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High St. Conversion Comes Into Focus
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days. All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners...
New Haven centers get $600K to boost mental health services
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Two New Haven community health centers are celebrating increased federal funding. Fair Haven and Cornell Scott Hill Health Centers are both getting hundreds of thousands of dollars. The emphasis for this new funding is not physical health, but mental. The Fair Haven Community Health Center is building and expanding. It […]
Dreamer Organizer Ties In Climate
Tabitha Sookdeo has a new job helping undocumented young people stay settled here — and addressing the conditions that lead some others to come here. To her, the two issues, immigration reform and climate change, are related. “It’s all connected,” Sookdeo said during a conversation Thursday on WNHH FM’s...
CT develops new tools to fight state’s biggest climate problem: flooding
You don’t have to convince Jeff Manville that the costs to upgrade infrastructure in Southbury was money well-spent. Manville — born and raised in Southbury, first selectman since 2015 — is happy to show off the evidence on a hot, blue-sky day precisely one month after catastrophic rain in the Naugatuck Valley area broke Connecticut’s all-time 24-hour rainfall record in less than 12 hours. The expensive bridges that in some places had replaced decades-old culverts show no evidence of the water that ran over them when the storm hit.
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