Plane Removed From River
by | Jul 1, 2022 4:12 pm | Comments (1)
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The private single-engine Beechcraft plane that went down Thursday afternoon in the Quinnipiac River was lifted from the water on Friday morning.
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Private Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Q River; Everyone Safe
by | Jun 30, 2022 9:10 pm | Comments (4)
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On Friday, plane is lifted and transported.
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Plane's original landing spot.
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Beechcraft beached Thursday by banks of the Q River.
It could have been a disaster when the pilot of a private single-engine plane had to make an emergency landing in New Haven Thursday afternoon.
Luckily, the pilot landed safely. The two human occupants — and their dog Carl — emerged unharmed.
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Chabaso Tour Reveals Recipe For Biz Success
by | Jun 29, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (3)
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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Teachers Union Draws New Blood
by | Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am | Comments (5)
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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.
Frenemy & Friends Fire Up Fair Haven
by | Jun 15, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (4)
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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.
Dad Took Daughter's Idea, & Ran With It
by | Jun 14, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (10)
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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.
Gastronomy Tour Puts The Grand In Grand Avenue
by | Jun 13, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (6)
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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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Muralist Sets Sites In Fair Haven
by | Jun 8, 2022 9:30 am | Comments (4)
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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.
Fair Haven Flourishes At Quinnipiac Riverfest
by | Jun 6, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (7)
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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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$2.8M Quest Begins To Redo, "Rebrand" Ferry
by | May 24, 2022 4:15 pm | Comments (8)
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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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Fair Haven Celebrates Oaxacan Culture
by | May 23, 2022 8:31 am | Comments (4)
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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.
1,220 Stroll For Childcare
by | May 20, 2022 9:36 am | Comments (1)
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
High Schoolers Crack The Code
by | May 16, 2022 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
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.
URI Plants 10,000th City Tree
by | May 13, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (20)
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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.
18 Apts. OK'd For Ex-School & Convent
by | Apr 28, 2022 3:46 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
7 Years On, Jericho's Family Marches for Justice
by | Apr 23, 2022 9:10 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
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Fair Rent Splits The Difference
by | Apr 22, 2022 12:25 pm | Comments (22)
New Fair Rent ED Wildaliz Bermúdez running her first meeting.
The Fair Rent Commission slashed a $495 rent hike to $200 after finding the landlord’s initial proposed increase was too much for a tenant to swallow all at once — even if the original hike would have been in line with market rents.
Brewery Opens On River Street
by | Apr 20, 2022 3:56 pm | Comments (8)
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Armada Brewing's John Kraszewski with the 4/20 special, "The Herbalist."
Lloyd Street entrance to Armada's River Street building.
The city’s newest brewery has opened its doors — and its taps — in a former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street, with hopes that “danky” beers, dreamlike art, and spacious gathering spots will help spur an economic revival for Fair Haven’s derelict industrial waterfront.
Judge Denies Reprieve For Angelo Reyes
by | Apr 19, 2022 2:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Judge Harmon: "Arson endangers lives and terrifies people."
At virtual court hearing on March 28, clockwise from top left: Prosecutor Lisa D'Angelo, Angelo Reyes, defense attorney Alex Taubes, Judge Harmon.
A state judge turned down a convicted Fair Haven arsonist’s plea to get out of prison early, after finding that the “harm and devastation that resulted from his actions that seemed centered in greed and monetary gain” warranted his remaining behind bars.
Violin Strings, Heartstrings, Pulled For Ukraine
by | Apr 18, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
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New Play Tells It Like It Is
by | Apr 12, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (1)
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Jafferis.
Aaron, a White playwright, needs his new play to work out for the sake of his career. Tone, an Inca of the Latin Kings, is serving a prison sentence for conspiracy to sell drugs; he has a story to tell about his conversations with the man in the next cell over — Justin Volpe, the NYPD cop imprisoned for attacking and sexually assaulting Abner Louima in an station house bathroom in 1997. What follows is a power struggle that actually contains several power struggles.
Cops, LCI Swarm In On A Grand Mess
by | Apr 11, 2022 5:14 pm | Comments (12)
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Lt. Michael Fumiatti opens door that doesn't lock.
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Mess discovered by inspectors.
Inspectors and police streamed in and out of a pale yellow apartment building at 101 – 103 Grand Ave., where non-residents have apparently been sleeping, defecating, and leaving needles and debris in common areas.
Afterwards, the place got cleaner. For now.
SWAN Study Shows "Harm Reduction" Keeping People Safe On The Street
by | Apr 8, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Christine with her backpack of harm reduction supplies.
A few years ago, hospital workers tried to confiscate the purple-gray backpack that Christine carries with her everywhere, she said. At the time, the bag was her only possession; it doubled as a pillow when she slept on the streets.
Rather than sacrifice the bag, Christine refused health care. She has avoided medical centers ever since.
Now, as a volunteer with the Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN) who obtained housing, Christine uses that same backpack to carry a form of medical care that hospitals often fail to provide: “harm reduction” supplies like clean needles and condoms, which can mean the difference between life and death for those who use them.
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Live, From James Street: Networking's Back!
by | Apr 7, 2022 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Back in person, Morrow and Flowers connect.
Torrance Flowers was hard to miss. His laugh was booming — you could hear it across the room, even over the clanging silverware and raucous chatter that filled the back bar room of the smokehouse restaurant.
Richlin Morrow was everywhere. Somehow, in the background of every photo from that night, you can see her warm smile and listening eyes, as she greeted and acquainted herself with the many faces who showed up.
She’s a nurse. He works in media consulting for an audio entertainment company. They’ve been friends for years. Until bumping into each other Thursday, they never thought their business would overlap.
Where she works, at the New Haven Job Corps Center, Morrow said, she has high schoolers who need jobs. At his place, Audacy Inc., Flowers said, they have jobs for high schoolers.
Flowers and Morrow started making plans. And after a two-year pandemic pause, Business After Hours was back, swinging.
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Surveyor Bundles Up
by and | Mar 30, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (0)
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Zack Weingart gets to surveying work on Grand Avenue.
Zack Weingart layered up in long johns, cargo pants, a T‑shirt, thermal shirt, sweatshirt, coat, thick gloves, and a furry winter hat Tuesday morning and set up a tripod outside the parking lot by Fair Haven Community Health Care on Grand Avenue.