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The Resiliency Center team, including interim executive director Judy Barron, co-founder Sergio Rodriguez, director Lorraine Rogers, and educational consultant Andrenna Paolillo.
There’s a wall hanging in the entrance hall of the new Resiliency Center, a reconnection agency on Dixwell Avenue that opened as part of ‘r kids Family Center with a recent ribbon-cutting.
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Nov 25, 2024 12:50 pm
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(Updated) Uzziah Shell, the 16-year-old shot to death this past Friday, had been involved in recent disputes with youth crews in town, according to people familiar with the case.
Ari D.: “I really want to do something that makes a difference."
Ari D. took a step towards making a hoped-for career change from working with cars to working with doctors and patients — as she joined 20 fellow New Haveners for a Dixwell info session about all-remote, customer-service “caller” jobs at the Yale Medicine CARE Center.
Sherry Chapman: “The trauma to families is immeasurable and life lasting."
342 flags marking each life lost on CT's roads since last November.
Carri Roux had expected to find her son, Luke, back at the house after she finished walking the dog. But he was missing.
He never made it home.
Two years later, at a locally hosted memorial for lives lost on Connecticut’s roads, Roux described how scenes from that horrible day remain “etched” in her memory — and how a serious statewide focus on traffic safety could prevent future tragedies.
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Nov 14, 2024 10:16 am
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Aerialist Ky Adams represents mothers and their children soaring.
From a table crammed with leaflets in the gymnasium at the Dixwell Community “Q” House, Sharnasia Booker watched a circus artist perform gravity-defying stunts on an aerial hoop, seemingly leaping through the air and taking flight — a representation of what young mothers and their children can do with the right support.
De Leon and Holmes: 2 runners at different points in their careers.
Mid-distance runner Farah Santiago De Leon, 12, sat next to world-renowned Olympic athlete Alexis Holmes and looked into the future — imagining the athletic feats that she, too, might one day achieve.
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Opuszynski (left): “I bought it from [Xu] after he didn’t want to deal with the headache.”
A Madison-based investor now owns two of three foreclosed former co-op properties on Henry Street — after buying the row home for $480,000 from Bethany-based landlord Jianchao Xu.
A historic Black church that has spent the past century-plus in the heart of Dixwell is considering relocating — amid a broader building up of the neighborhood’s commercial corridor.
CT VIP Director of Operations Linda Baylor: “I want to change the mood when you walk in here."
When an 11-year-old made headlines for stealing a car, a team of violence preventers knocked on his door to ask him what he needed. They found only a mattress and a milk crate in his bedroom.
That child was on Len Jahad’s mind when a group of politicians arrived at Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention (CTVIP)’s headquarters to celebrate $275,000 in federal funds allocated for capital improvements to the building.
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Oct 31, 2024 2:03 pm
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Scenes from LEAP's Oct. 25 halloween fest at the Q.
The following writeup was submitted by Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. (LEAP) Communications Director Melissa Liriano, about a Halloween festival at the Q House last Friday.
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Oct 30, 2024 3:47 pm
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At Q House's college fair on Wednesday.
Hundreds of high school students met with representatives from dozens of higher ed institutions Wednesday at the Q House’s latest annual college and community resources fair.
Cherene Cotter: "To have a president come in and deport immigrants… I can’t do that.”
U.S. Sen Blumenthal (right) addresses Saturday's crowd.
With a closing pitch centering abortion access and worker power, local and state elected officials gathered on Dixwell Avenue to rally for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot — especially Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential contest with former President Donald Trump.
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Oct 28, 2024 8:57 am
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Awilda Sterling-Duprey in "...blindfolded" ...
... soundtracked live by Jesse Hameen II, Morris Trent, and Johnathan Moore, at NXTHVN.
In the large common area at NXTHVN on Henry Street, a temporary, two-segment wall was erected, mounted with black paper. Artist Awilda Sterling-Duprey moved in that small space, a blindfold over her eyes, large pastels in her hands — improvisational jazz helping guide her way, during the last weekend of New Haven Open Studios.
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Oct 21, 2024 9:43 am
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Dr. Robinson, with Alder Streater: “We are part of a story. That story can be better and better.”
The sign is revealed.
A seemingly ordinary street corner morphed into a dance floor, a concert hall, and a classroom, in honor of a beloved neighbor and teacher who has made history by remembering it.
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Oct 15, 2024 5:10 pm
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New housing and grocery, among others, to come to former Dixwell Plaza.
On the grave of the now-demolished Dixwell Plaza, work began Tuesday on the 186 housing units, the new 69,000 square-foot headquarters for job training, and the food hall set to rise in its place.
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Lisa Reisman |
Oct 9, 2024 1:08 pm
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Destiny McKenzie and Sharnasia Booker, with their babies, at Mind Blossom session at the Q.
Ashley Brown was having a rough week. The mother of five felt like the world was closing in on her. Then came a call from Chantell Thompson, reminding her of an upcoming session of a new maternal health program run by the nonprofit Mind Blossom each week at the Q House.
“I was tired, but your call made me feel good, it made me want to come,” Brown told Thompson, a facilitator of the program, at the end of a recent 90-minute session.
Jesse Hameen II pulls out his 1945 Q House membership card, to the crowd's delight.
The room was filled with mingling and reminiscing as community members gathered to hear Dixwell neighborhood stories from 1860 to 1970, and to celebrate the giants who were instrumental to shaping their lives.
One hundred years after the Q House first opened its doors, the reborn Dixwell community center capped a year of centenary celebrations with a fundraiser gala.
Gold-plated bracelets join clothes and other accessories in Jafaru's storefront.
Even during the slow hours of business, Zongozon owner Mariam Jafaru’s hands were always busy. In the back of her store, a soft whir of the sewing machine commenced as she fed it her cloth.
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Sep 20, 2024 1:53 pm
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Nevaeh Dent, center, and her mentees: London Loman, Constance Dennis, Kamaiya Hyman, and Skyla "KK" Kenion.
To understand how Nevaeh Dent came to run her own beauty supply shop, salon, and after-school program teaching young people the finer points of braiding, makeup, nails, lashes, confidence-building, and entrepreneurship — all in her early twenties — you have to go back to her Troup Middle School fifth-grade teacher, Marissa White.
“Just her being young and Black, being a teacher,” Dent said, was an inspiration for all she knew she too could accomplish.
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Sep 9, 2024 11:56 am
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Time A Tell's Josh McCown in action with Moroccan-born American rapper French Montana at Oakdale Theatre.
Jayce Greene, 10, and his mother pushed through the door of Time A Tell, the clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave. He was looking for a Time A Tell hoodie.
“All the kids on my team are wearing them,” said Jayce, a student at Worthington-Hooker School and member of the Elm City Elite basketball team, as owner Joshua McCown brought out a selection of sizes and colors in the high-ceilinged, warmly-lit space. “They’re all over New Haven,” his mother added.
That’s an index of the quantum leap that McCown, 20, has taken in the two years since opening his shop with a mission to leverage his eye for fashion into being his own boss and realizing financial freedom.
Dr. Robinson, at July's corner renaming committee hearing.
The corner of Dixwell Avenue and Argyle Street will now have a new name — honoring a pioneering psychologist, researcher, and volunteer local historian who still calls Dixwell home.
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Aug 26, 2024 9:27 am
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Kismet Douglass: “One day, I’d like to have an event space of my own.”
Momma Kiss's jerk chicken, rice, and pigeon peas.
Kismet Douglass hurried from pot to pot under the shade of her tent at the Q House Farmer’s Market, where the “global flavors” of Momma Kiss Kitchen Cuisine were on display.
In one pot she cooked Jamaican jerk chicken with rice and pigeon peas, and in another, Thai curry vegetables with jasmine rice — all served up as part of a food business showcase featuring 10 local culinary entrepreneurs.
