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Feb 6, 2023 8:50 am
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Photographer Ian Christmann with mural-size work in Mary Wade.
On Saturday afternoon, residents, families, and neighborhood dignitaries streamed in and out of Chatman Place at Mary Wade on Clinton Avenue in Fair Haven. They were there to check out an art show — and along the way, learned how art can create concrete connections to place and wellbeing.
Frank Redente, Jr. pointed to an armful of tattoos remembering the names of young New Haveners who have lost their lives to street violence.
Born and raised in Fair Haven, Redente now hopes to be part of the solution to the complex and chronic issue of youth violence as he takes on the job of being the first street outreach worker ever dedicated solely to his home neighborhood.
The following opinion piece was submitted by Petisia Adger, a Peck Street resident, retired former New Haven assistant police chief, and founder of Urban Grants 4 Us, Inc.
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Jan 25, 2023 9:32 am
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A visual rendering of the planned new Grand Avenue clinic.
A Fair Haven neighborhood-anchoring healthcare center won permission to build 26 new clinical exam rooms — along with a food pharmacy, community space for job and digital literacy training, and a splash pad — all as part of a now-approved expanded Grand Avenue campus.
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Jan 16, 2023 10:37 am
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Student council prez Julieta Diaz leads Martinez school meeting.
John S. Martinez School eighth grader Julieta Diaz and her fellow student council classmates had a decision to make: Should they donate the proceeds of a middle school recycling drive to a local homeless shelter, or should they throw their financial support to the city’s animal shelter instead?
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 10, 2023 9:01 am
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A Sunday walk in the Fair Haven Heights woods.
Talk about a geological, paleontological, and historical marvel.
That’s Quarry Park Preserve, which was the site on Sunday of an hour-long walking tour that began at the Friends Meeting House at 225 East Grand Ave. in Fair Haven Heights. It was led by the New Haven Bioregional Group’s Aaron Goode and Friends of Quarry Park Founder Tracy Blanford.
District Manager Lt. Fumiatti, Asst. Chief Zannelli, and Chief Jacobson on Thursday.
If retaliation is to come — and the police have concern that it might — for the Jan. 1 murder of Dontae Myers in Fair Haven, it will likely arrive in the form of a vehicle bearing young men with guns.
That’s why the police brass turned out in force Thursday night to inform Fair Haveners that motor vehicle units have been deployed to the neighborhood to try to stop suspicious vehicles that may be carrying drugs or guns.
And they will stay, along with other resources, until the danger or crime spike is reduced.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 3, 2023 9:50 am
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LaJamia Banks, right, says a prayer while her sister, Laquvia Jones, mourns the death of her son, Dontae Myers.
Mourners at Monday's Fair Haven vigil for Dontae Myers.
Over 100 New Haveners gripping red and black balloons packed Poplar Street to mourn the New Year’s Day murder of a soft-spoken 23-year-old — and to decry a deadly pattern of gun violence that also saw the victim’s younger brother killed in tragically similar circumstances just three years earlier.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
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Dec 6, 2022 8:47 am
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Dexter Singleton.
As Collective Consciousness Theatre in Erector Square prepares to roll out its plans for 2023, artistic director Dexter Singleton thought back to 2021, when he first walked back into the theater after the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, which interrupted the company’s run of Dominique Morrisseau’s play Skeleton Crew. “We came back into CCT and we still had the Skeleton Crew set in there,” Singleton said. “Jenny” — Nelson, who directs many CCT productions — “said it was like walking into a time warp.”
Mary Wade's Boardman Residence to receive $10M capital boost.
A Fair Haven-anchoring nursing home has embarked on an estimated $10 million capital campaign to refurbish its venerable, historic 19th-century Boardman Residence with central air conditioning, fewer shared bathrooms, and a host of other repairs.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 28, 2022 10:28 am
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Krissel and Ryan Mendez with Jamie Zhuzhingo at Friday's coat drive.
Eight-year-old Ryan Mendez is now no longer afraid of the wind and the rain — thanks to a crisp new blue-and-white jacket he scored at a Fair Haven coat drive led by a locally based, internationally operating Catholic fraternal order.
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Laura Glesby and Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 18, 2022 2:11 pm
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New Haveners pick up turkeys from John Martinez parking lot.
Hundreds of New Haveners are now a bit more prepared for next week’s holiday meal after picking up a free bird at the city Youth and Recreation Department’s annual turkey drive.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 15, 2022 3:00 pm
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Outside Tuesday's funeral on Ferry St.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
Fair Haven families and New Haven public safety professionals filled Ferry Street Tuesday afternoon to mourn the loss of city firefighter Thomas Mieles, whose sudden off-duty passing has only sharpened the pain felt by a community still processing a series of recent deaths.
Fair Haveners Diane Ecton and Sarah Miller with Pennrose's Karmen Cheung at Thursday management team meeting.
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Pennrose's design for 58 new Strong School apartments.
The more you leave an old historic building empty, the more bad things happen — which is why the recently selected affordable housing re-developers of Fair Haven’s Strong School want to move as quickly as possible.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 8, 2022 9:25 am
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“We rise by lifting others,” reads a phrase from 19th-century writer and orator Robert Ingersoll, which now adorns a colorful mural on a wall on Fair Haven’s Grand Avenue.
As if in literal demonstration of the quotation, on Friday morning, a woman hefted a small child into the air to paint a butterfly on the mural that otherwise would have been just out of reach.
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Nov 7, 2022 9:39 am
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At Saturday's ULA-hosted fest.
Mill Street danced to life with jewel-painted faces, neon-colored skulls, and at least one hairless dog and its golden-spike-crowned owner, as over 100 people gathered for Fair Haven’s annual Día de Muertos parade.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 2, 2022 4:12 pm
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At Wednesday's protest.
Teachers, parents, and other staffers at the LULAC Head Start daycare center on James Street rallied outside of the school building Wednesday in protest of the recent firing of one of their colleagues.
Pennrose's design for 58 new Strong School apartments.
The Elicker Administration has selected the national affordable housing developer Pennrose to convert the vacant former Strong School on Grand Avenue into 58 new affordable apartments, an artists’ community, and a public gathering space.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 2, 2022 8:43 am
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The cast of Songs for a New World.
At a recent rehearsal at Picasso Parties in West Haven, the company of Fuse Theatre of CT was going through “The River Won’t Flow,” one of the songs from composer Jason Robert Brown’s musical theater piece Songs for a New World, which Fuse is preparing for a run at Bregamos Community Theater on Jan. 6, 7, 14, and 15. “The River Won’t Flow” centers on Brian Meltzer and Ty Scurry, who play panhandlers jostling for control of a street corner while trading sentiments about how their luck has run out. It’s a fun song about a serious subject, and the company wanted to make sure they got the balance of humor and heartache right.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 1, 2022 4:02 pm
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Martinez School students Jeremiah and Eddie float test class-built boat.
Third graders Jeremiah and Eddie each held one side of a handmade aluminum foil boat and prepared to fill it with pirate gold, as part of a hands-on science challenge.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Nov 1, 2022 2:10 pm
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Riley and Luz Martinez at Saturday's "Climathon."
Luz Martinez is looking forward to biking more and driving less in her new home neighborhood of Fair Haven — even as her eyes are now open to the area’s vulnerability to flooding.
Those were just one Fair Havener’s takeaways from a half-day-long, climate change-focused workshop held at John S. Martinez School.
