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Voting members of the management team raise yellow cards to vote yes.
Fair Haveners gave the thumbs up to six nonprofits in their quest to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
First they wanted to know how the work specifically benefits people in the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Yellow Cards Raised In Fair Haven To Families, Seniors’
by | Dec 19, 2019 9:00 am | Comments (5)
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Dacia Toll: Best option we have.
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Middle school’s current home.
By next summer, the Achievement First charter network will vacate and sell the Newhallville building currently housing half of Elm City College Preparatory Middle School, according to a plan approved Wednesday night.
by | Dec 16, 2019 5:32 pm | Comments (2)
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David Pearlstone shows DECD deputy Gwendolyn Thames his company’s holographic imaging headset for surgical procedures.
Get us faster trains, more airplanes, less risk-averse large corporations, and most of all, better access to venture capital.
Start-up founders at New Haven’s hottest new business incubator gave Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz that holiday-season wish list Monday.
by | Dec 13, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (25)
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Rodney Williams at Dunkin Donuts confab. Below: Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker (center) with Frank Parady and Martin Torresquintero.
A small-business contractor pitched Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker on an alternative solution to the city’s affordable housing crisis — well-paying jobs that allow New Haveners of all educational and economic backgrounds to earn enough money to live where they want.
by | Dec 6, 2019 2:48 pm | Comments (16)
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Artist, historian, and curator Rob Greenberg inside “Lost in New Haven.”
An itinerant installation of thousands of Elm City artifacts, memorabilia, and ephemera is on the move yet again as the local artist behind the sprawling collection prepares to pack it up — and potentially put it in storage — as he looks for yet another new home.
by | Dec 4, 2019 7:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Yamile Barrios with dog Natasha, friend Digna Martinez, and wife Lisa Rivera. Below: 309 Grand.
Lisa Rivera was making a caramel cappuccino for her wife in their third-floor Grand Avenue apartment when she heard a loud beep. She didn’t pay it any mind.
The alarm sounded again just a few seconds later. This time she left her kitchen, walked towards her living room, and saw flames bursting through the window from her front fire escape-turned-porch.
Continue reading ‘Fire Displaces 8; Couple “Lost Everything”’
by | Dec 4, 2019 8:56 am | Comments (14)
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Elm City College Prep student works on 3-D design.
Achievement First is looking at combining two charter schools into one building to free up hundreds of thousands of dollars from its donor-reliant budget.
by | Nov 20, 2019 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Grass expanse planned for end of power plant remediation.
United Illuminating brass came to reassure Fair Haveners about its ongoing plans for cleaning up English Station — but instead left them with a new set of worries.
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by | Nov 15, 2019 1:28 pm | Comments (2)
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438 East St., future home of the 180 Center Corp church.
An application to turn a long vacant industrial building on East Street into a church and refuge for those struggling with addiction won approval for zoning commissioners this week.
At the same time a plan to convert an old garage on Lombard Street in Fair Haven into a community arts and crafts center stumbled.
by | Nov 13, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Burgundy Buick’s front grille after a car crash at Clifton Street and Quinnipiac Avenue Monday night.
City police officer Jocelyn Lavandier was working an extra duty shift outside the C‑Town Market in Fair Haven when she saw the passenger of a nearby burgundy Buick roll a marijuana cigarette. She also smelled “the odor of unburnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle.”
That was the start of a six-officer, four-minute pursuit of the suspected drug dealer’s vehicle across the river and into Fair Haven Heights — ultimately resulting in a non-fatal car crash on Quinnipiac Avenue, and no arrests.
by | Nov 11, 2019 5:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Save The Sound’s Nicole Davis at site of future green pocket park, Haven and Exchange streets.
So long to the ziggurat of discarded tires and the dumped detritus of a section of abandoned street that pours dirty storm water into our harbor and Long Island sound
Hello to a beautiful pocket park full of green infrastructure, a pollinator garden, and lots of kids playing in it, having fun, and learning science.
by | Nov 8, 2019 9:05 am | Comments (20)
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Reporter Anthony Contreras in the foreground listening to his answer.
The city should have a community conversation about potentially renaming Christopher Columbus Family Academy on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker offered that idea Thursday afternoon in response to the first surprise question he fielded since Tuesday’s election by a local reporter — who also happens to be a third-grader at East Rock Community School.
by | Nov 2, 2019 9:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Eleven-year-old Kai Sarmiento dressed in costume Saturday night to join 100 others in a Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration that highlighted capitalism’s threat to the environment and the contributions “aboriginal people can [make to] overcome and create a sustainable world.”
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by | Oct 25, 2019 12:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Water will enter the garden’s “splash pad” on the left, rather than the storm drain on the right.
Plant wintergreen, spice bush, and beach plums.
Add blueberries, of both the high bush and low bush varieties. Lingonberries and bearberries.
(Who knew there were so many berries?)
All will emerge ready to eat or brew into aromatic teas this spring, thanks to a newly remade 850 square-foot section of a Fair Haven parking lot.
Continue reading ‘Paradise Unpaved—With An Edible Rain Garden’
by | Oct 23, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (5)
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King and Davis.
Moses and Kitch are two young black men on a street corner. The backdrop is New Haven, but it could be any street in any city. They start with a game. “Kill me now,” Moses says, by way of greeting in the morning. “Bang, bang,” Kitch says in jest.
“Man, I got plans to get my ass up off this block,” Moses says. “Off this block here?” Kitch says. “I ain’t stutter,” Moses says. They sound serious. But they don’t go anywhere.
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by | Oct 16, 2019 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Emergency crews tend to poisoned drug users on the Green on Aug. 15, 2018.
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Bob Lawlor (with sign) and BHCare’s Pam Mautte (in white) at Tuesday night’s neighborhood meeting.
The city has a new strategy for deterring overdoses in Fair Haven and on the Green: Street signs.
Continue reading ‘Street Sign Campaign Pitched To Reduce Overdoses’
by | Oct 1, 2019 2:52 pm | Comments (4)
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Lauren Sepulveda receives a congratulatory hug from her students.
Lauren Sepulveda felt like a “pretty average” high school student with no direction — until a social studies teacher encouraged her to sign up for an Advanced Placement class and compete in National History Day.
Sepulveda, now a social studies teacher herself at Fair Haven’s Clinton Avenue School, found out just how exceptional she is when she was surprised Tuesday with a $25,000 check for being one of the country’s best teachers.
by | Sep 24, 2019 4:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Students at a “literacy intervention” with tutor Toni Lucian.
Can an extra half-hour each day make a difference in teaching kids to read?
Based on what’s happening at Clinton Avenue School — which was once a struggling K‑8 school in Fair Haven and is now becoming an instructional model for the district — the answer seems to be yes.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Ave. School Makes Time For Reading’
by | Sep 23, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Alicia Caraballo and Pura Delgado.
Alicia Caraballo spoke of her mother and her role as one of the founders of Junta for Progressive Action and so much more as she stood proudly by her side on the deck of Amarante’s Saturday evening for the pioneering Latinx agency.
“She is one of the activists who in 1969 at the height of civil unrest helped create services that provide for our community. I grew up with this,” Caraballo said of her mother, Pura Delgado.
Continue reading ‘JUNTA Comes Full Circle For 50th Anniversary’
by | Sep 18, 2019 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Design of planned new wing.
Ground was ceremonially broken Wednesday morning on a new expanded campus of the Mary Wade Home.
The 75,000 square-foot building will house 84 one and two-bedroom assisted living units, including 20 especially equipped for people in need of “memory care.”
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by | Sep 10, 2019 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Making art at The Neighborhood Place. Below: Junta ED Daniel Reyes introduces Mayor Toni Harp.
A two decade-old Fair Haven after-school program has moved into a new location, more than doubled in size, and beefed up its programming to include equal parts homework help and arts and crafts.
Continue reading ‘Junta’s After-School “Place” Thrives In New Home’
by | Sep 7, 2019 8:50 pm | Comments (11)
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Mayor Harp in the middle of the caravan. Below: Saturday’s caravan down Grand Avenue.
Sirens, salsa, and enthusiastic shouts of “Wepa!” filled the streets of Fair Haven during a Puerto Rican-style caravan organized to rally city Latinos to vote for Mayor Toni Harp.
Continue reading ‘Harp Campaign Caravan Rolls Through Fair Haven’
by | Sep 6, 2019 12:25 pm | Comments (2)
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David Weinreb, Lt. Mark O’Neill, and local kids Jael Baerga, Emmanuel Cortina, and Keniel Baerga.
Fair Haven’s new District Manager Sgt. Michael Fumiatti inherited a symbolic tool from his predecessor Lt. David Zannelli, and began scooping away raspberry blue ices to all the kids lined up with their plates already full of dogs, chips, and burgers.
Other kids got a look-see inside the police department’s SWAT vehicle.
Seventh-grader Roseann Baerga got a hug and a smile from her Board of Ed-provided dental hygienist. Her brother Jael said he loves living in Fair Haven, where people speak both Spanish and English, the teachers are nice, and the cops are cool.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Ends Summer In Communal Fashion’
by | Aug 27, 2019 2:32 pm | Comments (1)
New Haveners Carlos Kercado and Emmanuel Torres died after a driver hit them as they were walking in Fair Haven.
by | Aug 24, 2019 9:22 pm | Comments (11)
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Harp with CHDC Chair Miguel Castro.
Cheering “Toni, Toni, Toni,” 50 members and supporters of the Connecticut Hispanic Democratic Caucus (CHDC) lent their voices to a formal endorsement of Mayor Toni Harp’s campaign for a fourth two-year term.