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1. The Elicker administration offered to pay a megalandlord company more than the appraised value to buy four blighted out-of-code-compliance buildings on Dixwell Avenue rather than pursue foreclosure. What happened next? A. The megalandlord paid off years of fines and kept the properties B. The deal went through but renovations haven’t started yet C. The deal went through and renovations have begun D. The city botched a lien process, then the whole deal fell apart E. Flooding destroyed the buildings, putting the deal on hold
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Karen Ponzio | Mar 29, 2024 9:18 am
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Jazz vocalist Samara Joy, an A&I headliner this year.
Shakespeare in circus, choral fusion, climate activism and optimism talks, making your own empanadas: this eclectic mix of events and more is part of this summer’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which is returning with a full schedule of programming that covers just about anything an arts and culture lover would have a taste for — and maybe something they have never tasted before.
Officials joined West River neighbors to celebrate the government-backed construction of 56 new affordable apartments where Urban Renewal’s bulldozers once plowed through the Oak Street neighborhood six decades ago to make way for a mini-highway.
Former IRIS chief Chris George (right): Kamash was "generous, community-minded, kind, law-abiding, and upstanding."
A 33-year-old New Havener and Iraqi refugee named Mohamed Najm Kamash admitted this week to lying about his brothers’ affiliation with a terrorist group during his application for U.S. citizenship, and now faces up to five years in prison for the offense.
Kamash himself had no terrorism involvement — and in fact, court records reveal, he had become a volunteer interpreter and mentor for new arrivals, a “responsible, reliable, friendly” city resident who put down a decade of roots in New Haven’s refugee community.
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Laura Glesby | Mar 27, 2024 1:40 pm
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Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom, which took home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize last year.
It’s game on for New Haven students: They’re about to embark on citywide school-versus-school contests — not over basketball or soccer, but attendance and reading.
NHFD Paramedic Keith Kerr treats man who overdosed on heroin.
The number of paramedics employed by the city’s fire department has plummeted from around 40 a few years ago to just 15 today — hiking mandatory overtime and prompting the city to recruit workers from out of town and state.
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Nora Grace-Flood | Mar 26, 2024 4:18 pm
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Derek Silva and company use iPhones to capture Peabody reopening.
Joanna Romberg shows the crew a fossilized fish.
The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones.
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Nora Grace-Flood | Mar 26, 2024 3:27 pm
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Developer Joseph: Big plans for Rte 34.
Four stories of medical research will join a daycare, a 130-room hotel, and a social services center — as the last development in the decade-long construction of the Route 34 West “superblock.”
Only one kind of grass allowed for public mower job hopefuls.
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Pre-employment drug test required for seasonal parks caretaker job.
If you want to make $18 an hour cutting grass in the city’s parks this summer, then you better not smoke grass before applying for the job.
Because New Haven requires prospective seasonal parks workers to pass a drug test, including for marijuana, even though recreational cannabis is now legal statewide.
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Nora Grace-Flood | Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm
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... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning.
Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven a year, one sapling at a time.
Chief Jacobson: "We see what happens if our officers aren't well."
Sometimes police respond over and over again to the same address for mental health calls that would best be served by an agency like Clifford Beers or COMPASS or the Veterans Affairs medical center.
So the city’s police department wants to add a new lieutenant position focused on making sure those connections take place — for the betterment of community and officer “health and wellness” alike.
