Fair Haven Health Brings Home Glowing Report Card
by | Oct 1, 2020 10:03 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven got a gold star for taking care of its community.
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Foreclosure Mill Revs Back Up
by | Sep 30, 2020 4:24 pm | Comments (28)
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Lowery at his Lombard Street home, where he removed a sign for one of 21 foreclosure sales scheduled Saturday citywide.
Retiree James Lowery was set to lose his $145,000 house this Saturday over a $4,889.46 sewer debt he had mostly paid off.
Stack Sessions Serve Up Live Music And BBQ
by | Sep 28, 2020 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
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Suit: Mary Wade Fired Whistleblower
by | Sep 18, 2020 9:42 am | Comments (6)
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Neighbors support Mary Wade in May during pandemic-era parade.
A lawsuit by a Mary Wade Home nurse accuses the Fair Haven nursing home of firing her in retaliation for speaking up about unsafe workplace conditions during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Second Phase Of Mill River Trail Completed
by | Sep 17, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Newly completed stretch of phase 2.
J.R. Logan: Six years of community action, and counting.
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Local Builders Buy Fair Haven Warehouse
by | Sep 17, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (4)
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36 River St.
A Fair Haven-based construction company looking to expand its local business spent $1.375 million buying two River Street industrial buildings that used to house the Seaboard Oil Company, in the city’s latest property transactions.
Government Arrives At The Waterfront
by | Sep 17, 2020 10:07 am | Comments (8)
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Powell with her dog Mocha at meet-the-mayor event.
First Deborah Powell tried to contact local officials through SeeClickFix. In Fair Haven Wednesday, she tried SeeApproachTalk.
Seeking a solution to dangerous driving, Powell tried the approach at a Meet the Mayor event held at 5:30 p.m. in Front Street Park.
As the blazing sun set in the sky, a group of citizens and local officials gathered in a circle.
Mayor Justin Elicker brought a host of city officials with him to answer questions at this event. He introduced each official, and encouraged citizens to share their concerns with the relevant officials. The group broke into subsequent pairs, discussing issues from traffic to policing.
Neighbors Wax Lyrical On Green Bridge
by | Sep 15, 2020 10:45 am | Comments (1)
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The bridge (above) now looks like a ship to Hercules Sessions (below).
So long predatory arachnids, hello … watercraft?
The Grand Avenue Bridge finally has its complete coat of mint green paint — and the new color has inspired some pedestrians to see poetry in their surroundings.
Crash Kills 2; “Loopy” Remembered At Vigil
by | Sep 7, 2020 9:56 am | Comments (2)
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Friends and family crowded both sides of Middletown Avenue Sunday afternoon for a candlelit vigil to remember the life of Edwin “Loopy” Deida.
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City Hall Pitches CMT On New Crisis Response Team
by | Sep 4, 2020 2:04 pm | Comments (8)
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Police, firefighters, and paramedics response to 2018 K-2 poisonings on the Green.
A lead proponent of City Hall’s planned new social work-centered mobile crisis response team kicked off his citywide tour of the proposed program with a double-edged reassurance.
The initiative will neither be a magic bullet, nor an avenue to “defund the police.”
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District Works It Out
by | Sep 3, 2020 8:19 am | Comments (1)
As evening settled across District New Haven on James Street, Nick Di Maria and the New Haven Jazz Underground slid into another standard that filled the lawn outside the building with their sound.
Ice The Beef Equips Fair Haveners For School
by | Aug 24, 2020 8:43 am | Comments (2)
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Mother of ten Rameinak Armour-White picked up brand new book bags filled with supplies with six of her youngest kids, who are eager to head back to school safely after the large household struggled to concentrate on remote classes in the Spring.
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New Doggy Daycare Opens With A Woof!
by | Aug 21, 2020 1:59 pm | Comments (10)
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Paw Haven, now open for furry friends.
A large inflatable pup helps celebrate the grand opening.
There’s a new place in town for pets from “all wags of life” to stay and play while their human owners are at work or out of town.
Making The Bench Of A Bad Situation
by | Aug 17, 2020 11:32 am | Comments (3)
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Sarahi Zacatelco painting a new bench on Grand Ave.
Local artists Sarahi Zacatelco, Eamon Linehan, Israel Sanchez, and Joel Celi faced a blank canvas in the form of a freshly painted white bench right outside of Evolution SD Hairstudio on Grand Avenue.
Anti-Police Violence March Shuts Down Grand Avenue
by | Aug 15, 2020 11:23 pm | Comments (13)
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Emma Jones speaking at Saturday’s unity walk.
New Haven anti-police-brutality activists marched in support of survivors of police violence — they heard a call for action from Emma Jones at the Fair Haven spot where an East Haven police officer shot and killed her son 23 years ago.
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Prayer Caravan Preaches Peace
by | Aug 15, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (3)
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Prayer caravan participants preaching peace.
Local Hispanic pastors and their congregants blanketed city streets with prayers of non-violence, unity and hope in a car caravan that traveled from Fair Haven to the Hill to City Hall.
Isaias Rips Bigelow, Imperils Historic Plans
by | Aug 13, 2020 11:18 am | Comments (9)
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Bigelow building after storm: Still standing, but for how long?
Tropical Storm Isaias walloped the former Bigelow Boiler factory building on River Street.
Parts of the roof may have collapsed. If the building cannot be stabilized, sections may be lost — along with the city’s efforts to revive an historic riverine industrial stretch of Fair Haven.
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New Clinton Avenue Principal Picked
by | Aug 12, 2020 2:45 pm | Comments (3)
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Jamie Coady (left) with Diane Mitchell and Kimberly Orifice at John S. Martinez School.
Jamie Coady is leaving John S. Martinez School after 16 years to become principal of another Fair Haven magnet, Clinton Avenue.
Jeff Mueller Presses On
by | Aug 12, 2020 11:01 am | Comments (0)
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Mueller.
The crisp rim shot from the snare drum snaps out the beat to start “ReRecorded Syntax,” from Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories In The Time Of Love And Survival, the new album by June of 44 and its first in 21 years. The bass joins, pulsing on the groove, followed by two guitars that work in unison to create a mood that’s both urgent and atmospheric. The vocals only heighten the vibe, with lyrics that are both fractured and focused. The picture is clear; we just can’t see all of it. “Without air, still breathing,” the voices intone.
Storm Drain Creatures Emerge on Grand Avenue
by | Aug 6, 2020 7:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Vibrant fish, turtles, and other water critters have been popping up out of storm drains across New Haven this summer, reminding New Haveners to keep their trash away from the drains.
The last batch of these “runoff art” creatures came to life on Thursday in front of the Christopher Columbus Family Academy at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fillmore Street.
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City Recovery Will Take “Many Days”
by | Aug 5, 2020 6:59 pm | Comments (16)
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A toppled tree on Lombard Street. Below: City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt clears the wreckage.
Police headquarters’ servers: Too hot to work.
City officials Wednesday surveyed the widespread damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and cautioned that it may take a week or longer for all of the 8,000-plus local homes still without electricity to regain power.
Bridge Turns Democracy Green
by | Aug 5, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (4)
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The green bridge in its largely green surroundings.
Don’t look now — but a 121-year-old bridge is changing color. By popular vote.
29 Deaths Later, Mary Wade Recovers
by | Aug 5, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (2)
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A Mary Wade Home resident and Covid-19 survivor at a neighborhood parade in May.
An asymptomatic healthcare worker. A bathroom shared by seniors. And wavering national public health guidance in the early weeks of the pandemic.
Mary Wade Home administrators and New Haven’s top health official pointed to those three factors as the likely reasons for why the Fair Haven nursing home has suffered the most fatal Covid-19 outbreak so far of any elderly care facility in the city.
Wifi Gap Worries Waverly As Fall Looms
by | Aug 3, 2020 10:11 am | Comments (15)
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Kyasia Parker with aunt and youth advisor, Tynicha Drummond.
Kyasia Parker is a wanderer who loves Justin Bieber music, dancing, and is dyslexic. She likes to sing her math problems and has a hard time focusing when other students are around. But the biggest challenge she faced when she had to take online classes during the pandemic was the unstable internet at home.
As Vise Tightens, Food Giveways Provide Lifeline
by | Aug 2, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (1)
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Halloway with Elicker at Martinez School food distribution event.
It was Yvonne Halloway’s first free-food pick-up. With hard times growing harder and with supplemental unemployment benefits expiring, she and others around her didn’t expect this visit to be their last.
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