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Blumenthal Sunday after Mass at St. Michael.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal brought a message back from Ukraine to New Haven Sunday, and received one in return.
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by | Jun 27, 2022 2:43 pm | Comments (15)
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Left: Edison's back stairwell before cleanup; right: buckets absorb the leak in Edison's kids' bedroom.
Edison's check from court.
Hawa Edison will resume paying rent to her landlord for the first time in eight months — the first time in years since the ceiling of her kids’ bedroom has been intact and free of mold.
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by | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)
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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."
A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as “The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.
by | Jun 9, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (8)
Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. won’t be mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a state representative seat after all, but he’s still eyeing the seat. He is now turning his campaign sights to November, after failing to gather enough qualified petition signatures to force an August Democratic primary against State Rep. Pat Dillon.
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by | May 20, 2022 5:56 pm | Comments (11)
Darryl Brackeen Jr. and Pat Dillon.
At least one Democratic primary contest is brewing in New Haven this year, in the 92nd General Assembly District.
by | May 2, 2022 1:38 pm | Comments (17)
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Customer Bill Kux with his Monday purchases: Will miss store and the "rewards," whatever they're worth.
The Rite Aid at 249 Legion Ave. is scheduled to close on May 12 — only six years after it opened.
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by | Apr 10, 2022 9:23 pm | Comments (14)
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Yevgeny and Kristyna with baby Leonell Sunday at St. Michael's Church.
Yevgeny and Kristyna Biziaieva and their three children observed Palm Sunday on George Street, the first Ukrainian refugee family to be welcomed in New Haven since the war broke out.
by | Feb 27, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (10)
Parishioners sing Ukrainian national anthem at St. Michael Church.
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Myron Melnyk, at right, Sunday with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who invited him to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The first Sunday of the war in Ukraine saw prayer services at New Haven’s Ukrainian churches attracting hundreds of patriotic parishioners and supportive political leaders, all determined to see Ukraine remain a free, independent nation.
Ukrainians greeted each other with “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to the Ukrainian fighters.” Then they prayed, shared heart-rending stories of killed or endangered relatives, and found hope in the continuing fight against Russian invaders.
by | Feb 24, 2022 9:43 pm | Comments (14)
At Thursday night's church service on George Street.
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Alexandra Altrui: "My poor country."
As Russian forces pushed towards Kyiv Thursday night, Alexandra Altrui sat in a back pew of the Ukrainian Catholic church on George Street and wept — praying for her nephew as he prepared to take up arms to defend her home country under siege.
by | Dec 16, 2021 3:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Rapper Dustystaystrue back at Barnard Thursday after a national tour.
Five hundred students gathered in the courtyard of Barnard Environmental Science and Technology School roared with excitement Thursday morning as Dustystaytrue’s “Never Change” blared from the speakers — and the rising rapper himself arrived on scene.
by | Dec 10, 2021 2:14 pm | Comments (2)
A Covid-19 outbreak at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School has led to the largest quarantine to date at a New Haven public school.
by | Nov 9, 2021 5:57 pm | Comments (1)
Updated: Yet another bomb threat — this time at a mental health and substance use treatment center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard — saw a building evacuated, people displaced, and streets closed to traffic as police investigated whether or not the danger was real.
At 7:22 p.m., the city police department announced that that area was clear, all roads were back open, and “it is safe to return to the area” as the Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate.
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by | Nov 9, 2021 3:12 pm | Comments (12)
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West River’s broken tidal gates.
The tide was high, higher than usual — so Stephanie FitzGerald set out to discover why.
Continue reading ‘Park Mystery: Tidal Gates? Climate Change?’
by | Nov 3, 2021 12:48 pm | Comments (44)
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Movers haul donated furniture up to Scranton Street apartment for newly arriving Afghan family.
Javid Mohammadi, who received similar help when he moved here two years ago from Afghanistan, was part of the crew.
Three Afghan refugee families arrived overnight in New Haven and crammed into temporary lodgings with relatives, while a search continued for landlords willing to rent to a wave of newcomers.
The governor joined the head of New Haven’s refugee-resettlement agency Wednesday to urge landlords to make up to 100 apartments available, with a promise to cover the rent.
by | Oct 12, 2021 2:00 pm | Comments (9)
A 66-year-old man died after a motorcyclist struck him.
by | Jun 17, 2021 1:48 pm | Comments (10)
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A design rendering for new apartments at 16 Miller St.
A nonprofit development duo is one big step closer to building 56 new affordable apartments atop a long-vacant strip of Route 34 land, now that the builders have secured more than $17 million in state and federal subsidies for the project.
Continue reading ‘West River Builders Land Public $ For 56 Apts’
by | Jun 10, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Work crew rebuilds the back fire escape at 66 Norton.
City Deputy Fire Marshal Jen Forslund, a worker at 66 Norton., local realtor and landlord Mendy Paris.
Even though Norton Street’s city-shuttered “New Jack City” has been reborn as the upscale “Norton Pointe Apartments,” tenants find themselves yet again exiled to hotel bedrooms — waiting for the landlord to finish repairs, and for the city to sign off on the building’s safety.
by | Jun 4, 2021 4:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.
Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors.
The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU’
by | Jun 2, 2021 3:55 pm | Comments (21)
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Karen DuBois-Walton, at right, before Wednesday’s press conference with Celeste Fulcher, who has become active in a homicide survivors’ group since a stray bullet killed her daughter.
New Haven knows how to get violence back under control — even as it rises as well in other cities.
Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton made that case as she rolled out a 21-point public-safety policy plan.
by | Apr 21, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (15)
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Construction beginning at corner of MLK Blvd. and Dwight.
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Planned Cambria Hotel.
KBE Building Corporation has selected the large steel and concrete contractors for a six-story hotel that will complete development of the “Route 34 West” superblock. Now, it’s time to select subcontractors and fulfill city expectations of minority hiring.
by | Apr 5, 2021 7:53 pm | Comments (2)
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The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.
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Proposed pedestrian safety upgrades.
The city plans to sell a small portion of publicly-owned land near the Ella T. Grasso-Orange-Columbus-Davenport Avenue intersection to the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to help facilitate long-awaited pedestrian safety improvements to New Haven’s deadliest stretch of road for pedestrians.
Continue reading ‘Land Sale Pitched To Make “Death Blvd” Safer’
by | Mar 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (7)
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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
Four local affordable housing projects will be getting over $5.4 million in state support, thanks to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s (CHFA) annual awarding of federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).
Continue reading ‘4 Affordable Housing Projects Get $5.4M State Boost’
by | Mar 11, 2021 6:14 pm | Comments (17)
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Mayor Justin Elicker and LCI’s Rafael Ramos find a broken handrail.
Rafael Ramos saw the pile of cardboard boxes and trash bags first. After talking to a tenant, he learned the owner doesn’t live in the purple house on George Street — and lacks the license required to rent it out.
by | Feb 10, 2021 4:57 pm | Comments (3)
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Nurse Rosellen Moore vaccinates Juan Rodriguez, 75.
New Haven rolled out the next phase of Covid-19 vaccinations Wednesday with a pop-up clinic at Berger Apartments on Derby Avenue.
Continue reading ‘City Rolls Out Next Vaccination Phase; 27 Seniors Get Shots At Berger Apartments’
by | Jan 12, 2021 2:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers at the scene of Sunday’s double homicide.
(Updated Tuesday) A visiting nurse made a grisly discovery inside a West River apartment Sunday — the bodies of two people shot dead.
Continue reading ‘Update: Double Homicide Victims Identified’