New Haven Register

Teacher Aides Undervalued for Too Long?

I read the article regarding contract renewals for Wallingford teachers and "paraeducators," which is what the National Education Association calls teacher aides. The Board of Education employs more than 180 "paraeducators." Each performs a critical function, ranging from individual and small group instruction to instructional support in classrooms, computer and technology management, language translation for students, teachers and parents, support to students with special needs and many othe...

Education Board has to Justify Budget Requests?

The mayor of East Haven cut and questioned the education budget. She took the lead in an area that needs to be controlled. A 6 percent increase was cut to a 1.75 percent increase. One of Mayor April Capone Almon's questions was: With 16 custodians, why spend $651,567 on a private janitorial service? How does this relate to North Haven?

Unh Slates Fundraiser in Honor of Slain Student

WEST HAVEN -- The University of New Haven will hold the first Jessica N. Santos Walk to benefit the Jessica N. Santos Memorial Scholarship Fund at UNH, beginning with registration at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Oak Street Beach and deck along the city's boardwalk. Santos, a Tarrytown, N.Y., resident, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Yonkers on Aug. 27, 2007, a day before she was to begin her sophomore year at UNH, school officials said. The fund named in her memory aids students pursuing a ...

3 Bidders Seeking Food Service Pact

By Elizabeth Benton Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- After four extensions pushed the initial deadline back over a month, final bids from companies vying for the city's school food service contract were due Tuesday.

Naomi's Blood Not Welcome in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Naomi Campbell wants to give blood to help fight a dengue fever epidemic, but Brazilian officials won't take it yet. The British supermodel arrived at the HemoRio medical center Tuesday to take part in a blood drive, but was turned away. Officials there say she needs to wait longer after having surgery in February to remove a cyst. An outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever has infected more than 75,000 people in Rio de Janeiro state this year and killed at least 80.

Stolen Car Crashes Into City House?

By William Kaempffer Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- A stolen Honda fleeing West Haven police Tuesday morning crashed into a home after speeding into New Haven and failing to negotiate a turn, authorities said.

Inmate Pleads Not Guilty in '96 Slaying of Teen

NEW LONDON (AP) -- George Leniart, a prisoner at Corrigan Correction Center in Montville, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and three counts of capitol felony in the killing of a Montville teenager in 1996, according to a court clerk. Leniart, 42, waived his right to a probable cause hearing. He was arrested earlier this month and charged with killing April Dawn Pennington, who had been missing since 1996. Police said in a 2004 search warrant that they believe he and a local teenager picke...

Fake Hand Grenade Found Under Overpass

NEW HAVEN -- The New Haven bomb squad removed an imitation grenade stuck in a chain-link fence near Amtrak railroad tracks just under the nortbound Interstate 91 overpass Tuesday evening, said Sgt. Mike Canning. Until a Yale police bomb technician removed the device and determined that it appeared authentic, but did not have explosive capacity, authorities shut down several ramps to the highway and stopped trains. Amtrak police discovered the device at about 6 p.m. after responding to the dea...

Modern Liberalism Is Template for Obama?

BARACK Obama may be what his supporters suppose him to be. Not, however, for reasons most Americans will celebrate. Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. He said many voters are "bitter," and cling to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" because of frustrations. The implication was that primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments caused by grinding injustice.

Education, Peace Leading Pope's Agenda?

THIS morning Pope Benedict XVI will be received by the president and first lady on the south lawn of the White House. It is only the second time that a pope will have visited the White House and the first time since the United States established formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The pope is the spiritual leader of more than 1 billion Roman Catholics, including 64 million in the United States, In a meeting with President Bush after the arrival ceremony, Pope Benedict surely will di...

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On a local level, SOH sponsors support groups in New Haven, New London, Southington and Manchester for survivors. Danielle Rae, of Milford, joined the group to help her cope with the 1991 murder of her brother in Houston and went on to become the SOH president. Last week, a dozen people from New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport and New Canaan met at police headquarters on Union Avenue.

Homicide Victims' Families Find Space to Grieve?

By William Kaempffer Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Betty Barrett has anonymously gone to Superior Court to witness court proceedings involving the still-uncharged people she believes are responsible for her daughter's arson death.

Holocaust Journey 'Finds' Kin

By Amanda Howe Special to the Register What set out to be an 8,000-word story for the New York Times about how six members of his family died in the Holocaust turned into a book about Daniel Mendelsohn "schlepping" all over the world to find out who six of his family members were and not how they died.

Witness Testifies in Fatal Shooting

By Randall Beach Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Under the intense gaze of her former boyfriend, Michael Myers, a young New Haven woman testified in Superior Court that she saw him shoot a man with whom she had begun having "intimate" relations.

Budget Chief Takes Fall in Rail Fund Deficit?

By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor HARTFORD -- Budget chief Robert Genuario Tuesday took the blame for not telling legislators sooner about the large funding shortfall the state is facing to construct the New Haven rail maintenance facility, which is already a year behind schedule.