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19 Spots Picked For Traffic Cameras

by | Mar 18, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (30)

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Transit director Aysola: Human being will review camera footage before automated tickets are sent out.

Proposed 19 locations for red light and speed cameras.

Drivers hell-bent on whipping past the often-ignored red light at Park and South Frontage have only a few more months to avoid an automatic ticket, if a plan announced Monday goes through to put a red light camera there.

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Re-Entry Experience Sparks Housing Plan

by | Feb 29, 2024 4:19 pm | Comments (6)

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Ray Boyd at 43 Sylvan, planned transitional home for formerly incarcerated men like himself.

Ray Boyd knows what it’s like to come home after decades in prison without support or guidance on how to rebuild his life.

Two years later, he and his wife Jackie James are trying to provide a better homecoming for others — by transforming James’ childhood home into a transitional home for people re-entering society.

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Election You Never Heard Of Heats Up

by | Feb 26, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (32)

Candidates Dolores Colon and Doris Doward at Trowbridge Square Park rally.

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Jason Bartlett addresses challenge candidates at the Hill Museum.

(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.

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Daniels Welcomes Immigrant Wave

by | Feb 15, 2024 4:22 pm | Comments (18)

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John C. Daniels newcomers with staff: Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Heather O’Brien, Widny Morel, Marlene Rosario, Kenia Wama Vargas, Iveth Shenoha Quintero Rodriguez, Deam Sebastian Barrozo Garzon, David Santiago Franco Chaparro, and Yesenia Perez.

Forty-five native Spanish speakers have immigrated here and entered seventh and eighth grade at John C. Daniels School just over the past four months — and are getting up to speed fast thanks to a schoolwide effort to focus on language skills as well as family needs.

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Urban Life Book Group Puts Heart Into "Home"

by | Feb 12, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (0)

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Members of the Urban Life Experience Book Discussion group.

As the temperature outside edged close to 60 degrees on Saturday, a warm and invigorating meeting of minds and hearts came together inside the Wilson branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for 2024’s first monthly installment of the Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series. 

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New Haven Crew Gets Indie Movie Rolling

by | Jan 11, 2024 10:29 am | Comments (1)

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Executive producer Jeff Bell with actors Ethan Timothy and Ernest Richard.

Jeff Bell wanted animosity.

I want to feel it,” he told actor Ernest Richard. I want it coming out of your pores. I want you to be showing him I can’t stand you. You’re just a social media punk out for likes and girls.’”

The scene was a clandestine meeting in a dank, dimly lit basement reached by a flight of rickety stairs from Madeline’s Empanaderia on Spring Street. Ernest Richard was District Attorney Calvin Tubbs. His object of scorn: Tim the Truthteller, the social media influencer played by Ethan Timothy.

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Pause Urged On Union Station Rezoning

by | Jan 2, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (47)

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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.

A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.

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City, Activists Ask State To OK Tiny Homes. For Now

by | Dec 15, 2023 5:34 pm | Comments (17)

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The "tiny homes" currently standing in 203 Rosette's backyard.

The city has joined forces with human rights activists in the Hill to try to convince the state to recognize prefabricated shelters in a Rosette Street backyard as single-family homes” — at least, sort of — so that the heat and the lights can be turned on as winter approaches. 

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On Orchard, Shelter Night Ends, Then School Day Begins

by | Dec 5, 2023 1:03 pm | Comments (4)

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Orchard St. shelter client Tony Briggs: "Whether it's mats, pads, or the floor, it's better than freezing your ass off."

Career student Aleika Pizarro: The new shelter is "actually a good thing."

Just before sunrise, Tony Briggs stepped out of the city’s newest overnight warming center” at a former school on Orchard Street — roughly half an hour before Career High School senior Aleika Pizarro arrived early for classes right across the street.

Briggs left the shelter grateful for a warm place to spend a cold New Haven night. Pizarro arrived at school with compassion and understanding that all city dwellers deserve a safe place to lay their heads.

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