by | Feb 22, 2024 2:15 pm | Comments (4)
The following was submitted by Hamden Hall Country Day School.
After losing their 14-year-old son in a tragic bicycle accident in May 2022, the family of Zayne Ali Thomas of New Haven has established a scholarship fund at Hamden Hall Country Day School where he had been a student.
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by | Feb 15, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (14)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)
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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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by | Feb 6, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (16)
New Haveners will be able to fly directly to Atlanta from Tweed New Haven Airport four times a week beginning May 2, as part of the of the latest expansion of flights.
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by | Nov 15, 2023 8:41 am | Comments (34)
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Liborio and Maria Ayala, getting ready to return to PR...
... on inaugural Avelo flight from Tweed to San Juan.
Maria Ayala and her father Liborio drove from Bridgeport to Morris Cove early Wednesday morning to kick off a visit to their old home in Puerto Rico — as two of 145 passengers on the inaugural flight from Tweed New Haven Airport to San Juan.
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by and | Nov 7, 2023 9:50 pm | Comments (22)
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Sal DeCola, reelected for a seventh term, with supporters.
(Updated) Six-term incumbent Democrat Sal DeCola has retained his seat — by winning less than 40 percent of the vote at the polls — in a three-way alder race to represent Morris Cove’s Ward 18.
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by | Nov 7, 2023 12:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Cyn Chegwidden, Janis Astor del Valle, and Amy Myers: Voting Campion, and anti-charter revision.
Fabian Baca: DeCola is "always in touch with the neighbors."
Confusion and anger about the formulation of the charter revision question. Strong feelings about an alder who left the scene of a car crash.
Those were among the passionate sentiments of voters leaving the Ward 18 Nathan Hale School polling site Tuesday morning on Election Day.
by , , and | Oct 27, 2023 11:11 am | Comments (5)
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Board President Tyisha Walker-Myers (right) and colleagues remember late Alders Renee Haywood and Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
The 12th annual Black and Hispanic Caucus gala honored community stalwarts both living and gone, in a night of dancing, selfies, hugs, and tears.
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by | Oct 26, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (22)
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Alder Sal DeCola and challenger Lisa Milone when they competed for the same alder seat in 2015.
A (successful) petition urging write-in candidate Campion: "Run Susan Run!"
This November, Morris Cove residents will see two names on their ballots — and have the option of writing in a third — as they decide whom to support for Ward 18 alder.
by | Oct 19, 2023 6:42 pm | Comments (23)
Images of the crashed-into car posted to NextDoor.
A Morris Cove resident has sued Alder Sal DeCola and two neighborhood police officers after DeCola crashed into her parked car in February, drove away from the scene and allegedly conferred with the district’s top cop on how to pressure her not to press charges.
by | Oct 19, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (4)
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Nathan Hale's Trudy Anderson on the Spanish-teaching job in class.
Nathan Hale Spanish teacher Trudy Anderson showed the seasons el invierno, la primavera, el verano, and el otoño on her classroom Smart Board then asked students “¿Cuál es tu favorito?”
“El verano,” answered Cameron Troutman.
“¿Por qué?” Anderson followed up.
“Es mi cumpleaños,” Troutman responded.
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by , and | Sep 12, 2023 3:59 pm | Comments (9)
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Star Gilliams (center) with Harris & Tucker pollsters Memori Jones, Kauren Gaines, Shamar Sheppard at Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville: "I'm concerned about what happens to this neighborhood."
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Erica Rodriguez and Isiah Miller, side by side, but for different candidates, on Chatham Street in Fair Haven.
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Sam Tolkin, with 3-year-old Oliver, on Townsend Ave in Morris Cove: Brennan's "got the chutzpah to say how important education is.”
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Barbara Dozier, at Roberto Clemente in the Hill: "It's always important to vote."
(Updated) Shamar Sheppard peered up at Jazmine Williamson, a clipboard and pencil in hand. “Did you vote today?” he asked. “Who did you vote for?”
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by | Sep 7, 2023 5:06 pm | Comments (56)
NextDoor photos of car that got hit.
(Updated with further comments from Alder Sal DeCola) One evening in late February, Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola crashed his car into a neighbor’s parked vehicle on Hervey Street — and then drove away.
Now, less than a week before DeCola faces a political challenger in the Democratic primary, the incident has resurfaced on social media and police are investigating a new anonymous Internal Affairs complaint alleging that the alder received favorable treatment from neighborhood cops at the time.
by | Aug 25, 2023 10:19 am | Comments (19)
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An Avelo plane ...
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... and a mid-July flood at Tweed Airport.
Climate change has emerged as a defining issue in a Morris Cove alder race, as a six-term incumbent focused on nuts-and-bolts environmental upkeep faces a challenge from an activist determined to stop an expanding airport.
by | Aug 1, 2023 2:30 pm | Comments (41)
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Movimiento Cultural: "Sing it with us! Hello Avelo! Hello Avelo!"
“¡Yo soy Boricua, pa’ que tu lo sepas!”
These shouts of celebration and of Puerto Rican pride rang out over Tweed’s tarmac as a host of city and state officials and airport boosters celebrated new direct flights from the East Shore to San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting in November.
by | Jul 27, 2023 9:44 am | Comments (6)
Miguel Cardona (center, in blue suit) with PRU's board on Wednesday.
The nation’s top education official came to the Cove Wednesday night to pledge his support for the city’s new superintendent and fellow Boricua, as part of a hundreds-strong celebration of New Haven’s Puerto Rican community.
by | Jul 25, 2023 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Monica Loomis sampling the Lamb's Ear.
“It feels like flannel,” said Monica Loomis of the Lamb’s Ear that Giulia Gambale had distributed to her.
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by | Jul 21, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (47)
Travelers react to latest Tweed flood.
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Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
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by | Jul 13, 2023 12:16 pm | Comments (26)
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right) won the ward committee's endorsement by just 2 votes ...
... as Mayor Justin Elicker prevailed by 15, on Wednesday.
Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola narrowly beat back a challenge from a Tweed airport expansion critic to win his neighborhood’s Democratic Party endorsement for reelection — as Mayor Justin Elicker coasted in a crowded field towards securing that same East Shore party-insider group’s support — in the first votes to take place this municipal election year.
by | Jul 5, 2023 12:18 pm | Comments (4)
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Pablo Sumba, marveling at the mouth of a freshly caught porgy ...
... at Lighthouse Point Park on the day before July 4th.
Pablo Sumba and his family left their land-locked home in Waterbury early in the morning to fit in as many waterfront activities as they could during a pre-holiday trip to Lighthouse Point Park — including fishing, swimming, grilling (some of the 12 porgies they caught), and just hanging out with five-month-old baby Lucas, who lay on a blanket on the green grass nearby.
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by | Jun 8, 2023 9:09 am | Comments (37)
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All aboard one of the many new flights leaving from Tweed.
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Tweed Director Tom Rafter: "There's a number of different ways this could go."
It’s time to wait and see what the feds decide.
Tweed New Haven Airport Authority Executive Director Tom Rafter urged that patience and provided other process updates as he told a crowd of roughly 100 people at a contentious annual meeting that federal regulators should weigh in later this summer on the potential environmental impacts of the Morris Cove airport’s planned expansion.
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by | Apr 24, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (26)
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Who's playing identity politics? Squaring off in Wooster Square Park over the Columbus statue removal, in 2020.
Mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur made a play for East Shore voters by calling for tax cuts for airport neighbors and questioning the removal of Wooster Square Park’s Christopher Columbus statue.
In the process, he and incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker ended up accusing each other of playing “identity politics.” Neither meant it as a compliment. Or as having the same meaning.
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by | Apr 12, 2023 1:59 pm | Comments (14)
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Mayoral candidates take on West River encampment's demise.
a) The city responded well in its controversial dismantling of the West River homeless encampment.
b) The city needs to amp up the pressure for greater state and federal funding for rental subsidies.
c) The city needs to convert more publicly-owned property into affordable housing, and promote the same on private land.
d) The city needs to collect better data on how many people are actually experiencing homelessness in New Haven.
e) The city never should have shut down the encampment at all.
That multiple choice set’s worth of perspectives came through as five mayoral candidates hashed through housing policy, and sought to differentiate themselves from the pack, during the first citywide candidate forum this mayoral election season.
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by | Apr 3, 2023 11:33 am | Comments (36)
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Ready for departure for a larger airport?
“No to Tweed expansion; yes to EIS.”
“How does destroying the Cove make New Haven a better place?”
“Stop paving our wetlands.”
“This is all greed.”
That panoply of protest signs in the lobby of East Haven High School’s auditorium offered a harbinger for the direction of the public meeting to come regarding the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Airport.
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by | Mar 24, 2023 5:31 pm | Comments (16)
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Jorge Oquendo (pictured) Friday became the one millionth customer to fly to or from Tweed New Haven Airport since Avelo Airlines set up shop here 17 months ago.
Or did he?
Continue reading ‘Millionth Avelo Customer Takes Off From Tweed’
