calls for more elected school board members — and a school board willing to meet in public in person. A search for a new superintendent at a crucial juncture for public education.
Fourteen months into her presidency of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, Leslie Blatteau has found herself in the middle of these and other pressing public controversies. As a public school parent, as a New Haven teacher with 16 years in the classroom, and now as a labor leader, she has thought long and hard about these issues.
by | Feb 28, 2023 6:04 pm | Comments (16)
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At Monday's online Board of Education meeting.
Thirty-one applicants from across the country have thrown their hats in the ring to be the next superintendent of the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district.
by | Feb 28, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday’s snow day gave Huân Ngô time to catch up on grading papers and preparing his students for New Haven’s jobs of tomorrow.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Maple Street: STEM? 'Snow Sweat’
by | Feb 27, 2023 4:57 pm | Comments (1)
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David Goraieb had a feeling that he’d end up unloading boxes of peppers and pork bellies from a truck Monday morning.
Continue reading ‘Word On Crown Street: "Warehouse Guy" Hops In The Truck’
by | Feb 23, 2023 3:32 pm | Comments (10)
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Tased & Defused: 2 a.m. foot chase on Daggett Street.
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Next-gen cops Nick Samartino, Trevor Canace, Daniel Smith, Thomas Brunski.
The fleeing man probably has a gun, the police officers chasing him figured.
One officer chased him with his own gun out. The other ran while pointing a taser.
If they needed to fire, they were hoping the latter weapon would do the trick.
by | Feb 22, 2023 4:48 pm | Comments (8)
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Educators rally outside City Hall for full school funding last March.
City teachers will be getting a 15 percent pay raise over the next three years — while a new math-and-literacy tutoring initiative will be getting $3 million in federal aid to get off the ground — thanks to two recent education-focused votes by the Board of Alders.
Continue reading ‘Teachers Union Contract, Fed-Funded Tutoring Plan OK'd’
by | Feb 21, 2023 3:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Greg McLaurin stopped at Goffe Street Tuesday morning because he didn’t want to cuss. He wanted a calm spot to consider a solution rather than escalating a conflict he had on the job.
Continue reading ‘The Word On County Street: Greg Weighs His Next Move’
by | Feb 20, 2023 11:40 am | Comments (4)
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New Parks & Public Works Deputy Stephen Hladun at recent parks commission meeting.
A veteran of Bridgeport’s parks and rec department is now New Haven’s top parks official, after stepping into the role of deputy director in the city’s Department of Parks & Public Works.
by | Feb 16, 2023 5:05 pm | Comments (5)
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A white Kia pulled up to the curb. Kenta Wilson’s plan for the morning was about to change.
by | Feb 14, 2023 4:53 pm | Comments (11)
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Hillhouse teacher Raven Mitchell: "We take on more than what's in our contracts."
Frustrated by years of working extra jobs to support her family, Fana Hickinson nearly left the teaching job she loves at New Haven Academy — until a draft union contract promised her a salary increase that convinced her to stay.
by | Feb 14, 2023 12:48 pm | Comments (19)
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Jonathan Berryman at union rally: "We are not a cookie cutter district."
The city’s teachers union envisions a school system less reliant on test scores, more attuned to students’ emotional and cultural empowerment, and more pliable to input from every corner of the school community.
Over 20 teachers and allies gathered outside City Hall to call for the next superintendent to act on those values — and for a transparent, inclusive process for selecting the next top school administrator.
by | Feb 13, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
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Newly promoted firefighter Michael Proto, at left, on the scene of a 2021 Fountain Street fire.
In a sign of generational change at the city’s fire department, New Haven has 12 new fire lieutenants, nine new captains, four new inspectors/investigators, and is looking for a new assistant chief.
Continue reading ‘24 Firefighters Promoted; Asst. Chief Retires’
by | Feb 13, 2023 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Carl Zemke took a round three-inch file to the ground-down teeth of his Stihl chainsaw Monday morning convinced that the old blade could still do the job.
by | Feb 13, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (10)
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9 years going strong: Peelin' & wheelin' on Mechanic Street.
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Domingo Medina picked up a green plastic bucket waiting for him on a Mechanic Street front porch, measured its weight, and dumped its wealth of food scraps into one of his four bike-towed containers.
Piled before him was so much more than just a colorful array of eggshells, lemon peels, onion skins, and hunks of bread. In that same pile lay the ingredients for a cleaner environment, healthier soils, and “greener” jobs.
“It’s a wonderful sight to see,” Medina said.
by | Feb 13, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (9)
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OrLando Yarborough and Erik Clemons at WNHH FM.
Once upon a time, New Haveners without college degrees could pursue well-paying careers making rifles at the old Winchester factory.
Today they’ll be able to pursue careers working in labs helping test drugs to cure diseases like cancer, thanks to a new pipeline created to help New Haveners find their way to some of the jobs of the future pouring into the city.
by | Feb 10, 2023 11:47 am | Comments (31)
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Shafiq Abdussabur at Thursday's public hearing: "Not amused" by mayor's pitch to drop residency requirements for some city dept. heads.
Leaders of the city’s teachers union called for the school board to have two additional elected members — and for the mayor to be stripped of his ed-board voting powers.
by | Feb 8, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (3)
Nathaniel Britton had boots on the ground Wednesday. He could feel the soles and toes start to split.
by | Feb 3, 2023 1:43 pm | Comments (2)
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After working the overnight shift, surgical ICU nurse Makenzie Givens polished off a plate of scrambled eggs at Bella’s Cafe Friday morning, then headed home for some shut-eye.
But not too much shut-eye.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: ICU Crew Lands At Bella's’
by | Feb 2, 2023 3:32 pm | Comments (48)
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The current surface parking lot at 110 Munson.
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Developer Alex Twining: Part of the "replacement of parking lots with places to work and live."
A 200-space Munson Street parking lot could be the site of New Haven’s next biotech lab building — according to a Winchester-factory-redevelopment zoning update that received a favorable, if still skeptical, recommendation from the City Plan Commission.
Continue reading ‘Bye-Bye, Parking Lot? Lab Rezoning Advances’
by | Feb 2, 2023 8:59 am | Comments (8)
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Friends Center ED Allyx Schiavone: Building housing for teachers.
4 new houses (solid-line rectangles) planned for around 53 Howard.
A local affordable childcare nonprofit is looking to take on the role of housing developer — as it moves forward with plans to expand its current rent-free-shelter options for teachers, by building four new houses in Fair Haven Heights.
by | Jan 31, 2023 3:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Jack Deyo (above) drills hole for Wingstop sign (below, with colleagues Evan Curtin and TJ Telesco).
Six-foot-wide aluminum incarnations of the words “WING” and “STOP” rested on the Sherman Avenue sidewalk as three seasoned sign-installers scoped out the scene.