The Yale College Council has always been responsible for Spring Fling and the Fall Show, but this fall it has added another job to its agenda — voter registration.
The YCC this semester created Yale Votes to centralize on-campus voter registration, distribute campaign news and organize community-wide panels on the election. Although group...
In an historic but divided ruling Friday morning, the state Supreme Court gave the green light for gay couples to marry, making Connecticut the third state behind Massachusetts and California to allow same-sex marriages. The 4-3 decision, joined by Yale lecturer Flemming Norcott Jr., cited the state constitution's "firmly established" equal-protection-clause principles...
Jane, 41, is a Yale dining hall employee. She has four children — two sons and two daughters — as well as a two-year-old granddaughter, and she lives in Westville, although until last month she lived in Fair Haven. Jane has worked at Yale for three-and-a-half years. And on Sept. 18, Jane pled guilty to prostitution. Jane — whose name is being withheld in order to...
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said Tuesday that he plans to establish a full-ride scholarship for city public high school students, though he has yet to release all the details. When asked about how it would affect the city budget — tight this year — he said, “That’s a discussion for another day.” DeStefano was ambiguous on whether there will be a citizenship...
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is opposed to the prospect of a youth curfew, he said in an interview with Hartford’s WTIC 1080. When pressed by interviewers, Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith about Hartford’s 9 p.m. teen curfew (enacted in August in response to a rise in teen shootings) and about reports that the local Meeting of the Moms group is pushing for the curfew...
Today Elm City Cycling and The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop are holding “Bike to Work” outside City Hall, beginning at 7:30 a.m. “It’s a great way to start the morning,” bike shop owner Matt Finer said. He said the event, which has been held the past six years, typically draws a crowd of about 20 people. Residents are welcome to free breakfast provided by Koffee...
The New Haven Independent reported that two men, seen linking arms, were hit by a car driving on Whitney Avenue near Grove Street. Initial reports showed that the men were jaywalking, the Independent states; one was middle-aged and one was elderly. Both men were treated for non-life threatening injuries. The accident follows not only a Yale Police Department initiative to...
Six week after the start of the New Haven Police Department’s anti-prostitution initiative, undercover officers conducted its sixth covert sting Tuesday night, which resulted in the arrest of five women charged with prostitution. The sting occurred in Fair Haven, Dwight and Hill South neighborhoods, all areas known for widespread prostitution. The undercover stings...
The New Haven Board of Aldermen is in the business of saving energy — and money. Six schools will be equipped with “refrigerator-sized” generators that will save the schools between $50,000 and $100,000 per year over the next decade, the New Haven Register reported on Thursday. Although the generators will meet only 5 percent of the total demand from the schools...
“Eight months was enough for me.” Hugh M. Edwards Jr., 40, a resident of Ansonia, Conn., was not always the world-renown celebrity photographer or Yale University dining hall chef that he is now. Twenty-five years ago, he was just a teenager who had finished a brief stint in jail. “I’m an ex-offender — I’m a five-time convicted felon in the early ’80s,”...
He’s going for number nine. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced this week he will run for re-election next year, even though he won’t launch his campaign until next spring. If the eight-term mayor wins the November 2009 election — a likely scenario given his present stronghold over city politics — he will become the longest-serving mayor in New Haven history...
