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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Mar 2, 2021 6:35 pm
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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.
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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Feb 24, 2021 6:59 pm
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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.
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).
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.
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Feb 17, 2021 4:31 pm
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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.
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Feb 12, 2021 3:40 pm
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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.
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Jan 29, 2021 4:22 pm
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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.
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.
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Jan 22, 2021 11:35 am
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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.
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Jan 18, 2021 6:29 pm
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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.
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.
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Dec 9, 2020 12:26 pm
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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.
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.
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Nov 14, 2020 8:13 pm
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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 .