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.
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.
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.
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.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 2, 2023 3:32 pm
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PDD update pitch, with planned new developments in red.
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.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 2, 2023 8:59 am
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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.
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.
Eugene J. Foreman Jr. looked surprisingly calm with his walkie-talkie out on the Beers Street sidewalk outside Augusta Lewis Troup School as a siren sounded and kids poured out of the building.
Nancy Jordan with 18-month-old Tramire as she and fellow church parishioners delivered holiday gifts to his home two months after a stray bullet struck him on his family's front porch.
When Nancy Jordan does her “clap-out dance” at police headquarters Friday, she doesn’t plan to make people wait outside.
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Jan 24, 2023 11:14 am
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Watch out for those pitfalls ... as presented at a recent Teaching & Learning Committee meeting.
Educators, consultant speak up to back program.
After a too-long stint of feeling way too isolated, Brennan-Rogers second grade teachers Samantha Conway and Tracey Peterson found a way out of their ruts thanks to an investment in their professional wellbeing by the teachers union and the city’s public school district.
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Jan 18, 2023 8:48 am
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AFSCME Local 1303-467 President Cynthia Harris-Jackson at a vaccine clinic in 2021.
Local legislators unanimously approved a new long-awaited contract for school nurses, issuing future and retroactive raises for public health workers who have worked to keep schools and students safe throughout the pandemic.
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Jan 17, 2023 8:53 am
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Stephanie Greenlea reflects Monday on 17 years of organizing with Local 33.
Days after Yale graduate student-workers officially won union recognition in a landslide election, a local labor coalition celebrated that victory while rallying in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s vision of working class justice.
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Jan 16, 2023 11:45 am
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Immigrant rights organizers, advocates at City Hall presser.
Immigrant workers spoke out against alleged wage theft and on-the-job abuse at a City Hall press conference focused on beefing up whistleblower protections.
Hector Morales (second from left) takes in FBI pitch at Promise fair.
The FBI sounded interesting. Yale’s IT woman made a passionate pitch. The library and the Yale police made their cases. Aspiring forensic scientist Hector Morales heard them out and wondered: Where does his future lie?
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Jan 12, 2023 10:14 am
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NHPS Supervisor of Literacy Lynn Brantley.
The city school district’s top literacy official plans to retire after 37 years of public education service inside and outside of New Haven classrooms.
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Jan 10, 2023 1:24 pm
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Teachers and building leaders who help out with before- and after-school programs will get a $13-plus hourly pay bump, thanks to a new agreement approved by the Board of Education.
Yale graduate teachers and researchers voted overwhelmingly in support of forming a union — marking a local-labor milestone that caps three decades’ worth of organizing for better working conditions on campus.
