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Laura Glesby |
Sep 1, 2022 8:35 am
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Site of proposed new Fair Haven Health building.
Fair Haven Community Health Care plans to build a new medical building focused on treating behavioral health issues and addressing “social determinants of health” at the corner of Grand Avenue and James Street, next door to the community health center’s current headquarters and main clinic.
If suggestions of Fair Haven neighbors come to fruition, the new building will be brightly colored, filled with plants, and adorned with local art reflecting Latino cultures.
Cotto and Blanco looking for a missing man at Justin’s Deli.
City police Officers Martha Cotto and Kevin Blanco were in the middle of their walking beat on Grand Avenue when a call came over the radio: An 85-year-old man with dementia had wandered away from home, and he was now missing somewhere in Fair Haven.
Jose (right) on Ferry Street: A new center with private bathrooms "would be nice," much better than going "in the woods."
Harm reduction crew at 229 Grand lot: John Burroughs, John Rivera, Mark Jenkins, Alder Sarah Miller, Jaclin Lucibello, Emme Magliato.
A Fair Haven-based harm reduction coalition has its sights set on turning a vacant Grand Avenue lot into a one-stop “engagement center” for sex workers, day laborers, drug users, and other struggling populations.
They have the backing of local businesses and social service organizations. Now they’re looking for help from City Hall.
Jocelin and community health volunteer José Antonio Armas Alvarez.
Jocelin hobbled through the doors of Unidad Latina en Acción’s Howe Street headquarters with a leg she had nearly lost, a mind spiraling with trauma, and a $64,000 medical bill.
Inside, she found a volunteer who had survived his own journey to New Haven as an undocumented immigrant — and who helped her find and afford the medical care she sorely needed.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 8, 2022 12:02 pm
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Shneor Edelkopf flips, clockwise from top left: 106 Bassett, 47 Hillside, 232 West Hazel, 268 Exchange.
Real estate investor Shneor Edelkopf has kicked his rental-property-flipping business into high gear this summer — as his companies have bought and promptly sold four apartment buildings in five weeks, at a combined markup of $364,000.
Homeowners trying to turn their expanses of traditional turf grass into gardens for vegetables or flowers might take some cues from Elizabeth (Liz) Johnston and Lizzette Flores of Perkins Street: Their small yard is full of flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees and vines, and is described by some friends as “Paradise.”
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Valerie Richardson |
Jul 29, 2022 9:29 am
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Entrance to the Eugene Fargeorge Preserve.
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The late Eugene Fargeorge, at home.
Relatives and friends of Eugene B. Fargeorge are gathering to commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday Saturday, and one of their activities will be a clean-up of the Quinnipiac Meadows/Eugene B. Fargeorge Preserve, which was established by the New Haven Land Trust in 1987 and named in his honor.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) has examined its parking-related growing pains, and is now looking for community and government approval for the cure.
A 17-year-old New Havener named John Tubac died on Thursday — four days after he was shot and injured in Fair Haven, and less than a month after he graduated from High School in the Community.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jun 29, 2022 11:03 am
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Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and SBA District Director Catherine Marx.
Chabaso Bakery offered Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Connecticut Director Catherine Marx a taste of their manufacturing processes, their pandemic recovery effort, and, of course, some fresh bread, during a tour of the business’s James Street headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am
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Clockwise from top left: Oscaima "Patty" Berrios, Kate Liphart, Joel LeChance, and Maria Solomon at Monday's drive.
New blood at the city’s teachers union arranged to draw blood from educators — along with ideas for how to pump new life into the organization and its headquarters.
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David Sepulveda |
Jun 15, 2022 9:12 am
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David Sepulveda and Frenemy Photos
Corner of new mural facing Exchange Street.
Frenemy: Man with a can, and a message.
A sharp-eyed osprey peers over the edge of its densely woven nest of thick branches. A frog, dressed in patched coveralls and top hat, sits comfortably on a tree stump, reading to a school of attentive rainbow trout. Only the moon seems to have dozed off, its exhalations producing cottony-white night clouds with every breath.
These are some of the vignettes of animated plants and wildlife that have taken residence on the exterior walls of a previously faded and graffiti-marked industrial property adjacent the John S. Martinez Sea & Sky STEM Magnet K‑8 School in Fair Haven — thanks to the work of a globe-trotting muralist and illustrator who goes by the name Frenemy.
Cody Roach at Grand & Atwater Deli: Back in neighborhood, giving back.
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Amelia with her dad.
When he was living at a halfway house after a stint in prison, Cody Roach called his 9‑year-old daughter and asked what he should do with the rest of his life.
Her suggestion: Buy my grandmother’s deli. Ten years later, Roach is still running Grand & Atwater Deli, which bursts with colorful snacks and inspirational quotes on display in the Fair Haven neighborhood where he grew up.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 13, 2022 9:28 am
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Mussels from La Molienda Restaurant and Bar
Enchiladas, ceviche, plantains, and pastries were served up with a side of history, as the Grand Avenue Gastronomy Tour returned as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas Saturday. Twenty participants, led by Lee Cruz of the Chatham Square Neighborhood Association, ate their way down and around Fair Haven while also learning about the neighborhood itself: past, present, and future.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 8, 2022 9:30 am
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Kotcher (aka Frenemy) and Bernblum at 162 James.
The latest mural from public art organization Site Projects is transforming a building in Fair Haven — just as the projects it’s connected to, from Save the Sound and the Mill River Trail, are hoping to transform the surrounding community’s relationship to the river nearby, and the nature all around them.
