by | Jul 29, 2020 8:52 pm | Comments (1)
Gov. Ned Lamont came to New Haven Wednesday afternoon to announce the launch of an online platform to help people starting businesses in the state and attract businesses fleeing New York — as Connecticut gets its “mojo back.”
Continue reading ‘At District, Lamont Launches Online “One-Stop Shop” For Start-Ups’
by | Jul 27, 2020 4:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Mary Wade Home’s new expanded campus was topped off Monday with a Christmas tree in the summer.
by | Jul 24, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (3)
A 59-year-old man is in the hospital in critical condition after a hit-and-run driver crashed into him
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by | Jul 22, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Many more of those unique smoked lobster rolls will be rolling out in Fair Haven, and jerked chicken and spicy plantains will soon be making their debut in the Hill.
by | Jul 21, 2020 4:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Insulin: soon to cost less in CT?
Six cents per dose.
That’s how much some of the most commonly used injectible diabetes medications cost when the government is allowed to negotiate insulin prices, according to a top local community health center doc who threw her support behind the state legislature’s bid to cap insulin costs and broaden access to government-negotiated savings.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Health Pushes State On Telehealth, Insulin Caps’
by | Jul 16, 2020 1:30 pm | Comments (8)
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Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Smoke billowed out of the barbecue pit as Steve Streeter lifted one of the lids on his massive outdoor smoker.
by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)
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Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.
Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.
Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”
Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.
New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.
by | Jun 29, 2020 9:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Joe Minsky cuts the ribbon.
A family-owned Brooklyn-based company is bringing custom-made art frames and decorative furnishings to New Haven — along with 200 protective face shields donated to local barbers.
Continue reading ‘New Art Frame Manufacturer Cuts Ribbon, Pivots To Face Shields’
by | Jun 29, 2020 4:13 pm | Comments (4)
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260 West Hazel: future site of 2-family house.
The city plans to sell four vacant lots and one blighted, empty house to a trio of local affordable housing developers, who plan to build five new owner-occupied homes in Newhallville, Beaver Hills, and Fair Haven.
by | Jun 29, 2020 10:53 am | Comments (2)
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Vanesha Warden with her daughter, Boom.
Adrion Russell, founder of Action Fitness, and Carla O’Brien, co-owner of District Athletic Club (DAC) on James Street, have a weighty message to share with their community: “Fitness is for everyone.”
Adrion Russell and Carla O’Brien.
The two businesses teamed up on Saturday to offer a free, donation-based and socially distanced outdoor workout designed for all fitness levels.
by | Jun 26, 2020 4:56 pm | Comments (1)
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Romero, Filardo, Wnek, and Ramirez pop in on Grand Fish Thursday evening.
Inside, Wnek checks the signs.
Grand Avenue was trying its best.
Plastic barriers were up. In most cases, people had masks on. Some required signs were prominent and bilingual. Others were missing, but could be easily replaced.
by | Jun 23, 2020 7:31 pm | Comments (6)
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ULA members, including founder John Lugo (below), celebrate outside of the soon-to-be-renamed Columbus Academy.
John Lugo and a dozen fellow local immigrant rights activists gathered at a familiar site for an unfamiliar occasion.
After 18 years of protests, advocacy, and historical consciousness raising at the corner of Grand Avenue and Blatchley Avenue, the Unidad Latina en Acción organizers turned out to celebrate the Board of Education’s decision to rename Christopher Columbus Family Academy.
by | Jun 22, 2020 11:30 pm | Comments (38)
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2018 protest unofficially renames Columbus Family Academy, with blood on hands of papier maché Columbus.
The Board of Education voted overwhelmingly in support of removing Christopher Columbus’s name from a Fair Haven K‑8 school — as well as from an October holiday on the district’s calendar — in the city’s latest reckoning with the 15th-century explorer’s violent legacy.
by | Jun 22, 2020 3:59 pm | Comments (7)
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A 2018 protest unofficially renames Christopher Columbus Family Academy after a Quinnipiac chief.
In the wake of city and neighborhood decisions to remove the Wooster Square Christopher Columbus statue, Fair Haven parents, teachers, administrators and community members have penned a letter to the Board of Education. The letter asks the board to rename Christopher Columbus Family Academy, celebrate Indigenous Peoples Month instead of Columbus Day, and revise history curricula.
Continue reading ‘Dear Board Of Ed: Celebrate Our History, Not Genocide’
by | Jun 18, 2020 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
District, the bustling James Street tech and innovation center, has a new executive director, whose responsibilities include overseeing the Holberton digital-job-training school.
by | Jun 16, 2020 2:38 pm | Comments (1)
Outdoor class at District Athletic.
Starting Wednesday, members of the District Athletic Club will be able to exercise indoors again — with a few virus-prevention adjustments — as businesses ranging from nail salons to amusement parks across Connecticut reopen.
by | Jun 12, 2020 12:06 am | Comments (34)
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Body cam footage of the punch.
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Officer Jason Santiago.
During a Christmas morning roadside dispute in Fair Haven, Officer Jason Santiago kicked an intoxicated man in the groin as the latter lay handcuffed on the ground.
He then pulled the 35-year-old up by his braids — and punched him in the face with a closed fist, after the man spit in the officer’s face.
Continue reading ‘Chief Moves To Fire Cop For Excessive Force’
by | Jun 9, 2020 3:48 pm | Comments (0)
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The eighth and final billboard was put on display Tuesday for the city government’s Covid-19 “Mask Up” campaign on Middletown Avenue.
by | Jun 8, 2020 12:41 pm | Comments (2)
As part of pandemic-mandated protocols, New Haven police have been trying to reduce their in-person contacts with the public, except in the case of violent crime.
That may have resulted in drug activity going way up along Fair Haven’s major thoroughfare, Grand Avenue.
by | Jun 7, 2020 10:49 pm | Comments (39)
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A man fleeing police crashed a Mercedes Benz into a Front Street condo, then was pulled from his vehicle after the engine caught fire.
by | Jun 2, 2020 4:50 pm | Comments (0)
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As Felix Rodriguez gave Jermaine Gibbs and his son an edge up at Orlando’s Barbershop Tuesday, he made sure everyone wore a mask, the chairs and tools were disinfected.
by | May 26, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (1)
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382 Grand Ave.
Fair Haven Community Health Care has purchased an eight-unit, mixed retail-residential building adjacent to its Grand Avenue headquarters for over $1.3 million.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Health Buys Mixed-Use Building For $1.3M+’
by | May 23, 2020 10:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Covid-19 survivors and the seniors of Mary Wade Home celebrated Fair Haven’s 12th annual community parade on Friday with city staff and neighbors.
by | May 22, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (1)
One of the three men shot in Fair Haven Thursday has died from his wounds.
by | May 22, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (1)
Angel Diaz gets swabbed. Below: Diaz and mom Marilyn Gueits at Fair Haven Community Health Care testing site.
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Angel Diaz plans to go back to work this week after nearly two months off from his job delivering office furniture.
First he needed to get tested for Covid-19. So he and his mom drove to their neighborhood health clinic, which has emerged as one of the city’s busiest testers as the city gradually “reopens” for business.