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Gov. Lamont (right) "clearing the records" of thousands of Connecticut residents with years-old criminal convictions.
Helen Caraballo is looking forward to attending nursing school while raising her five children and bouncing back from an otherwise “rough year” — with the knowledge that she’ll no longer have to keep looking backward at a decade-old, low-level felony conviction, which will soon be erased.
LaToya Howard (right) with Elm City Montessori's David Weinreb.
The following writeup was submitted by Elm City Montessori School to celebrate Thursday’s recognition of statewide parental involvement awardee LaToya Howard.
Elm City Montessori School parent and former NHPS T.A.P.S award winner LaToya Howard was honored at the Connecticut Family & Community Engagement Conference in Rocky Hill on Thursday as one of five recipients of this year’s State Education Resource Center (SERC) Parental Involvement Recognition Award.
A new batch of $47 million in state money headed to New Haven will improve the lot of train riders as well as pedestrians and cyclists on car-crazy Whalley Avenue, among others in town.
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Oct 4, 2023 2:41 pm
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Newly appointed state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner to-be Ronnell Higgins.
Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated former Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins to serve as the state’s next top public safety official — describing him as the “right man to take on this job” and get to the bottom of a roiling state police ticketing scandal.
The state has awarded $6 million towards overhauling Grand Avenue to make the bustling Fair Haven commercial corridor safer, cleaner, better-lit, and more pedestrian-friendly.
Those improvements can’t come soon enough for neighborhood stalwarts like Maria Ocotecatl of Grand Fish Market, and Javier Sanchez of Evolution Hair Studio, and Angeles Romero of Rodeo Groceries, and Ines Vidals of Dayvett’s Gifts, who have built up their small businesses because of their diverse and supportive community — and despite some of the conditions that persist outside their shops’ front doors.
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Aug 23, 2023 1:01 pm
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Juliana Garcia (center) at Fair Haven Health talk: "To what extent can I dream?"
Juliana Garcia can still remember being nine years old, uninsured, and telling her mom that it really was ok for her to pass on a dental surgery that would cost more than $4,000.
That the healthcare operation could wait. That that money needed to be spent instead on rent and food and other essentials.
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Aug 14, 2023 2:42 pm
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The Lamberton encampment, now cleared by the state.
Between ten and twenty people living under a Lamberton Street bridge by the Metro-North train tracks in the Hill were sent packing Monday morning after the state declared the site unsafe and cleared the campers’ belongings.
Hana Feldman plans to return to school once her firstborn is old enough for daycare — and hopes that two-week-old Eva will have an easier time following in her footsteps with state money newly set aside for college tuition.
Marty Looney found himself in a political conversation that summed up the challenge that he and his fellow progressives face at the state Capitol. It happened not in the halls of power, but at a Dunkin Donuts.
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Jul 12, 2023 1:59 pm
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LULAC Head Start ED Mikyle Byrd-Vaughn: "Our services are impacting children's full development."
As a dozen preschoolers laughed and bounced around a fenced-in outdoor playground on Haven Street, city and state officials gathered in a Fair Haven childcare center’s parking lot to celebrate a $2 million early-childhood-education boost from the state.
... to be made faster, cleaner, more efficient, thanks to Bus Rapid Transit program, as described by state transit chief Garrett Eucalitto Thursday.
City, state and federal officials took a victory lap Thursday at a politician-packed press conference celebrating a new $25 million grant that will speed up and electrify bus travel on Dixwell, Grand, Whalley, Congress and Columbus Avenues.
Can those SSNs: AG Privacy Section Chief Lucan at Chamber session.
Companies have nine days left to stop collecting personal info they don’t need from us and to start giving us more access to it — or else they’ll have to answer to Michele Lucan.
Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
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May 3, 2023 9:19 am
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Save The Sound's Roger Reynolds joins enviro allies in lamenting the still-polluted state of English Station (pictured above).
Local environmental advocates gathered in front of a graffiti-laden gate cutting off the contaminated former English Station power plant from the public — and lauded a recent move by the state’s attorney general pushing United Illuminating to finish cleaning up the site or pay a $2 million annual penalty.
A road-safety proposal that would allow local traffic authorities to separate from police commissions is making its way through the state legislature — as city charter revisers consider how best to act if such a law change passes.
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Thomas Breen and Laura Glesby |
Apr 11, 2023 8:38 am
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A sketch of the proposed new Long Wharf Drive park.
New Haven has landed $12.1 million in state aid to help transform Long Wharf park into an amenity-rich destination, as part of a broader rebuild of the city’s industrial waterfront district.
City residents responded with cheers, harsh condemnation, and everything in between.
While everyone will not agree on what to do about encampments, we can agree that we would prefer to live in a community where people do not feel that long-term camping by the river is their best option.
City social services director Mehul Dalal, Yale epidemiologist Robert Heimer, and DESK leader Steve Werlin: All in support of harm reduction center pilot.
City public health experts and homelessness-services advocates traveled to Hartford — online and in person — to support a proposal to counter a fatally rising tide of local opioid overdoses by providing a safe area to consume drugs under medical supervision.
