Hit-&-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian, 66
by | May 24, 2021 12:51 pm | Comments (4)
A 66-year-old man named Gerardo Reboseno-Pacheco died after a hit-and-run driver hit him on Grand Avenue.
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Lys Guillorn Reaches Out Live From District
by | May 13, 2021 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Lys Guillorn.
Wednesday night gave beloved New Haven-based singer-songwriter Lys Guillorn a chance to perform live from Holberton School for District Arts and Education’s biweekly series, one that Guillorn herself mentioned that she has been watching since the livestream series began last year.
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Volunteers Vaccinated Fair Haven
by | May 12, 2021 7:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Nydia Jimenez knocks on neighbors’ doors for “Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign.
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And set a statewide standard in the process.
Shuttered-School Principals Reassigned
by | May 11, 2021 2:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Fair Haven School Principal Monica Morales.
Quinnipiac School Principal Monica Morales and West Rock Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette will head up Fair Haven School and Celentano Magnet School, respectively, starting this July.
The New Haven Board of Education voted for their transfers on Monday evening, alongside the promotion of Marisol Rodriguez to principal of Columbus Family Academy.
Noise Crackdown Pushed
by | May 9, 2021 1:31 pm | Comments (8)
“We are going to discuss noise … Can we do something about people driving by with blaring radios?”
So said Diane Ecton, co-chair of the Fair Haven Community Management Team, to 60 fellow members during a monthly Zoom meeting Thursday night.
As if on eerie cue, in the background, there it was: pounding, loud, vibrating speakers zooming to fill up all the Zoom space.
Flip Enriches Middleman, Burns Tenants
by | May 7, 2021 12:17 pm | Comments (16)
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40 Exchange St. in Fair Haven.
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Tenant Gil Morrison: 50% rent hike? “Insulting.”
Two “investment bros” pulled up to Exchange Street, ready to scope out a small rental property they were under contract to buy from an octogenarian landlord.
Who were these guys? wondered a tenant.
Mayor’s Race Off To Clean (Money) Start
by | May 6, 2021 5:50 pm | Comments (14)
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Karen DuBois-Walton chats up future voter at campaign kick-off rally Thursday in Fair Haven.
New Haven this year is in line to have its second mayor’s race with two candidates running with public financing — and the first time in which one is an incumbent.
It may or may not have a “do-over” general election.
Van Brings Rent Help To Fair Haven
by | May 4, 2021 6:31 pm | Comments (1)
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Those behind on rent and utility bills due to the Covid-19 pandemic can get help from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at Columbus Family Academy.
The state’s emergency rental assistance program, UniteCT, is parking a bus at the school to help tenants and landlords sign up.
Free Money!
by | May 4, 2021 1:04 pm | Comments (2)
Even if you didn’t make any income in 2020 … and even if you don’t usually file taxes … you may want to file a tax form this year. Because you may be eligible for thousands of dollars under the American Rescue Plan.
At stake are $1,400 stimulus checks for each household adult, and a $250 per-child child tax credit.
Cop Probed On Immigrant Harassment
by | Apr 28, 2021 5:12 pm | Comments (9)
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Organizer Kica Matos: “Appalling” case threatens immigrant community’s trust in police.
The police have launched an internal investigation into another complaint involving a cop who had sex with a woman in Fair Haven whom he met on the job.
The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Columbus School Renamers Weigh Priorities
by | Apr 28, 2021 12:10 pm | Comments (16)
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The Fair Haven school currently named after Christopher Columbus.
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Teacher Irene Logan: Let’s represent the diversity of our students.
Should Columbus Family Academy’s new name represent all the ethnicities at the school? Should it make a statement about indigenous history? Should it keep “family academy” for continuity’s sake?
A committee of teachers, parents, students and community leaders has eight weeks to settle these questions.
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Clifford Beers Takes Over Farnam House
by | Apr 22, 2021 10:29 am | Comments (2)
Clifford Beers and Farnam Neighborhood House have helped families navigate life in different ways for more than a century. Now they will do so as one united nonprofit agency.
Library Doors Swing Back Open
by | Apr 15, 2021 1:47 pm | Comments (4)
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Main branch’s Sharon Lovett-Graff and Alana Delgado: Please come back! We missed you.
The doors were wide open again at the public library’s main branch — and two patrons were found browsing through the wide variety of nonfiction books in the stacks.
Staffers are trying to get the word out so more New Haveners come back inside.
Acting As Her Own Lawyer, Tenant Fends Off Eviction
by | Apr 15, 2021 12:52 pm | Comments (2)
Housing Judge Claudia Baio in court Tuesday.
Roxanne Ibrahim served as her own lawyer — and succeeded in delaying her eviction, with the possibility of resolving the dispute rather than having to leave.
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Tour Tells Of Grand Transformations
by | Apr 12, 2021 4:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Al Proto: Grand was the Avenue of the Americas.
A vaudeville theater becomes a church. A church becomes a parole office. An integrated boys’ swim club becomes a swim-focused nonprofit.
A group of dedicated ethnic historians sketched out these transformations and more neighborhood lore in what will eventually become an official Grand Avenue tour.
IA File Details Cop’s Rapes Of Sex Workers
by | Apr 8, 2021 6:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Advocate Beatrice Codianni: Crucial link to investigation.
After lying repeatedly to city investigators, former city cop Gary Gamarra admitted to having sex with two different Fair Haven sex workers on two separate occasions — encounters the women said he forced them into.
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Syringe Kiosks Eyed For Hill, Fair Haven
by | Apr 5, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (9)
New Haven’s kiosk model with Gar Waterman design.
Fewer people will step on needles. Fewer kids will be picking them up. And drug users may find a phone number to get life-saving help to save their lives.
That’s the idea behind a plan to bring secure syringe disposal kiosks to New Haven streets.
Street Sweeper Dodges Untowed Cars
by | Apr 2, 2021 12:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Sweeper operator Robert Roberts turns the Pelican Thursday on day one of spring street-cleaning season.
That parking space looked big enough for maybe a sedan. But a city street sweeper?
Robert Roberts was undaunted. He’d been here before.
Top Cop Vows To Make Criscuolo Park Family-Friendly
by | Apr 2, 2021 11:38 am | Comments (12)
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Criscuolo Park monument to Civil War’s 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment.
Get those dogs back on their leashes. Kindly ask the old gents to remove their dominoes tables from the walking paths. And be forewarned: there’ll be no more cars parking partially on the sidewalk blocking passage.
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Today’s Special: Kenia’s Steak & Cheese Sub
by | Mar 24, 2021 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Chef and manager Kenia Calderon at the grill.
Kenia Calderon slathered Italian bread with mayonnaise and layered on lettuce and tomatoes. She slung sliced ribeye steak, onions, and cheese onto a grill. She gently transferred the sizzling ingredients onto the sub.
Calderon then wrapped up one of New Haven’s best-kept secrets: B&M Deli’s grilled steak and cheese sub
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Fair Haven School Principal Moving To Pennsylvania
by | Mar 24, 2021 9:30 am | Comments (3)
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Principal Cordero: “New Haven has been my life.”
This will be Heriberto Cordero’s last year at Fair Haven School before he moves to Pennsylvania.
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Artist (Re)Works It Out
by | Mar 17, 2021 10:04 am | Comments (4)
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Cunningham and Keen.
Standing in her Erector Square studio on a recent afternoon, New Haven-based artist Jan Cunningham recalled a bodily reaction to a series of charcoal drawings she had made.
New School Boilers To Cost $590K, On Way A Year Later
by | Mar 16, 2021 9:56 am | Comments (1)
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Wexler Grant School (pictured): By summer, the heating will be fully fixed.
Wexler-Grant and Fair Haven schools will finally have five fully functional boilers by this summer, at least a year after the New Haven Public Schools started planning to upgrade the two schools’ heating systems.
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Canvassers Step Up To “Vaccinate Fair Haven”
by | Mar 13, 2021 6:35 pm | Comments (5)
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Nydia Jimenez and Ellieben Acosta-Harris (right) encourage Jimenez’s Saltonstall Ave. neighbors to get vaccinated.
Kica Matos at Saturday’s “Vaccinate Fair Haven” kickoff: This is what community looks like.
Over 200 volunteers walked block by block across Fair Haven Saturday, kicking off a grassroots campaign to sign up as many eligible neighborhood residents as possible to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Judge: $7 A Day Leaves Too Little For Rent
by | Mar 10, 2021 3:52 pm | Comments (12)
At Tuesday’s court hearing, clockwise from top left: Attorney David Rosenberg, Attorney Amy Eppler-Epstein, Judge Claudia Baio, and interpreter Emily Skene.
A state judge stopped the eviction of a renter after finding, through some quick mental math, that he has been surviving on only $7 a day.
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