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Aug 21, 2017 12:43 pm
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The fish run thickest often near the piers of bridges. That’s why several fishermen recently were casting their lines from above the newly finished seawall on the newly repaired promenade at Brewery Square in Fair Haven.
As part of that nearly $1 million state-funded project, there’s a broad new pedestrian walkway and even a crescent of concrete where anglers can set up a circle of chairs to bide the time until there’s a bite.
Micro-apartments? Wrong for a family neighborhood.
Monthly rents up to $1,700? Non-starters for middle-to-low-income Fair Haven.
This developer? Troubling track record.
Fair Haveners bombarded a selection committee with that take on a developer’s proposal to buy the shuttered Strong School from the city for $500,000 and spend $16.7 million converting it into apartments.
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Jul 27, 2017 7:50 am
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The Misty
A heart drawn on a steamy school bus window was the last message that 12-year-old Lizandra Gonzalez gave to her mother, standing outside, before heading off on a week-long camping adventure Monday along with 60 other kids and counselors.
Chavarria addresses her supporters before Wednesday’s celebratory march in Fair Haven.
Clergy join Chavarria in leading off Wednesday’s march.
Hundreds of immigrant rights activists took to the streets of Fair Haven to celebrate — rather than protest as planned — after a 43-year-old woman taking sanctuary in a neighborhood church won a stay allowing her to remain in the country.
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Jul 25, 2017 7:59 am
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Nury Chavarria Monday inside Iglesia de Dios.
Nury Chavarria’s decision to hole up in a Fair Haven church to evade deportation wasn’t the first time that she has fled her home to seek sanctuary.
In 1993, near the end of a three-decade civil war, government soldiers ransacked her village in El Petén, Guatemala’s northernmost region, forcing her to vacate her house and sleep overnight in a school. Shortly after, she flew to America, seeking a respite from her country’s violence and poverty.
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Jul 24, 2017 7:50 am
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Rising Yale junior and undocumented person Alejandra Ortega at Friday’s discussion.
“I grew up in this country undocumented. I grew up in the shadows before DACA,” Isabella Ceballos recounted, her voice breaking with emotion. “I was 15 when my family received our permanent residency … and once I was eligible to be a citizen, I almost didn’t want it. A part of me was so angry. And then I realized that I had to do it, because I saw so many people still in the shadows.”
Chavarria makes appearance at Sunday night’s vigil.
Clarice Yasuhara of Guilford.
The plan was for Nury Chavarria to stay inside the church Sunday night as hundreds of supporters gathered outside to sing and chant their support for her to remain in the U.S.
The plan changed. As her plans in general seem to change these days.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 20, 2017 4:02 pm
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Incoming and outgoing Fair Haven top cops with Mary Wade resident Marian Lemley and neighborhood organizer Lee Cruz.
In the coming days Lt. David Zannelli plans to pull into Anastasio’s Boat House Cafe on Front Street by the Quinnipiac River. He’s going to order a sandwich, or more likely a salad.
And after that he’ll be lunching or meeting with colleagues at as many local eateries as possible.
That’s because Fair Haven’s new top cop is a believer not only in getting to know local businesses but in supporting them, especially those whose owners are community-minded.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 11, 2017 12:51 pm
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Those of us who are creatures of habit, especially driving habits, will just have to get used to approaching the Chapel Street Bridge, reading the unambiguous signs, saying, “oops” yet again, and taking the detours into or out of Downtown and Wooster Square.
Lior Trestman and Sawyer Christmann help each other get the hard-to-reach spots.
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Sunday’s murals on the back of the school.
Just off Grand Avenue, an African woman carries a bundled baby on her back, a purple cloth pressing up into her hair. A half-pigeon, half-dove with pink and blue-green wings flies above. Just a few feet to the left, an activist steps forward, bangled, purple fist slicing the air triumphantly. The Quinnipiac River bridge beckons behind her.
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Jun 27, 2017 3:15 pm
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Domingo Medina with Peels On Wheels.
What is sustainability? The answer will depend on whom you ask. For proponents of local food systems here in New Haven, sustainability is a matter of making food security environmentally conscientious, economically viable, and health conscious. It can also be used to strengthen community ties.
(Advisory: Above video includes disturbing footage.)
Doctors worked on reconstructing the face of a 24-year-old veteran of New Haven’s “bike life” Thursday as he struggles to regain brain function and a normal life after crashing on Grand Avenue — at the onset of another summer of two-wheeled chaos that has neighbors clamoring for help from the cops.
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Jun 23, 2017 8:13 am
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A view of English Station as it sits on Ball Island just across from John Martinez School.
United Illuminating is ready to start the long awaited clean up of the mothballed English Station power plant, but it doesn’t yet know how it will alert families if the toxins it kicks up make their way across the Mill River to a nearby soccer field and school.
Instead of winning a preliminary vote to buy and renovate the vacant Strong School building into new apartments, a Litchfield-based developer ended up being grilled over whether his plan can work in the real world of real estate.
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Christopher Peak |
Jun 20, 2017 2:40 pm
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Alexis Ramirez of Salsa’s Mexican Restaurant gets a bag of books from school system literacy supervisor Lynn Brantley.
At Orlando’s Barber Shop on Grand Avenue, a hairdresser with a tattooed electrical plug snaking down his arm chatted with a school district employee about his love of books, then agreed to accept a bag of summer reads for the kids who stop in his shop and may otherwise fall behind this summer.
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Jun 19, 2017 12:26 pm
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Pasticiotti di ricotta, or little cakes with ricotta in the center.
Pressing his face close to a glass case, Fordham student David Cappetta zeroed in on his first subject: trays of cannoli and pasticiotti di ricotta, covered with powdered sugar. He took a deep breath in and steadied his camera. Click.
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At the top of East Rock.
Just a mile away in East Rock Park, Corey Hudson pointed out how light hit the branches early in the day. In Wooster Square, Chris Randall was documenting the stillness that comes each Saturday before a 9 a.m. farmer’s market. A few hours later, he would be marching down Congress Avenue, trailed by the smell of collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
Outreach staffers, Stacy (left) and Cassandra (right)
The following recap of the Fair Haven Strong Fair was submitted by New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) partnership members Curtis Antrum, Joanne Simiola and Sabrina Whiteman.
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Jun 12, 2017 7:33 am
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David Weinreb’s sixth-grade class sings about joys of nature.
When David Weinreb asked his sixth graders to sing one last time before the end of the school day, the class groaned. But Weinreb insisted, and begrudgingly, a few students stood up from their seats as the intro to “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz played on the room’s speakers.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 7, 2017 12:14 pm
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A representative mural by Emilio Herrera Corichi.
As the city and community activists figure out the next incarnation for the vacant but venerable former Strong School building on Grand Avenue, vandals have been making it uglier by the day.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jun 2, 2017 7:09 am
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Students Austina, Claudine, Noorhan and Rawan .
Something decidedly unquiet was transpiring in the Fair Haven branch library community room. Chins pressed themselves to chinrests. Tiny hands gingerly gripped equally tiny bows. A few feet spread out on the sun-bathed carpet, getting in position.
The room exploded in Pachelbel’s Canon. A handful of parents glued their eyes to the gaggle of youngsters before them.
The group wasn’t just playing together for the first time. Several of them were playing publicly for the first time in the United States.
