by | May 15, 2021 9:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Members pray for community healing
Fire Lt. Samod “Nuke” Rankins has gotten off his hospital ventilator — and if all the prayers that were uttered Saturday are heard, his progress can only continue.
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by | May 14, 2021 3:22 pm | Comments (4)
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Scenes from McMillian’s funeral service at Bethel AME Church.
A traumatic week for the New Haven Fire Department ended with a funeral capped by a Dixwell pastor’s message: “It’s OK not to be OK.”
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by | May 11, 2021 11:21 am | Comments (4)
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The new Q House, on the rise on Dixwell Ave.
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Monday night’s Finance Committee hearing.
Committee alders enthusiastically endorsed a three-year, $300,000 contract between the city and LEAP that would have the local youth tutoring and recreation agency manage — and fundraise for — the reborn “Q House” Dixwell Avenue community center.
by | May 9, 2021 1:33 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Justin Elicker makes vaccine case to Terrance Williams.
Soon after the mayor knocked on his door, Terrance Williams ran down the street — to get a Covid-19 shot.
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by | May 6, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (3)
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Student writer Manuel Camacho III (center).
The following is a speech written by James Hillhouse High School student Manuel Camacho III and republished from the magazine Elm City Sage.
by | May 3, 2021 9:47 am | Comments (8)
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A To Z Deli’s Ahmed Roomi, Naser Roomi, nephew Abdul Jaber.
Demeka A. (left) doesn’t smoke. B. Cyr (right) smokes Newports.
Ban menthol cigarettes? Some smokers, trying to quit, welcomed the idea. Others argued a ban would just drive the flavored cigarette economy underground.
by | Apr 30, 2021 8:45 am | Comments (0)
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“Foraged Picnic”
The following is a poem written by Metropolitan Business Academy student Keiara Orr and republished from the magazine Elm City Sage.
by | Apr 12, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (0)
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Chris “Big Dog” Davis.
Delores Willams and Lauren Anderson of the Whalley Avenue community bookstore People Get Ready beamed in front of the small, rapt audience seated in front of them Sunday evening.
“Give yourselves a hand,” Williams said. “We’re so grateful that you’re here.”
The bookstore, she said, was getting ready to reopen after a “long, necessary hiatus” — but before that, it hosted a concert by beloved musician Chris “Big Dog” Davis, back in New Haven on the heels of his latest release, the single “Heal The World.”
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by | Apr 5, 2021 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Q House, under construction on Dixwell Ave.
Oversee Q House programming. Hire and manage staff. Handle a portion of fundraising for the site. And establish relationships with community partners.
Those are some of the responsibilities detailed in a city proposal to enter into a three-year, $300,000-in-total contract with LEAP that would have that local youth tutoring and recreation nonprofit run the soon-to-open, reborn Dixwell community center.
by | Apr 1, 2021 1:40 pm | Comments (11)
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The new Q House, coming online this summer.
LEAP’s Fernandez: Ready to roll.
The city has tapped the youth tutoring and recreation agency LEAP to oversee programming at the reborn Dixwell Q House community center.
by | Mar 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (7)
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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
Four local affordable housing projects will be getting over $5.4 million in state support, thanks to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s (CHFA) annual awarding of federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).
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by | Mar 22, 2021 1:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Maye spars with 13-year-old EJ White at Elephant In The Room gym.
Thanks to a judge’s ruling, Solomon Maye is back in the gym teaching local youth to tuck their elbows, pivot, and turn into their punches.
by | Mar 16, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (1)
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Wexler Grant School (pictured): By summer, the heating will be fully fixed.
Wexler-Grant and Fair Haven schools will finally have five fully functional boilers by this summer, at least a year after the New Haven Public Schools started planning to upgrade the two schools’ heating systems.
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by | Mar 2, 2021 6:35 pm | Comments (6)
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Fifty-four more people received Covid-19 vaccinations at Bethel AME Church on Goffe Street on Tuesday.
With the official expansion of vaccine qualifications from 55 – 65 years old starting this week, demand has mushroomed, and additional vaccination sites are popping up, and getting filled.
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by | Mar 1, 2021 10:50 am | Comments (2)
Blood Drive at Beulah Heights.
James Rawlings (pictured at right), executive director of Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Southern CT, sent in this write-up and these photos.
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by | Feb 26, 2021 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Early-morning blaze at 11 Charles. Below: on scene around 9:30.
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A fire in Dixwell left four men without a home.
by | Feb 24, 2021 6:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Varick’s vaccination pop-up Wednesday.
New Haven’s oldest Black church, Varick Memorial AME Zion Church, partnered with the Health Department to offer 51 vaccinations Wednesday at the city’s 12th pop-up clinic aimed at protecting communities of color from Covid-19.
by | Feb 23, 2021 2:11 pm | Comments (3)
Genevive Walker, the new ConnCAT CEO.
Genevive Walker is taking command of one of New Haven’s leading youth and workforce development nonprofits, the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).
by | Feb 19, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (17)
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Wexler-Grant Community School: brrrr.
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Teachers union prez Cicarella: Zero maintenance for years.
Jackets have become a common addition to the Wexler-Grant school uniform — as students have been directed to wear them during class because of a malfunctioning heating system.
by | Feb 17, 2021 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
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Joan Brissett, among 80 vaccinated at Bethel Church’s pop-up clinic.
Joan Brissett went to church Wednesday not to pray, but to get a Covid-19 vaccine shot.
She found peace.
by | Feb 17, 2021 4:31 pm | Comments (6)
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New day coming: ConnCAT’s Clemons pitches project at public meeting.
Dixwell Plaza’s planned redevelopment took a key step forward as alders voted to sell two parcels in the decaying mid-century shopping strip to a local team that plans to build apartments, stores, and cultural venues in the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
by | Feb 12, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
Owner Nethia Joyner at her shop.
Nethia Joyner loves her mother. She loves selling flowers. That helped her make it through the pandemic so far — and remain in business for the crucial Valentine’s Day holiday.
by | Jan 29, 2021 4:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Tabrya Murdock-Washington at work in her studio.
Tabrya Murdock-Washington launched “The Brya Collection” hairstyling business amidst a pandemic — and less than two years after suffering from a gunshot wound that forced her to learn to walk again.
by | Jan 26, 2021 5:32 pm | Comments (5)
Some Dixwell neighbors are asking the Board of Alders to hold another committee hearing on the future of Dixwell Plaza after tech confusion delayed their participation in the first one.
by | Jan 25, 2021 10:23 am | Comments (1)
Executive Director Randi Rubin Rodriguez, construction site manager Hank Prohaska, fundraising chair Lindy Lee Gold at the early-morning “party.”
There was a “Slump” party in New Haven, and it was a very good thing.