by | May 18, 2018 4:38 pm | Comments (0)
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New parents-to-be Espinoza and Colon.
Green, grey, brown, and generally mutely colored diaper bags that look more like your basic backpack.
Some cool digital thermometers.
And, of course the de rigueur yellow rubber ducky that transcends all genders.
by | May 18, 2018 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
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No sooner had Jim Turcio set out on a team walk-through of Fair Haven, than he noticed water pouring out from a building.
by | May 17, 2018 7:52 am | Comments (3)
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David Stemerman in Fair Haven Wednesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate David Stemerman wants to cut Connecticut’s taxes, improve its school systems, and repair its transportation infrastructure, and he’s looking for inspiration to one of the most liberal states in the union: Massachusetts.
Continue reading ‘GOP Hopeful Brings Tax-Cut Message To DISTRICT’
by | May 10, 2018 1:41 pm | Comments (1)
Carolyn Christmann, a former Friends Center for Children parent who lives in Fair Haven Heights, submitted the following write up and photos from the 8th annual Fair Haven Family Stroll & Festival in Quinnipiac River Park.
Continue reading ‘From Piling Scrap to Bridging the Achievement Gap’
by | May 7, 2018 4:13 pm | Comments (1)
A man driving a Pontiac struck a 32-year-old man and his 5‑year-old daughter in Fair Haven, sending them to the hospital.
by | May 4, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Bertolino, right, chats with Fair Havener, and police commissioner, Kevin Diaz after the meeting.
Southern Connecticut State University President Joe Bertolino brought his charm and outreach tour to the Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) Thursday night.
It cost him $200.
Continue reading ‘That’ll Be Two Hundred Bucks, President Joe’
by | May 4, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (20)
Rendering of Clock Shop Lofts.
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Festa: Good project. Tax break’s too big.
Let’s talk numbers. But let’s talk quickly.
That was the upshot of a meeting between alders and a developer about how much of a tax break the city can afford on a plan to turn an historic clock factory into 130 affordable apartments.
by | Apr 24, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
The operator of a controversial Middletown Avenue transfer station promises to clean up its act and pay an $18,700 fine under a consent order with the state.
by | Apr 20, 2018 1:09 pm | Comments (20)
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City notice at 18 Clinton Ave., where five children still live.
Legal aid’s Shelley White and Amy Marx: City should do more.
A young mom vacated a Fair Haven apartment where flaking lead paint poisoned her 3‑year-old. Then she found out that her new apartment across the river in Fair Haven Heights is also covered with the heavy metal, and her child is at risk again.
by | Apr 19, 2018 8:02 am | Comments (7)
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A Mill River Trail marker on Grand Avenue.
By the end of this summer New Haveners will be able to walk and bike along a short, refurbished trail that runs adjacent to the Mill River, and get a sense of what it may be like to travel from East Rock to Criscuolo Park without needing to get in a car or bus.
by | Apr 10, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Developer Kraus with rehab rendering.
Not every environmental clean-up site involves radium.
It does if you’re cleaning up a centuries-old factory where generations of “radium girls” labored to make clock dials glow in the dark.
by | Apr 9, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (9)
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District Manager Lt. David Zannelli on the walk.
In 2011, Daniel Hunt’s cousin, Fair Havener Marquell Banks, was just 13 years old when he was shot in the head with a shotgun inside a home. His was the 26th homicide out of 34 in the city that year.
Seven years later, Hunt was out on Fair Haven’s street with a crowd of cops seeking to prevent more tragedies like the one that his family experienced.
by | Apr 8, 2018 9:37 am | Comments (24)
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Keesa Figgs-Desilva and niece Nicole Kennedy at Saturday night’s fundraiser in Fair Haven.
Keesa Figgs-Desilva found herself locked up in pre-trial detention because she couldn’t afford the $5,000 bail bond. Then a New Haven-based bail fund helped her pay off the bond, return home to her children, fight her court case from outside of prison, and ultimately get all of the charges against her dropped.
Now New Haveners are ponying up to help other women also behind bars for the crime of lacking money to post bail.
by | Apr 2, 2018 8:22 am | Comments (1)
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Diaz has a message.
An animated Daniel Diaz, Arte Inc.’s co-founder and chairman, moved through the aisles of Fair Haven School’s auditorium with the fervor of a televangelist.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven School Commemorates Abolition of Slavery In Puerto Rico’
by | Mar 26, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (9)
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John S. Martinez School is so focused on social-emotional development, it’s almost like another subject — except that it’s built into every lesson they teach.
by | Mar 23, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (13)
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Organizer John Lugo addresses crowd at Ferry & State.
Fair Haven immigrants striking at a metal factory won the support Thursday afternoon of neighbors and activists who marched to offer the kind of street heat they say is needed to combat employers’ leverage over undocumented workers.
by | Mar 22, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (13)
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Perez and Arciuolo review routes before hitting the streets.
As a woman rushed out of a laundromat Wednesday night pleading with Kim Arciuolo to spare her a $100 ticket and a tow, Arciuolo thought back to the many tickets that she received in the late 1990s as a barista at the original Willoughby’s café on Chapel Street. And she gave the woman a break.
by | Mar 16, 2018 1:50 pm | Comments (13)
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Officers Matt Stevens and Jocelyn Lavandier: Restrain & detain.
The man ran from the cops, through traffic, to the edge of the bridge. He was out of control. He turned, grabbed a dark object from his waist, pointed it directly at an officer.
“Shoot me!” he cried. “Shoot me!”
by | Mar 6, 2018 5:14 pm | Comments (1)
New electricity, new plumbing, new kitchen, new bingo board and sound system.
Add to that new noise-attenutating ceiling-borne panels that look like flying sculptures.
Throw in new flooring, windows, lights, furniture, carpeting, and a paint job of such bright wall colors that Margie Staggers, who is partially blind, can take delight in them.
Continue reading ‘Renovated Senior Centers Show Off Their Youthful New Looks’
by | Mar 5, 2018 3:48 pm | Comments (2)
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Bronson and Vieira in front of the pantries.
Rick Vieira and Paul Bronson stood in front of the empty, gleaming storage cabinets that have recently been installed at the Fair Haven police substation on Blatchley Avenue.
In a few months, they said, the cabinets will be empty no longer, but filled with, for starters, non-perishable food to distribute to up to 150 Fair Haven families in need.
by | Mar 2, 2018 1:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Firefighters rescued a driver Friday morning after wind gusts toppled a tree onto his Nissan Altima right near the Lombard Street firehouse.
Continue reading ‘Tree Flattens Car; Firefighters Rescue Driver’
by | Feb 28, 2018 9:23 am | Comments (3)
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Federal court on Church St.
In between sentencing five brothers who sold heroin, a federal judge had to figure out what to do with “Carlito,” the user who sampled the wares to assess the potency of each shipment.
Continue reading ‘Smack Tester’s Role Tests Sentencing Rules’
by | Feb 20, 2018 8:46 am | Comments (0)
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Pettway and Riggins.
Damon is a drug dealer and a robber, but a scholar too. He reads academic treatises in his spare time, it turns out. It’s enough to surprise former revolutionary Kenyatta Shakur. First they trade street talk. Then they trade ideas. Shakur has been out of the fight for decades. “We need soldiers like you out here now,” Damon says.
Then they start talking about Nina. Kenyatta’s estranged daughter. Damon’s girlfriend. Nina has letters that Kenyatta and her mother Ashanti wrote to each other while Kenyatta was in prison, letters that a lot of academics want to get their hands on now that Ashanti has passed. Letters that Kenyatta wants even more than they do. Problem is, he needs to somehow reconnect with Nina to get them, and there’s a lot of hurt in the past to get through first.
by | Feb 15, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (8)
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The under-construction DISTRICT project.
DISTRICT, the new nine-acre tech incubator/entertainment campus rising on James Street between Lombard and State, is three-fifths leased and on schedule to have a grand opening this summer.
by | Feb 9, 2018 2:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Principal Cordero flanked by the university mascots.
“Boola! Boola!” dozens of students in Yale T‑shirts shouted as the bulldog mascot danced around them in Fair Haven School’s auditorium Friday morning.
The students don’t attend Yale — at least not yet.
They are students of the K‑8 school. And they were engaged in an annual ritual aimed at gearing them to recite college fight songs as college students one day.
Only they weren’t Yale students. Close to 850 students and hundreds of parents packed Fair Haven School’s auditorium on Friday for the 9th Annual Snowball. The Snowball is a yearly event where students perform dances and recite the fight songs of ten different Connecticut colleges, including Gateway, University of New Haven, Quinnipiac, and of course, Yale. The purpose of the Snowball, according to Sharon Arnold, is to get kids excited about colleges and encourage physical activity. Students danced choreographed dances in front of a screen that played images of each school, as well as statistics about the schools, including admissions rates and size of the student body. At times the students were joined by mascots and cheerleaders.