by | Apr 15, 2025 1:07 pm | Comments (5)
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The Farm Belly’s breakfast biscuit.
Chef Meg Fama, at the grill: "I just want to be part of this neighborhood."
On a recent afternoon at The Farm Belly on the corner of Front Street and Grand Avenue, owner and head chef Meg Fama was expertly cracking two eggs with one hand and rhapsodizing about Fair Haven.
by | Apr 14, 2025 2:08 pm | Comments (23)
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Murphy: "Trying to do my small part to help build a national opposition movement against what's happening."
“The old tools are still the new tools,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a room of Fair Haven healthcare providers and advocates worried about potential Republican-led cuts to Medicaid.
“As much as politics has changed, it is still turnout and protest and volume that makes a difference.”
Continue reading ‘Murphy On Trump II Resistance: "We Have To Be Vocal"’
by | Apr 11, 2025 4:22 pm | Comments (21)
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Lagarde: "We're not gonna break any laws. We're not gonna abandon any patients."
Fair Haven Community Health Care is looking to open a separate private practice — with no federal funding — so that it can continue to treat all of its patients without violating any of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
by | Mar 27, 2025 11:51 am | Comments (17)
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Brewery Square: $24M renovation, 17-year tax break deal in the works.
A Fair Haven brewery-turned-apartment complex on the Quinnipiac River is on the brink of getting a new owner, a new tax break, and a new boost in affordable rentals.
by | Mar 25, 2025 10:42 am | Comments (0)
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Going up: The new Fair Haven Health clinic at Grand & James ...
... and the new Mequity self-storage site at 129 Amity.
Community healthcare and self-storage centers are on the rise on opposite sides of town.
Need to find them? Just follow the signs.
Continue reading ‘Signs Approved For New Clinic, Self-Storage’
by | Mar 20, 2025 9:23 am | Comments (1)
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Keontrai Floyd, with his mom Ronnica Floyd, at Wednesday's ceremony.
Just before Christmas last year, 19-year-old Keontrai Floyd was visiting his mom and younger brother at the New Reach supportive housing community in Fair Haven, when he came up with a big idea.
He had already been brainstorming what gifts to buy for his parents and brother and nieces and nephews. When he got to New Reach, he looked around and saw a lot of other younger kids playing outside.
“They reminded me of myself when I was younger,” said Keontrai, who had been homeless for some time earlier in his teenage years, “and I didn’t have the best things, just all year-round, not just Christmas.”
So Keontrai hatched a plan to buy the kids at New Reach toys for Christmas, eventually gathering $2,000 worth of presents to donate to the community’s Gift-a-Family program for homeless and low-income children and parents.
by | Mar 18, 2025 12:43 pm | Comments (16)
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Fair Haven Health's Dr. Tejada Arias: Medicaid affects every generation.
Politicians and healthcare providers gathered to send a message that cutting Medicaid is a matter of life and death.
They made the case that at stake is the well-being not only of those insured by the program — including roughly 60,000 New Haveners — but of their families and communities as well.
by | Mar 6, 2025 3:46 pm | Comments (17)
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Yair Netanyahu (top right) at Ricotta in September.
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The Annex house now owned by Yair Netanyahu's company.
Yair Netanyahu, the oldest son of the Israeli prime minister and a prominent defender of his father’s government, has formed a company in Fair Haven and bought a house in the Annex to boost his work speaking on college campuses about Israeli history, Judaism, antisemitism, and his life at the center of his home country’s politics.
His business creation, real estate purchase, and recent visits to New Haven — including at a downtown kosher restaurant — reveal the younger Netanyahu’s tie to a small city with a growing Orthodox Jewish community.
by | Mar 5, 2025 4:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Ayapantecatl, Leon, and Zurita: Taking out the trash, for a cause.
John S. Martinez School “eco-warriors” Christian Ayapantecatl, Anthony Leon, and Giovanni Zurita walked up James Street’s tree belt, using long plastic “pickers” to grab pieces of paper, plastic, and chicken wing bones before throwing them into a large black trash bag.
They then walked over to stand alongside the mayor, four alders, and two dozen fellow students, city workers, and Fair Haven leaders to talk about a new collaborative effort to keep the neighborhood — and New Haven — clean.
by | Feb 25, 2025 9:12 am | Comments (17)
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No more Bigelow, hello "Bigelow Square"?
A vacant, contaminated waterfront industrial property in Fair Haven took a big step towards becoming a new 12,000 square-foot commercial/industrial building — thanks to a suite of City Plan Commission approvals for the redevelopment of the site of the now-demolished former Bigelow factory complex.
by | Feb 21, 2025 9:29 am | Comments (4)
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Student leaders bring the first new recycling bin to math teacher Julia Pisani.
New bins!
When Scandinavian assemble-your-own furniture retail giant IKEA dropped off 30 new recycling bins at John S. Martinez School in Fair Haven, student council President Christian Ayapantecatl and Vice President Geovanelys Morales were ready to receive them, excited to build on all the progress the school has already made in sustainability.
Continue reading ‘Martinez Keeps Going Green, With IKEA's Help’
by | Feb 18, 2025 4:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Fatima Rojas, Yenimar Cortes, Ambar Santiago-Rojas, and Jacqueline Gonzalez at WNHH FM.
Don’t freak out. Do pull out the red card.
Continue reading ‘New ICE Age Response Team: Prepare, Don't Panic’
by | Feb 17, 2025 10:21 am | Comments (0)
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Guitarist and composer Hiroya Tsukamoto played an amazing show at Fair Haven Furniture, turning the cozy, intimately-lit space into a personal mini-concert hall. His mix of detailed fingerpicking and heartfelt storytelling made for a captivating night, with every note filling the unique setting with warmth and emotion.
Continue reading ‘Guitar Wizard Lights Furniture Haven On Fire’
by | Feb 6, 2025 10:15 am | Comments (7)
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The main dish.
While some customers wary of ICE raids stayed home, Alexis Ramirez was as usual marinating sliced pork shoulder in a blend of dried chiles, achiote, pineapple juice, and spices.
by | Feb 5, 2025 9:16 am | Comments (5)
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J&J staple, arroz con gandules and maduro.
Jiminian: "I've just got to keep going" as ICE-raid fears keep customers home.
First sauté the peppers, garlic, and onions. Add your basic Caribbean spice mix, Adobo, then bring the pot of water to a boil. Pop in the gandules, or pigeon peas, add the arroz, the rice, cover, and cook on low heat for about an hour. And voila!, as they say in Spanish: arroz con gandules.
by | Feb 3, 2025 8:30 pm | Comments (12)
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A partially cleared lot at Fair Haven School Monday.
A heavier than expected snowfall — and a late-starting snow removal contractor — left more than 20 city public schools to start their days Monday morning with snow partially plowed or not plowed at all.
by | Feb 3, 2025 8:08 am | Comments (3)
Students dance alongside DeLauro, Elicker, and Paolillo.
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P.E. teacher Sharon Arnold gets her flowers, literally, for hosting Snowball event for the past 16 years.
Sixteen years after Fair Haven School gym teacher Sharon Arnold first came up with the idea to combine fitness with college and career readiness, she received her flowers for helping to inspire the post-high school dreams of dozens of Fair Haven students.
by | Jan 22, 2025 4:34 pm | Comments (4)
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Pearson's family, including his mom Anita Davies (right), gathered Wednesday to mourn their loved one, who would have turned 31 in less than a month.
Standing on the asphalt at the corner of Grand Avenue and East Pearl Street, Shaquille Pearson made a fatal decision.
Pearson’s friend “Willie G” was arguing with the occupants of a silver Honda CRV, including an 18-year-old who went by “Bizz” — as documented in a recently released arrest warrant for the teenage suspect in Pearson’s 2023 homicide.
Bizz, sporting a cast from a recent bullet wound, was upset because Willie G had allegedly sold him a fake gun a few days before. Pearson, according to police, went over to join the argument and protect his friend, boosting Bizz’s anger.
Continue reading ‘Warrant: Friend's Death Followed Fight Over Gun’
by | Jan 22, 2025 12:36 pm | Comments (4)
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Frank Redente, Jr. (right), with Lombard's Ruben Mallma, on the 2023 campaign trial: "Still a lot to do."
Frankie Redente just turned 50, he just bought a house two blocks from his grandma’s old apartment, and he just filed to run for a second two-year term as Fair Haven alder — with a promised focus on keeping neighborhood parks clean.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Alder First To File For Reelection’
by | Jan 20, 2025 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Johnny Kraszewski, king for the day.
Ruling over the taps and the raffle tickets: King John “Johnny” Kraszewski.
by | Jan 20, 2025 9:07 am | Comments (2)
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Dayana and Samaner spell out "wig" together.
“Wig,” said Fair Haven School eighth grader Dayana.
First grader Samaner sounded out the word, as Dayana helped her place a “w” to finish spelling it out.
by | Jan 17, 2025 7:19 pm | Comments (39)
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Chief Jacobson: "We want you to call the police no matter what your immigration status is."
New Haven will protect immigrants, regardless of legal status, during a second Trump administration.
More than two dozen city officials, alders and immigrant rights advocates gathered in Fair Haven Friday afternoon to send that message — as they highlighted the city’s newly updated resource guide for new residents, which includes sections on the legal rights available to undocumented New Haveners.
by | Jan 16, 2025 1:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Thursday's presser at DISTRICT.
Bracing for Trump II tariffs and protectionism, the Lamont administration has launched a $25 million effort to try to build out “strategic supply chains” closer to home — in an effort to get ahead of potentially higher prices for imported goods.
by | Jan 13, 2025 10:09 am | Comments (14)
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Local investor Roberts: Wanted to buy, but didn't have enough $ for auction deposit.
A Fair Haven foreclosure auction brought out no new bidders — leaving the property to fall into the hands of the federal government, and the current tenant bracing to find a new place to live.
Continue reading ‘Feds Prevail At Quiet Foreclosure Auction’
by | Jan 9, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (11)
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Signs of community life beneath the Front Street I-91 underpass.
It’s official: the city has received $2 million to stitch up the neighborhoods sliced apart by highways.
Continue reading ‘Feds Grant $2M For Local Urban Un-Renewal Effort’