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All New Haven16 and 17 year olds are advised by the New Haven Health Department to call 877-918-2224 to sign up for the Career High School clinic this week. Parents not yet vaccinated are welcome to go with their high schooler to get Vaccinated as well.

Dear Neighbors:

Connecticut is creating a plan to prepare the state for climate change. Decision-makers must hear from you to best support your community. Researchers at the Vermont Law School and Yale University want to aid that communication. 

Over the coming weeks their team will run focus groups on equity, health, transportation, safety, and other issues in the context of climate change. In these groups, you can share your experiences and stand up for your…

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs and, through repeated face-to-face exchanges, help people feel they’re members of a mutually supportive community. And yet for a long time, mom-and-pop stores have been under stress. In the half-century after 1950, cars shifted much of America’s retailing to unwalkable roadside…

Molly, the women who is the subject of this report has an office at Quinnipiac Marina, right here in our neighborhood. Although COVID-19 is keeping her and her team away from the office a lot of the work on this project over the past few years was done from Fair Haven. Please read, share and enjoy the earth-saving work done by this young women. She is literally helping to save the planet by helping the Roman Catholic Church manage lands its…

Today at 3pm there will be a news conference called by the organizations that banded together to protest the expansion of a facility that brings trash to New Haven from other town. American Wast (19 Wheeler St.) has pulled its application to the Department of energy & Environmental Protection, for now. It is important that we show that communities on both sides of the river are united in permanent opposition to this expansion. Everyone is welcome to come to this event at the end of James…

Covid-19 vaccines arrived Thursday at Fair Haven’s Mary Wade nursing home, and 104 residents and approximately 80 employees got their shots...

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mary_wadecovid-19_vaccines/ ;

After securing grants from the Could Be Fund, Sustainable CT, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, nearby local businesses and several individuals (a full list is available …

CARE, the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement is working to understand more about the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in New Haven, particularly among people of color.

Participation in this survey will help CARE and their community partners to better respond to the pandemic here in our community. Participants will also be entered…

Students at Wilbur Cross are very eager to help the community and also get credit for community service.  Applicants of the New Haven Promise have to complete a total of 40 hours to meet scholarship requirements.  The student at our school are looking for opportunities to do yard work or other outdoors work for elderly, those with Covid-19 and/or community service agencies.  I hope that you will be able to spread the word and help us to connect with those that can use the services we…

Dear New Haven Residents,



We are experiencing some of the highest rates of COVID-19 in New Haven since the start of the pandemic. With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, our strongest advice is that you stay home with your core family group and reduce any exposure to others.

 

We are seeing many indications that people will be travelling over the holidays. We would ask you to reconsider. If you absolutely must travel, please travel by car only with…

To stop the spread of COVID-19, Connecticut needs everyone to do…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took has unprecedented action on September 1 by issuing a temporary national moratorium on most evictions for nonpayment of rent to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Citing the historic threat to public health posed by coronavirus, the CDC declared that an eviction moratorium would help ensure people are able to practice social distancing and comply with stay at home orders.  The moratorium took effect September 4 and last until…