City's Minimum Wage Now $17.48 + New Top Cops + Parade Cancelled

Hola and top of the mornin,' New Haven.

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 67 Low: 51.

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Here are the top stories in New Haven today:

1. SCSU students warned of man approaching students, making inappropriate comments and contact (WTNH.com)
2. Reginald Dwayne Betts, New Haven poet, lawyer and advocate for the incarcerated, receives MacArthur Foundation Genius grant (Hartford Courant)
3. Columbus Day parade off, but New Haven area Italian Americans will celebrate their pride (New Haven Register)
4. Newhallville, Dwight Get New Top Cops (New Haven Independent
5. Pandemic delayed at least 18,000 mammograms in CT; appointments opening up (New Haven Register)
6. New Haven sets its minimum wage at $17.48. Schools are exempt, so many part-timers get less. (New Haven Register)
7. New Haven Grand Prix canceled due to COVID concerns (WTNH.com)

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Today in New Haven:

• MEET THE TEACHER NIGHT - New Haven Academy (12:00 AM)
• Meet the Teacher Night - Hill Regional Career High School (12:00 AM)
• All-Day - Hill Regional Career High School (12:00 AM)
• OPEN HOUSE LOWER SCHOOL PK - 5TH - Highville Charter School (5:30 PM)
• Community Civic Engagement Event - Hagaman Memorial Library (6:30 PM)
• Celebration of Preservation 2021 - New Haven Preservation Trust (6:30 PM)
• Celebration of Preservation 2021 (6:30 PM)
• OPEN HOUSE UPPER SCHOOL 6TH - 12TH - Highville Charter School (6:45 PM)

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New Haven Patch Notebook

• New Haven Public Schools: "Neighborhood Walk-in Vaccine Clinics http://ow.ly/XVJe50Gi54y" (Facebook)
• New Haven Public Schools: "Homeless Help! http://ow.ly/FoHx50Gi56T" (Facebook
• New Haven Museum: "Just five years before Benedict Arnold was denounced as a traitor, the Revolutionary War leader from New Haven was renowned for his "bravery, determination and patriotic fever." In September 1775, Arnold led an ill-fated expedition from ..." (Facebook)

• New Haven Public Schools: "Wilbur Cross Alum's Photograph Featured at Yale Center for British Art Tyler Mitchell, who graduated Wilbur Cross High School last spring, participated in a program called The View from Here: Accessing Art Through Photography at the Yale..." (Facebook)
• VFW New Haven Post 12150: "Support Nick's Dream by donating a soccer ball at the Glastonbury Monaco Ford." (Facebook)
• American Legion New Haven Post 210: "Keep Nick's dream alive and donate a new or gently used soccer ball at the Monaco Ford collection drive in Glastonbury." (Facebook)
• New Haven Free Public Library: "Have you registered to vote yet? Today is National Voter Registration day! Did you know you can register to vote at any New Haven Free Public Library location? NHFPL is your one-stop shop to register any day of year. See if you're regist..." (Facebook)

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— Ellyn

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