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Maya McFadden |
Jun 2, 2023 10:07 am
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Career High School sophomore Alex Alvarado struggled to hold back tears as he listened to the country’s first openly gay Black statewide elected official — and a fellow New Havener — advocate on behalf of transgender students like himself.
Yale New Haven Hospital spent more than $101 million buying a Rubik’s Cube-patterned medical-district building that it has used for more than a decade for clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, a lecture auditorium, and patient and visitor access to the nearby Smilow Cancer Hospital and Air Rights Garage.
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Maya McFadden and Thomas Breen |
May 24, 2023 3:41 pm
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John C. Daniels School teacher Jane Roth pleaded to the Board of Education to help save her school’s students and staff from having to see overdoses on the school’s property, used syringes scattered around the campus, and drug-users shooting up just outside the Congress Avenue bounds of where children learn and play.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 19, 2023 3:30 pm
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Shafiq Abdussabur pulled up to Union Station to make his latest campaign pitch — and found himself calling an ambulance for a man seeking shelter inside the train stop rather than crusading for votes.
State Marshal Brian Hobart showed up to a West Street three-family house on Feb. 23 to deliver an eviction notice to a family of renters with an expired lease.
At least, that’s what Hobart attested had happened in a court-filed document.
Surveillance images from a first-floor camera at that Hill property tell a different story.
The Board of Alders approved two tax breaks for two different affordable housing projects across town — including at a former Hill co-op, which will see 32 apartments knocked down and 64 built up as part of a first phase of redevelopment.
It might seem incongruous for a wealthy shoreline suburban community to pull out all the stops for a radical Catholic homelessness rights activist from the Hill.
Not at all, said Mark Colville, leader of the Amistad Catholic Worker House, as roughly 100 attendees enjoyed vegetable terrine and fruit salad drizzled with raspberry rose at a “Breaking Bread” fundraiser in the brightly lit basement of Guilford First Congregational Church.
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Thomas Breen |
May 15, 2023 11:45 am
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Two city-raised HVAC contractors took a step out of the shadows of New Haven’s building boom and into the limelight to be honored for their ground-up-construction plumbing work — including at hundreds of new Yale medical campus-adjacent apartments that continue to spring up across the Hill.
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Thomas Breen |
May 12, 2023 10:17 am
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AnneMarie Rivera Berrios pulled up to the front entrance of Yale New Haven’s York Street hospital campus with a trunk full of gift bags, a son on the cusp of turning 3, and still-vivid memories of the kind gestures that helped her through her own time as a NICU mom.
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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Thomas Breen |
Apr 27, 2023 12:26 pm
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(Updated) A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Baldwin Street saw 13 bullets fired near a middle school’s playground — and has prompted police to conduct more frequent patrols in and around the area during school hours.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 19, 2023 10:52 am
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Refugees from a bulldozed West River encampment are taking shelter at an alternative, mission-based outdoor site in the Hill as they plan next steps to get back on their feet — while amping up their commitment to addressing the roots of housing injustice.
Gov. Ned Lamont watched a linden tree take root on Asylum Street, and promised to help New Haven plant more shade in its heat-hampered “environmental injustice neighborhoods.”
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm
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Will oysters survive if submerged in motor oil?
Roberto Clemente sixth-grader Luis set out to answer that question — as he crafted a locally relevant science fair project focused on environmental harms to New Haven bivalves.
The Wilson Library branch is a “second home” to Helen and her children — especially to 7‑year-old Eli, who devours every animal-themed book he can find.
In spare moments, Wilson staff members set aside volumes they think Eli will like. But most days, they’re kept busy with adults needing job applications or a place to rest their head while inebriated.
So Wilson staff, regulars, and allies are calling on the city to fund a full-time children’s librarian at Wilson — the only branch in the city to lack the funding for one.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 17, 2023 9:11 am
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“Secure your thinking caps tightly,” Barnard teacher Katelyn Giusti advised her classroom full of kindergartners — as they prepared to dive into a chimpanzee-focused reading assignment and test out a new school district approach to literacy.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Paul Bass |
Mar 16, 2023 9:10 am
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Police swarmed onto the tent city off the Boulevard early Thursday morning to clear the holdout campers and bulldoze the site — and make sure the press and public couldn’t watch what they were doing.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am
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Hill Regional Career High School’s auditorium rang like a rolling sea as students lifted their voices to sing the Black National Anthem alongside school staffer Shirley Love, whose voice left the school full of the hope.
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
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Tom Goldenberg |
Mar 7, 2023 12:25 pm
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The following writeup was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg chronicling his five days of traveling around to different methadone clinics in and near New Haven.
Click here to read Goldenberg’s recent opinion essay in the Register laying out various proposals for how the city should handle local methadone clinics. Click here to read a recent Independent article about how the Elicker Administration and the APT Foundation are looking to move the clinic’s main Congress Avenue location to a new building on Long Wharf.
Goldenberg plans on holding a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday outside APT’s Congress Avenue site to talk about his methadone clinic policy proposals.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
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An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.