by | Jan 30, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Jan 27, 2023 3:24 pm | Comments (7)
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New-generation cops doing extra duty downtown: Gabrielle Curtis, Tyler Evans, Justin Julianelle.
Samples of BB facsmiles of Bushmaster and Glock guns.
Another bar fight was turning into a potential brawl — and a dangerous-looking weapon upped the ante.
by | Jan 26, 2023 5:06 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Jan 24, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Silas Harris had a spring in his step Tuesday morning after taking a first metaphorical step toward rebuilding his life.
by | Jan 24, 2023 11:14 am | Comments (1)
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.
Continue reading ‘Wellbeing Course Teaches Teachers To "Thrive"’
by | Jan 23, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Four deliveries down. Eight to go.
by | Jan 19, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Kasheem “Kash” Knight returned to Dwight from the overnight shift to throw in a load of laundry, and keep working.
by | Jan 18, 2023 8:48 am | Comments (6)
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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.
by | Jan 17, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | Jan 16, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (6)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Immigrant Workers Protest Alleged Wage Theft’
by | Jan 12, 2023 3:12 pm | Comments (3)
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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?
by | Jan 12, 2023 10:14 am | Comments (3)
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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.
Her planned retirement at the end of this school year comes amid the ongoing citywide debate around low reading levels and pandemic-era learning loss, as well as amidst a broader state-mandated shift in how schools teach young students how to read.
Continue reading ‘Literacy Director To Retire After 37 Years At NHPS’
by | Jan 11, 2023 3:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Kirk Bankasingh checks on a load.
Inside the Wishy Washy Laundry Wednesday morning, Sparks’ eyes were sparkling.
by | Jan 11, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (7)
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Tucked-in Smith & Wesson.
Tyler Camp had to make an instant decision: Wait for the team. Or run ahead and try to get the gun on his own.
by | Jan 10, 2023 1:24 pm | Comments (8)
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.
by | Jan 9, 2023 3:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Kendall Francis arrives early for her job interview.
Kendall Francis got a new glimpse of her family’s hometown, as she pulled into New Haven to see if it will become her new hometown.
by | Jan 9, 2023 3:26 pm | Comments (15)
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At a recent Local 33 rally on Hillhouse Ave.
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.
by | Jan 5, 2023 2:36 pm | Comments (2)
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by | Jan 4, 2023 12:57 pm | Comments (4)
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Officer Ashley McKernan was two hours into her second consecutive shift Wednesday morning when she finally found a moment to fuel back up for the next hours on the beat.
by | Dec 19, 2022 4:09 pm | Comments (2)
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Didi Muhammad and Angel Jiminez Monday with New Haven's largest mimosa glass.
Didi Muhammad showed up at New Haven’s “The Place 2 Be” Monday — wielding a mimosa glass large enough for a striped bass to swim in.
by | Dec 15, 2022 3:53 pm | Comments (29)
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Mario Franco, play money in hand, at Thursday's protest.
A group of highway service plaza workers and union organizers showed up to a Church Street office lobby with $1 million in “cash” as part of a holiday-season pressure campaign against alleged wage theft at Dunkin’ Donuts.
by | Dec 14, 2022 4:03 pm | Comments (0)
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First in line: Terry Barrett at American Muffler.
AAA flatbed tech Terry Barrett was behind AAA Pizza Wednesday watching someone else complete a task he has done himself thousands of times — replace brakes on a vehicle.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Terry Hands Over The Brakes’
by | Dec 13, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (2)
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Nobody tripped over the edge of a rising parking garage and broke his leg or worse Tuesday morning. Jared Hunter was making sure of that.
Continue reading ‘Safety Hunter Keeps Eye On The Rising Tiers’
by | Dec 8, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (10)
Workers pouring a concrete foundation Thursday at 201 Munson.
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Erick Morris: Making change on home turf.
Erick Morris went to work on Munson Street Thursday just as his grandfather did for three decades, albeit with different tools.
by | Dec 8, 2022 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
I don’t really know Michael. I know he lives in Connecticut. I know he’s a nurse. I only know that much because he was my nurse for 12 hours from a late Sunday to early Monday.
But for those 12 hours or so he knew me better than anyone because I was almost nothing but pain and he was my companion.