by | Apr 25, 2019 12:54 pm | Comments (17)
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English Station, still closed after 20 years of disrepair.
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Toothbrush peddled by scam artist tied up in English Station.
After United Illuminating unloaded a dirty power plant called English Station, a new kind of pollution seeped into the Mill River — murky financial deals by a series of con artists who moved a lot of cash around and left the plant to crumble.
by | Apr 22, 2019 3:42 pm | Comments (0)
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The following was provided by The Community Foundation For Greater New Haven.
The Quinnipiac River Fund has awarded $138,000 in grants to study the Quinnipiac River and its wildlife, reduce pollution, and increase access and recreational opportunities. Eleven competitive grants were awarded to organizations working in Greater New Haven, according to a press release from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
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by | Apr 13, 2019 3:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Mayor Toni Harp at campaign kick-off.
Harp with supporter Tom Goldenberg and daughter Ainsley.
Toni Harp kicked off her campaign for a fourth term as mayor by urging nearly 300 supporters to stick with an administration that has brought progress in economic development, education and reduced crime.
by | Apr 11, 2019 7:30 am | Comments (5)
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Lt. David Zannelli rolls out “transparency initiative.”
City cops investigated 82 complaints against local officers last year. Twelve complaints were sustained, leading to discipline.
The department’s Internal Affairs division chief has begun publicizing those numbers in an effort to increase transparency around the number and results of complaints lodged against police.
by | Apr 10, 2019 7:56 am | Comments (2)
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The old Von Roll factory at Chapel Street and Blatchley Avenue.
The owners of the former Von Roll factory building on Chapel Street in Fair Haven are seeking a special exception from the Board of Zoning Appeals that will allow their business to operate and bring 50 new jobs to an industrial zone.
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by | Apr 9, 2019 5:38 am | Comments (11)
Lee Cruz looking for some road safety on Grand Avenue.
LCI’s Arlevia Samuel and Paul Hudson talk Dixwell Avenue.
Bike- and pedestrian-friendly commercial corridors. Reimagined alleys and public space. And maybe even more density. But none of that at the expense of affordability.
City planners heard that vision from 40 people at a two-hour session on how to bring zoning into the modern era on Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues.
by | Apr 4, 2019 11:56 am | Comments (1)
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Biceglia.
As a local musician I first heard about Donato Biceglia as a sort of tall tale; a mythical amp man who could repair or build anything my heart might desire. Other musicians I knew were seemingly on their way to or returning from a trip to Dual Stage Amplification, Biceglia’s amp shop based out of Erector Square.
I had an older amp that needed a tune up, and I thought I’d pay a visit myself.
by | Apr 2, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
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The Grand Avenue Bridge.
The State Bond Commission Tuesday OK’d sending New Haven $12.5 million toward the $25.5 million renovation of the Grand Avenue Bridge.
by | Apr 2, 2019 7:33 am | Comments (0)
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Jennifer Rodgers and Julia Ludlow-Ortner
When you walk into the River Street Gallery at Fairhaven Furniture on Blatchley Avenue, the art is not only hanging on the walls, it is also draped over couches and tables and being worn by mannequins. “Interlacements: Artistic Expressions in Weaving” — the biennial exhibit of the Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut — held its opening reception this past Saturday. This is the show’s fifth time at the space, the last time being in 2017.
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by | Apr 1, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
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Some people dressed as fruit. Men showed up as women. Old danced with young.
by | Mar 29, 2019 5:50 pm | Comments (19)
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State economic development Commissioner David Lehman and DISTRICT founder and CEO David Salinas.
Mayor Toni Harp, Lehman, and Salinas.
Connecticut’s newly confirmed economic development chief toured New Haven’s bustling “DISTRICT” tech campus Friday — and proclaimed he saw the future of the state’s economy.
by | Mar 27, 2019 12:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Bethune and Lester.
Two men are in the ring, jabbing, swinging, and dodging, trading taunts while they trade blows. One is a stronger fighter, and he lets the other one know it. The stronger fighter wears his opponent down both physically and psychologically. He wins because he gets into his opponent’s head. After the fight, the winner calls the loser into his room, not to taunt him some more, but to hire him to be a sparring partner. Because the winner — Jay “The Sport” Jackson — has his eyes on a bigger prize. He wants to be the heavyweight champion of the world. That means beating the current champion, and this being the turn of the last century, it also means breaking some color barriers.
But is the prize worth the price?
by | Mar 25, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (0)
United Way and Avangrid at the Columbus Academy free tax prep site in Fair Haven.
United Way sent in the following release:
With a little more than three weeks left in tax season, United Way and Avangrid Foundation want to remind people that volunteers can help file their taxes for free at sites across greater New Haven.
by | Mar 20, 2019 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
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At auction was a celluloid butterfly. The opening bid was $50.
“Do I hear $60?” Fred Giampietro asked.
by | Mar 19, 2019 7:50 am | Comments (6)
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Jamell Cotto.
Jamell Cotto has tendered his resignation as executive director of Farnam Community, the 110-year-old Fair Haven youth center formerly known as Farnam Neighborhood House.
by | Mar 14, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
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The Quinnipiac River: Soon to be a state wildlife refuge?
Local waterfowl can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now, that a bill that would designate both the Quinnipiac River and the Mill River as wildlife refuges has won a key sign-off from a state legislative committee.
by | Mar 14, 2019 3:05 pm | Comments (3)
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FHCMT board members David Weinreb, Michelle Rodriguez, Diane Ecton.
Should all city employees be prevented from serving on boards of the community management teams? Would that include, for example, both a clerk-typist eager to be part of her community as well as the head of a city department who makes policy and decisions?
Those suggestions for bylaw changes were duly noted by the corresponding secretary of the Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) … who is a city teacher.
Oh, and is a teacher a city employee?
by | Mar 12, 2019 12:26 pm | Comments (7)
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The 1920s-era Grand Ave building that will soon come down.
United Illuminating finally met with neighbors of its polluted former power plant — and offered a mix of news and no-news about its ongoing clean-up.
by | Mar 5, 2019 4:54 pm | Comments (17)
Heriberto Cordero looks over a “data wall” with the school’s reading scores.
When Principal Heriberto Cordero arrived at Fair Haven School four years ago, the classrooms still had chalkboards. The computers were “antiquated.” And the biggest “red flag”? Classroom shelves had hardly any books in Spanish for bilingual students to work on their reading skills.
by | Feb 22, 2019 2:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Kompozure at Bregamos Thursday night: Aveion Downs, Javione Hinds and Shawn Sufra.
To raucous applause, Aveion Downs took the stage and began belting out James Brown’s “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.”
by | Feb 21, 2019 8:37 am | Comments (4)
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UI Project Managers Shawn Crosbie (right) and TRC Project Manager Carl Stopper at Wednesday night’s meeting.
One half of English Station. Before UI can tear it down, the company has to talk with the community about how the clean up is going.
A regional utility company is finally ready to start hauling toxic dirt from the contaminated site of two long-defunct Fair Haven power plants.
But there’s one more task the company has to complete before it can begin this latest stage of environmental remediation: It has to actually talk with the public about what it’s doing, and why.
Continue reading ‘UI Agrees To Confront Public On English Station Cleanup’
by | Feb 18, 2019 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
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58 Exchange.
Apologize nicely one month, then next month you might receive the blessing you sought.
by | Feb 14, 2019 3:51 pm | Comments (2)
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The Grand Avenue Bridge.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at City Hall on Thursday.
The newly rehabbed Grand Avenue Bridge won’t just be adjacent to a public park along the Quinnipiac River.
It will be a public space in its own right, with a newly widened path for pedestrians and bicycles that will look south over the water.
Continue reading ‘Wider Foot-Bike Path Coming To Rehabbed Bridge’
by | Feb 12, 2019 8:57 pm | Comments (12)
Aaron Kelsey shows Von Roll factory building to visitors from China; the space was later snapped up by a Brooklyn manufacturer.
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The old Von Roll factory at Chapel Street and Blatchley Avenue.
From electrical insulation to custom art frames.
A Fair Haven factory is about to make that transition as a Brooklyn-based frame manufacturer moves to town and a heavy industrial manufacturer rolls out, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Feb 7, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
Edgewood, Martinez, ESUMS, Nathan Hale: Parents invited in.
Moms and dads, alders, social-service providers and neighborhood fixtures will be walking through eight schools over the coming months, giving school principals and teachers a lesson on how to make them feel welcome.
Continue reading ‘Want A Tour? Schools Seek Parent Feedback’