New Haven Independent

Dixwell | July 1, 2009

Joe: No Go On "Public Option"

by Paul Bass | July 1, 2009 7:10 AM | Permalink

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has a bipartisan group of senators ready to help pass health care reform -- minus a government-run insurance plan.

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Dixwell | June 26, 2009

Q House Rescue Advances

by Thomas MacMillan | June 26, 2009 7:49 AM | Permalink

After an emphatic math lesson in youth violence and public spending from a police officer/ youth worker, an aldermanic committee voted to approve the city's purchase of the Dixwell Community "Q" House.

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Dixwell | June 23, 2009

Fathers March Down Dixwell

by Melinda Tuhus | June 23, 2009 11:10 AM | Permalink

Clentis Sead marched for fatherhood -- as a means to help the community stop kids from shooting each other, and to build his own "heart relationship" with his two children after a three-year jail stint.

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Dixwell | June 16, 2009

"Food Insecurity"? Or "Hunger"?

by Melinda Tuhus | June 16, 2009 8:04 AM | Permalink

Wearing her "other" hat, as assistant principal for New Haven's adult education program, New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker told a story about extreme hunger in New Haven. A woman who deals with all hunger all the time immediately began trying to figure out a happy ending.

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Dixwell | June 16, 2009

Sixth-Graders Confront Gun Violence

by Elise Granata | June 16, 2009 7:53 AM | Permalink

Nineteen sixth-grade boys were asked: Do you know a family member or friend who has been shot? Fifteen raised their hands.

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Dixwell | June 14, 2009

"Enough Is Enough"

by Allan Appel | June 14, 2009 2:18 PM | Permalink

A bevy of balloons went into the air Saturday, each one representing a victim of New Haven's ongoing gun violence. Speakers at the event noted that those balloons wouldn't need to be released in Orange or East Haven or Woodbridge -- and asked why New Haven's African-American community accepts that difference.

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Dixwell | June 10, 2009

Hannah Gray Comes Home

by Adzua Agyapon | June 10, 2009 4:31 PM | Permalink

Corene Browne was first in line Wednesday morning at a reborn community home in Dixwell to reserve a spot for her 92 year-old aunt.

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Dixwell | June 2, 2009

Q House Rescue Plan Offered

by Melissa Bailey | June 2, 2009 7:26 AM | Permalink

The city has come up with a plan to buy the abandoned Dixwell Community "Q" House, paving the way for the historic center's revival.

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Dixwell | May 26, 2009

Guerilla Gardeners Strike

by Ben Johnson | May 26, 2009 11:03 AM | Permalink

The three urban guerrillas scouted their targets. They made their bombs from an online recipe. As they propped their bicycles against the fence of an overgrown city lot, they were ready to strike.

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Dixwell | May 18, 2009

Freddie Reborn

by Thomas MacMillan | May 18, 2009 7:37 AM | Permalink

Members of the Nation Drum and Drill Squad strutted down Dixwell Avenue Sunday, marking the revival of an annual tradition.

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Dixwell | May 11, 2009

Freddie Fixer Looks To Clean Whole City

by Ben Johnson | May 11, 2009 7:58 AM | Permalink

The community members who turned out for the Freddie Fixer cleanup Saturday at the 200 block of Dixwell Avenue included young and old, musicians and motorcycle club members. Organizer Maurice Smith (at right in picture) said the turnout bodes well for the Freddie Fixer Parade this coming Sunday, May 17.

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Dixwell | May 1, 2009

Dixwell Has A Rematch

by Melissa Bailey | May 1, 2009 12:07 PM | Permalink

After helping an insurgent topple a City Hall-backed candidate in the year of Obama, community organizer Lisa Hopkins is launching a third race of her own.

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Dixwell | April 17, 2009

Call Goes Out: Help Save Freddie

by Melissa Bailey | April 17, 2009 7:29 AM | Permalink

Tyisha Howard (pictured) and her drill team practiced hard last year for their community's annual Freddie Fixer Parade -- only to see the decades-old tradition come to an abrupt stop. Organizers are determined not to let that happen this year.

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Dixwell | April 6, 2009

MLK Inspires The "Q" Dream

by Melinda Tuhus | April 6, 2009 8:02 AM | Permalink

Dixwell recalled Martin Luther King Jr. by resolving to resurrect a beloved neighborhood institution.

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Dixwell | March 27, 2009

Rapper To Roberto: Don't Go Back

by Melissa Bailey | March 27, 2009 7:58 AM | Permalink

When a disagreement at a Whalley Avenue corner store seemed doomed to end in violence, Ludacris offered Roberto MacKay words of advice.

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Dixwell | March 25, 2009

'Crabs In A Basket'? Group Says No

by Thomas MacMillan | March 25, 2009 8:24 AM | Permalink

A crowd gathered in a leading black church to dispel a social doctrine: that the immigration issue must divide the Latino and African-American communities.

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Dixwell | March 2, 2009

Shelter from the Storm at the Elks Club

by Melinda Tuhus | March 2, 2009 7:58 AM | Permalink

The atmosphere of fun, safety and intergenerational community created at the NAACP Youth Council Games Night on Friday seemed worlds away from the fatal shooting of a teenage boy in Newhallville just a mile away a few hours earlier. But the news seeped in to the Elks Club on Dixwell Avenue, where the victim was known to some of the young people present.

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Dixwell | February 18, 2009

State's First Black Optometrist Recalled

by Thomas MacMillan | February 18, 2009 10:51 AM | Permalink

"My friends, we have lost a giant," intoned former New Haven Mayor John Daniels.

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Dixwell | February 12, 2009

NAACP Puts Out The Literacy Call

by Paul Bass | February 12, 2009 4:55 PM | Permalink

To commemorate its national organization's 100th birthday, New Haven's NAACP used a Dixwell book beehive as a backdrop to issue an appeal for reading tutors.

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Dixwell | February 11, 2009

Suspect Sought In Double Shooting

by Paul Bass | February 11, 2009 10:42 AM | Permalink

(Updated: 5:01 p.m.) A 52-year-old Munson Street woman who previously lost a son to violence emerged from surgery in good condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital Wednesday after a man shot her and another son. A neighbor (pictured) called her "a really kind woman" who works with kids and distributes religious pamphlets.

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