 West Haven Mayor Dorinda Borer on Tuesday reads the 2004 Mo Willems children’s book “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale” to students of Washington Elementary School’s English Language Learners program for grades K-4. The West Haven school is temporarily housed in the former Molloy Elementary School building at 255 Meloy Road while a new Washington school is constructed at 369 Washington Ave. The ELL program is led by ELL-certified teachers Pauline Moycik, Meghan Abate and Helen Soufrine. (City Photo/Michael P. Walsh) |
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Borer brings reading tour to Washington Elementary School’s English Language Learners program for K-4
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 28, 2024 — Mayor Dorinda Borer brought her reading tour to a temporarily relocated elementary school on Meloy Road to highlight the importance of literacy.
On Tuesday, Borer met with students at Washington Elementary School and read children’s books, including the 2004 Mo Willems book “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale,” to students of the school’s English Language Learners program for grades K-4.
The school is housed until further notice in the former Molloy Elementary School building at 255 Meloy Road while a new Washington school is constructed at 369 Washington Ave.
The ELL program is composed of 127 students, including 13 newcomers, and is led by ELL-certified teachers Pauline Moycik, Meghan Abate and Helen Soufrine.
According to Washington Principal Alicia M. Limosani, at least 18 different languages are spoken by the students and their families.
During the half-hour reading session, an energetic and engaging Borer received enthusiastic comments and responses from the classroom of students.
To show their gratitude for the mayor’s visit, students presented Borer with two bouquets of flowers and two large signs with “Thank You Mayor” printed in colored markers.
Borer said she plans to hang the paper signs in her office at City Hall before making more stops on her school reading tour during Read Across America Week.
The five-day event, promoted as “celebrating a nation of diverse readers,” kicks off March 2, the birthday of children’s author Dr. Seuss, and runs through March 6.
Read Across America, established in 1998, is an initiative of the Washington, D.C.-based National Education Association to encourage reading. The year-round program focuses on “motivating children to read through events, partnerships and reading resources that are about everyone, for everyone.” |
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 West Haven Mayor Dorinda Borer is surprised with two bouquets of flowers given by students of Washington Elementary School’s English Language Learners program for grades K-4. Before receiving the bouquets, Borer read children’s books to the students, including the 2004 Mo Willems book “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.” (City Photo/Michael P. Walsh) |
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 West Haven Mayor Dorinda Borer is all smiles with students and teachers of Washington Elementary School’s English Language Learners program for grades K-4. (City Photo/Michael P. Walsh) |
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Johnstone temporarily suspends council duties over ‘medical issue’
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 28, 2024 — Republican Councilman Steven J. Johnstone, who represents West Shore’s 10th District, is coping with a medical issue and has temporarily suspended his City Council duties.
Johnstone, the council’s minority leader, has requested until further notice that constituents direct all 10th District matters to council members Meli Garthwait, R-at large, and Brian Laucks, D-at large.
Garthwait can be contacted at mgarthwait@westhaven-ct.gov and Laucks at blaucks@westhaven-ct.gov.
“The city of West Haven wishes Councilman Johnstone well in his recovery,” Mayor Dorinda Borer said. “We will all pitch in and cover his responsibilities so that our constituents are served and Councilman Johnstone can take the time to recover.”
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UNH football team cleans up campus neighborhood
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 28, 2024 — (Pictured): Players of the University of New Haven Chargers football team, armed with pokers and trash bags supplied by the city Department of Public Works, clean up the neighborhood surrounding the university’s main campus on Route 1 on Thursday.
The cleanup was part of the team’s outreach to the community and was supported by DPW crews, which picked up the bags.
(Contributed Photo) |
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Westies Nutrition owner receives ‘Way to Go!’ award
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 22, 2024 — (Pictured): Westies Nutrition owner Mandy Hutchinson, center, receives the “Way to Go!” award Feb. 20 from Diane Dietman, left, and Viola Waldo on behalf of the West Haven Interagency Network for Children.
Dietman, the director of West Haven Youth and Family Services, and Waldo, a WHINC Parent Support Group member, presented the award at Hutchinson’s Sawmill Road health food store for “your generous donation of teas to the families of children with special needs for our Valentine’s Day Breakfast Sandwich Fundraiser.”
The Way to Go program recognizes those who go above and beyond to offer services and resources.
(City Photo/Michaela Caprio) |
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Sanitary system report available for public review, comment
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 22, 2024 — The 2023 annual report for the city’s Municipal Separate Sanitary and Stormwater System is available for public review and comment.
The “MS4” report can be viewed on the city website or in the engineering office on the third floor of City Hall.
Anyone wishing to comment on the report can send it by mail to the Office of Engineering, City of West Haven, 355 Main St., West Haven, CT 06516. Comments by email can be sent between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays to City Engineer Abdul Quadir at quadir@westhaven-ct.gov.
Comments are due no later than March 21.
Anyone with questions can call Quadir at 203-937-3577.
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 La Antillana Meat & Produce owner Eduard Tejeda cuts the ribbon with West Haven Mayor Dorinda Borer, center, and his business partner, Nelson Chalas, behind Borer, to celebrate the grand opening of the Latin American grocery store Feb. 15 at 519 Campbell Ave., the former longtime home of Silver’s Drug Shop. With them are, from left, West Haven Economic Development Commission member Frederick Brown, former Councilman Victor M. Borras, Tejeda family members and employees, commission Vice Chair Elinor Slomba, and Simon McDonald, the director of membership and marketing at the Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce. (City Photo/Michael P. Walsh) |
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New grocery store, La Antillana, opens in historic downtown West Haven building on Campbell Ave.
WEST HAVEN, Feb. 22, 2024 — Mayor Dorinda Borer cut a blue ribbon with La Antillana Meat & Produce owner Eduard Tejeda and his business partner, Nelson Chalas, to celebrate the grand opening of the Latin American grocery store Feb. 15 at 519 Campbell Ave., the former longtime home of Silver’s Drug Shop.
The new market sells fresh meats, fruits and vegetables, as well as traditional groceries. It is located in the historic Wood Building at the northeast corner of Campbell Avenue and Main Street, downtown’s busiest intersection, across from City Hall.
La Antillana is open seven days a week and is owned and operated by the Tejeda family.
The afternoon ceremony featured welcoming remarks by Borer and was attended by city Economic Development Commission Vice Chair Elinor Slomba and member Frederick Brown and former Councilman Victor M. Borras.
Also marking the event were Tejeda family members and employees and Simon McDonald, the director of membership and marketing at the Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The Wood Building is historically known as The A.F. and J.P. Wood Building and is architecturally significant.
One of West Haven’s earliest 20th-century commercial buildings, the 1911 English Jacobean-style structure housed Wood’s Drugstore before Silver’s was founded by pharmacist William H. Silver in 1919. The drugstore, a beloved city institution, was owned and operated by the Silver family until 2006.
The old-world building has anchored the downtown business district for 113 years and counting. |
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