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Clinic-Pharmacy Hits The Road
A National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded mobile pharmacy van is taking to the streets of New Haven to provide clinical testing, prescriptions, and medical treatment to underserved communities — i.e. “healthcare for everyone.”. The van, unveiled at a press conference at 789 Howard Ave. Wednesday morning, is...
Screecch!!! York St. Block Goes 2‑Way
As Yale New Haven Hospital staffer Rosalyn Curry walked out of work and down York Street, a car sped past her, barreling down the wrong side of the street. She shouted after the driver: “It’s a two-way now!”. That one-block stretch of York Street, running underneath the...
Settled In Job, Negrón Eyes Decaying School Buildings
Madeline Negrón knew she had challenges to tackle when she took over as New Haven’s schools superintendent. She didn’t know about all the sinks with no levers to turn water on and off or the broken HVAC systems leaving people shivering in the winter and sweating in the summer.
Promised School-Cleaning Savings Vanish
The Board of Education signed off on a $500,000 overtime bump for a Massachusetts-based custodial contractor — wiping out savings promised when the school system ditched a local firm two years ago in hopes of cutting costs. The school board took that 6 – 1 vote Monday evening during its latest...
Opinion: Keep Limited Equity Cooperatives Alive
The recent decision by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) to deny financing for Seabury Cooperative Housing’s capital improvement project raises a crucial question: Why would CHFA favor dissolving the limited equity cooperative model, which empowers its members, in favor of a tax credit property model that leaves members powerless to govern themselves?
Billboard Bid Rejected
Highway drivers won’t get to enjoy / be distracted by another electronic billboard by the Q Bridge, now that the zoning board has turned down an Ohio-based firm’s outdoor advertising application. The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) took that vote Tuesday night during its latest monthly meeting. For...
1 Dead After Red-Light Hit & Run
(Updated) West Haven driver Nader Elias Hanania, 63, died early Wednesday morning after his vehicle was struck by a car that blew through a red light at South Frontage Road and College Street. City police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart said that the fatal motor vehicle crash occurred at around 4:54...
RFK Vibe-Bus Blasts Into Town
An AI-generated reggae song blasted onto the Green Tuesday afternoon from atop a cross-country bus on a mission to elect a third-party presidential candidate — while bringing about world peace through “high-vibration” partying. The song was called “Kennedy.” Kyle Kemper, the man behind the wheel of...
Youth Artists Make The Case For Peace
The untitled piece conveys, first and foremost, a sense of the warm, abiding joy when people come together arm in arm. The strength of the piece begins with how easily this joy is conveyed, through the simplicity of the figures. It’s all in the color and the gesture. The objects at the figures’ feet give context for the feeling. The assortment of weapons on the ground — weapons they have discarded — give a sense of the violence the figures have overcome. They’re symbols of conflict across place and time, from ancient grudges to today’s all-out wars. What would happen if we laid those weapons down? What could the world be like?
Hopkins Alums Petition For Palestine Protester’s Spouse
A group of Hopkins alums are calling on the Forest Road private school to reinstate an employee who was put on paid leave five months ago following a verbal altercation between his wife and a neighbor over the war in Gaza. The call came in the form of a petition...
Ed Board Gets Carter
Former city Chief Administrative Officer Michael Carter is back in town to do the work of the Board of Education’s suspended chief of operations (COO), at least for the next three months. COO Thomas Lamb has been on paid administrative leave since May 29 pending an investigation the school...
Documentary Spotlights Newhallville Community Activist
In the trunk of his car, Marcus Harvin has a rock from the parking lot of a vacant building on Bassett Street. So does his friend Babatunde Akinjobi. The two met when they were incarcerated at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. “Each of us carries it around, believing that one...
Scientology Building’s Tax Bill Comes Due
(Updated) For the first time in 14 years, City Hall has sent a property tax bill to the Church of Scientology for a long-vacant former furniture store in Westville Village. City Tax Collector Karen Gauthier confirmed that, as of July 1, the church owes $39,817.18 in property taxes for the two-story former Hallock’s at 949 Whalley Ave.
Jitter Bus Coffee Opens, Officially
While patrons celebrated the grand opening of Grand Avenue’s Jitter Bus Coffee, in the back corner of the café stood a framed coffee-stained page torn out of a notebook, tucked on a shelf. “This letter of correction serves to prove that Darlene A. Miconi sold a 1999 Chevy...
Album Club Runs With The Horses
The powerful voice of Patti Smith emanated from the speakers in the side room of Never Ending Books Monday night, as the latest installment of Album Club met to pour over her debut 1975 punk-rock album, Horses. In her music, Smith is a wild horse herself, powerful and untamed. Horses...
City Paves Streets, Considers Bike Lanes
A city-contracted truck removed the top layer of asphalt from Mead Street, kickstarting New Haven’s summer season of tearing up and smoothing out roads. “It’s one of our favorite times of year,” Mayor Justin Elicker said just before the action, at a Monday afternoon press conference announcing the start of the season. City officials met on the sidewalk of Mead Street, between Judson Avenue and Derby Avenue.
School Posted Photos, Blocked Parent
When Beecher School parent Kelly Blanchat logged onto Instagram earlier this year, she found that the school had posted photos featuring her child — even though she had told the district not to share images of her kid on social media. The public elementary school wound up taking those...
Yale To Demolish Grad Student Dorm
Yale is getting ready to knock down a six-story graduate student housing building on Temple Street to make way for a coming expansion to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. That’s the near-future fate for Helen Hadley Hall at 420 Temple St. between Trumbull and Grove, right off of...
Farmers Market Brings Community To The Table
Stephanie Berluti of South Haven Farm was selling vegetables and greens at her stand at the CitySeed Edgewood Farmers Market on Sunday when she was approached by a man asking if she had any arugula. Unfortunately, Berluti hadn’t brought any arugula that day — it had been too hot for it recently....
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