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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 31, 2022 11:08 am
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Congregant Josue Ortiz shows how it's done.
Josue Ortiz sounded the shofar, but it wasn’t the Jewish Day of Atonement. He wasn’t even in a synagogue.
The site was the Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob, the Radiant Star of Jacob Church in Fair Haven, where the spirit and service of long-time pastors Javier and Shari Diaz were trumpeted, along with the help of an official certificate presented by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 26, 2022 3:45 pm
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Grand Cafe plaza regular Curt Duarte (at left): We're being targeted.
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A protest/sit-in/"occupation" of the Grand Cafe parking lot in Sept. 2021.
The parking lot outside of the Grand Cafe swelled last fall with live music, poetry, and pizza as activists gathered to “reclaim” a Fair Haven corner known for attracting violence.
A year later the bar is closed, shootings are down, and a new set of neighbors fills the lot with cannabis smoke and stereo tunes.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
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Oct 24, 2022 8:44 am
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Dennis Carroll.
The process of moving from drawing and painting to working with fiber. The limitations — and the opportunities — presented by fabrication machines, and the connection of that to old Atari video games. The ways that the materials an artist uses can deepen the theme of the art, about climate change and impending extinctions. Such were a few of the conversations on offer for those who visited Erector Square this weekend, as dozens of artists in the warren of studios in the former factory building in Fair Haven threw open their doors to visitors for the first full weekend of Open Source, the citywide visual arts festival organized by Artspace.
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Oct 21, 2022 9:41 am
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Det. Blaisdell at police presser.
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John Tubac at his HSC graduation, weeks before his murder.
“You are the fucking guy who was racing in front of my house,” a 25-year-old New Havener allegedly said after confronting a teenager in his truck late at night in Fair Haven this summer.
“I’m ready to shoot,” he threatened.
He then noticed what would turn out to be a BB gun on the truck’s dashboard.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 20, 2022 12:30 pm
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Lead-buster Ramos: Ramos: Check out this site for more on prevention.
The city's new "lead case dashboard."
New Haven property owners can receive up to $15,000 per apartment from City Hall to help cover the costs of making their homes lead-safe — while city government watchdogs can now keep track online of how the Health Department is doing in making local houses less toxic for children to live in.
Fair Rent Director Bermudez: "We need to meet people where they are."
A Blake Street apartment complex’s tenants are looking to make their union official — as the city’s Fair Rent Commission director works on getting out the word about the opportunities for collective renter power at City Hall.
Claudia Herrera at the 2019 Democratic Town Convention.
Fair Haven community activist, Democratic ward co-chair and professional dental assistant Claudia Herrera will be the next alder for Ward 9 — not because she especially wants the job, but because she couldn’t bear the thought of an “empty chair” representing her neighborhood.
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Oct 13, 2022 1:00 pm
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Junta staffers Rosaida Maldonado and Cheila Serrano Thursday.
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A river crossing in Marín Bajo, Puerto Rico that was rebuilt by neighbors after the storm washed away a bridge.
As one of Fair Haven’s longest standing social service agencies prepares to resettle Puerto Ricans fleeing the wreckage of yet another hurricane, New Haven’s congresswoman has secured additional federal aid to help the island and other natural disaster-wracked areas rebuild.
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Oct 10, 2022 8:46 am
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So long, mixed-use building and parking lot; hello, new health center?
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A map of the clinic's current headquarters, planned addition (at the top left), and planned new parking lot.
Fair Haven Community Health Care’s upcoming Grand Avenue expansion came into sharper focus — as a health center representative described plans to knock down an existing corner building that currently houses a pharmacy, a pizzeria, and a handful of apartments, and to construct in its stead a new neighborhood clinic and community space.
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Oct 10, 2022 8:43 am
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Ginny Monk and John Moritz on the job at Saturday's cleanup.
An under-appreciated Fair Haven riverine jewel is looking shinier than ever thanks to an invigorated “friends” group and an increasingly effective partnership with the city and Yale University’s Urban Resource Initiative.
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Oct 7, 2022 9:34 am
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Rick Altice: As overdoses rise, patients need safe equipment.
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and overdose reversal medication.
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Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am
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Cutting the ribbon on the rehabbed Ferry St. bridge.
Construction crews wrap up work before bridge's official reopening.
Cars and trucks looking to cross between Fair Haven and Cedar Hill can use the Ferry Street bridge again, now that the state has wrapped up a $3 million rehab of a span that has been closed to traffic for the last five months.
When Wilson Reyes looked at the bed of roses beyond the porch of 302 Exchange St., he thought back to the Fair Haven he grew up in half a century ago — and he remembered how flowers stood in that very same spot even then.
At a foreclosure auction for that now-empty house, Reyes put in the highest — and only — bid, with the goal of reviving that small slice of the neighborhood he has long called home.
Glendower/Patriquin rendering of proposed Strong School redesign.
Two affordable housing developers are competing to transform the long-vacant former Strong School building into an artists’ community, public gathering space, and housing complex.
Peeling back the onion: A plan for a structural addition to this dome has sparked new questions about what's happening on a trash company's property.
Officials of the “Circle of Life” transfer station on Middletown Avenue showed neighbors plans for a new semi-circlular structure on their site — and heard back questions, claims and complaints about the broader conditions on their property.
