by | Jul 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (10)
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Underneath the Humphrey Street Bridge.
The city plans to “scour-proof” the Humphrey Street Bridge after a recent routine inspection revealed significant erosion of the riverbed that supports the Mill River-crossing infrastructure.
by | Jul 20, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (2)
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Marshall cleaning up a scene on A&E’s “Dirty Rotten Cleaners.”
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Marshall gets ready for action.
Sadie Marshall’s team packed up her gear to answer a call to clean up two decomposing bodies, after answering a separate call from the A&E Network to broadcast her “Dirty Rotten” work to the nation.
by | Jul 15, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (12)
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Karen DuBois-Walton and Justin Elicker face Ward 15 Dems.
New Haven’s leading mayoral candidates tackled policing, education, and housing challenges — rather than each other.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Offer Solutions, Forget To Fight’
by | Jul 15, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (6)
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Tom Pescatore: Bringing the public onto the water.
Here is some of what you see while gliding through lily pads on a kayak trip down the Mill River: Turtles dipping their heads out of the water. Deer wandering the shores. A roaring waterfall by Goose Dam.
by | Jul 13, 2021 1:25 pm | Comments (12)
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Sarah Miller, now the only candidate running for Ward 14 alder.
Mayor Justin Elicker picked up another Democratic ward-committee vote of confidence, this time on his challenger’s home turf — and Sarah Miller emerged as the presumptive nominee for a Fair Haven alder seat, as her erstwhile competitor dropped out of the race.
by | Jul 10, 2021 11:09 am | Comments (9)
Kevan Bonilla.
(Updated at 8:19 p.m.) A 20-year-old Bridgeport man was shot and killed in Fair Haven Saturday morning, becoming the city’s 17th homicide victim so far this year.
by | Jul 6, 2021 2:17 pm | Comments (5)
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At Kensington Playground.
A proposal is making the rounds of New Haven neighborhood meetings. Its pitch: The Board of Parks Commissioners should never give up the only public park in a neighborhood, and it should always ensure each neighborhood has at least one playground with a playscape and a splash pad or water element.
Continue reading ‘Grassroots Quest Aims To Save Playgrounds’
by | Jul 5, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (36)
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal with airport chief Sean Scanlon at May expansion announcement.
Opponents of the $70 million privately funded plan to expand Tweed-New Haven Airport have formed a new organization to fight it, called 10,000 Hawks.
Their aim is to watch like hawks as the plan’s details, to be executed by public Tweed’s private operational managers, the Goldman Sachs-owned Avports, progress into what they fear will be a noisy polluted reality.
Continue reading ‘“10,000 Hawks” Take Flight Against Tweed Expansion’
by | Jul 2, 2021 3:23 pm | Comments (25)
Carmen Flores (center) at campaign HQ with sister Zulma and campaign manager Deniz Tek.
Sarah Miller with Fair Haven Pharmacy owner Chandra Jakka.
Public safety, traffic calming, blighted buildings, and youth engagement in Fair Haven all figure in what is so far this year’s only contested Democratic alder primary race.
A more fundamental issue lingers: Will Ward 14 have an alder who actually shows up?
by | Jun 29, 2021 8:44 am | Comments (0)
A motorcyclist names Jermarvin Brown, 33, died Sunday after his Can-Am bike crashed with a Dodge Stratus on Whalley Avenue between Hubinger Street and Whittlesey Saturday around 1:30 a.m., reported police spokesperson Officer Scott Shumway. The driver of the Dodge went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating the crash to determine how and why it happened.
Continue reading ‘Roundup: Motorcyclist Crashes, Dies; 16-Year-Old Shot’
by | Jun 22, 2021 9:33 am | Comments (0)
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Quan Grant.
A rock duo and a single singer with a message were among the offerings Monday afternoon at Bear’s in Fair Haven, as the barbecue joint, partnering with the social services organization Marrakech, participated in Make Music New Haven, an event tied to a statewide and national effort that brought dozens of bands out to make music across the city from midday into the night.
by | Jun 17, 2021 1:27 pm | Comments (8)
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Demonstrators showed up Wednesday afternoon to the newly named Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME) — to argue that it should have received a different new name.
by | Jun 15, 2021 10:41 am | Comments (2)
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The school formerly known as Christopher Columbus Family Academy. PS: That’s not Columbus on the roof.
“Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration” (FAME) is officially in. And “Christopher Columbus Family Academy” (CCFA) is officially out.
by | Jun 14, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (7)
Mayor Justin Elicker received clear marching orders from Fair Haveners on Saturday: Fix our roads. Fix our sidewalks.
Continue reading ‘In Fair Haven, Elicker Hears Streets Plea’
by | Jun 14, 2021 8:57 am | Comments (16)
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The planned new NEBCO brewery, coming soon to River Street.
Plans for a new 80,000 square-foot brewery, tap room, and event space for a vacant former-industrial lot on River Street are moving ahead, as the city prepares to welcome “The Beatles of Craft Brewing” to Fair Haven.
Continue reading ‘Brewing Co. Details Planned Fair Haven Move’
by | Jun 10, 2021 9:08 am | Comments (0)
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Outside the thick humidity broke into a pounding thunderstorm over New Haven, but Wednesday evening inside the Holberton School at District New Haven on James Street, Chris Bousquet — a.k.a. American Elm — made it warm and inviting for a live and livestreamed performance that pulled in a lifetime of music, from days on the beach to departed friends.
Continue reading ‘At Hybrid District Show, Music Gives Shelter From The Storm’
by | Jun 9, 2021 2:29 pm | Comments (5)
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Ward 1 alder candidate Alex Guzhnay.
The story of Alex Guzhnay’s run for Ward 1 alder starts four years ago — when the Fair Haven native got a city-subsidized summer job at a Ferry Street farm.
by | Jun 9, 2021 9:22 am | Comments (6)
Committee votes on how many names to send to Board of Education.
After two rounds of voting, a committee settled on a preliminary new name for Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA): Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME).
Continue reading ‘“FAME” Wins Ranked-Choice 1st Round Of Columbus School Renaming’
by | Jun 7, 2021 9:20 am | Comments (14)
Fair Haven bound: Actor, director and studio head Michael Jai White (above), brewer Rob Leonard (below).
New England Brewing Company, outgrowing its space in Woodbridge, is negotiating to move to Fair Haven and set up production and taproom and event facilities with a scenic view of the Quinnipiac River.
Down River Street, the up-and-coming media production company Jaigantic Studios is also in negotiations to buy city land to set up headquarters.
The potential result: a“one-two” jobs and tourism revival punch for the long-struggling River Street Municipal Development district.
Continue reading ‘Studio, Craft Brewer Plan Fair Haven Moves’
by | Jun 4, 2021 1:24 pm | Comments (12)
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King Lanson, honored with Dixwell statue: Next, a school?
King Lanson School?
How about Momauguin Family and Cultural School?
Or Four Winds Family Academy?
Those are among the 240 name suggestions submitted so far for the Fair Haven school currently known, but not for long, as Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA).
by | May 31, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (5)
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The Front Street bear during Sunday’s visit.
As one of New Haven’s nature guides, Martin Torresquintero knows about bears roaming wooded neighborhoods in town.
On Sunday he saw a bear up closer — in the backyard of his home on Front Street in Fair Haven across from the Quinnipiac River.
by | May 31, 2021 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Cynthia Howard: My apartment looks like a New York loft.
Seven-plus years of work in childcare offered Cynthia Howard no cushion when divorce and surgery costs pushed her into homelessness.
She now has her own apartment again — thanks to her workplace’s efforts to break cycles of poverty in the childcare industry by providing free housing to employees.
by | May 28, 2021 2:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Elders watch the parade at Mary Wade.
”This neighborhood cheered us on during the pandemic,” Harold Spitzer was saying. “Now we get to cheer them on.”
Continue reading ‘Mary Wade Parade Celebrates Veterans, Essential Workers’
by | May 27, 2021 12:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Siul Hughes with DJ Collin In Kind
District Arts and Education turned their bi-weekly DAE Presents livestream into a live, on-site event Wednesday night as they invited a small number of guests in and added a food truck and outdoor musical entertainment — as a prelude to their indoor performance, that would be broadcast on Facebook Live.
Continue reading ‘District Opens Livestream To Live Audience’
by | May 26, 2021 4:44 pm | Comments (17)
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Fairbank Apartments: No tax break for new owners. For now.
LISHTA member and Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola: NHI comments make secrecy necessary.
Alders lambasted two low-income senior apartment building owners for failing to show up to defend requested tax breaks and for attempting to take advantage of a cash-strapped city without creating new subsidized housing.
It turns out the landlords were never invited — and they had filed plans about which the alders were either unaware or confused.