by Paul Bass | Jan 20, 2019 1:08 pm
Fallen ice-encrusted power lines left as many 7,000 homes and businesses without power in New Haven and Hamden for part of Sunday, sending at least one woman to the hospital and requiring the New Haven police 911 call center and Yale-New Haven Hospital to operate on back-up power systems.
Blame a geographic fluke for most of the misery.
by Paul Bass | Jan 18, 2019 1:38 pm | Comments (21)
John Cirello wondered how he could remain a Republican. Then he took his son AJ to watch the One Party Government Follies at City Hall.
by Thomas Breen | Jan 18, 2019 12:15 pm | Comments (5)
Two investors expanded their west side condominium holdings by purchasing 18 units for $917,000 in a three-decade-old Amity complex, as part of the latest land transactions in town.
by Thomas Breen | Jan 17, 2019 6:24 pm | Comments (25)
A newly available state report about an “officer-involved shooting” reveals that last week wasn’t the first time a 22-year-old city man led cops on a chase.
When they caught him this time in Kimberly Square, he broke free. He fired at least one shot; officers fired numerous bullets. He fled.
When cops found him again, he had shed his jacket and pants — and claimed to be a robbery victim. A telltale tattoo gave him away.
Continue reading ‘State Report Reveals Cop-Shootout Details’
by Christopher Peak | Jan 17, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (48)
(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 (15)
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.
by Paul Bass | Jan 16, 2019 9:41 am | Comments (34)
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 (25)
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 (10)
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.
by Allan Appel | Jan 14, 2019 7:44 am
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.”
College students can get free tix to event Tuesday night with WashPo Watergate & Trumpgate exposer Bob Woodwards: 
Vows to address burglaries and robberies.
Police brass takes victory lap.
Ribbon cut for on-site baking & brewing emporium.
Vila adored children and owned Teddy’s Daycare: 
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?”
