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.
by | Jan 22, 2021 11:35 am | Comments (9)
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Renderings of the future ConnCAT Place on Dixwell.
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Dixwell Plaza today.
“This is the time for Dixwell.”
With those words of praise and anticipation, alders moved ahead a plan to transform Dixwell Plaza into a mixed-use hub that would employ up to 550 people a year and generate up to $50 million in annual economic activity.
by | Jan 21, 2021 3:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Neighbor Lentini: Dislikes view next door (shown behind her).
Nina Lentini looks out the window of her newly built home in a reviving stretch of Dixwell and sees a long-stalled construction site.
Around the corner on both sides, she sees rebuilding and renewal.
by | Jan 19, 2021 12:52 pm | Comments (24)
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New Haven-to-Georgia campaigners at MLK event, clockwise from top left: Naomi D’Arbell, Renee Reed, Adam Waters, Paris Robberstad.
Slide shown during Monday’s virtual celebration.
Charli Taylor was back at Helen’s front porch, trying to figure out why the Fulton County, Georgia, voter hadn’t yet hit the polls.
The reason, Helen said, was that her front door had no lock — and she worried that someone might break in while she was gone.
by | Jan 18, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (1)
MLK sponsors during Monday’s drop-off.
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Organizers of an annual indoors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day community teach-in took this year’s event across the street and outdoors Monday — with a lesson by example in community partnership.
Continue reading ‘Sororities’ MLK Day Event Moves Outdoors, Targets Needy Families’
by | Jan 18, 2021 4:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Preparing a Covid-19 vaccine dose at The Towers.
Monday is the first official day that New Haveners 75 years and older can start getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
They have several options for where to go for the shot.
by | Dec 9, 2020 5:39 pm | Comments (10)
Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.
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Wednesday afternoon’s virtual press conference.
Local detectives concluded a nearly five-month homicide investigation with the arrest of a 22-year-old New Havener for allegedly shooting and killing Howard Lewis on Munson Street on an exceptionally violent night this summer.
Police believe that Lewis was not the target of the bullet that ultimately left him dead.
Continue reading ‘Cops Arrest Howard Lewis’s Alleged Killer’
by | Dec 9, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (8)
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Clockwise from top left: Local pastors Steven Cousin, Boise Kimber, Hector Otero, and John Cotten.
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Fair Haven’s Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, future learning hub site.
Four churches in Fair Haven, Dixwell, and Newhallville won permission to run daycare centers-turned-learning hubs — to offer relief to working parents who can’t leave their kids home alone during the day, and reliable internet and in-person educational support to students.
by | Nov 24, 2020 4:51 pm | Comments (3)
At Thanksgiving giveaways in Dixwell, West River, the Hill; hunger rampant amid pandemic.
by | Nov 23, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (15)
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Ex-factory slated for demolition.
The final remains of the old Winchester Arms factory — a now-rotting building that reeks of oil on a hot summer’s day — is slated to be replaced with a new mixed-use apartment complex.
Dixwell residents pressed a redevelopment team on whether they and their neighbors will be welcomed there.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Presses Rebuilders On Rents, Jobs’
by | Nov 18, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (3)
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At work in Dixwell: Mullins, Hashim, Tisdale, Hopkinson, Neary, Scanlan.
Ash trees are dying in New Haven. On Frances Hunter Drive, a new tree took root.
by | Nov 14, 2020 8:13 pm | Comments (1)
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Libby Makela Johnson’s 22-year old daughter, Maija, died from a fentanyl overdose last September. Saturday, she showed up in her daughter’s honor to grab a Narcan kit and learn how to use it .
by | Nov 12, 2020 11:09 am | Comments (0)
Yvette Mayorga
Homeland Promised Land.
Yvette Mayorga’s Homeland Promised Land is as colorful as a birthday cake and as sharp as the knife that cuts it. Its central figure is assailed by a whirlwind of fake Fanta bottles and cell phones, held captive by it all. But the artist isn’t just painting a screed against consumerism. There’s strength in the way she makes her art. Her style is asserting its own kind of resistance. When that figure in the center rises, maybe all those colors will burst from the frame, and take over — letting all of us live in a better place.
by | Nov 11, 2020 4:13 pm | Comments (6)
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Inside and (below) outside the lab office building at 115 Munson.
A Branford-based biotech company plans to move to New Haven, after signing a lease for a 9,800 square-foot lab and office space in in the former Winchester Arms factory in Science Park.
by | Nov 9, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
Mass timber construction is coming to New Haven in a new “highly affordable” development on the long-vacant Orchard//Dixwell /Munson triangle and in a two-story addition to the circa 1877 former ACME Furniture pile of bricks on Crown Street.
Continue reading ‘Former ACME, Joe Grate’s Lots Approved For Mass Timber Affordable Complex’
by | Nov 8, 2020 5:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Cheryl Pegues led her sisters in a victory line dance for fellow soror Kamala Harris Sunday to celebrate a milestone she could barely have imagined while growing up in the Jim Crow South.
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (32)
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Planned 150-unit apartment complex at Ashum, Canal, and Henrys.
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Alder Roth: Too little; no consistent standard.
The Board of Alders approved tax breaks for two residential building projects aiming to add 219 new apartments — 105 at “affordable” rents — to Dixwell.
The board also voted to drop, at the developer’s request, a proposed tax break deal for a Ninth Square project.
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:28 am | Comments (2)
Envisioned project.
The long-awaited redevelopment of Dixwell Plaza —bringing a new performing arts center, banquet hall, grocery store, museum, office complex, daycare center, retail storefronts, and 150-plus apartments and townhouses to the neighborhood’s fraying commercial hub — took one step closer to becoming a reality.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Plaza Transformation Plan Advances’
by | Nov 5, 2020 7:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Dr. Ayana Jordan.
New Haven will test a new approach to treating severe substance abuse with the help of $3 million from the federal government.
Continue reading ‘“Black Church Project” Tests Promising Substance-Abuse Treatment Approach’