by | Apr 15, 2024 9:51 am | Comments (2)
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Future pilot and current kindergartener Harmonie Santaella with sister Dhaniellie and mom Dagmar.
Making good choices, being polite, working hard, building community, and becoming student council leaders earned students and staff at John S. Martinez School recognition as “Rising Stars.”
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by | Apr 10, 2024 8:51 pm | Comments (4)
Chief Jacobson (right) alongside Rodriguez's family.
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The late José Rodríguez.
Amidst a “cloud of smoke” and doubled-parked cars, a 19-year-old driver named Dajon Marques Morris struck and fatally injured a 41-year-old motorcyclist named José Rodríguez in Fair Haven.
Morris then “panicked” and, “fearing for his life,” fled the scene — only to be arrested by city cops roughly 10 months later.
by | Apr 8, 2024 9:27 am | Comments (12)
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Question: "Who's been shot at or knows someone who's been shot at?"
When nearly 80 students at Clinton Avenue School were asked who had heard gunshots outside their home before, almost every hand in the room went up.
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by | Apr 5, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (0)
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Pedro Torres & Gladys Genovez on Thursday.
Giggling while coloring between the lines — and doing a really excellent job of it — is much more than it seems for Gladys Genovez and Pedro Torres.
by | Apr 1, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (2)
Volunteer Coach Gervacio Ortiz with a team of soccer stars — who now have a private training space.
A Fair Haven soccer troupe got the final green light to practice their sport in a vacant River Street warehouse, after playing several rounds chasing after city approvals.
by | Mar 20, 2024 9:36 am | Comments (8)
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Grand Avenue business owners Carolina Vergara and Yolanda Guzman: Customers are getting assaulted.
Grand Avenue business owners left their shops and rallied on the side of the road — in hopes the city would hear their call to clean up crime across the streets of Fair Haven.
by | Mar 11, 2024 1:33 pm | Comments (4)
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RWA crew fixing a broken valve on West Elm Street.
If Fair Haveners see streaks of blue paint on the sidewalk or in front of their homes in coming weeks, it likely means that artificial intelligence has tracked them down.
Sounds ominous, but not to worry.
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by | Mar 11, 2024 12:32 pm | Comments (4)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and New Reach CEO Kellyann Day on Monday.
Twenty-six Greater New Haveners at risk of sleeping on the street will have a new permanent “supportive” place to stay — thanks to part of a recent federal funding award targeted to combat homelessness.
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by | Feb 27, 2024 4:13 pm | Comments (4)
Public Works' Mike Dorsey enjoys a view of the Quinnipiac River while overseeing bridge repairs Tuesday afternoon.
The Grand Avenue bridge got a new gear — and is gearing up to reopen not just to car travel, but to boat traffic as well.
by | Feb 23, 2024 9:43 am | Comments (6)
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Edgar Becerra protests with ULA outside MDF Painting and Power Washing.
“We have human rights,” Edgar Becerra called into a bullhorn, speaking in Spanish. “We have a heart.”
He was surrounded by over 25 immigrant rights activists outside the Branford headquarters of his Fair Haven landlord and former employer — who brought him to the U.S. as a temporary worker, allegedly fired him for work-related injuries, and is now trying to evict him a second time.
by | Feb 16, 2024 2:04 pm | Comments (7)
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George Carranzo packing up what's now the 2nd pizzeria purchased by Fair Haven Health.
A storied pizzeria that fed Fair Haven for generations will soon transform into a pharmacy providing health care to low-income and uninsured residents.
by | Feb 6, 2024 2:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Becerra and Arana: They beat the landlord in court.
A landlord has to start all over again if he still wants to evict two of the Guatemalan temporary workers he brought to Fair Haven to work at his painting company.
Continue reading ‘Migrant Workers' Eviction Stopped, For Now’
by | Jan 29, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (42)
"Just look at this place": State Attorney General Tong, Mayor Elicker, State Sen. Looney, and DEEP Commissioner Dykes on Monday.
State officials stumbled across the littered grounds leading up to English Station to announce a lawsuit filed on the same grounds as other failed threats against United Illuminating — seeking to re-energize the company’s long-delayed remediation of the site.
by | Jan 29, 2024 1:42 pm | Comments (8)
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U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona at Fair Haven School: "We don’t have all the answers in D.C."
Fair Haven got to work Monday on creating “community schools” — by first deciding what that means in 2024.
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by | Jan 22, 2024 12:14 pm | Comments (3)
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PLTI Class of 2018.
Vimary Parra needed help. Her two young kids were already behind. They had to learn English. She didn’t know how to teach them. Having grown up in Venezuela, she was learning the language herself. Then she saw a flyer at her local library for the Parents Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) — an initiative that’s returning to New Haven.
by | Jan 12, 2024 2:54 pm | Comments (24)
Edgar Becerra in court: "I just want everyone to know the name of this company and all the injustices they did."
Construction boss-landlord Mark DeFrancesco, right, in court with lawyer Josh Brown.
Edgar Becerra fell off a 30-foot ladder — then landed in court this week fighting to stay in the country against a boss who first fired him then moved to evict him.
Continue reading ‘Landlord-Boss Boots Injured Migrant Worker’
by | Jan 11, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (3)
An armed robber in a black leather Harley Davidson jacket held up Chico’s Fruits and Groceries on Ferry Street.
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by | Jan 11, 2024 9:01 am | Comments (4)
There was no talk of controlling traffic, limiting crowd sizes, or banning soccer games.
by | Jan 8, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Make way for greens: Neighbors have begun planning new planting at Grand Acres (pictured).
While the harshest months of winter may be just upon us, spring planting is already on the minds of those optimistic Fair Haveners who gathered for the first Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) meeting of 2024.
by | Jan 5, 2024 9:05 am | Comments (18)
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Handgun recovered from stolen Honda.
Edward didn’t have time for this.
by | Jan 4, 2024 1:15 pm | Comments (16)
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These kids can't drive or park on River Street, but they'll be able to kick the ball.
What if 12 kids playing soccer in a vacant warehouse becomes 200?
City Plan commissioners debated that allegedly nightmare scenario for an hour before deciding they could live with it after all — as long as the number of players, benchwarmers and spectators doesn’t escalate beyond that cap.
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by and | Dec 18, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (15)
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198 River St.: Former factory, to be sold for $1.
The Elicker administration won approval to sell a vacant, contaminated waterfront industrial property in Fair Haven for $1 to a local builder and provide $400,000 in cleanup funds, to help develop the site of the now-demolished former Bigelow factory complex into a new 10,000 square-foot commercial/industrial building.
by | Dec 14, 2023 12:19 pm | Comments (7)
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Coach Gervacio Ortiz with his team.
Fake grass, real goals, and striving young athletes could be the latest additions to an otherwise vacant Fair Haven waterfront warehouse — if a 50-parent plan to build an indoor soccer field gets the green light.
Continue reading ‘Soccer Field Pitched For River St. Warehouse’
by | Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm | Comments (5)
Alders-Elect Kiana Flores, Frank Redente, and Caroline Smith at WNHH FM.
Three of New Haven’s alders-elect with Fair Haven connections said they’re pumped to get to work as part of a community “team” that tackles safe streets, affordable housing, and small business growth.
by | Nov 28, 2023 4:32 pm | Comments (7)
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Sen. Looney, Mayor Elicker with Fair Haven School eighth-grader Natalia Marcano and Principal Monica Morales.
Fair Haven schoolchildren and neighborhood boosters and elected officials gathered for a festive press conference celebrating an even grander Grand Avenue to come — with dozens of new apartments and millions of dollars worth of streetscape improvements now in sight.