• NHPS promises better supervision of snow-removal contractors after numerous “failed” plow jobs. • Contractor agrees with critique, blames district for late calls, and asks to be able to work with custodians union again. Maya McFadden reports.
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Laura Glesby
| Feb 14, 2025 11:35 am
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Local licenses, inspections are on the horizon for tobacco retailers.
Health Director Maritza Bond: Inspections would protect kids from exposure to addictive carcinogens.
The city’s Health Department could soon have the power to crack down on smoke shops that violate the law — by way of a proposed municipal license system that would allow for stricter local regulation of the 212 businesses already OK’d by the state to sell tobacco in New Haven.
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Mark Pazniokas | CT Mirror
| Feb 14, 2025 10:31 am
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Adam Carmon (left), one of five wrongfully incarcerated New Haveners on tap to receive $M, per state Judiciary Committee votes on Friday.
Adam Carmon served 28 years in prison as the man convicted of killing a 7‑month-old girl and paralyzing her grandmother, a verdict a judge belatedly concluded was a miscarriage of justice produced by prosecutorial and police misconduct in New Haven.
“I cannot return to you the 28 years of life,” Superior Court Judge Jon Alander told Carmon on June 13, 2023, as he dismissed the case and interrupted an 85-year prison sentence. “I can give you the certainty that this long nightmare is finally over.”
On Friday, the legislature’s Judiciary Committee will be asked to ratify compensation of $7.9 million for Carmon, a sum calculated by the state claims commissioner employing a formula enshrined in state law: multiply the years served by 200 percent of the median family income in Connecticut.
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Allan Appel
| Feb 14, 2025 9:00 am
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Not Godfrey's goat. But you get the idea.
A parking garage under the Green? Not on the Proprietors' watch.
The Green almost had an underground parking garage and a statue of JFK — and it did at one time have a state house and Seth Godfrey’s goat.
As the city, the Proprietors, the just-formed New Haven Green Conservancy and other “stakeholders” of all kinds are weighing in on the next turn in the evolution of the Green’s uses, here is just a taste of what was and what might have been on the city’s central greenspace over the past four centuries.