by | Mar 15, 2023 4:28 pm | Comments (4)
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Rosa DeLauro brings mom Luisa to 200 Orange St. to vote in 2016.
Rosa DeLauro didn’t “celebrate” National Pay Equity Day Tuesday. She revived an effort to render the occasion moot.
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Lt. -- now Asst. Chief -- Colon on the job in Newhallville.
Lt. Manmeet Colon ascended to the role of assistant police chief after city commissioners praised her career in the department, her skills as a police officer and leader, and her status as a multilingual Asian American woman now in the local force’s highest ranks.
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by | Mar 14, 2023 3:31 pm | Comments (2)
Asst. Chief Justin McCarthy, Mayor Justin Elicker, Asst. Chief Dan Coughlin, retired firefighter William Coughlin, Asst. Drillmaster Shytan Floyd, and Chief John Alston.
Two New Haven natives have been promoted to top spots in the city’s fire department, with Dan Coughlin filling the role of assistant chief of operations and Shytan Floyd becoming assistant drillmaster.
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by | Mar 13, 2023 4:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Lt. Colon on the job in Newhallville.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson has tapped Lt. Manmeet Colon to serve as an assistant chief.
by | Mar 9, 2023 9:09 am | Comments (8)
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Shaina Plunkett: Hoping to bring Jamaican heritage to Yale Hospitality.
With reunion and commencement season on the horizon, Yale Hospitality is looking to hire 75 to 100 semi-permanent workers from New Haven as banquet servers and casual dining staffers.
University officials urged an audience of city residents to apply for those jobs in the latest session of an ongoing town-gown local hiring push.
by | Mar 8, 2023 5:46 pm | Comments (17)
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Asst. Chief Justin McCarthy (left) with Fire Chief John Alston.
Justin McCarthy plans to step down from his post as New Haven’s assistant fire chief in May for a similar job in the suburbs, marking the second retirement this year of a high-ranking city fire department official.
by | Mar 8, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Marilyn DeJesus and John Antoni protest for higher pay, lower childcare costs.
Marilyn DeJesus was making $12 an hour as an early childhood educator — and paying $1,700 a month for childcare as a single parent.
Having since left that job to teach toddlers at a center with better compensation, DeJesus joined hundreds of other early educators on the Green to call for higher wages and lower childcare costs.
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by | Mar 6, 2023 3:09 pm | Comments (4)
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EMERGE's Richard Watkins on Monday: Young people's voices matter.
Aspiring medical assistants, landscapers, and manufacturers now have a clearer path to career success, thanks to a new city grant designed to skill up New Haven’s workforce.
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.
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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.