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Construction site.
A crew is pulling up asphalt from a dead end as part of the next phase of constructing the Mill River Trail.
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by | Jan 15, 2022 5:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Bridge party! On Grand Avenue Saturday.
Repainted, rehabbed, and reopening (on Tuesday).
Engineer Giovanni Zinn shows underside of bridge's "exodermic" deck.
Dozens of Fair Haven and Heights residents braved the single-digit cold for a neighborhood-spanning celebration above the Quinnipiac River, as the historic Grand Avenue Bridge — fresh off of a $28 million, on-time-and-under-budget rehab — prepares to reopen for the first time in nearly two years.
by | Jan 12, 2022 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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Looking for silver linings to the pandemic? The Fair Haven-based kindergarten-through-sixth-grade independent Cold Spring School just found one.
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
Driver Daniel Pizarro, Junta's volunteer Art Director, and Bruni Pizarro, Junta's executive director, delivering Covid tests.
Taina Cintron began to come down with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and cough. Cintron, a 20-year-old college student, was unsure about what to do with her grandmother coming home the next day from the holidays. Results from the PCR test she took would not come back for “another eight days”; her boss wanted a test result before returning to work.
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by | Jan 11, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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La estudiante universitaria Taina Cintron comenzó a sufrir dolor de garganta, congestión nasal y tos. Cintron, una estudiante universitaria de 20 años, no estaba segura de qué hacer con su abuela que regresaba a casa al día siguiente de las vacaciones. Los resultados de la prueba de PCR que tomó no volverían por “otros ocho días”; su jefe quería un resultado antes de volver al trabajo.
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by | Jan 5, 2022 12:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Maritza Casanova Spell picks up a test kit for a friend with Covid symptoms, during grassroots Fair Haven distribution.
At Fair Haven’s health hub, the Covid-19 test positivity rate neared 45 percent. Hundreds of people needing tests were turned away.
Suzanne Lagarde knew she needed help. And she knew where to turn: the community.
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Principal Dan Levy: This isn't March 2020.
Administrators filled in to keep classrooms running and lunches served Monday, bus routes were combined, and teachers all received masks, as the New Haven and Hamden school districts resolved to remain open even as some suburban districts temporarily pulled the plug.
The hope remained by day’s end that kids can remain in schools despite the fact that Connecticut posted a record 21.5 percent Covid-19 test-positivity rate.
Meanwhile, New Haven’s teachers union president applauded the efforts to fill gaps but questioned whether they’ll prove “sustainable” — or if Connecticut should allow some remote learning to count as official school days.
by | Dec 20, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (10)
SWAN Program Manager Jaclyn Lucibello reads the names of murdered sex workers; at right, group founder Beatrice Codianni.
Twenty community members gathered in a Fair Haven parking lot to remember sex workers who have died or gone missing — and to call on New Haven to protect the lives of every person who shares the city’s streets.
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by | Dec 17, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (8)
Grand Cafe Co-Owner Jose Rivera, customer Julian Welch outside bar.
Everybody knows your name at Grand Cafe — which regulars and supporters called a good thing as they appealed to preserve the Fair Haven haunt’s liquor license in the face of organized opposition by neighbors weary of gun violence, drugs, and lewd behavior on the premises.
by | Dec 12, 2021 1:41 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
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by | Dec 10, 2021 3:18 pm | Comments (49)
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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by | Dec 10, 2021 12:12 pm | Comments (3)
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.
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by | Dec 9, 2021 4:55 pm | Comments (19)
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Officer Troche.
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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by | Dec 9, 2021 4:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Reeves demonstrates crossover around defender to teens.
Fair Haven’s “basketball Mecca” is returning to the Farnam Neighborhood House with the help of a New Haven native looking to give back to his city.
by | Dec 6, 2021 1:23 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Dec 3, 2021 12:15 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Dec 2, 2021 2:50 pm | Comments (10)
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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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by | Nov 23, 2021 9:05 am | Comments (0)
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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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by | Nov 22, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (1)
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.
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by | Nov 19, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (21)
Lamont at DISTRICT presser: “I like winning.”
Connecticut is “beginning to win” by attracting large, innovative, good-paying employers, Gov. Ned Lamont rejoiced in New Haven Thursday.
Lamont’s team’s Example A: The global tobacco giant Philip Morris International.
by | Nov 18, 2021 5:23 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Nov 16, 2021 3:56 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
Continue reading ‘City Cleared To Buy Vacant House, Office Building In Fair Haven’
by | Nov 16, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Nov 10, 2021 8:42 am | Comments (1)
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.
Continue reading ‘When Software Meets Songwriting: Musician Cracks The Code’
by | Nov 4, 2021 5:38 pm | Comments (8)
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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.