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Renovated Senior Centers Show Off Their Youthful New Looks

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.

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Police Substations Sprout Food Pantries

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.

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“Sunset Baby” Looks Back In Anger

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.

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Fair Haven Throws Snowball

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.

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Lights, Camera ... Deterrence?

by | Feb 8, 2018 2:32 pm | Comments (0)

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“Light the Night” fixture on Poplar Street, near Patriot Marine’s about-to-open business.

Three blue light telephones are on order by the police department and will soon be installed at darkened Fair Haven intersections where nighttime trouble often occurs.

Add some bright new fixtures leased from the electric company by a new, community-minded business down by the river.

Toss in more surveillance cameras, and re-positioning older ones, and the result: Fewer bad behaviors in public places.

Translation: less crime.

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Sofar New Haven Comes Together Again

by | Jan 29, 2018 8:41 am | Comments (0)

Sofar New Haven, a local gathering of the international series Sofar Sounds, will be celebrating its first anniversary this April. According to Paul Bryant Hudson, lead ambassador and founder of this chapter, the first show of 2018 this past Saturday night was their biggest one yet.”

Built on a foundation of small intimate gatherings, the show has been gaining in popularity and interest. So Husdon decided to let in more people than usual this time. I’m a community guy,” he said. I just want people to come together.”

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Beer, Coffee, & Mushrooms, All Under One Roof

by | Dec 12, 2017 9:33 am | Comments (6)

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Anthony Allen and Michelle Stronz, the founders of A Tipping Point (ATP), at Monday night’s meeting.

A new not-for-profit committed to economic development with a social impact is looking to convert a vacant industrial building near the Mill River into the new home for a brewery, a coffee roaster and an indoor mushroom farm.

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Fair Haven Branch Library Marks 100 Years

by | Dec 9, 2017 7:31 pm | Comments (2)

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NHFPL Director Martha Brogan with Eliezer and son Pablo Cruz.

Young Marty Looney remembers being so absorbed in biographies of Babe Ruth, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Lou Gehrig that he forgot the time and his mother had to come and haul him home to Wolcott Street for dinner.

David Caron remembers doing a school paper, oh, about 60 years ago on Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Sarah Miller and Eliezer Cruz’s 6‑year-old son Pablo is making his own discoveries, especially among the science books.

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