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101 College, Route 34 Fill-in Ground Broken by PAUL BASS
New Haven Independent
History had a chuckle Monday as government and business leaders grabbed shovels near the border of the vanishing Route 34 Connector. The leaders gathered to mark the start of the latest phase of New Haven’s ongoing work to fill in the Connector, a never-completed mini-highway built during mid-20th century Urban Renewal to enable suburban drivers to zip in and out of the city. As the shovelers flung symbolic dirt in the parking lot of the 2 Church St. South medical office building, a Manafort Brothers crew began work on Phase 3 of the project, called “Downtown Crossing.” This phase will fill in the mini-highway between Temple Street and Congress Avenue, connecting the Hill and Downtown with a slow-speed road friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists. They were also marking the start of construction of 101 College St., a 10-story 500,000 square foot bioscience tower, depicted in the above drawing, to rise directly across from the 100 College St. bioscience tower. The historic irony: In the 1950s and 1960s, the predecessors to the mayor, governor, senator, alders, and business execs gathered at Monday’s groundbreaking would gather in the same area to break ground on projects that destroyed neighborhoods. New Haven was at the forefront of that national Urban Renewal experiment: It received more federal and foundation money per capita than any other city to destroy buildings, erect new ones, and test out social programs all in the name of ending poverty. The Route 34 mini-highway, called the “Oak Street Connector,” displaced 881 families and 350 businesses when it was built in 1959. Now New Haven is again at the forefront of urban highway planning: It is one of four U.S. cities already filling in previously built highways, as two dozen others look to follow suit. New Haven began working a decade ago on filling in the Connector. It secured $36 million in federal grants and $21.5 million in state money to make it happen. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro announced Monday she will seek another $20 million for Phase 4 of the project through the renewed Congressional earmarking process. “It was the federal government that tore this all down. Now it’s federal money that’s building it all back up,” observed former Mayor John DeStefano, whose administration got the project rolling. At an hour-long ceremony preceding the raising of the symbolic shovels, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal noted the original plan called for the Oak Street Connector to continue miles west to connect highway drivers to the Naugatuck Valley. But construction stopped after a mile; hence the “road-to-nowhere” and “mini-high-
PAUL BASS PHOTO Take 1: Developer Carter Winstanley, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, Yale President Peter Salovey, Gov. Ned Lamont, SCSU BioPath
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Arvinas CEO Houston with Lamont and Winstanley after the shoveling.
The community crew: Alders Carmen Rodriguez, Evelyn Rodriguez, Ron Hurt, Abby Roth, Kampton Singh; Schools Superintendent Tracey.
way-to-nowhere” nicknames. “Route 34 became a road to nowhere because of a broken promise. — the broken promise of Urban Renewal,” Blumenthal declared. “Today we are fulfilling a broken promise.” Hill Alder Ron Hurt reached further back than Urban Renewal to put Monday’s event in context — to the federal Home Ownership Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps that designated neighborhoods like the Hill undesirable areas for investment, which is believed to have set a pattern of selective urban disinvestment, redlining, and racial and economic segregation that
regated development. Neighborhoods like mine have been cut out of opportunity,” Hurt said in sermon-style remarks that woke up a crowd wilting after an hour in the outdoor heat. “We ran for office to change this history ... of segregated development.” He called the city’s deal with Winstanley “a job well done in working with us. This gives us hope that our children will not be forgotten.” Yale President Peter Salovey spoke of how the project fits into New Haven’s emergence as bioscience hub. Yale entities have already signed us as major tenants of Winstanley’s 101 and 100 College
lasted generations. Hurt and fellow Hill alders along with the city negotiated agreements with builder Carter Winstanley to help Hill residents apply for and obtain some of the 7001,000 expected long-term jobs created by the project. Winstanley also agreed to include classroom space in 101 College for New Haven Public School students to learn research skills alongside some of the companies there. Similar tie-in projects were struck with Gateway Community College and Southern Connecticut State University. “We have experienced 80 years of seg-
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Street buildings — just as it did with bioscience projects he has successfully carried out over the past two decades at 300 George St. and at Science Park. The neuroscience-focused Wu Tsai Institute is filling floors that Alexion abandoned at 100 College St. At 101 College, Yale has committed to renting 125,000 square feet of space. Arvinas, which develops drugs to treat cancer, has committed to 160,000. A coworking outfit called BioLabs has committed to another 50,000. “This is a momentous day for New Haven,” Mayor Elicker declared.
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240 Names Floated To Replace Columbus by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent
King Lanson School? How about Momauguin Family and Cultural School? Or Four Winds Family Academy? Those are among the 240 name suggestions submitted so far for the Fair Haven school currently known, but not for long, as Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA). The names were disclosed Thursday night during a public forum held by the New Haven Board of Education’s School Facility Naming Committee, which included breakout groups wrestling with whether to rename the school after a person, a place, or a theme. list of suggestions, which ranged from “shaggy,” “Adam Sandler” and “Winfred Rembert” to “Roots & Wings” and “No Limits Academy. “ The committee will continue to receive suggestions through this survey until Sunday. Twenty participants ranging from the school’s staff to parents gathered on Zoom Thursday night to discuss how to proceed. According to the responses gathered from the survey, 28.6 percent of responders would prefer that the school name highlight a theme of the school’s mission. The next highest preference was for the school to be named after a person. If the new name happens to be a per-
son, participants Thursday night urged the committee, make it someone from New Haven. Some members of one breakout group said the school should be named after local historical leaders. Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA) member Alexis Garcia suggested Momauguin, a Quinnipiac chief who signed the First Treaty with the English in New Haven in 1638. One submitted suggestion would rename the school “Sonia Sotomayor Academy.” “Not that Sonia Sotomayor is not worthy to have a school named after her,” committee member Toni Criscuolo said. “But I think it would have connection to people if there were local people of note that they could say, ‘Wow, right from New Haven just like me; look what they did.!” Criscolo added that she os a fan of the suggestion of Four Winds Family Academy. “Naming a school after a person often leads to more of a disagreement. It’s harder to come to a consensus because no one is perfect,” said CCFA Special Education teacher Kerry Hayes. Tulani Dial, a parent of a CCFA student, suggested the school be named after William Lanson. Lanson, an early 19th century local engineer, entrepreneur, and Black political leader who freed himself from slavery and was elected “Black governor” in 1825, helped build the Farmington
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Canal and Long Wharf during his time working and living in Antebellum New Haven. (An honorary statue of Lanson was installed last year in Dixwell)
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“If we’re going to name it after someone let it be about someone in New Haven,” she said. CCFA first grade English teacher Debbie
Pires said she dislikes the idea of naming the school after a place. She argued that it would be repetitive to put Fair Haven or Quinnipiac in the school’s name. CCFA Literacy Coach Irene Logan added that her breakout group supported the idea of putting discovery in the school name to push its mission to “discover lots of education.” Garcia disagreed with putting ‘discovery’ in the school name. “It can refer to old name of Columbus,” he said. Participants reached a consensus that the school name reflect its mission of inclusion and cultural diversity. Logan shared that a Guatemalan parent in her breakout group suggested the name “The Very Cultural and Multilingual Family Academy” to highlight the school’s values. “We are a community of many different cultures. We all speak not just English and Spanish,” said Logan. CCFA Special Education Paraprofessional Jacqui Vasquez added that it is common throughout the school for staff and students to educate one another about cultural difference during classroom lessons. After the survey closes this Sunday, the committee will meet June 8 to begin the selection process of two submissions. The two names will be confirmed and submitted to the Board of Ed by June 15 to then make the final selection.
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Blocks From Gunfire, Rally Aims At Violence by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven Independent
Activists from throughout the state gathered in Dixwell Wednesday evening for a rally calling for an end to gun violence. The rally, organized by the group Connecticut Against Gun Violence, coincided with a push for a new statewide initiative — and with the latest nonfatal shooting of a teen in the neighborhood. Participants pledged to continue pushing lawmakers to support efforts like like the passage of Ethan’s Law in 2019, which requires state gun owners to store firearms safely in homes with minors or face possible federal jail time. Forty people gathered for the rally at the CT Violence Intervention Program community center at 230 Ashmun St. The group honored victims of gun violence by wearing orange, the favorite color of 15-year-old Chicago girl Hadiya Pendleton who was gunned down while hanging out in a park with friends. Pendleton’s death went viral after it was discovered that days before her murder, her majorette squad had performed at Barack Obama’s second inauguration. On Wednesday Hadiya would have turned 24 years old. Speakers advocated a Connecticut Initiative to Prevent Community Gun Violence. The initiative would establish an Office of Community Gun Violence Prevention tasked with funding and implementing grassroots programs and strategies to reduce gun violence. CT Against Gun Violence (CAGV) Community Outreach Coordinator Janet Rice smiled at the sight of a cloth mural being made at the event. Rice stepped up to the mural table and put both hands out in front of her. “Orange and blue, please,” she said to two young volunteers with paint sponges in hand. A light layer of paint was then spread on Rice’s hands. She flipped her hands over and placed them on a blank space of the fabric beside a handful of other prints. The top of the mural read “These hands helped end gun violence.” Rice, who lives in Hartford, is the mother of Shane Oliver, who was 20 years old when shot and killed October 20, 2012, 55 days before the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. Rice’s granddaughter’s bedroom at her home is also decorated with hand prints on her wall, she said. Per her granddaughter’s request Rice’s family each left colorful hand prints on her wall. About two months ago Rice also lost her godson to gun violence. At the moment her street in Hartford has two makeshift memorials only feet apart from recent acts of gun violence. On her way to the event, Rice said, she heard there was a shooting going on in Hartford. During the event it was reported that a nonfatal shooting of a 16-year-old had occurred about five blocks away in New Haven, on Goffe Street between Or-
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In hand, Prince carried a picture of her friend’s son Randell “Jun Jun” Jones Jr., who was killed at 3 years old while in a parked car. “I usually know each victim or their families,” Prince said. Prince said she supports the recent state push to end gun violence but thinks leaders have to “tackle urban areas differently” from suburban areas’ gun issues. She argued that suburban areas have more issues with gun storage, while urban areas have more issues with illegal guns that are “easy for kids to get their hands on.” “Where are these guns coming from?
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Who are the suppliers to the Black and brown community?” she asked. She said one step to ending gun violence should include shutting down gun manufactures throughout the state. “I’m not immune. I know it could be me,” Prince said. “We’re fighting for out lives.” Elected officials addressing the crowd in support of the initiative included U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. CT Against Gun Violence was Live·
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Dwight Helps Send Aspiring OB/GYN To HBCU (DCMT) Chair Florita Gillespie announced Jones as the DeBorah Davis Scholarship winner at the management team’s most recent meeting, held online Tuesday evening. The annual scholarship comes entirely from donations from members of the management team. Gillespie noted that the scholarship has always been about volunteerism. That requirement seemed potentially impossible for students this year. “I said that we should put community service on [the application] anyway. We don’t know what they might be doing,” Gillespie said. Jones showed that creativity with her online volunteering, Gillespie said. Others at the management team lauded Jones for volunteering since she was a child and for choosing to attend Morgan State University in Baltimore. They told her that she will do well, because she has a strong mother to support her. (Jones is the daughter of Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers.) “I’m a Baltimorean originally. Go get
by EMILY HAYS
New Haven Independent
Tiasia Jones is heading to Morgan State University with help from her Dwight, West River and Edgewood neighbors. The Hillhouse senior won $500 from the Dwight Central Management Team’s DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship with her essay on bagging groceries for food insecure families on Thanksgiving. “It was my first independent community service event. I could see that it was a weight lifted off their shoulders. While some might think it’s not such a big deal, I couldn’t stop talking about how good I felt,” Jones recalled. She started mentoring preteens at Elm City Cheer. She found a similar satisfaction in being a confidante for students going through tough times. These volunteering outlets vanished when the Covid-19 pandemic began. By June though, Jones found a safe way to give her time—educating peers about Black Lives Matter and police brutality through social media. Dwight Central Management Team
EMILY HAYS PHOTO Graduating Hillhouse senior Tiasia Jones.
Federal Aid Windfall Grows By $25.3M by THOMAS BREEN
New Haven Independent
The federal aid tidal wave just got $25.3 million bigger. City Budget Director and Acting Controller Michael Gormany broke that news to the Board of Alders. In a letter and an accompanying proposed resolution included in the agenda package for Monday night’s full Board of Alders meeting, Gormany wrote that the city found out on Friday that it will be receiving $25,299,535.59 in federal Covidera aid through the County Allocation of the American Rescue Plan Act. He said that that new pot of money represents “a substantial infusion of resources to help turn the tide on the pandemic, address its economic fallout, and lay the foundation for a strong and equitable recovery.” He also told the alders that the state Office of Policy and Management will be distributing this new county-level aid in two tranches: 50 percent now, and 50 percent next year. City spokesperson Kyle Buda confirmed for the Independent Monday morning that this new pot of nearly $25.3 million is separate from and in addition to the roughly $90 million the city has already been expecting and preparing for thanks to the Covid-era federal bailout legislation. While that latter money is coming to New Haven through the American Rescue Plan Act’s direct aid to local governments, the former is coming through a county-level provision of aid.
THOMAS BREEN FILE PHOTO City Budget Director Gormany: Lots more money coming the city’s way.
Mayor Justin Elicker has already proposed and an aldermanic committee has endorsed a plan to spend the first $26.3 million of the local government aid on summer concerts, citywide cleanup crews, playground repairs, extended summer camps, neighborhood popup festivals, police walking beats, and “cost recovery” for parking meter, building permit and tax collection revenue lost due to the pandemic. The alders are slated to
take a final vote on that initial $26.3 million plan Monday night. Based on Gormany’s Friday letter, the alders will also likely vote on Monday night on whether or not to accept this new nearly $25.3 million federal aid allocation. Gormany wrote that county distribution claims must be submitted to the state no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday. In regards to how this money might be spent, the proposed resolution accompanying Gorman’s Friday afternoon letter states that the “Board of Alders shall determine the program and method for appropriation of remaining funding received pursuant to the Act following receipt and consideration of an investment plan submitted by the Mayor for the purpose of obtaining advice and input from the Board and the community and ultimate approval of such an investment plan following such advice and input.” Buda also told the Independent on Monday morning that the restrictions placed on how this county-level aid can be spent will likely be similar to the restrictions placed on the direct local aid portion of American Rescue Plan Act funds. That means: “no” to spending pandemic-era federal aid on debt service or pension payments, but “yes” to spending that money on otherwise helping the city recover from the pandemic. The new federal aid announcements comes at the same time that the governor and the state legislature continue to negotiate the final terms of a new state budget that could boost the city’s annual receipt of municipal aid by $49 million.
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yourself some good hardshell crabs,” said Sheila Shanklin. Jones has long wanted to attend Morgan State, based on stories she has heard from alumni and from Baltimore-based family. She plans to study biology and become an obstetrician or gynaecologist. She changed her career plans from doula birth-coaching to OB/GYN doctor after realizing how few Black women work in the field. “There is a lot of medical racism. Even my sister was in danger from things that doctors should have seen ... And I love babies,” Jones said. Jones is excited to study in-person and make new friends in Baltimore after a hard year of remote school. She knows her mother’s legacy is a lot to live up to, and she feels that she is ready to make her own legacy in her chosen field. Another student was supposed to receive the DeBorah E. Davis Scholarship alongside Jones. However, personal problems in her family mean she will not be able to attend the college she chose next year.
36 Refugees Vaccinated At Hill Clinic by NICK PERKINS
New Haven Independent
On Saturday, in a small park to the side of the Yale Physicians Building, bubbles and pizza welcomed local refugee families as part of a Covid-19 vaccination pop-up. The small-scale vaccination clinic was set up by Yale Community Healthcare and Elena’s Light, an organization that seeks to help refugee women and children. Thirty-six people received vaccines at the clinic. This was the second time the clinic had been done in that location; the first was on May 15. The clinic was specifically targeted at refugee families. After getting their vaccine families were encouraged to socialize, get food, and play games. Leslie Sude, a doctor at the Yale School of Medicine, helped to organize the event. She called the clinic “a novel, co-cultural Covid-vaccine intervention.” The novelty came from how one could both get their vaccine in a “friendly environment” and also enjoy a community event with friends and food. She said that while the mass vaccination centers may have helped motivate some people, “these smaller venues help those with more hesitancy and less familiarity with the American healthcare system” get vaccinated. One person who came to get vaccinated, Shafiqa Chatak, said that the clinic’s location and environment made it much easier for her to get the vaccine. She said she was grateful for the ease of opportunity to get vaccinated, as she said she
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was concerned about getting Covid. The founder of Elena’s Light, Fereshteh Ganjavi (pictured), said the clinic was particularly aimed at children and women who have not had vaccine access that men in the community have had at workplaces.
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New Haven Independent
New Haven will soon learn more about the local impact of an understudied disease: sickle cell anemia. The information will come from a student documenting “the current status of” the disease in Connecticut. The Sickle Cell Disease Association, based on Chapel Street across from the St. Raphael branch of Yale New Haven Hospital, will carry it out with help of anew $25,000 grant. Following is the full text of a release about the grant and the study: The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America CT has received a grant for $25,000 from the Social Venture Partners Connecticut, a non-for-profit organization that invests its resources to advance equitable solutions for closing Connecticut’s opportunity gap to address many of the systemic inequities that drives the excessive morbidities and mortality and quality of life issues within the Sickle Cell Community in CT. The Sickle Cell Disease Association of
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DuBois-Walton Campaign HQ Opens With Call To Hit The Doors by PAUL BASS
New Haven Independent
Fifty supporters entered the door to Karen DuBois-Walton’s mayoral campaign headquarters Sunday — then were dispatched back out to knock on doors throughout the city. The occasion was an official opening of the headquarters at the corner of Whalley and Sherman Avenues. (Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker, whom DuBois-Walton is challenging for the Democratic mayoral nomination; opened his headquarters two weeks ago five blocks west on Whalley; DuBois-Walton addressed the gathering in front of a “30 for 30” chart listing the plan for the candidate and the campaign to knock on doors of homes in each of the city’s wards during June to make their case and drum up support. In the first week of “hitting the doors,” DuBois-Walton reported, she has heard three consistent themes: • Schools: “The fact that we were the only city in the state” that failed to reach consensus on how to safely reopen schools sooner in the pandemic. • Opportunity: “People want to get back to work, to make a decent living.” • Crime: “People are not feeling safe” in the wake of an increase in violence. “I talked to a woman in Beaver Hills.
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I talked to a woman in Newhallville. Both of them pointed to bullets in the window and the siding where stray bullets” had left holes, DuBois-Walton told the headquarters gathering. “We through hard work can come together and be that city where every child enters our school district ready to learn and every child leaves the district ready for the world. We can be that community where we all feel safe ... where we know that disputes get solved without resorting to violence. But that’s going to take work ... A lot of work, day in and day out, until the Sept. 14 primary, knocking on every door multiple times. “Now I want to get you to work ...” At that point the candidate introduced her field director, Elliot Storey. “She can talk to a lot of voters. She can’t talk to all the voters. She is going to need our help,” Storey told the crowd. Before hitting the doors, he asked them to fill out forms with contact information for other supporters who didn’t attend the gathering, as well as people who might be persuaded to pitch in. Elicker’s campaign, meanwhile, had a “night of food and fun” fundraiser planned at “Miya’s in the Woods” in Woodbridge, the new outpost of sorts for Miya’s chef Bun Lai.
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Tracey Leads Flock To The Mountaintop by EMILY HAYS
New Haven Independent
The prospect of an almost vertical climb up East Rock didn’t faze New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey. The students, staffers and parents alongside her? “If I can do it,” the 66-year-old vegan educator declared, “they can, too.” Tracey chose to lead school employees and families up the hardest hike in East Rock Park on Wednesday to challenge her students to get moving this summer. The East Rock hike kicked off the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) “Summer of Fun.” The district is funneling part of the influx of Covid-19 relief dollars into a variety of summer camps and activities. One purpose is to accelerate learning for students who struggled in remote school during the Covid-19 pandemic. Another is to rebuild families’ trust in the school district and its ability to keep their children safe. This trust will be key, since Tracey plans to eliminate remote learning as an option in the fall, aside from snow days. Teaching both in-person and remote students simultaneously has been hard for teachers. The hike itself launched the fitness portion of the Summer of Fun. “We have all been cooped up behind the walls of our houses and offices,” Tracey told those gathered for the hike on Wednesday. “It’s been hard on me as the superintendent. I get criticism, but I keep plugging on. I’m a superintendent on the move, and I’m going to continue being on the move,” Tracey said. Joining the hike, Mayor Justin Elicker gave a small speech to the group about his excitement to walk with so many people he admires. “We don’t always agree, but we all share the same goal” of helping students become successful, Elicker said. His sometimes-opponent on the Board of Education, pediatrician Tamiko JacksonMcArthur, nodded and mmhmmed in agreement from the crowd. “I encourage exercise every day in my office. We need more exercise in our city. This is where it starts,” Jackson-McArthur said. Around 100 families registered for the hike. The children that showed up despite the cloudy day were largely kids of Board of Education employees. For example, the full family of Wilbur Cross Principal Edith Johnson and King/Robinson Principal Joseph Johnson turned out for the hike. The power couple often takes their children on hikes like this, and they wanted to support the superintendent’s challenge, they said. “We try to do this as a family. Why not do it with our New Haven family?” Edith Johnson said. Jacob, the youngest Johnson, hitched a ride on his father’s shoulders the whole
EMILY HAYS PHOTOS Superintendent Iline Tracey leads hikers up East Rock.
Principals Edith and Joseph Johnson, with one of their sons, Jacob.
hike. Neither seemed too concerned that this might interfere with the King/Robinson principal’s balance on the winding steps at the top of the cliff. Joseph Johnson just felt more motivated to weight lift later that evening, he said. “Do you see mommy’s school?” Joseph Johnson asked Jacob, pointing to the Wilbur Cross High School rooftop. Tate Johnson, age 6, completed the whole climb himself. He wanted to arrive at the hike in his Spider-Man suit. His parents convinced him to go with just a
Spider-Man shirt instead. He got to the top without seeming to lose any momentum. He high-fived the superintendent at his mother’s suggestion and then ran off to shoot imaginary webs from his wrists with his new friend, 4-year-old Emmett Ellwanger. Emmett kept up a constant stream of dialogue throughout the hike about spray paint on rocks—“Look, it’s another painting!”—and other treasures he expected to find. Emmett’s mother, Natalie Ellwanger,
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is a new English teacher in New Haven Public Schools. She transferred from Bridgeport to Celentano Magnet School in January. “I’m happy to be part of a community that does this kind of stuff,” Ellwanger said. “The female leadership is noticeable in the district and the school. It sets a different vibe.” Tracey rested on a rock at the top of the mountain. School employees cheered as they made it up the last steps and then fussed over Tracey, checking whether she had water to drink. Tracey admitted that she found the first stretch of path through the woods the most difficult. The tall, nearly vertical steps at the end were easier for her. “I love walking and hiking. I haven’t done it for a while,” Tracey said. “I shouldn’t be panting.” Her fellow administrators knew she would be game to lead the challenge, because she invited them to walk with her on the Farmington Canal one Sunday during the pandemic. Other favorite treks include those at Sleeping Giant State Park and the Y Mountain in Utah. “The Y Mountain is dangerous, man! On the path, we met a Mormon gentleman who was almost 80 and moving like it was nothing. I thought, ‘I can do this too,’” Tracey said. After the adults caught their breath and admired the view, they headed back down the mountain by road. Tracey sighed as she passed a clear view down to New Haven. The steep drops reminded her of southern Manchester, Jamaica, where she lived until she turned 24. The roads wind tight around mountains and gorges, with little to stop a driver from falling off the cliff, she recounted. Her children were horrified by the drops when they visited
Manchester with her. Mailroom supervisor Amber Boykin stuck by Tracey on the hike down East Rock. She loved hiking in Los Angeles, where she attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. She hasn’t hiked as many trails since she’s returned to her hometown of New Haven and accepted a job in the school district. Boykin herself is a product of New Haven Public Schools and was one of Tracey’s students at King/Robinson. Boykin remembered her now-boss as a kind and energetic principal. “She treated us like we were part of her family. She spoiled us. Everyone felt like we were her kids,” Boykin said. “At assemblies, she would tell us, ‘Come on, stand up! Shake your worries away!’” Tracey’s health and energy inspire Social Studies Supervisor Sandra Clark. Clark tried Tracey’s vegan diet for around eight weeks and surprised her doctor with how much her health stats improved. “Now I’ll borrow this idea to go outside more with students and get this back to normal practice,” Clark said. Chief of Youth, Family and Community Engagement Gemma Joseph Lumpkin handed out T-shirts at the end, lauding the participants for surviving the hike. Her department led the planning for the fitness challenge and the Summer of Fun. The summer camps for K-8 students will focus on learning through projects in the morning, plus fun with the New Haven Youth Services Department in the afternoon. There will be a social justice and leadership camp at James Hillhouse High School especially for sixth through twelfth graders who struggled to log into remote class consistently. Other high schools are hosting other programs as well. Weekends will give families free opportunities to swim, dance, see aquariums, learn archery and more, if all goes as planned. “Parents cannot complain that there is nothing to do this summer. There will be something for everyone,” said parent engagement coordinator Danny Diaz. Donald McAulay is organizing the rest of this summer’s fitness challenges. He is a third-year doctoral student in a University of Connecticut education leadership program. During the summer, his title will be youth program coordinator for the district. McAulay has plans in the works to open high school gyms to the district’s families on Monday evenings. The idea is to bring in trainers from the gym mActivity to lead high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and weight lifting workouts. “We hope this will create sustainable habits for later,” McAulay said. Families can register for the activities online. So far, around 2,600 students have signed up for the summer camps, not including high school students.
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Black Health History: by Jasmine Browley, BlackDoctor.org Ella Fitzgerald, also known as “First Lady of Song” and “Lady Ella”, captured audiences everywhere with her ethereal voice and commanding vocal range. She was one of the originators of “scat singing” and a masterful musical improviser. “I never knew how good our songs were,” songwriter Ira Gershwin once said, “until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.” Throughout her career, Fitzgerald led big bands and symphony orchestras with a versatile repertory that spanned show tunes, jazz arrangements, novelties, bossa nova, and even classical opera. Despite her professional prowess, her health showed signs of weakness fairly early in her life. The culprit? Type 2 dia-
betes. Beginning in the 1970s, Fitzgerald began to have eyesight problems complicated by the disease, and in 1986 she had serious heart surgery. Despite the procedure, she made a triumphant return to the stage that next year. Her triumphant spirit helped her push through even after both legs were amputated below the knee, continuing to perform regularly in the early 1990s. Toward the end of her life, the jazz legend was confined to a wheelchair and spend most of her time in her Beverly Hills home. Like many others, she became a victim of a disease that has killed individuals from all walks of life. What is type 2 diabetes?
Ella Fitzgerald
Per the CDC, diabetes is the irregulation of insulin in the body. Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into the cells in your body for use as energy. If you have type 2 diabetes, cells don’t respond normally to insulin; this is called insulin resistance. Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. Eventually, your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. High blood sugar is damaging to the body and can cause other serious health problems, such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease. Type 2 diabetes symptoms often develop over several years and can go on for a long time without being noticed (sometimes there aren’t any noticeable symp-
toms at all). Because symptoms can be hard to spot, it’s important to know the risk factors and to see your doctor to get your blood sugar tested if you have any of them. Treating diabetes Luckily, diabetes is managed mostly by you, with support from your health care team. You may be able to manage your diabetes with healthy eating and being active, or your doctor may prescribe insulin, other injectable medications, or oral diabetes medicines to help manage your blood sugar levels. For more information, please visit Diabetes.org.
Express Yourself, Beautiful Black Man Series By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and a voting and ethics bill passed the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, but neither stands a chance in the evenly divided Senate. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan faced fierce opposition in the Senate, but ultimately a slimmeddown version passed using the reconciliation procedure. Reconciliation is used only in rare cases. Lawmakers cannot use it for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the voting rights and ethics measure, D.C. Statehood, and other causes near and dear to some Democrats and most African Americans. But Democrats do have a rare opportunity to get rid of the filibuster, a Senate cloture rule requiring 60 members to end debate on a topic and move to a vote. NNPA Newswire has reached out to all 50 Senate Democrats and Independents seeking their position on the filibuster. While some responded, others have held their positions close to the vest. “If we want to get things done in the Senate, then we must abolish the filibuster,” declared Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). “It is an antiquated, Jim Crow rule that overrides the majority and halts progress. It’s got to go.” Nora Keefe, a spokesperson for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), told NNPA Newswire in an email that Warren “is a
long supporter of getting rid of the filibuster.” Sen. Warren tweeted that the ‘For The People Act’ includes critical parts of her bill to end corruption. “It’s a good first step for protecting voting rights and restoring trust in our government,” Sen. Warren noted. “We can’t let [Sen. Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) veto this critical bill for our democracy with the filibuster. If the Senate is going to do the things the American people expect us to do, we must abolish the filibuster.”
“It’s anti-democratic in that it gives the minority party veto power over popular legislation.” Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, noted the filibuster has always stood in the way of racial progress. “Whether employed by Southern Democrats of the Jim Crow era or the Republican Party today after a major shift in the party’s stance on racial equality,” Robinson wrote in an op-ed for USA Today. “When you understand the filibuster’s racist past, it becomes clear that it has a racist present as well — and that we need to get rid of it.”
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) voiced support for ending the filibuster.
His argument is as sound as any and dates well beyond Jim Crow.
“The Senate needs to abolish the filibuster,” Sen. Smith tweeted over the weekend. “It’s undemocratic, and we need to move this country forward.” Noting that any significant voting rights legislation would need unlikely Republican support, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DMinn.) admitted she had changed course on the filibuster. “I’ve gone from a ‘maybe’ to a ‘yes,’” Klobuchar said. Sen. John Tester (D-Montana) also is reportedly leaning toward approving any attempts to end the filibuster while Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) remains a “yes.” Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona both have opposed efforts to eliminate the filibuster. However, after the marathon session to pass President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, Sen. Machin hedged slightly in a
nationally televised interview with NBC News. “I’m not going to change my mind,” he insisted. Sen. Manchin noted he would support establishing a “talking filibuster” that might require any senator objecting to ending debate to remain on the floor and speak for the entire time. “If you want to make it a little bit more painful, make him stand there and talk, I’m willing to look at any way we can,” Sen. Manchin remarked. “But I’m not willing to take away the involvement of the minority.” President Joe Biden has refused to pub-
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licly discuss whether he would seek an end to the filibuster. Professor Jared Carter, a Constitutional Law Expert at Vermont Law School, said it’s time to end the filibuster. He noted that the first filibuster occurred in 1837 and was used infrequently until after the Civil War when minority parties employed the measure to stop civil rights efforts. “It is a relic of reconstruction and Jim Crow South. It was regularly used to oppress racial minorities and oppose civil rights laws,” Professor Carter wrote in an email to NNPA Newswire. “Last year, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) threatened a filibuster over an antilynching law,” Professor Carter noted.
In 1922 the House passed a vital antilynching bill to combat the Ku Klux Klan’s worst violence, but it was filibustered in the Senate by southern Senate Democrats, Robinson noted. Congress tried again in 1935, but Georgia Democrat Richard Russell organized a six-day filibuster to oppose it. Russell once said he was “willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and ensure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders.” As Robinson wrote, the Senate’s grandest office building is now named in Russell’s honor, and Congress has never – to this day – passed an anti-lynching bill. Lawmakers used the filibuster attempting to stop the 1957 Civil Rights Act, and, most recently, Republicans have asserted Con’t on page 12
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Saturday In the Park With Arts On Call by KAREN PONZIO KAREN PONZIO PHOTOS A twice postponed Arts on Call performance got its chance to shine this past Saturday as renowned classical and jazz vocalist Dr. Tiffany Renée Jackson entertained and educated a grateful audience with a special Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn-centered program in a cozy shaded corner of Wooster Square Park. Though the rain and threat of storm had deterred two previous attempts at this event, Saturday brought sunny skies and midsummer-like temperatures to the city, and Elsie Chapman was thrilled to finally get the show she had been hoping for. “It’s happening!” she said as she gathered friends and neighbors in chairs on the grass opposite Dr. Jackson, who was seated on a bench that had special meaning to Chapman. Name plates graced the top rail of the bench — one with her own name and one in memory of her mother, who passed away last year. “She loved it here,” Chapman added. There was much to love on this humid but vibrant afternoon. The birds were playfully chirping. Park visitors were dog walking and enjoying picnics, many enjoying their purchases from the nearby farmer’s market. A general sense of relief and freedom seemed to waft through the air. That was soon met with the equally vibrant sound of Dr. Jackson’s voice, as she performing backed by “a little bit of orchestra” emanating from her phone via her Bluetooth speaker instead of from in-person musicians. “As a performer you learn to roll with it,” she said with a laugh. Dr. Jackson began by presenting a brief overview of her background, noting that she had grown up in New Haven, living in the Hill and on Church Street South, and ended up studying at Yale. “It’s been quite a journey,” she added. She spoke about her time at the Manhattan School of Music, where she took a Duke Ellington course and “fell in love” with Billy Strayhorn, the composer/ musician/lyricist/arranger who collaborated with Ellington for years. “I consider myself an Ellingtonian,” Jackson said. The first song she shared was “Take the ‘A’ Train,” which she said was Ellington’s “signature song” and the one he started his shows with. But Strayhorn actually wrote the song, she added; it was the first song he ever wrote for Ellington, and it was written while he was on the A train. Jackson’s voice soared with the tune, creating chills that were welcomed in the steamy heat of the day. The audience seemed near speechless when she finished, but eventually answered with cries of “wow” and “amazing.” Her second song, “Daydream,” also elicited chills as well as ample smiles. By this point even the birds seemed to be singing along with Jackson. Jackson chose “TGTT or Too Good to Title” as her third song, which she said she hadn’t performed live in a while. There was not even the slightest sense that this was not part of Jackson’s regular repertoire as she sang it with abundant joy and vigor. The final song, “Come Sunday,” was one that Jackson mentioned was featured in El-
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lington’s Sacred Concerts, “his most important works,” which she also noted he brought to New Haven’s own Battell Chapel in the 1970s. She said it was her favorite tune of his and dedicated it to “you all, those who have been directly affected by Covid, and those who have lost people. Although we are enjoying our new life, we must always remember those we lost.” This one was a tearjerker from nearly the first line, with the lyrics “Lord, dear Lord I’ve loved, God almighty, God of love, please look down and see my people through,” as Jackson stood singing with her arms raised and reaching outward. For a few minutes it felt as if that corner of the square was its own little chapel. Once again the audience answered with shouts of “amazing” and generous applause, and Jackson herself was just as appreciative. “Arts and Ideas, they’re doing a great thing,” she said. “I feel so much more connected.” She then expanded upon her experiences this past year in quarantine, speaking about how she and so many of her friends had lost gigs, but she also “got an opportunity to think about what I’m grateful for.” This led to her expanding her music education prorgram, Gift Passion Purpose Project, into providing not only resources to those kids who can’t afford voice lessons, but also mentorships between professional vocalists and students. She thanked Chapman once again for bringing her to Wooster Square on this day “to help me celebrate music and bringing us all together.” Jackson had also mentioned during the performance that she had recently accepted a Professor of Music position tenure track at Western Carolina University and would be leaving New Haven soon to begin her new journey. “But I’ll be back,” she said with a smile. Most of the group stayed after the show to talk more with her, inquiring further about her new teaching role and wishing her well. As Jackson had mentioned earlier, “New Haven: it’s a small community, but it’s tight knit.” The International Festival of Arts and Ideas runs through June 27. For more information about the Arts On Call program as well as the many other events being presented please visit the Arts and Ideas website.
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Tulsa Race Massacre survivors receive $300K in reparations By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris, Rolling Out
The three remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre received $100,000 each from the Justice for Greenwood Foundation on Thursday, June 3. Viola Fletcher, 107, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, and Hughes Van Ellis,100, received the money which comes 100-years after the epic tragedy that destroyed their homes and changed their lives. Commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre which took place over an 18-hour span were observed across the country. On May 31, 1921, a White mob attacked Black residents in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood, burning their homes and businesses and killing Blacks with abandon in the affluent community. The event remains the worst incident of racial violence in U.S. history. Hundreds of African Americans were killed and thousands were left homeless. At the time, Greenwood was the wealthiest Black community in the United States. The White mob’s supposed reason for the attack was because a 17-year-old White female accused a 19-year-old Black male of assaulting her. The Justice for Greenwood Foundation, a local nonprofit that has been fighting for reparations for the three living survivors, provided each of them with a six-figure gift.
Photo: Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis “We are immensely proud to play our role in rectifying these injustices. Nothing can undo the immense pain inflicted upon the remaining survivors of the massacre, but alleviating their current financial burdens inflicted not only by the massacre itself but subsequent systemic racism is the least we could do for them as we continue to push for reparations,” stated Damario Solomon Simmons, executive director of the Justice For Greenwood Foundation and the attorney representing the three
survivors in a lawsuit seeking reparations in a statement to Tulsa World newspaper. Fletcher, Randle and Van Ellis were also part of the ceremonies that went on this week. Fletcher, who was seven years old when the crimes occurred, testified before members of a House Judiciary subcommittee in May about how the massacre impacted her family and changed her life. “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street, I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black busi-
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nesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day,” stated Fletcher. Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street, a documentary on the race crime, is currently streaming on CNN. The documentary is produced by LeBron James’ Spring Hill Productions. The post Tulsa Race Massacre survivors receive $300K in reparations appeared first on Rolling Out.
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it in attempts to thwart the DREAM Act, the Affordable Care Act, and other bills that benefit communities of color. Many have posed the question similar to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, who asked, “if forced to choose between the protection of voting rights and the protection of the filibuster, what will Democrats do?” Leonhardt characterized his position by declaring that “it’s shaping up to be the most significant question about the new Democratic Senate.” He noted that Republican legislators in states throughout the nation are on a mission to make voting more difficult because they believe that lower turnout helps the party win elections. The Supreme Court – with six Republican appointees among the nine justices – has generally allowed voter restriction laws to stand. “The filibuster hurts all of us, not just the Black community,” Robinson, of Color of Change, noted. “Anyone who needs real change or help loses out to the Republican obsession with power.” Leonhardt concluded that “there does not appear to be a compromise path on this issue. Democrats can overhaul the filibuster — and, by extension, transform the Senate, ushering in an uncertain era in which both parties would be able to pass more of the legislation they favor. Or Democrats can effectively surrender on voting rights. It’s one or the other.”
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3. Hospital Records Reveal the Truth. Over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals, yet the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded only 36 dead. A 2001 state commission examining the massacre estimated that as many as 300 Black people were murdered based on autopsy and funeral records. 4. An estimated 10,000 Black people were left homeless after the massacre. An estimated $2 million in property damage resulted from the Tulsa Race Massacre. The damage to Tulsa’s Black community in today’s dollars is over $130 million. 5. The false rumor that Dick Rowland assaulted a White girl, led to a White mob surrounding the jail where Rowland was kept in preparation for a lynching. But a group of about 75 Black men, many of whom were armed, also arrived at the jail to prevent the lynching of Rowland. This example of armed Black resistance is what is believed to be the start of the massacre and hundreds of Black murders during the massacre. Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist for NNPA and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is also a political strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
In 1921, a White mob entered the Greenwood District and destroyed Tulsa’s Black community. During Memorial Day weekend, the centennial remembrance of the Tulsa Race Massacre was commemorated. The massacre began when White townspeople heard a false rumor that 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoe shiner, assaulted a White elevator operator named Sarah Page. Below are five interesting facts about the Tulsa Race Massacre. 1 Tulsa Police May Have Encouraged Violence —Eyewitness accounts create the impression that police deputized White members of the violent Tulsa mob and police used racial slurs as they focused their violence on Black citizens in Tulsa. 2. There was an effort by the Tulsa Tribune and the government to suppress the story. The Tulsa Tribune ran the false Dick Rowland “assault” story on the front page but then made the story vanish from bound volumes of the newspaper. Stories of the massacre were removed from police archives and no public memorials of the event were held until over 70 years later — in 1997.
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Sole Black GOP U.S. Senator Declares “America Not a Racist,” Many Disagree By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
“Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” said South Carolina Republican Tim Scott, the only African American Republican in the U.S. Senate. In remarks that appeared to demonstrate a need to confront racial guilt and White grievance at a time when the FBI has declared White supremacy a national security threat, Sen. Scott appeared to have tasked himself as someone Republicans could quote to deny racism in America. A recent spike in Asian hate crimes has also been documented following months of Donald Trump using rhetoric that blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. “Can anyone name social, political or economic institution in American society where widespread racial disparities or discrimination does NOT exist,” wrote Michael Harriot, a senior writer at The Root. Sen. Scott was delivering the official response to President Biden’s first State of
of confederate General Robert E. Lee on the campus of the University of Virginia. “It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates,” Scott added. Scott’s speech arrived at a time when the Republican Party is redefining itself after Donald Trump. Some in the party believe they should embrace Trump. Others in the party are pushing to move away from Trump. The party often forwards one of the few African American Republicans in Congress to deflect criticism on race. Sen. Scott has often served in the role. He sent out several fundraising e-mails shortly after his response to President Biden. Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist for NNPA and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is also a political strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke
the Union. His remarks arrived 99 days after the departure of President Donald Trump who some historians are defining as one of the most racist presidents in modern U.S. history. “Shoutout to you for embarrassing your grandfather for posterity,” said Howard University Professor and African American Studies Department Chair Greg Carr on Roland Martin Unfiltered regarding Scott’s remarks. “But what a remarkable display of stunning stupidity by a pure feckless clown,” Dr. Carr added. “Tim Scott doing Tim Scott things,” he added defining Scott’s remarks “a distraction.” During Trump’s four years in office the number of race-related hate crimes increased as did the prominence of groups such as the Proud Boys, and the Department of Justice was forced to focus increasingly on domestic terror threats. In August 2017, a race riot broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia after White supremacists arrived in the city three times to protest the potential removal of a statue
The Racist Past of the Filibuster and Why it Should End Now By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and a voting and ethics bill passed the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, but neither stands a chance in the evenly divided Senate. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan faced fierce opposition in the Senate, but ultimately a slimmed-down version passed using the reconciliation procedure. Reconciliation is used only in rare cases. Lawmakers cannot use it for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the voting rights and ethics measure, D.C. Statehood, and other causes near and dear to some Democrats and most African Americans. But Democrats do have a rare opportunity to get rid of the filibuster, a Senate cloture rule requiring 60 members to end debate on a topic and move to a vote. NNPA Newswire has reached out to all 50 Senate Democrats and Independents seeking their position on the filibuster. While some responded, others have held their positions close to the vest. “If we want to get things done in the Senate, then we must abolish the filibuster,” declared Sen. Ed Markey (DMass.). “It is an antiquated, Jim Crow rule that overrides the majority and halts progress. It’s got to go.” Nora Keefe, a spokesperson for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), told NNPA Newswire in an email that Warren “is a long supporter of getting rid of the fili-
buster.” Sen. Warren tweeted that the ‘For The People Act’ includes critical parts of her bill to end corruption. “It’s a good first step for protecting voting rights and restoring trust in our government,” Sen. Warren noted. “We can’t let [Sen. Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) veto this critical bill for our democracy with the filibuster. If the Senate is going to do the things the American people expect us to do, we must abolish the filibuster.” Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) voiced sup-
port for ending the filibuster. “The Senate needs to abolish the filibuster,” Sen. Smith tweeted over the weekend. “It’s undemocratic, and we need to move this country forward.” Noting that any significant voting rights legislation would need unlikely Republican support, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DMinn.) admitted she had changed course on the filibuster. “I’ve gone from a ‘maybe’ to a ‘yes,’” Klobuchar said. Sen. John Tester (D-Montana) also is
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reportedly leaning toward approving any attempts to end the filibuster while Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) remains a “yes.” Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona both have opposed efforts to eliminate the filibuster. However, after the marathon session to pass President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, Sen. Machin hedged slightly in a nationally televised interview with NBC News. “I’m not going to change my mind,”
he insisted. Sen. Manchin noted he would support establishing a “talking filibuster” that might require any senator objecting to ending debate to remain on the floor and speak for the entire time. “If you want to make it a little bit more painful, make him stand there and talk, I’m willing to look at any way we can,” Sen. Manchin remarked. “But I’m not willing to take away the involvement of the minority.” President Joe Biden has refused to publicly discuss whether he would seek an end to the filibuster. Professor Jared Carter, a Constitutional Law Expert at Vermont Law School, said it’s time to end the filibuster. He noted that the first filibuster occurred in 1837 and was used infrequently until after the Civil War when minority parties employed the measure to stop civil rights efforts. “It is a relic of reconstruction and Jim Crow South. It was regularly used to oppress racial minorities and oppose civil rights laws,” Professor Carter wrote in an email to NNPA Newswire. “Last year, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) threatened a filibuster over an anti-lynching law,” Professor Carter noted. “It’s anti-democratic in that it gives the minority party veto power over popular legislation.” Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, noted the filibuster has always stood in the way of racial progress. “Whether employed by Southern Democrats of the Jim Crow era or the Republican Party today after a major shift Con’t on page 18
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Florida Republicans Pass Restrictive Voting Laws By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
Consistent with efforts by Republicans around the U.S. after President Biden’s seven million vote victory over Donald Trump, Republicans in Florida have passed legislation to restrict the ease of voting. The legislation passed largely along party lines with only one Florida Republican voting against. The new laws will add ID requirements for absentee ballots, limit the use of voting drop boxes, require voters to request absentee ballots for each specific election, restrict who can collect drop off ballots and give power to partisans observing elections. It also puts restrictions on outside groups influencing elections. Even though in 2016 and 2018 elections more Republicans voted by mail, Florida Republicans controlling the legislature have now added restrictions. A third of Florida’s voters cast ballots through the
mail in the last two election cycles.
Florida has a Governor’s race and a U.S. Senate rate in 2022.
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Racist Past
in the party’s stance on racial equality,” Robinson wrote in an op-ed for USA Today. “When you understand the filibuster’s racist past, it becomes clear that it has a racist present as well — and that we need to get rid of it.”
Voting restrictions initiated by Republicans were detailed after a meeting in late January by members of the Heritage Action, a conservative think tank. What was then outlined is now slowly becoming law as Republicans continue to lose on the national level. Trump lost to former Vice President Biden by 7 million votes. In 2016, against Hillary Clinton, Trump lost by 3 million votes but won the electoral college. Republicans have won the popular vote only once since 2000. Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist for NNPA and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is also a political strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke
His argument is as sound as any and dates well beyond Jim Crow.
Republicans Push Back against DC Statehood
news release. The congressman’s push ignores the rights and will of the more than 712,000 D.C. residents – 49 percent of whom are Black – who pay more federal taxes per capita than any state but still has no Senate representation. It attempts to usurp the gallant decadeslong effort led by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) for statehood. With Democrats contolling the White House, the House of Representatives and the slimmest of majorities in the U.S. Senate, Congressman Johnson’s bill stands little chance of passing all three bodies and getting enacted into law. However, unless Democrats agree to abolish the filibuster, statehood also stands almost no chance of getting through the Senate. The House Oversight and Reform Committee has heard presentations on D.C. statehood. In 2020, the committee sent Congresswoman Norton’s statehood bill to the House floor for the first time in nearly 30 years.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
With the push for D.C. Statehood as strong as it has ever been, Republican lawmakers are doing what they have become accustomed to when legislation is proposed that could enfranchise Democrat-leaning voters – particularly those of color. They push back. Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota has introduced a bill to repeal the 23rd amendment, a move that would effectively end the hope for D.C. Statehood. Nine other Republicans have joined Congressman Johnson in his effort, which would prohibit District residents from voting for President. With GOP-led statehouses in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and other places advancing voter restriction laws, Congressman Johnson’s bill targets Washington, D.C. He is pushing for the District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act, which would leave just federal buildings and the National Mall as the only remaining structures in D.C. proper. Maryland would claim D.C. neighborhoods as its own, and the District could no longer vote for presidential electors. “It removes the need for D.C. statehood while also providing representation to individuals living in the District by merging the suburbs with Maryland,” Congressman Johnson remarked in a
With Republicans then holding the majority in the Senate, the bill stalled. Congresswoman Norton reintroduced the bill earlier this year at the beginning of the 117th Congress, and she now has well over 200 co-sponsors. President Joe Biden has said he supports D.C. statehood. “He believes [the residents of D.C.] deserve representation,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said about the President.
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In 1922 the House passed a vital anti-lynching bill to combat the Ku Klux Klan’s worst violence, but it was filibustered in the Senate by southern Senate Democrats, Robinson noted. Congress tried again in 1935, but Georgia Democrat Richard Russell organized a six-day filibuster to oppose it. Russell once said he was “willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and ensure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders.” As Robinson wrote, the Senate’s grandest office building is now named in Russell’s honor, and Congress has never – to this day – passed an anti-lynching bill. Lawmakers used the filibuster attempting to stop the 1957 Civil Rights Act, and, most recently, Republicans have asserted it in attempts to thwart the DREAM Act, the Affordable Care Act, and other bills that benefit communities of color. Many have posed the question similar to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, who asked, “if forced to choose between the protection of voting rights and the protection of the filibuster, what will Democrats do?” Leonhardt characterized his position by declaring that “it’s shaping up to be the most significant question about the new Democratic Senate.” He noted that Republican legislators in states throughout the nation are on a mission to make voting more difficult because they believe that lower turnout helps the party win elections. The Supreme Court – with six Republican appointees among the nine justices – has generally allowed voter restriction laws to stand. “The filibuster hurts all of us, not just the Black community,” Robinson, of Color of Change, noted. “Anyone who needs real change or help loses out to the Republican obsession with power.” Leonhardt concluded that “there does not appear to be a compromise path on this issue. Democrats can overhaul the filibuster — and, by extension, transform the Senate, ushering in an uncertain era in which both parties would be able to pass more of the legislation they favor. Or Democrats can effectively surrender on voting rights. It’s one or the other.”
INNER-CITY 27,09 2016 - August 02,15,2016 THE INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS July - June , 2021 - June 2021
State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management NOTICE The State ofMACRI Connecticut, Office of Policy PREand Management is recruiting for VALENTINA RENTAL HOUSING APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE a Principal Budget Specialist and a Manager of Intergovernmental Affairs position.
HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and is accepting pre-applications for instructions studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develapplication are available at: opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations aphttps://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= ply. Pre-applications will 210420&R2=2855VR&R3=001 be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient and pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon rehttps://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed pre210420&R2=6335MP&R3=001 applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer Floor,The New Haven, CT 06510. and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
NOTICIA
VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES ELM CITYDECOMMUNITIES
Invitation for Bids Moving and Storage Services
HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio,City 2016Communities hasta cuando seishan recibidoseeking suficientes pre-solicitudes 100) Elm currently bids for moving (aproximadamente and storage services. las oficinas deofHOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes seránfrom enviadas correo a petición Aen complete copy the requirement may be obtained Elmpor City Communities’ llamandoCollaboration a HOME INC alPortal 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Vendor https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ a las oficinas de HOME INC en gateway 171 Orange Street, tercer beginning on piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .
Monday, May 10, 2021 at 3:00PM.
Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc.
DELIVERY PERSON
419 Whalley Avenue New Haven CT 06511 Phone 203-387-7700 Fax : 800-721-3040 www.canh.net
NEEDED Part Time
JOB LISTINGS
Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call
POSTING DATES: FROM: Thursday, April 29, 2021 - Until filled HOURLY RATE: $12.50-13.00 PER HOUR HOURS: PART-TIME 30 HOURS
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JOB TITLE:
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FATHER FACTOR CASE MANAGER
Town of Bloomfield
Assistant Director of Information Systems & Technology
Full Time - Benefited $75,909 to $117,166
242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT
SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any
POSTING DATES: Thursday, April 29, 2021 - Until filled HOURLY RATE: $15.00-$18.00 PER HOUR HOURS: FULL- TIME 35 – HOURS
JOB TITLE:
HOMEBOUND ADVOCATE CASE MANAGER
POSTING DATES: FROM: Thursday, April 29, 2021 - Until filled HOURLY RATE: $15.00-$18.00 PER HOUR HOURS: FULL-TIME 35 HOURS
JOB TITLE: The Mature Adult Advocate and Outreach Case Manager
Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE
QSR STEEL CORPORATION
NEW HAVEN
FILE CLERK /CUSTOMER SERVICE
POSTING DATES: FROM: Thursday, April 29, 2021- Until Filled RATE: $17.00 - $20.00 PER HOUR HOURS: FULL-TIME 35 hours
JOB TITLE: Invitation to Bid: Passport Transitional Services (PTS) Outreach Specialist
APPLY NOW! 2 Notice
FROM: Wednesday, April 28, 2012 - Until filled HOURLY RANGE: $12.00 – $18.00 per hour SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE HOURS: Full-time 35 hours per week nd
Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Old Saybrook, CT Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay.
JOB TITLE: (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project SMART Women Case Manger (Bi-Lingual)
Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Portland
FROM: Thursday, April 29, 2021 – Until filled
PART-TIME: New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast- 30-32 HOURS HOURLY RATE: $15.00 to $17.00 PER HOUR in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Casework, FORResidential MORE INFORMATION visit CAANH Careers Youth Services Administrator Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.https://www.caanh.net/careers full-time position. This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. Community Action Agency of New Haven, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources 419 Whalley Avenue New Haven, CT 06511 Fax: (800) 721-3040 Go to www.portlandct. E-mail: caanhjobs@caanh.net Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 org for details. Please Forward Resume and Letter of Interest to Human Resources by 4:00 PM on Closing Date.
Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Control Act of 1986 requires the hiring of only American Citizens and aliens, who are authorized to work in the United States. Project documents availableImmigration via ftp Reform link and below: Town of Bloomfi eld http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage The Community Action Agency of New Haven offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the Greater New Haven area through:
Maintainer II - Driver Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com . Service
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THE GLENDOWER GROUP
HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Invitation AA/EEO EMPLOYER
Full-time, benefited $27.94 hourly Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE
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Architectural Design for 34 Level Street
The Glendower Group is currently seeking Proposals for Architectural Design for 34 Level Street. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Glendower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 3:00PM.
THE INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS July - June , 2021 - June02, 15,2016 2021 INNER-CITY 27,09 2016 - August
Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:
NOTICE
COMPTROLLER
Listing: Commercial Driver
Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory Immediate opening for a Class A part time driver for a petroleum training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT and asphalt company for deliveries for nights and weekends. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Previous experience required. Competitive wage, 401(k). Send VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay resume to: Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437. Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven HousingHR Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develEmail: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** opment& located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum Women Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income limitations apply.Affirmative Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y Action/ Opportunity Employer 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed pre Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Incoffices seeks: applications must be returned to HOME INC’s at 171 Orange Street, fast Third paced petroleum company needs a full Extremely Reclaimer Operators Floor, New Haven,and CTMilling 06510.Operators with current licensing and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the North- time (which includes on call and weekend coverage) detail oriented experienced Dispatcher. A strong logistics backeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits ground and a minimum of one year previous petroleum exContact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 perience required. Send resume to: VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Email: rick.touHR Manager, P.O. Box 388, Guilford, CT. 06437 signant@garrityasphalt.com HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** aceptando pre-solicitudes estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Affirmative Action/ para Equal Opportunity Employer ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en lasTrailer oficinasDriver de HOME INC. & Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas correo Materials a petición LLC, a quarry and paving contractor, has posiTractor for Heavy Highway Construction Equip- por Galasso llamando HOME INCLicense, al 203-562-4663 duranterecord, esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán ment. Must ahave a CDL clean driving capable of tions openremitirse for the upcoming construction season. We are seeking a las oficinas de equipment; HOME INCbe enwilling 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, , CT 06510 operating heavy to travel throughout theNew Haven candidates for 1). Quality Control (experienced preferred), 2) Of-
Listing: Dispatcher
Town of Wallingford, CT. This is a highly responsible administrative and financial management position reporting directly to the Mayor, who is the chief elected official for the Town. The Comptroller has direct responsibility for employment and supervision of all aspects of the Finance Department. The Comptroller also functions as the chief fiscal officer of municipally owned Electric, Water and Sewer public utilities. The position requires a BS degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business administration or related field, plus 10 years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including 5 years of experience in municipal or governmental accounting and 5 years of experience as a supervisor. The master’s degree requirement may be substituted with an additional 2 years of responsible accounting experience. Salary range: $130,019 to $166,364 plus an attractive benefit package. Please return resume and cover letter to: randi@randifrank.com of RANDY FRANK CONSULTING, LLC. Closing date will be June 18, 2021. EOE.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
NOTICIA
Union Company seeks:
Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits
Contact Dana at 860-243-2300
Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer 242-258 Fairmont Ave
NEW HAVEN
HELP WANTED:
Monitor: two part time positions at Komanetsky Estates. Bristol Housing Authority is seeking two energetic individuals for a monitor position. Individual will watch front locked entrance, continuous reviewing of cameras and be the liaison to call for an emergency. 24/7/365 Position, so many shifts available. Contact Laura LaMar, Property Manager for further information and application, Bristol Housing Authority, 81 Grove Ave, Bristol, CT 06010 (860) 585-1236. The Bristol Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer.
Ducci Electrical Contractors, Inc. seeks experienced PROJECT MANAGER to handle multiple large projects in the field of Electrical Confice Clerks, 3) Truck/Scalehouse Dispatcher (experience and comstruction. Full-time position. 10+ years experience in the following puter knowledge preferred) and 4) Equipment Operators and Latypes of projects is preferred: Health care, Data centers, Educational, borers and a Grading Foreman. NO PHONE CALLS. Please mail Industrial, Commercial, DOT, & Railroad. E-1 license REQUIRED. resume and cover letter to “Hiring Manager”, Galasso Materials Excellent compensation and benefits package. Send resume to DucLLC, PO Box 1776, East Granby, 06026. ci Electrical Contractors, Inc. 74 Scott Swamp Rd. Farmington, CT ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT Invitation06032 to Bid: or via email at humanresources@duccielectrical.com. An afATTENTION TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, VETERAN OR DISABILITY STATUS. 2nd Notice firmative action equal opportunity employer. EOE/M/F/D/V.
2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA
All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258
We all have
DREAMS.
CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT
Let Job Corps SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY help you Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2,achieve 2016 at its office atyours. 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Now enrolling! Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. Tuition-free career training High school diploma programs A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith College credit opportunities Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Housing, meals and medical care provided
Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfFor more information, visit jobcorps.gov or call (800) 733-JOBS [5627] fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. New Haven County - Jesselica Rodriguez – Rodriguez.Jesselica@JobCorps.org !"#$%&'(")*+,$*-+#".&/$*0(1,)2*3*4&//2*0(,,&"*5*Conner.Kelly@JobCorps.org Waterbury and Surrounding Areas – Abdul Shabazz – Shabazz.Abdul@JobCorps.org
The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to CAREERS HERE reduce theBEGIN scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority. Job Corps is a U.S. Department of Labor Equal Opportunity Employer Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. TDD/TTY telephone number is (877) 889-5627.
SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE Town of Bloomfield Old Saybrook, CT
MINORITY CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY
(4 Buildings, 17 Units) Assessor Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project
Salary Range- $83,663-$129,768 Renovations to 268 Putnam St., Bridgeport, CT SOLICITATION OF SBE/MBE CONTRACTORS: Enterprise Builders, Inc., an Affirmative Action/Equal OpportuDeadline to apply 6/11/21 nity Employer, seeks certified SBE/MBE New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast- Subcontractors and/or suppliers and local Pre-employment business enterprises to bid applicable sections of work/equipment/supplies for the in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, drug testing. AA/EOE. following construction project: Renovations to 268 Putnam St., Bridgeport, CT. Bid Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Date and Time: Monday, June 21, 2021 by 2:00 PM. Electronic Plans and specifications For Details go to Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. can be obtained at no charge by contacting the Estimating Department at Enterprise www.bloomfieldct.gov This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.
Builders at (860) 466-5188 or by email to bbaril@enterbuilders.com. Project is Tax Exempt and Prevailing Wage applies. This project is subject to state set-aside and contract requirements. EBI encourages the participation of certified Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5,compliance 2016 Zoning Enforcement Officer SBE/MBE contractors. EBI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016
Town of Bloomfield
Full-time, benefited Project documents available via ftp link below: $38.03 hourly http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage MINORITY CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY
Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. North Branford Police Station, Northford, CT SOLICITATION OF SBE/MBE CONFax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,TRACTORS: S/W/MBE & Section 3 CertifiedBuilders, BusinessesInc., an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity EmEnterprise Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Seymour, CT 06483 ployer,Ave, seeks certified SBE/MBE Subcontractors and/or suppliers and local business QSR STEEL CORPORATION AA/EEO EMPLOYER enterprises to bid applicable sections of work/equipment/supplies for the following construction project: North Branford Police Station, Northford, CT. Bid Date and Time: Thursday, June 10, 2021 by 2:00 PM. Electronic Plans and specifications can be obtained at no charge by contacting the Estimating Department at Enterprise Builders Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders at (860) 466-5188 or by email to bbaril@enterbuilders.com. Project is Tax Exempt Top pay for top performers. Health and Prevailing Wage applies. This project is subject to state set-aside and contract Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. compliance requirements. EBI encourages the participation of certified SBE/MBE/ WBE/DBE/Veteran Owned contractors. EBI is an Affirmative Action/Equal OpporEmail Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER tunity Employer.
APPLY NOW!
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Construction
Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreNOTICE man, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE license required. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send HOME INC, behalf of Columbus House and the NewBox Haven368, Housing Authority, resume to:onPersonnel Department, P.O. Cheshire, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develCT06410. opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apAffirmative Action/Equal Employer M/F/V ply. Pre-applications will be available Opportunity from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending whenDrug sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Free Workforce been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preDEEP RIVER HOUSING applications must be returned to HOME INC’sAUTHORITY offices at 171 Orange Street, Third OPENING WAITING LIST FOR Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. KIRTLAND COMMONS SENIOR/DISABLED HOUSING 60 MAIN STREET
NOTICIA
DEEP RIVER, CT 06417
VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES
The Deep River Housing Authority will open its waiting list for Senior/Disabled Housing on June 1st, 2021. This list will remain open until June 30, 2021. To request an apHOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está plication, please call 860-526-5119. Applications will be accepted by hand delivery or aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo by mail however it must be received or postmarked by 6/30/2021. Housing is available la 62 calleor109 Frank Street,receiving New Haven. aplican ingresos to ubicado anyone en over those younger SSDISethat meetlimitaciones the incomedeguidelines. máximos. Lasare pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m.requirement comenzandoofMartes Monthly rates based on income with a minimum base rent $944.25
julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) Deep River Housing en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición 60 Main llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 duranteStreet esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse River,Street, CT 06417 a las oficinas de HOME INC enDeep 171 Orange tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .
DELIVERY PERSON
NEEDED
Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call
Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,
(203) 387-0354
POLICE OFFICER City of Bristol
$67,170 - $81,648/yr.
Required testing, registration info, and apply online: www.bristolct.gov DEADLINE: 06-10-21 EOE
Town of Bloomfield
Assistant Director of Information Systems & Technology
Full Time - Benefited $75,909 to $117,166
Income based affordable Rental apartment
NEW HAVEN 2 bedroom, Riverview. 242-258 Fairmont Ave Contact 347-366-1204 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA
available in the heart of Westport.
All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT
Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE
Economic Development Marketing Specialist Town of Wallingford Part-Time (19.5 hours per week). Dynamic municipal economic development office seeks an individual with exceptional digital marketing skills to perform a variety of confidential, responsible administrative duties in creating and implementing marketing programs to support economic development activities within the Town of Wallingford. The successful applicant must maintain active engagement with local businesses, State of Connecticut economic development agencies, commercial real estate brokers, and other Town of Wallingford departments in order to best position the community as a destination for business expansion and relocation. The position requires a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in marketing, business administration or related field, plus one (1) year of experience in marketing, digital marketing, economic development, business development, or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying experience substituting on a year-for-year basis. Wage Rate: $22.00 hourly. Cover letter and resume can be sent to: Economic Development Office, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. (203) 294-2062. Email: edc@wallingfordct.gov. EOE
Watershed Caretaker Patrols & performs general care & upkeep of the Town’s potable (drinking) water reservoirs, watershed lands and properties. Responds to emergency calls & performs scheduled overtime patrol work. Hourly rate: $25.53 - $30.92. Some knowledge of State of CT public health regulations relating to dams, water supply and watershed maintenance and the ability to operate simplified mechanical equipment is required. Must possess & maintain a valid State of CT Motor Vehicle License. H.S. diploma or GED plus 2 yrs. experience in related fields such as landscaping, grounds maintenance etc. The closing date for applications/resumes is June 22, 2021 or the date we receive the 40th application whichever occurs first. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492, Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone: (203) 294-2080 Fax: (203) 294-2080. EOE.
Electrician
Invitation to Bid: State of Connecticut Office of Policy 2nd Notice and Management Skilled tradesman in all facets of alterations/renovations, maintenance and repair of electrical The State of Connecticut, OfficeOld of Saybrook, CT equipment for the Wallingford Public Schools. Applicants must be a High School or Trade School graduate plus seven years’ experience in the electrical trade Policy and Management is recruiting 17 Units) to Journeyman Electrician. Must have a Class E-2 and/or possession of for a Policy Development(4 Buildings,equivalent Coordinator Taxposition. Exempt & Not Prevailing WageElectrician Rate ProjectLicense Class E-1. Wages: $30.01 - $36.71 hourly. Application a Master Further information regarding the duties, Forms: May be obtained at the Department of Human Resources, 45 S. Main Street, eligibility requirements and application 301, Demolition, WallingfordSite-work, CT 06492.CastForms will be mailed upon request from the DeNew Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,Room Selective instructions for this position is available partment of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human at: in-place Concrete, AsphaltResources Shingles, Web Vinyl Page. Siding,Fax: (203)-294-2084 Phone: (203)-294-2080. The closing date https://www.jobapscloud.com/ Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Casework,or resume is received or June 16, 2021, whichever will be the dateResidential the 40th application CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 210506&R2=1581MP&R3=001 occursand first. Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing FireEOE. Protection.
SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE
Thecontract State of Connecticut equalset-aside and contract compliance requirements. This is subject istoanstate
SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any
opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
COMPTROLLER
Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Town of Wallingford, CT. This is a highly responsible administrative and financial manProject documents available via ftpposition link below: agement reporting directly to the Mayor, who is the chief elected official for the http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Town of Bloomfield Town. The Comptroller has direct responsibility for employment and supervision of all
aspects of the Finance Department. The Comptroller also functions as the chief fiscal The position requires a Section BS degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business administration HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & 3 Certified Businesses Hourly Rate - $25.41 or related field, plus 10 years of progressively responsible accounting experience, inHaynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Deadline to applyAA/EEO EMPLOYER cluding 5 years of experience in municipal or governmental accounting and 5 years of experience as a supervisor. The master’s degree requirement may be substituted with 6/24/21 an additional 2 years of responsible accounting experience. Salary range: $130,019 to Pre-employment drug testing. AA/ $166,364 plus an attractive benefit package. Please return resume and cover letter to: EOE. randi@randifrank.com of RANDY FRANK CONSULTING, LLC. Closing date will For Details go to be June 18, 2021. EOE. www.bloomfieldct.gov
Library I- PT officer ofdawnlang@haynesconstruction.com municipally owned Electric, Water and Sewer public utilities. Fax or Email Assistant Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372
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The Town NOTICE of East Haven
is currently accepting applications for the following positions:
VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE
Public Safety Dispatcher: $54,953.60/year HOME INC, onPolice behalf of Columbus and the New Haven Housing Authority, OfficerHouse C: $59,025/year
is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develApply online at www.policeapp.com/ opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apEastHavenCT<http://www.policeapp.com/EastHavenCT>. ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y Tax application information please visit https://www. 25,Assessor: 2016 and$98,377/ ending year whenFor sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have townofeasthavenct.org/civil-service-commission/pages/job-notices-and-tests been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preThe Town of East is committed toINC’s building a workforce of diverse individapplications mustHaven be returned to HOME offices at 171 Orange Street, Third uals. Females, Handicapped and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Floor,Minorities, New Haven, CT 06510.
NOTICIA
APPLY NOW!
Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
DELIVERY PERSON
NEEDED
The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT is requesting proposals forPRE-SOLICITUDES Legal Services. VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER DISPONIBLES Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está printed www.norwalkha.org underde the Business aceptando at pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos un dormitorio en estesection desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven.isSean aplican limitaciones de ingresos RFP’s/RFQ’s Norwalk Housing Equal Opportunity máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Employer.Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director. julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100)
Part Time Delivery Needed
en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .
(203) 387-0354
Tribus Construction is seeking MBE contractors for the Mapleview Towers Apartments renovation project in Stamford CT. Tribus is seeking contractors in the following trades: laborers, painters, steel, masonry, and HVAC. Please send all inquiries to dmitchell@tribusconstruction.com.
NEW HAVEN 242-258 Fairmont Ave Tribus Construction is seeking MBE contractors the Market Square Apartments ren2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA,for3BR, 1 level , 1BA
ovation project in Newington CT. Tribus is seeking contractors in the following trades: All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 laborers, painters, steel, masonry, and HVAC. Please send all inquiries to dmitchell@ highways, near bus stop & shopping center tribusconstruction.com.
Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258
Listing: Commercial Driver
CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates inFull response to the Church’s Ministryfor needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30Time Class B driver a fast paced petroleum company for nights and 3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. weekends. Previous experience required. wage, 401(k) and64benefi ts. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Competitive Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church Brewster
Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.
St. New Haven, CT
********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********
SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Listing: Commercial Driver
Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00Class pm Bondriver Tuesday, 2, petroleum 2016 at itscompany office atfor 28days Smith Full Time for aAugust fast paced andStreet, weekends. Previous wage, 401(k) and benefits.atSend Seymour, CT experience 06483 for required. Concrete Competitive Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement the resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437. Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********
A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Erecting Seymour, Subcontractors: CT at 10:00 am, onLarge Wednesday, July&20, 2016. Contractor is Fence CT Fence Guardrail
looking for Experienced Fence Subcontractors with at least 5 years of experience in commercial fence. Work available 10-12 months per year, highest labor rates paid. Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfOHSA 10 safety training required and valid CT driver’s license. Must have a reliable fice, proper 28 Smith Street,coverage Seymour, 06483 truck, insurance andCT your own (203) tools. 888-4579. We are an AA/EOE company. Send resumes/inquiriesto: rhauer@atlasoutdoor.com.
The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any
Workforce Alliance
QSR STEEL CORPORATION
One/Two Day a Week,
Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call
Town of Bloomfield Custodian
$23.40/hourly (benefited)
Business Services Coordinator Workforce Alliance is a non-profit organization that delivers employment solutions, prepares people for jobs and careers and connects people with jobs in South Central CT. The Business Services Coordinator is responsible for marketing and administering Workforce Alliance services to employers in the region and creating employment opportunities for job seekers. Leads a staff of 5, develops plans, supervises and conducts employer visits, assesses business needs and makes presentations. Special effort to do business with Black and Brown owned employers, small businesses and non-profits is a focus of this position. Bachelor’s degree is required plus at least 5 years of related experience, preferably in business or career development. Knowledge of the local labor market and workforce needs of business. Excellent communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with diverse internal and external groups. Ability to travel around the state. Compensation: Competitive salary plus excellent benefits package.
Please send resume to: Earl Foster, HR Consultant at efoster@workforcealliance.biz Workforce Alliance is an equal opportunity employer.
ELM CITY COMMUNITIES
Invitation for Bids Moving and Storage Services Elm City Communities is currently seeking bids for moving and storage services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City Communities’ Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ gateway beginning on
Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE. Invitation to Bid: For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.gov
Monday, May 10, 2021 at 3:00PM.
2nd Notice
CITY OF MILFORD Old Saybrook, CT
SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE
Seeking qualified condidates fill 17 Units) (4 to Buildings, numerous vacancies to include, Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Deputy Assessor, Mechanic Sewer Line, Public Health Nurse New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castand more. Forin-place information and Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, detailed application instructions, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, visit www.ci.milford.ct.us Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. Click on SERVICES, JOBS and This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. JOB TITLE.
Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: Zoning Enforcement Officer http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage
Town of Bloomfield
Hourly Rate-$38.03 Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses
Deadline Haynes to apply 6/15/21 Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE.
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