Senior centers get laptops 4.01.09
The city is closing half of its senior centers due to budget cuts, but it will add at least five new laptops at those that remain.
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Senior centers to close 3.05.09
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City opens homeless shelter as stopgap measure during ‘crisis’ 2.29.08
The new shelter has opened at a time when the city is blaming the state government, at least in part, for the increase in New Haven’s homeless population — and state leaders shoot back that tackling homelessness is a joint city-state responsibility.
Locals in dark on colleges 2.20.08
The next decade may see a new, as yet undefined, relationship between the old streets and the changing University. But even as, just a few blocks south, University President Richard Levin encourages the Yale Corporation to approve the expansion up Science Hill, most of the dozen residents interviewed in their Winchester-Mansfield neighborhood are not even aware of the...
As cold persists, options for immigrants are few 2.08.08
On an icy Thursday afternoon, three federal agents in a Chevy uplander brimming with boxes of documents drive down Whalley Avenue. A U-Haul truck soon pulls up to the entrance of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, and frightened employees watch as more than a dozen agents burst through the front door marked with a scrap of yellow notebook paper reading “Agency...
Iraq war memorial vandalized 2.01.08
A local memorial built to honor lives lost in the war in Iraq has been vandalized four times in the past week, prompting only muted response from city officials and Yale students, most of whom seemed aware of the monument’s existence.
Aramark faces allegations in city schools 2.01.08
Aramark, the food-services company formerly employed by Yale University Dining Services, is now facing allegations of mismanagement and poor food quality from cafeteria workers and custodians in New Haven Public Schools.
Homebuyer program to grow by 20 percent 1.14.08
The University announced last week that it has renewed and expanded its popular Homebuyer Program, an initiative that has helped hundreds of University employees purchase homes in the Elm City for over a decade.
Survey: City split on immigration 12.07.07
Gateway Community College on Wednesday released the results of a discussion on immigration that took place at the school in October — about two months later than anticipated. Although faith in civic participation within the group increased after the discussion and 90 percent of participants said the experience was “valuable,” participants remained uncertain of how to...
Locals dedicate Iraq memorial 12.04.07
More than 50 members of the New Haven community gathered Monday night to inaugurate a memorial for city residents killed in the Iraq war. But Yale students were mostly M.I.A.
Food banks hit by supply shortage 12.04.07
A shortage in food-bank supplies, which has resulted in scantier offerings for the poor and hungry nationwide, has hit home locally, New Haven hunger advocates said. As Congress debates a farm bill that experts say has the potential to increase access to food stamps and surplus food, local advocates said they have been working to cope in continuing to feed Elm City...
