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Summer Jobs Pass Dwight By

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 27, 2006 8:33 am | Comments (2)

Parents showed up at a public meeting Wednesday looking for summer jobs for their teens. They found out the deadline for the city’s biggest teen summer job program, Youth at Work, has already passed. How come “nobody heard about it” before? Dwight parents like Marissa Samuel (pictured with her 8-year-old daughter, Riquee Toney) wanted to know. But after hearing about a range of programs, they came away with new ideas.

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Barnard Kids Becoming Our Next “Environmental Stewards”

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 27, 2006 8:24 am

It’s Earth Week, and what’s a conscientious environmental reporter to do, with so many stories to cover and so little time? On Wednesday, this reporter chose the Environmental Fair at Barnard School. In addition to the many activity tables, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy was the special guest (pictured, with two students making butterflies).

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Kids Weigh in on Tribe-‘Ville Feud

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 26, 2006 4:33 pm | Comments (19)

“I think they fightin’ over self confidence,” said Rietta, a Hillhouse High School sophomore, weighing in on the recent spate of youth violence in Dixwell and Newhallville. “They get along in school, but once they get out, they got the hood. It’s like they take on a different identity.”

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Ruby Tuesday

by Gina Coggio | Apr 26, 2006 12:00 pm

A conversation with a student about a mother who battled with drug abuse and prostitution makes the Independent’s diarist wonder: What must someone have experienced in her own life to make a good teacher?

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Legislators Told: Close The Drug Gap

by Staff | Apr 26, 2006 8:30 am

Since the advent of Medicare Part D last January, a trip to the pharmacy hasn’t been simple for people like 47-year-old Dolores Jeter of New Haven. So she and hundreds of other people in Connecticut took a different trip on Tuesday—to the state Capitol—to tell their stories and push lawmakers to keep a promise to fund a gap in prescription drug coverage. Click here to read Christine Stuart’s report.

Dyson Inspires Women “Marked For Life”

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 26, 2006 7:57 am

These women are trying to start anew after substance abuse, homelessness and criminal offenses. But they keep getting turned down for jobs. New Haven State Rep. Bill Dyson, drawing on his own sons’ misfortunes, told the crowd of women Tuesday, “Don’t give up.”

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“Troubled” No More?

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 26, 2006 7:41 am

For so many years, the Housing Authority of New Haven was referred to as “the troubled Housing Authority of New Haven,” that anyone could be forgiven for thinking that was part of its official name. The authority’s new (since December) executive director, Jimmy Miller (pictured), said at the April meeting of the agency’s Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that he has plans to remove that adjective from the last of its programs.

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“Wizard of Oz” Gets 30 Months

by Paul Bass | Apr 25, 2006 3:00 pm | Comments (7)

A federal judge in New Haven Tuesday let Peter Ellef, the mastermind of the Rowland administration corruption scandal, off easy — because Ellef bombed innocent Cambodian villagers in an illegal war 35 years ago. Ellef is pictured at left on the courthouse steps beside his attorney, Hugh Keefe, who questioned the patriotism of government prosecutors like Nora Dannehy (pictured below).

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“How Come None of Us Knew About This?”

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 25, 2006 8:37 am

Money is sitting in a state account is just sitting in the bank instead of going where it belongs—to underinsured families like Sarah Hasty’s (pictured), whose children have special needs. Some of those families found out about it Monday night at a public meeting in Dixwell.

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A Peace Pole for Yale

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 25, 2006 8:04 am

Students and faculty of the Yale Divinity School symbolically planted a peace pole in the rain Monday in the school commons. Thousands of six-sided peace poles with “peace” written in six languages have been erected around the world, since the first ones were put up in Japan after the atomic bombings that ended World War II. The actual inslallation in the school quad will wait for a drier day. Student Brandon Johnson said several students are writing letters to members of Congress asking them to stop the torture of prisoners going on at Guantanamo and other U.S. facilities. One of the participants danced ecstatically around the peace pole.

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