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Valerie Richardson |
Jul 29, 2022 9:29 am
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Entrance to the Eugene Fargeorge Preserve.
Courtesy Caroline Fargeorge
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.
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Olivia Charis |
Jun 6, 2022 3:01 pm
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Azucena Rojas with her mom and business partner, Angeles Romero.
At the 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest on Saturday.
Fair Haven businesswoman Azucena Rojas moved her Mexican grocery outdoors for the day — and further connected with the neighborhood she calls home — during a festive, sun-dappled 10th annual Quinnipiac Riverfest.
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Allan Appel |
May 24, 2022 4:15 pm
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City of New Haven
Sidewalks so narrow you’ll have to choose between wheelchairs and trees.
Roadways so tight you’ll have to choose between a bike lane and giving up large swaths of parking.
A single major intersection so problematic it has clocked more than 100 crashes in a year and a half.
The intersection in question is at Grand Avenue and Ferry Street. Fair Haveners described those challenges and pressed for solutions at a gathering hosted by City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, whose office is beginning a process to make the area safer.
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Brian Slattery |
May 23, 2022 8:31 am
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Brian Slattery Photos
On Sunday afternoon, dancers blessed the elements in four cardinal directions, following the traditions of generations — traditions carried from Oaxaca, Mexico to New Haven, and presented in the Elm City’s first-ever guelaguetza.
Friends Center for Children sent in this article and these photos about a recent event it organized.
What do we want? To fix child care! – and have some fun along the way.
Last Saturday marked the 10th New Haven Family Stroll and Festival, an annual event to raise awareness and much-needed funds for high-quality early care and education. After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, this year’s event grew by over 300 people and had over 1,220 children, parents, educators and advocates converge at the Quinnipiac River Park for a day of awareness, fundraising and family fun
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Kimberly Wipfler |
May 16, 2022 12:01 pm
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Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE.
High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
A shingle oak with star-like leaves was planted Friday just feet from the Quinnipiac River — marking a milestone in New Haven’s ongoing efforts to make the Elm City a tree city once more with deeply connected grass roots.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 28, 2022 3:46 pm
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The former St. Rose School on Richard Street, soon to be apartments.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management won unanimous approval to convert a former Fair Haven Catholic school and nearby ex-convent into 18 new market-rate apartments.
Leroy (holding megaphone), Angaleea, and Nicole Scott at the march; Jericho's murder remains unsolved.
“If you know something, say something!” Leroy Scott pleaded into a megaphone, leading a crowd of supporters in red T‑shirts through a march Saturday in Fair Haven, the neighborhood where his son was murdered in 2015.
