by | Dec 21, 2020 1:02 pm | Comments (3)
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Riverside Academy Principal Derek Stephenson and special education teacher Steve Mikolike (pictured above) have organized the school’s first annual toy drive to collect gifts for 12 teen students’ children.
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by | Dec 18, 2020 4:14 pm | Comments (0)
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A freshly cut Christmas tree with decorative lights and presents underneath made the living room gleam with festive spirit. Moments later, a crackle was heard: A circuit had overloaded. Then suddenly a spark lit up the bottom of the tree.
by | Dec 15, 2020 3:38 pm | Comments (9)
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First doses administered Tuesday afternoon to five YNHH employees.
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Man of the hour: Omari Bright drops off the goods Tuesday morning.
A hopeful new chapter in the Covid-19 pandemic began Tuesday afternoon as a dose of the vaccine that Onyema Ogbuagu worked on went into his arm.
by | Dec 15, 2020 1:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Rasheed at the Hill substation.
At 10 years old, Jamilah Rasheed had one used pair of shoes for school. Passed down from her cousin, the shoes were a size too small. Her family couldn’t afford anything else. A hole eventually formed in the back of those used shoes until Rasheed couldn’t wear them anymore.
She thinks back on that time as she enlists New Haveners to help a new generation of young people stay warm this the winter.
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by | Dec 9, 2020 3:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Wait … that’s how you wear a mask? Nah. Clockwise from top left: Leslie Radcliffe, Pamela Delerme, Alder Kampton Singh and Leslie Brown.
It seemed like Leslie Radcliffe was wearing a flowery, pink and green bandana. It turned out to be a face mask — revealed to make a life-saving point.
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by | Dec 7, 2020 11:03 am | Comments (3)
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Aiden Goodwin, 3, ecstatic to receive his toy.
Hill “Santas” arrive at the Espinos’ house.
Claribel Espino struggled to hold back tears when Christmas came early Sunday to her family’s door on Plymouth Street.
“These gifts are helping out a lot. Times are tough because of the pandemic,” she said. “People aren’t working, the kids are home all of the time, and it’s been stressful.”
by | Nov 30, 2020 6:43 pm | Comments (0)
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In the wake of a pandemic Thanksgiving, the kids stayed home — and the staff joined others lined up to be tested for Covid-19.
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by | Nov 24, 2020 7:33 pm | Comments (7)
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Cops out delivering turkeys Tuesday before shifting gears and joining chase.
Police officers in the midst of serving turkeys to hungry families ended up helping make arrests in the latest incident involving teens, stolen cars, and guns.
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by | Nov 21, 2020 6:32 pm | Comments (16)
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New Haven Rising volunteer John Lee leaves a “Yale: Respect New Haven” door-knocker (below) on Spring Street.
Dozens of local labor organizers, union members, students and other volunteers fanned out across New Haven to deliver 26,000 door-knocker messages that called on Yale University to share more of its wealth with the cash-strapped city.
by | Nov 18, 2020 4:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Carlos Rodriguez in front of the newly rezoned Greenwich Avenue lot.
His Long Wharf food truck, Tacos La Patrona.
Taco truck owner Carlos Rodriguez is further along the way to converting a vacant city-owned lot into a commercial kitchen with apartments on top after clearing a legislative hurdle.
Continue reading ‘Taco Truck Owner Prevails In Zoning Quest’
by | Nov 17, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (6)
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Crew member Ra Hashim steadies Hallock Street’s newest tree.
William Tisdale and the rest of his team hauled concrete slabs onto their work truck, opening a rectangle of ground wide enough for a 300-pound hawthorn sapling.
On a street without many trees, they found space between the curb and the sidewalk to make room for new life to grow.
by | Nov 16, 2020 11:23 am | Comments (0)
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The Boys and Girls Club of New Haven on Columbus Avenue.
Yale New Haven Health has set up a weekly Covid-19 testing site in the Hill neighborhood at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven, open every Monday through December.
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by | Nov 13, 2020 4:46 pm | Comments (19)
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8 Legion Ave.: Pricey parking lot.
Yale New Haven Hospital purchased the above-pictured Legion Avenue surface parking lot and one beside it for over $4.5 million. The city taxes it as though it’s worth just over $126,000.
Continue reading ‘Lot Sells For 35 Times City-Appraised Value’
by | Nov 11, 2020 1:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Sample bowls: Pitaya on the left, Greens on the right.
Patti Ochsendorf filled two cups with a green and pink smoothie base each, then topped it with crunchy honey granola and blueberries, strawberries, mango, and pineapple. The green color came from kale and spinach blend. The pink color came from pitaya, also known as dragonfruit, which has a rough exterior with a pink or white inside.
by | Nov 3, 2020 10:14 am | Comments (10)
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New Haveners gave “President Trump” a beating hours just before the election polls opened in Fair Haven.
by | Oct 29, 2020 1:56 pm | Comments (2)
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Superintendent Iline Tracey: Most disengaged students do have computers and internet.
It is the ninth week of school and 3percent of New Haven Public Schools students still have not logged onto virtual classes at all. Another 11 percent, or 2,126 students, are logging on sporadically.
by | Oct 26, 2020 11:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Police, protester confrontation on May 31.
After a five-month internal review, the police chief announced that local officers who pepper sprayed a crowd of anti-police brutality protesters amidst a tense, 12-hour standoff this summer “acted within the color of the law,” “were professional,” and will not be disciplined.
He also said the incident convinced the department to adopt different tactics in subsequent protests.
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Current plan for the former Coliseum site.
(Opinion) When I first came back to New Haven in 1971 I was told by everyone to focus on the problems of the poor and the disadvantaged. Forty years later I see the mood of the City seems not to have changed. Affordable housing is critically important but there are several much larger issues which need to be the focus of our discussions, all of which conclude making the project financially successful for all income classes.
The current controversy over the Coliseum site is focused strictly on affordable housing, a subject which, by itself, is a nonstarter.
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by | Oct 21, 2020 1:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Monk, with his truck of food on Tuesday
“I’m planning on giving this to over 200 veterans,” said Conley Monk Jr (pictured), a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps.
Monk said that at a food drive he attended that was hosted by the Kingdom International Economic Development Corporation Tuesday morning in the Hill.
by | Oct 7, 2020 1:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Lead plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, at announcement of lawsuit.
The proposed $18.75 million settlement of a years-in-the-works Church Street South class action lawsuit lurched ahead with a new, streamlined structure — and a local civil rights attorney’s hopes that a state court system largely shuttered by the pandemic will resume grinding its gears to allow for hundreds of tenants displaced from the mold-infested former apartment complex to finally get paid.
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by | Oct 6, 2020 3:47 pm | Comments (1)
Mendy Paris with attorney Ben Trachten. Below: 540-580 Grasso lot.
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Two New Haven landlords picked up a 10-acre office complex in the Hill for $6.85 million — with the hope that a sea of surface parking will attract business tenants, even during a pandemic.
by | Oct 6, 2020 11:33 am | Comments (6)
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Attorney Rosenberg (right), McCrea seal deal after auction.
Quan McCrea bought a half-burnt house on Stevens Street at a foreclosure auction as an investment — in herself, her family and her community.
Continue reading ‘Foreclosure Recycles Affordable Hill Home’
by | Oct 5, 2020 10:44 am | Comments (14)
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Recovered paintball gun.
It looked like two men were carrying AK-47s in the Hill early Monday, and firing them — at passersby, then at cops.
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by | Sep 29, 2020 3:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Frances Padilla: Coverage for pre-existing conditions at risk.
1.5 million: That’s how many people who have pre-existing conditions in Connecticut. They constitute nearly half of the state population.
That’s potentially how many people who might lose their health insurance if the Supreme Court repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
by | Sep 24, 2020 4:34 pm | Comments (9)
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Jose Paez and Darin Latimore.
Jose Paez has been a child psychiatry fellow at the Yale School of Medicine for only three months, and he’s already been singled out as a person of color.
Continue reading ‘Docs, Nurses, Aides Mourn Breonna Taylor Decision’