Freddie Fixes On “Happy Mother’s Day”
by | May 10, 2015 7:05 pm | Comments (3)
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A parade celebrating a fictional neighborhood-clean-up character named Freddie Fixer had a new real-life star this year: mom.
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53rd Freddie Fixer Line-Up Announced
by | May 7, 2015 4:16 pm | Comments (3)
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The 53rd Freddie Fixer Parade will be marching down Dixwell Avenue the Sunday after next, and organizers have planned a whole weekend of events.
Open For Business
by | May 6, 2015 5:02 pm | Comments (10)
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Small business owners and entrepreneurs have a new home on Dixwell Avenue.
After 61 Years, Mr. Reaves Passes The Clippers
by | May 1, 2015 2:32 pm | Comments (2)
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As Mike Balcombe sat in George Reeves’ Dixwell Avenue barber’s chair, a generational change was in the offing.
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Shooting Victim Dies After Car Crash
by | Apr 20, 2015 4:08 pm | Comments (2)
A man crashed his car in the Dixwell neighborhood after being shot multiple times. Then he died in the hospital.
At Monterey, Mice Take Over
by | Apr 7, 2015 12:19 pm | Comments (2)
(Updated) Danae Mundy had a good reason to move out of her apartment at Monterey Place and into a hotel: a steady flow of mouse feces dripped from her apartment’s heating vents and — she suspected — made her children sick.
Leading Lady Discovers “B-Side” At Dixwell Gym
by | Mar 20, 2015 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
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“You’re gonna hit one, two and then I’m going to swing,” Devonne “Da Bomb” Canady told Catrina Ganey. “Got it?” Ganey had it.
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A “17” Spots A Predawn Burglar
by | Mar 19, 2015 4:07 pm | Comments (6)
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Dwayne Branch heard “some banging” outside as he set up the Prince Hall Masonic Temple for a weekly meeting.
At Stetson, The Gloves Come Off
by | Mar 19, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (2)
When ConnCAT founder Erik Clemons first heard selections from brownsville song (b‑side for tray), he realized something very quickly: Even the smallest section of Kimber Lee’s masterfully true-to-life script lent itself to hours of discussions he was waiting to have.
The same was true for youth worker Steve Driffin, who immediately seized on the importance of sharing the play’s narrative — a young, precious and imperiled black life — with the New Haven community as necessary and therapeutic.
St. Luke’s Steel Band Marks 15 Years
by | Mar 18, 2015 12:26 pm | Comments (0)
When she was growing up in Antigua, Pat Daniel was not allowed to join the steel band. Rehearsals were at night; participating was frowned on, especially for girls. When she came to New Haven, Daniel became one of the first members of the St. Luke’s Steel Band.
Henry Street Property Sale OK’d, With A Discount
by | Mar 17, 2015 3:12 pm | Comments (5)
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The view of the proposed project from Munson & Ashmun.
A developer who was the lone bidder on a long vacant church in the Dixwell neighborhood has received final approval to purchase the property and pay about $10,500 less than he offered for it.
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Cold Patch Crew Fills Orchard Street’s Craters
by | Mar 17, 2015 8:21 am | Comments (4)
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Shovels in hand, Mike DeCarlo and Dave Lawlor hopped in and out of their public-works truck to patch five potholes along two blocks of Orchard Street. It took them a half hour; they expect to have to return soon.
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Firefighters Free Man Trapped Under Car In His Own Apartment
by | Mar 13, 2015 2:26 pm | Comments (7)
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A Winchester Avenue tenant had a classic nightmare early Friday: that a car burst into his room and landed on top of him.
Only it wasn’t a dream. It was true.
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In Dixwell Gym, Eyes Open
by | Feb 27, 2015 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Gary Smikle pulled 13-year-old Sharmaine Donaldson out of the lineup. He swiped a punching mitt at her. Donaldson stepped back, but she never took her eyes off of him. She didn’t blink. She didn’t lose her fighting stance. She did not flinch or close her eyes.
History, Act II
by | Feb 20, 2015 2:34 pm | Comments (0)
The New Haven Firebird Society and Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church are sponsoring a black history theater workshop series for the last two Saturdays in February.
Downtown-Style Dixwell Deal Green-Lighted
by | Feb 20, 2015 2:24 pm | Comments (28)
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Developer Salas-Romer.
Thanks to a vote at City Hall this week, a one-time problem bar has moved closer to becoming a bakery-coffee shop with new apartments beside it at a section of Dixwell in transition.
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Raid Reveals Alleged Counterfeit Shipping Center
by | Feb 5, 2015 7:25 pm | Comments (5)
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Fire Chief Wright inspects secret living area.
A raid of alleged illegal apartments inside a former Dixwell factory Thursday unearthed a trove of headsets from China repackaged into Dr. Dre “Beats” and “Lg Tone+” headsets.
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Common Ground Found On Common Core
by | Jan 21, 2015 10:11 am | Comments (13)
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Cicarella and Alexander Tuesday night, agreeing adopting Common Core is a difficult, and worthwhile, process.
When Common Core came to New Haven, Garfield Pilliner told a gathering in Dixwell, his classroom changed.
Community Policing And Swing Dancing Capture MLK Spirit
by | Jan 20, 2015 9:34 am | Comments (2)
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Officers Paul Finch and Todd Kelley fielded students’ questions on how to interact with police officers and hold them accountable for mistreatment — as part of a series of workshops dedicated to honoring a man arrested 30 times for nonviolent protest.
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On Whalley, Every Voice Lifted
by | Jan 20, 2015 9:24 am | Comments (0)
Poised at the front of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Robert Davis raised his chin, lifting his lips to the microphone.
Voice steady, he read: “We must use our time creatively, in knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise to democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”
Firefighter Bid Farewell
by | Jan 18, 2015 10:24 am | Comments (2)
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Cohens.
Waiting outside the church on Orchard Street, Engine 16’s shining fenders and rails were draped in black and ready to lead a funeral cortege in honor of pioneering firefighter Linda D. Cohens.
The lapels of the hundreds of her fellow fire fighters, paramedics, police officers, and other uniformed service members, and officials from towns all around sported a brighter color: the orange ribbons Cohens’ mother requested to reflect her fallen daughter’s positive, always-giving, and loving spirit.
City Issues Call To Artists
by | Jan 8, 2015 4:56 pm | Comments (1)
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Tree of Life, 2004, Douglas Kornfield, Clinton Avenue School courtyard
The City of New Haven is offering a new opportunity for area artists through a special program with a long history.
Downtown-Style Complex Planned For Dixwell
by | Jan 8, 2015 8:46 am | Comments (17)
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New apartments and a G Café are planned here.
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If developer Juan Salas-Romer has his way, people in the Dixwell neighborhood will have a cozy place to enjoy fresh baked bread and coffee just as people downtown do, amid newly built housing.
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New Havener Of The Year
by | Dec 24, 2014 11:37 am | Comments (6)
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The Rev. Eldren Morrison doesn’t “preach headlines.” He nevertheless found himself at the center of two headline stories in 2014, while a bigger story unfolded behind the scenes on Dixwell Avenue — a story about generational change.
Elves, Internet Save Xmas
by | Dec 22, 2014 10:09 am | Comments (2)
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Toys for over 100 kids vanished from New Haven’s former armory — then at least that many reappeared after a call went out for help.