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• “Explores” joining forces with Bradley’s authority. • Mayor rips up 2009 pact with East Haven. • O’Brien: “We will not be bought out.” Staff reports.
by Christopher Peak | Jan 17, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (34)
(Update) Morgan Barth, the school leader at Achievement First Amistad High School, has decided to step down immediately.
His resignation comes hours after the Independent posted a story and a video of him shoving a student and days after a former employee criticized the working environment he fostered at Amistad in a viral video. The incidents touched off a broader community discussion about discipline practices at the nationally acclaimed Dixwell Avenue charter school.
by Thomas Breen | Jan 17, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (14)
Hands pressed together just below his chest, a starched white collar buttoned snug around his neck, the minister offered a prayer for a police department in great peril.
But prayer alone won’t save this ailing body, he cautioned the rapt congregation. That miracle can only be pulled off by better pay, competitive medical benefits, a stable union contract, and a community committed to working with its sworn officers.
by Allan Appel | Jan 16, 2019 4:51 pm | Comments (4)
A leaky roof stains ceilings. People enter at all hours past lax security. Kitchens are cramped, an elevator often broken, bathrooms covered with mildew.
A top-to-bottom renovation is aimed at fixing those and other problems at two 1970s-vintage public-housing complexes for the elderly and disabled, aided by a new legal run around federal cuts.
Surrounded by his wife and two young daughters, Justin Elicker filed papers Wednesday to challenge incumbent Toni Harp for mayor — and opened with a focus on cleaning up lead paint in children’s homes and money fueling election campaigns.
by Markeshia Ricks | Jan 16, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (8)
After a spate of burglaries, Westville Village businesses are on the lookout for people trying to break into their stores and offices, while moving ahead with a revival of the commercial neighborhood.
by Paul Bass & Thomas Breen | Jan 15, 2019 5:33 pm | Comments (24)
The Board of Education gave its chief operating officer a six-figure going-away present, in return for a promise not to file suit against it or make disparaging public statements about public officials.
He will be allowed to talk to, say, the feds if they come asking questions.
by Christopher Peak | Jan 15, 2019 2:55 pm | Comments (9)
Five more school administrators plan to retire at the end of the school year, including an advocate for bilingual education and the administrators union president.
by Thomas Breen | Jan 15, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (4)
A building code inspector notices a leaky roof, or a contractor working without a permit. Instead of reaching for a pen and a pad of paper, she uses a tablet with a camera and internet access to document the issue.
Those electronic notes are then plotted on a map, where both building department colleagues and officials citywide can track and address the needs of city residents as they crop up in real time.
City officials laid out that utopia of tech-assisted municipal services as they convinced alders of the merits of two new Information Technology (IT) contracts.
by Christopher Peak & Paul Bass | Jan 14, 2019 8:35 pm | Comments (17)
Darnell Goldson went from being the subject of a vague investigation Monday to receiving a public apology from the schools superintendent — and then being reelected president of the Board of Education.
by Thomas Breen | Jan 14, 2019 12:39 pm | Comments (9)
Lounge chairs covered in dust. A scraped wooden dance floor. A hulking bar the shape of a boat. And a broken down kitchen stocked with one last bottle of anisette.
Parking commissioners found those dance-club relics as they toured the vacant Crown Street Garage commercial space, slated to become New Haven’s next hot spot music venue.
He was a young pitcher in the Negro Leagues when the New York Yankees came to his door to recruit him.
No way, his father, Bishop Enoch Stallings, of the Church of God and Saints of Christ in the Dwight neighborhood, told the scouts. “This boy is going to sing in the choir.”
by Christopher Peak | Jan 11, 2019 4:17 pm | Comments (3)
A barrier-breaking cop walked away from the job with a five-figure check and two letters of recommendation, after suing her former boss for harassment, intimidation and discrimination.
by Liese Klein | Jan 11, 2019 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
The land is vacant, the sellers are willing and the park ranger is eager to blaze some new trails for hikers. Now all the town of Hamden has to do is figure out how to match a $432,250 state grant recently awarded to obtain adjacent property and expand Brooksvale Park.
by Allan Appel | Jan 11, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (6)
The 90-day clock has begun to tick for the demolition of 71 Shelton Ave., a long-vacant 1915 building in the Winchester Repeating Arms Historic District in Newhallville.
That’s because contamination from its life in the early 1960s as a site for the fabrication of nuclear fuel components is too serious for any option other than a take-down and removal including the concrete slab foundation and at least two feet of soil underneath.
The gleaming silver lining for the loss of this historic structure is that as “mitigation” or compensation, the Goffe Street Armory — nearby and with a related historical context but technically not within the historic district — can be researched and then nominated for a place on the National Historic Register.
With that designation, the city-owned armory becomes eligible for a host of preservation grants and tax credit programs that down the road may contribute significantly to preserving it and giving it a new, repurposed life.
Police brass takes victory lap.
Ribbon cut for on-site baking & brewing emporium.
Prosecutor says in court.
Hamden-based Greater New Haven Transit District examines details of new consolidated North Haven facility.
New Haven state senator & Waterbury mayor agree on tolls, regionalization, special ed funding.
• “Explores” joining forces with Bradley’s authority.
Jeannell was an avid wearer of hats with shoes to match: 
Including on fatal stretch of Olive.
Daniels 5th-graders get a firsthand account of the Holocaust.
Climate commission pursues conservation award for businesses, sustainability certification for government.
“If I spoke up now,” she asks on recording, “would I be too late?”
Leeanner worked as a shirt maker with ladies Van Heusen: 
• WNPR’s “Where We Live” 
State $11M for repairs comes with promise to maintain ownership.
Talks fall through with town of Hamden.
Last week wasn’t the first time a 22-year-old city man led cops on a chase.
Hands pressed together just below his chest, a starched white collar buttoned snug around his neck, the minister offered a prayer for a police department in great peril.
A leaky roof stains ceilings. People enter at all hours past lax security. Kitchens are cramped, an elevator often broken, bathrooms covered with mildew.
Surrounded by his wife and two young daughters, Justin Elicker filed papers Wednesday to challenge incumbent Toni Harp for mayor — and opened with a focus on cleaning up lead paint in children’s homes and money fueling election campaigns.
After a spate of burglaries, Westville Village businesses are on the lookout for people trying to break into their stores and offices, while moving ahead with a revival of the commercial neighborhood.
The Board of Education gave its chief operating officer a six-figure going-away present, in return for a promise not to file suit against it or make disparaging public statements about public officials.
