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Dec 12, 2021 1:41 pm
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Arrested New Haven Police Officer Christopher Troche with attorney Rosemarie Paine in court on Friday.
The lawyer representing a New Haven police officer who has been arrested for allegedly pressuring an undocumented 19-year-old Honduran immigrant to send him nude photographs and have sex with him in exchange for money claimed that her client is innocent of the charge he is facing: that is, one count of soliciting a prostitute.
Edwin Rodriguez outside of his home at 192 Exchange St.: Homeowners citywide received revaluation notices this week.
On Exchange Street in Fair Haven, Edwin Rodriguez opened his mail this week to find out that the two-family house his family has owned for three decades has increased in value by 68 percent.
On Livingston Street in East Rock, Nancy Angoff learned that the single-family home she and her husband “downsized” into less than three years ago has jumped in value by 31 percent.
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Dec 10, 2021 12:12 pm
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Former Strong School on Grand Avenue.
It can work to preserve and repurpose a century-old historic brick school building into a nonprofit community youth and arts center — but only if the complex includes revenue-producing market-rate-ish apartments, along with ground-floor commercial space.
A 19-year-old undocumented Honduran immigrant who called the cops for help told police investigators that one of the responding officers gave her tequila, had sex with her, then spent months pressuring her to send him nude photographs and have more sex in exchange for money.
That same officer, who has subsequently been arrested, was one of five city police officers whom the young woman said she had sexual relationships with during her time in Fair Haven after reaching out to the NHPD for help.
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Dec 6, 2021 1:23 pm
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Stewart and Taylor.
The Wandering, an event organized by artists Anika Stewart and Elizabeth LaCroix Taylor, turned Bregamos Community Theater into an arts bazaar, music venue, and burlesque stage all at once on Saturday night.
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Dec 3, 2021 12:15 pm
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Thursday night’s protest on Wolcott Street.
With cries of “No Más Violencia!” and “¿Qué Queremos? Justicia!” two dozen immigrant rights protesters took to Wolcott Street to demand an end to violence in Fair Haven — and to call on police to take their concerns seriously, regardless of their nation of origin or which language they speak.
Operators of a doggy daycare asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by noise-weary neighbors, arguing that the city, not a court, should handle the issue.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 23, 2021 9:05 am
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As the band warmed up behind him, Manny James checked the microphone, then slid into a swinging version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” to warm up the audience.
James wasn’t really at Bregamos Theater on Blatchley Avenue as a performer on Sunday afternoon. He was there as a teacher — and as a student.
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Courtney Luciana |
Nov 22, 2021 9:50 am
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Carl Dixon waits in line to receive Thanksgiving donations.
Carl Dixon once lived on the streets. Today he resides on Salem Street right next to the Hill’s Howard Avenue police substation, where he picked up one of 56 free turkeys being handed out by NICE (New Haven Inner City Enrichment) Center on Saturday morning.
SWAN outreach worker Elida Paiz at rally calling for Gamarra’s arrest.
Gary Gamarra, who tried to get his job back as a New Haven cop after allegedly raping at least one Fair Haven sex worker he met on the job, will not be able to work for any police department in Connecticut following a vote taken Thursday.
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Nov 16, 2021 3:56 pm
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346 and 350 Grand Ave., which the city plans to buy and convert into new owner-occupied housing.
Monday night’s full Board of Alders meeting.
Alders overwhelmingly signed off on the city purchasing a medical office building and a vacant three-family house on Grand Avenue for up to $460,000 — to further plans to convert three adjacent Fair Haven brownstones into six units of new housing.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 16, 2021 9:11 am
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The Mo-Pho — a soon-to-be mobile photo studio and event space run by Teresa Joseph and Chris Randall, partners in the photo business The Notorious P.I.C. — started off four years ago as an idea in Joseph’s head. This week it took a major leap forward into reality with the acquisition of a double-decker bus from Liverpool, with more in the spring sure to follow.
For Joseph, it’s not just a dream of hers coming to life; it’s also a manifestation of the support she and Randall feel from the community around them.
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Nov 10, 2021 8:42 am
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From seemingly all around the classroom at District Arts and Education on Tuesday evening came a series of meandering tones, a series of chirps and clicks. The sounds were coming from an open-source live-coding program called Estuary, and they were the result of musician Carl Testa feeding it a couple simple commands. He was about to demonstrate how people could use the program to make music together by coding in real time.
The demonstration opened up possibilities for gaining confidence in learning how to code. It also suggested compelling questions about what music composition is when the software makes some of the decisions.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 4, 2021 5:38 pm
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Fair Haven neighbors “occupy” Grand Cafe’s lot in September.
A month and a half after “occupying” the lot in front of a problem bar, Fair Haveners showed up in force yet again to try to solve the social ills emanating from Grand Cafe — this time online, through over three hours of testimony urging the state to pull the venue’s liquor permit.
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Oct 31, 2021 7:15 pm
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At a Halloween party Sunday night, dozens of kids were enlisted to dress as skeletons and zombies and superheroes to help usher away the real-life horrors that transpire throughout the year at the corner of Ferry and Chambers Streets.
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Lisa Reisman |
Oct 25, 2021 8:07 am
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Inis Vidal of Dayvett’s Gifts with Carmen Mendez on anti-litter tour.
Carmen Mendez popped by Dayvett’s Gifts with a plea, and a warning: “Please be kind and help us keep Fair Haven clean and green. Please pick up litter and do not put bulk trash out illegally.”
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 18, 2021 8:48 am
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It was quieter than in years past, for the obvious Covid-19-related reasons. The hallways of Erector Square weren’t quite so jammed, the conversations were a little more subdued.
But still, Citywide Open Studios — part of Artspace’s rebranded Open Source Festival — happened this past weekend: Artists threw open the doors of their studios, and on Saturday and Sunday people moved from spot to spot in Erector Square’s warren-like maze of hallways, visiting old friends, making fresh acquaintances, and in many cases getting the first chance since the pandemic began to see the art both longtime and new tenants of the Peck Street complex had been making since before the pandemic began.
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Oct 11, 2021 8:24 am
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A piece of artwork hanging in Bregamos Community Theater summed up the theme of the Festival de la Resistencia, which took place at the Blatchley Avenue arts and community space Saturday afternoon. It made a serious point: A fist smoked down from the sky to smite the people on a city street. The people were not crushed; they pushed back. And someone was there to document their struggle, and let the world see, even as the city burned around them. But the seriousness of the subject was delivered in a colorful, vivacious tone, full of life and action. It drew you in and made you want to be a part of it — and it was the work of multiple artists’ hands.
The calls were coming in from the East Shore. From Long Wharf. From Fair Haven. Even in East Haven and Branford, people were hearing music blasting through the middle of the night.
