by | Oct 22, 2015 1:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Zinn: Current Q House building does not have high levels of toxic materials.
Jan Simmons said she understands that the process of funding the Dixwell Community “Q” House reconstruction is long — but she doesn’t feel “optimistic” that it will happen in the near future.
by | Sep 29, 2015 4:01 pm | Comments (1)
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A Super Soaker in Diane Brown’s office stands as a reminder of how far the Stetson Branch Library has come over the past decade — and its promise for the decade ahead.
by | Sep 29, 2015 1:09 pm | Comments (22)
With local brass band Kings of Harmony belting out a toe-tapping rendition of “Oh Happy Day,” the only thing missing in front of the newest development in the Dixwell neighborhood was a second line.
by | Sep 8, 2015 4:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Mayor Harp and Bethel Bishop Gregory G.M. Ingram at the signing.
With strokes of three pens, the city and a Dixwell church teamed up to provide a place to sleep for for some of New Haven’s 400-plus couch-surfing homeless teens.
by | Sep 4, 2015 3:33 pm | Comments (8)
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Ex-NFLer Hill: Building’s “the bane of my existence.”
When the Independent published its first article on Sept. 6, 2005, the apartment building at 235 Winchester Ave. looked like this:
Ten years later it looks like …
… this.
Continue reading ‘A Decade Later, Much Changed. Not Everything’
by | Aug 29, 2015 9:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Close to 300 friends and relations of Ray Anthony “Bobo” Roberson gathered Saturday morning to remember a painter, family man, and friend of the Dixwell community whose life was cut short this summer.
by | Aug 27, 2015 11:50 am | Comments (0)
That’s what was on the mind of editorial writers of The Crow, New Haven’s African- American community newspaper, on Aug. 27, 1970 — the day the new and improved “Q” House opened up in Dixwell plaza.
by | Aug 24, 2015 2:09 pm | Comments (0)
When 18-year-old Tamika Flowers talks about the group of children she mentored as a summer youth counselor with the New Haven Family Alliance, it’s easy to tell that she connected with them. Her heart is in her voice.
by | Aug 19, 2015 12:54 pm | Comments (10)
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Gurnah: “You’re casting aside a third of our population.”
Poor black women don’t care about improving their health, in the view of one foundation grant reviewer.
Continue reading ‘Grant Reviewer: Black Women Don’t Mind Obesity’
by | Aug 12, 2015 3:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Neal-Sanjurjo (above) and Greenberg (below) in the WNHH studio.
As a child, Serena Neal-Sanjurjo watched from inside while New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood burned. She has returned decades later to help rebuild Dixwell — after doing the same in Baltimore and post-Katrina New Orleans.
by | Aug 6, 2015 2:26 pm | Comments (5)
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Five teens emerged from a “shark tank” ready to make downtown cleaner.
by | Jul 22, 2015 2:12 pm | Comments (4)
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The Harp administration released photos of this cement-filled toilet and other damage as it further explained its position in an ongoing dispute over the trashing of a city-spawned job-training center at the center of a corruption inquiry.
by | Jul 20, 2015 8:18 am | Comments (10)
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Smith-Bogan, Okeke, Chambers shovel leaves.
Jesse Okeke used to drop trash around his neighborhood. Now a Dixwell “ambassador,” he doesn’t litter anymore — because he’s the one picking up trash from the street.
by | Jul 16, 2015 5:55 pm | Comments (12)
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LCI’s July 2 visit to 316 Dixwell.
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Jefferson: “I would never hurt the building.”
The latest mystery in town: Who trashed a city-created job-training school now at the center of a corruption investigation?
by | Jul 14, 2015 8:34 am | Comments (5)
Standing in front of the former and future Q House, Jeanette Morrison announced she is running again for a Dixwell alder seat — in part to see the Q House’s revival through.
Continue reading ‘Morrison Spells Reelection Quest With A “Q”’
by | Jul 8, 2015 5:03 pm | Comments (2)
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled one of his two top legislative goals for 2015 — passing a “Second Chance Society” criminal-justice reform bill — in New Haven. He returns to town Thursday to mark its success.
Continue reading ‘Guv To Sign “2nd Chance” Law At 2nd-Chance Spot’
by | Jun 26, 2015 4:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Clyde Thompson had a new visitor to his barber’s shop on Dixwell Ave Friday afternoon: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. While he could not convince the senator to stay to get his hair trimmed, together they launched plans to improve access for small businesses in the city.
by | Jun 25, 2015 5:53 pm | Comments (36)
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No, this isn’t Brooklyn.
Continue reading ‘Welcome To Winchester Ave. $3K A Month, Please’
by | Jun 24, 2015 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
At a packed church service, Mayor Toni Harp added her voice to a nationwide call to bring down the Confederate flag in South Carolina, and brought the challenge of tackling racism home to New Haven’s door.
Continue reading ‘“Tonight We Are All Parishioners Of Emmanuel”’
by | Jun 22, 2015 7:57 am | Comments (15)
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Officer Baker at the forum.
One man told of cops stopping him for driving while black, of his son being unfairly arrested. Another spoke of barriers to “moving freely” in the suburbs.
Familiar stories about the sea of distrust that separates officers from the black and brown communities they police — only these were being told by cops.
by | Jun 22, 2015 7:52 am | Comments (1)
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Volunteers and local educators “blitzed” through New Haven streets to make sure no child goes hungry this summer.
Continue reading ‘“Orange Army” Blitzes Neighborhoods To “Vaccinate” Kids Against Hunger’
by | Jun 15, 2015 2:29 pm | Comments (5)
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Issac Newton Kinity has a doctorate in counseling and psychology. He works by day repairing airplane engines. But what he really wants to do is start a business serving food from his home continent of Africa.
by | Jun 10, 2015 11:01 am | Comments (0)
Not far from the asphalt running track outside Wexler-Grant School in Dixwell, the New Haven Museum’s Amy Durbin and Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky were helping build sound sandwiches from jumbo Popsicle sticks and rubber bands, directing those who had finished to an oral history project just yards away on the lawn, where Baobab Tree Studios had set up shop for the day.
by | May 15, 2015 2:14 pm | Comments (24)
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Seeing a white Highlander SUV blocking an Orange Street bike lane, Stephen Saladino hit the brakes. He dismounted his city-issued Fuji and whipped out his Zebra-brand ticketing device, which caught the attention of a man on the sidewalk.
“I own the store here!” the man announced. “My customers can’t park here?”
by | May 11, 2015 7:49 pm | Comments (0)
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The singing and drumming and climbing and thinking start in Fair Haven. Then the Hill. Then Dixwell. Then the center of town.