by
Asher Joseph |
Jul 31, 2024 2:34 pm
|
Comments
(4)
Asher Joseph photo
Fair Haven's youth cleanup crew at work on Chapel St.
When her shovel failed to pick up a plastic zip-up bag, Fair Haven Livable City Initiative (LCI) Neighborhood Specialist Carmen Mendez stooped to grab the plastic trash with two fingers.
“Be careful,” warned a teen member of Fair Haven’s Youth@Work Clean Team, “those are the bags that people sell weed in.”
“Even when you’re old, you learn something new everyday,” Mendez chuckled.
... face painting, and so much more, at Camp Farnam on Tuesday.
Five-year-old Kency used binoculars for the first time and spotted an (inflatable) bald eagle, while fourth graders Nathan and Gabriel played one-on-one basketball — all at a 72-acre outdoor camp site a half hour away from their daily summer camp’s New Haven home.
Josue Algea Castro with his mother Nellie and his baby brother: “I like gym too, but art is so cool. You get to paint.”
Homework assignments and paper crafts lined the hallways of Fair Haven School as part of the summer school’s “Celebration of Learning” — an event that brought teachers, parents, and children together to recognize the students’ accomplishments over the course of the past month.
by
Asher Joseph |
Jul 25, 2024 4:16 pm
|
Comments
(4)
Asher Joseph photo
Volunteers plant bayberry shrubs on the Mill River Trail.
Dig. Plant. Donut — but not the kind you eat, the kind that helps the bayberry shrub retain moisture as it acclimates to its new home on the Mill River Trail.
The scene at AdvanceCT on James Street Tuesday morning.
Lamont: We taught Stuttgart how to spell "Connecticut."
Fears of an international trade war might hurt Connecticut in the long run — but it may lead to new jobs in the short term.
So reported Gov. Ned Lamont at a press conference Tuesday at the headquarters of the state-connected economic development nonprofit AdvanceCT on James Street in New Haven.
CitySeed chief Sarah Miller (second from right) leads Sate Sen. Martin Looney, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, city Health Director Maritza Bond, and state agriculture chief Bryan Hurlburt on tour of former factory.
The state’s top agriculture official walked into an empty Fair Haven factory Monday and reached for his wallet.
by
Brian Slattery |
Jul 18, 2024 9:19 am
|
Comments
(6)
Brian Slattery photos
Watch out, George Baldwin, that's a sand shark!
Students test for salinity, temperature, and "conductivity."
The traffic from the Q Bridge rumbled overhead, oblivious to the scene below at the mouth of the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers, as two students on a small Sound School boat lowered a piece of scientific equipment into the water, at surface and at depth.
The reason: to continue a years-long project of gathering data about the Mill River and, in turn, foster a better relationship with it.
Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ...
... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street districts.
Machinery whirred as employees of Art To Frames on River Street fulfilled custom frame orders, during the final stop on a city Development Commission tour showcasing what a commercial-industrial district near the Mill River currently looks like — and what it some day might be.
Michael Carter with Supt. Negrón at Monday's school board meeting.
Former city Chief Administrative Officer Michael Carter is back in town to do the work of the Board of Education’s suspended chief of operations (COO), at least for the next three months.
At 9 a.m. Monday, Estefania Guanoluisa Valdez became the first undocumented teenager in Connecticut to newly enroll for health insurance with HUSKY, the state’s Medicaid program — thanks to a new state law that expands such coverage to children up to the age of 15, regardless of their immigration status.
by
Brian Slattery |
Jun 25, 2024 9:11 am
|
Comments
(5)
Brian Slattery Photos
Cruz.
“You are visiting, and I live in, the most diverse neighborhood in New Haven,” said community activist Lee Cruz. “You walk around this block, you will hear English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Hebrew, and French. Just on this block.”
He was talking about Fair Haven, and the occasion was a bike tour — part of Sunday’s programming for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas — that led 30 participants through the neighborhood to discover the range and depth of public art projects there. Along the way, they learned about history, struggle, and the pride that binds the people in one geographical area into a community.
by
Maya McFadden |
Jun 21, 2024 11:56 am
|
Comments
(33)
Maya McFadden photo
Williams and Blatteau: Human-centered schools a priority.
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district began the school year scrambling to hire educators to address a teacher shortage.
It’s ending the school year with the announcement of staff cuts to come.
To the leaders of the city’s two classroom-facing unions, that mixed messaging is a problem — and reflects the broader challenges of understaffing, budget crunches, and inconsistent communication across the district. It also underscores the imperative of putting students’ needs first.
by
Thomas Breen |
Jun 19, 2024 2:42 pm
|
Comments
(5)
Allan Appel file photo
Wilson Reyes reviewing his restaurant's "Porky's" specials, in 2012.
Grand Avenue booster, neighborhood real estate investor, business owner, and community champ Wilson “Porky” Reyes has now left Fair Haven. But Fair Haven has not forgotten Porky.
Jaysen Anthony Threet: "I don't even know if words can explain."
After losing his father Louis Ortiz and four other family members in a matter of months during his time in high school, Metropolitan Business Academy senior Jaysen Anthony Threet didn’t think he’d cross the graduation stage.
by
Maya McFadden and Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 14, 2024 4:52 pm
|
Comments
(15)
Maya McFadden photo
Graduation split-screen: 104 8th-graders celebrate at Fair Haven School ...
Arthur Delot-Vilain photo
... as eight 8th-graders prepare to move on up from Brennan-Rogers. Pictured here: Jovanna Coardes, Ca’Nayza Smalls, and Teneshia Harrington.
More than 100 eighth-graders walked across the stage in Fair Haven Friday morning to celebrate graduating from one of New Haven’s fastest-growing schools — at the same time that eight of their peers on the far west side of town gathered for a much smaller ceremony at one of the city’s fastest-shrinking schools.
by
Eleanor Polak |
Jun 10, 2024 9:41 am
|
Comments
(2)
Eleanor Polak photos
Lynette Devore and Lisa Bellamy Fluker (below) at Riverfest.
The June sunlight sparkled off the smooth waters of the Quinnipiac River beside the Quinnipiac River Marina in Fair Haven, where people of all ages gathered to participate in the Quinnipiac Riverfest this Saturday.
by
Laura Glesby |
Jun 7, 2024 4:53 pm
|
Comments
(6)
Edgar Becerra and Josue Arana (center) join ULA for Friday's protest.
Edgar Becerra and Josue Arana packed their belongings into a total of two mid-sized suitcases and a backpack. On Friday morning, they stepped one last time out of the house at 200 Peck St. where they’d lived for the past year. They did not know where they would be sleeping that night.
The eviction culminated a months-long court battle revealing the triple power of one local business’s role as an employer, landlord, and visa sponsor to the temporary migrant workers it hires.
by
Maya McFadden |
Jun 7, 2024 12:17 pm
|
Comments
(2)
Maya McFadden Photo
Alex Lewis and Lisa Rodriguez celebrate Lewis' $500 college scholarship.
Hillhouse senior Alex Lewis began high school feeling isolated and insecure amidst online-only classes during the pandemic. All that changed when he joined the school’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC), which gave him the confidence he needed to feel like he too could go to college.
With the help of his sergeant and the local teachers union, Lewis received a $500 boost to chase that post-high school educational dream.
Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters: "A natural beauty" to the Mill River underpass (pictured below).
Among the weeds and overgrown vegetation of a highway underpass off of State Street, Achievement First Amistad High School juniors Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters couldn’t help but see potential.
The soil, still damp and moist from a recent downpour, could make fertile land for a community garden in the future. What type of foods they would grow is still up for debate.
by
Maya McFadden |
May 10, 2024 8:53 am
|
Comments
(2)
Maya McFadden
Ari checks out a preserved black swallowtail butterfly.
In the school’s garden space, Clinton Avenue School fifth-grader Ari brought a magnifier close to a green, rounded leaf plucked from a dandelion and discovered tiny pearls — better known as caterpillar eggs.
by
Maya McFadden |
May 9, 2024 1:35 pm
|
Comments
(3)
Maya McFadden Photo
Miriam Camacho, back at FAME with her new book.
Former Principal Miriam Camacho returned to her old school in Fair Haven to encourage students to always hold on to their home cultures — and, when possible, to make sofritofrom scratch.
by
Brian Slattery |
May 7, 2024 11:05 am
|
Comments
(0)
Dexter Singleton and Austin Dean Ashford.
It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more than enough to convey switches in character: a wistful, optimistic young teacher, and an older, weathered but hopeful mentor. Later on in the reading, a harried school principal, and four students with whom that young teacher was going to have to prove himself. Director Dexter Singleton listened intently, and took notes.
Fair Haven School teachers took a quick break from keeping students afloat for the remainder of the school year — to receive thanks and complimentary root beer floats from the mayor and superintendent, as part of National Teacher Appreciation Week.
