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Oct 23, 2023 8:35 am
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Chelsea M. Rowe
Chelsea Rowe's Symposium-inspired art.
Artist Chelsea M. Rowe marries festive colors to a violent act in her art, a contrast that opens up the possibilities for interpretation. There’s no getting away from the pain, the blood spilling from both figures as they split from one another. But it’s not just a portrait of torture. It suggests a form of creation and change, too: the chance to survive, make something different.
The sense of energy, connection, and a little bit of revolution in Rowe’s piece was in the air at the artist-organized City-Wide Open Studios’ Erector Square weekend.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 17, 2023 12:12 pm
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Student broadcasters on set, ready to report.
John S. Martinez School eighth graders perfected the lights, turned on their camera, and were ready for the action of bringing back the school’s Sea Sky News broadcast.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 16, 2023 1:45 pm
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This type of sliding-door won't face Grand Ave., per Fair Haven Health application.
The sliding-door front entrance to Fair Haven Community Health Care’s new Grand Avenue clinic building won’t face Grand Avenue, but will instead point east towards the center’s existing headquarters — in order to prioritize accessibility for patients with disabilities and to avoid existing high-voltage power lines.
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Lisa Reisman |
Oct 12, 2023 4:00 pm
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Regina Winters-Toussaint.
While a student at the Yale School of Architecture in 1992, Regina Winters-Toussaint created her own summer internship. As one of the first counselors for LEAP, then a new youth enrichment program in New Haven, she moved into Westville Manor public housing, where she mentored the young people living there.
That willingness to steep herself in the experience of those who would live and work in the structures she built is among the reasons for the induction of Winters-Toussaint, who died of cancer at 47 in April 2016, in the CT Women’s Hall of Fame, according to its executive director Sarah Lubarsky.
Wine Down CT’s end-of-summer event, Dear Summer, went down Sunday evening. If you get a chance to go to their next event, get your ticket early because they sell out fast, and I see why. Wine Down CT — which, according to Aislin Magazine, started hosting lusciously curated events as a riff on Wine Down Wednesdays, popularized by the TV show Insecure — throws fabulous day parties that draw hundreds of people to hang out, taste great food, vibe to good DJs and live music, imbibe scrumptious libations and generally have a good time.
CDC Director Mandy Cohen (second from right): Time to get another Covid shot.
The nation’s top public health official swung by Fair Haven Thursday morning with a vaccine-promoting message: Covid is still with us, and so now is the latest shot designed to protect everyone from an ever-changing virus.
Get the shot, she urged, and don’t worry about paying for it, as the costs should be covered by private insurance and the federal government.
The state has awarded $6 million towards overhauling Grand Avenue to make the bustling Fair Haven commercial corridor safer, cleaner, better-lit, and more pedestrian-friendly.
Those improvements can’t come soon enough for neighborhood stalwarts like Maria Ocotecatl of Grand Fish Market, and Javier Sanchez of Evolution Hair Studio, and Angeles Romero of Rodeo Groceries, and Ines Vidals of Dayvett’s Gifts, who have built up their small businesses because of their diverse and supportive community — and despite some of the conditions that persist outside their shops’ front doors.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 27, 2023 3:21 pm
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Officers Tyler Camp and Justin Julianelle: Suspected drive-by shooters fled. With the right conditions on the road, they pursued.
Nine shots had just been fired on a Wednesday afternoon in Fair Haven, and neighbors who called 911 identified the suspects as two men in masks on a three-wheeled motorcycle.
Which is exactly what and who Officer Justin Julianelle saw as he rushed to Blatchley Avenue and Lombard Street in his cruiser.
As the three-wheeler suspected shooters fled from Fair Haven to Wooster Square to Fair Haven again to the Annex, Julianelle followed — but he didn’t “chase.” That’s an important distinction in New Haven these days.
Expect plenty of storytelling, visual art, bookmaking, and oral history explorations in Fair Haven in the year to come, now that a neighborhood-anchoring nursing home has tapped a new artist-in-residence to lead its annual Cultivating Connections program.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Sep 25, 2023 8:45 am
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A rendering of the extant Strong School building which will continue to face Grand Avenue ...
... and the adjoining apartment complex slated for construction behind the historic school.
Empty hallways and vacant classrooms at Fair Haven’s former Strong School are ready for conversion into “inclusive” apartments — with 58 affordable, LGBTQ-friendly rentals on their way alongside a community arts space on scene.
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Lisa Reisman |
Sep 20, 2023 5:04 pm
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Michael Jai White: Movie studio is “definitely happening. We just have to regroup a bit.”
Movie poster for White's newly released movie, "Outlaw Johnny Black."
The scene: an out-of-the way mining town ruled by a notorious land baron. The situation: a cowboy-turned-outlaw seeking to avenge the death of his father with a bullet bearing the name of his nemesis. The upshot: posing as preacher, he learns the power of community.
It’s “Outlaw Johnny Black,” the latest release of action star Michael Jai White, otherwise known as the visionary behind Jaigantic Studios, the major movie studio seemingly poised to rise on a desolate stretch of River Street in Fair Haven before vanishing over the last year.
White’s message on “Outlaw Johnny Black,” which is now screening at Criterion Cinemas: tune in. On Jaigantic Studios: stay tuned.
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Laura Glesby and Mia Cortés Castro |
Sep 12, 2023 10:05 pm
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Frank Redente, Jr. (second from left) at the polls with supporters on Tuesday.
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right): "It was a good fight. The people spoke."
A 12-year Fair Haven incumbent has officially lost his seat on the Board of Alders, while a 12-year Morris Cove alder hung onto his seat by a thread in a race that came down to absentee ballots.
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Laura Glesby, Thomas Breen and Allan Appel |
Sep 12, 2023 3:59 pm
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Star Gilliams (center) with Harris & Tucker pollsters Memori Jones, Kauren Gaines, Shamar Sheppard at Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville: "I'm concerned about what happens to this neighborhood."
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Erica Rodriguez and Isiah Miller, side by side, but for different candidates, on Chatham Street in Fair Haven.
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Sam Tolkin, with 3-year-old Oliver, on Townsend Ave in Morris Cove: Brennan's "got the chutzpah to say how important education is.”
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Barbara Dozier, at Roberto Clemente in the Hill: "It's always important to vote."
(Updated) Shamar Sheppard peered up at Jazmine Williamson, a clipboard and pencil in hand. “Did you vote today?” he asked. “Who did you vote for?”
MATCH trainee Ross Stanley: "It's really amazing, because there's so many things we can learn."
At the newly unveiled climate-focused mural at 20 Mill St.
Hill native and former Yale cafeteria worker Ross Stanley took a step closer towards building a career in local manufacturing, as he joined six fellow trainees in a Fair Haven warehouse where lighting fixtures — and industrial jobs — will soon be fabricated.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 7, 2023 8:30 am
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Artists at work on City-Wide's return.
In artist Oi Fortin’s studio in Erector Square, seven artists were taking old signs for City-Wide Open Studios, salvaged from Artspace’s basement before it closed, and rearranging and redecorating them for a new purpose: the return of City-Wide Open Studios to the Fair Haven arts complex on the weekend of Oct. 21 and 22.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 5, 2023 3:02 pm
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No more building at 382 Grand.
A Fair Haven-anchoring community health center has finished tearing down a three-story mixed-use building at Grand Avenue and James Street to make way for a larger neighborhood clinic.
A long-derelict, publicly-owned former factory building on River Street fell brick by brick to the ground Tuesday, as a demolition crew tore apart a boarded-up three-story building that was one of the last standing remnants of the Bigelow Boiler industrial complex.
Elijah Ratcliffe (right), with Goldenberg: “I just can’t rock with the Democrats or the Republicans.”
Mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg secured a second spot on November’s general election ballot, after the Republican nominee won the unanimous backing of a local Independent Party caucus.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 28, 2023 3:06 pm
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Officers Baltazar Rivera and Heriberto Rodriguez: "Things escalate so quickly."
When Officer Baltazar Rivera saw three young men biking up James Street at two in the morning — wearing clothing similar to that of the suspects in a shooting that had taken place a few blocks away, a few minutes prior — his instincts kicked in.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Aug 25, 2023 5:10 pm
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The English Station power plant, hidden behind graffiti, back in May.
United Illuminating will have to pay up for breaking a promise to remediate a Fair Haven power plant after state utility regulators formally accused the company of mismanaging English Station — and of failing to prioritize New Haven residents over profit.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 25, 2023 11:28 am
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Frank Ayala and Frank Redente, catching up in Lombard St.'s TBLR.
Frank Redente, Jr. walked into ThinkBrokeLookRich on Lombard Street and, amid the store’s custom-designed hats and shirts and other apparel, immediately recognized someone he knew: another Frank, last name Ayala, who lives around the corner — and who Redente used to coach on the New Haven Legion youth baseball team.
“I love what you’re doing here,” Redente said to Ayala and his clothing-store business partner, and cousin and fellow Fair Haven native, Justin Compres. “We need more of this in the community. Life!”
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 23, 2023 1:01 pm
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Juliana Garcia (center) at Fair Haven Health talk: "To what extent can I dream?"
Juliana Garcia can still remember being nine years old, uninsured, and telling her mom that it really was ok for her to pass on a dental surgery that would cost more than $4,000.
That the healthcare operation could wait. That that money needed to be spent instead on rent and food and other essentials.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Aug 23, 2023 11:28 am
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Alder Santiago (right), with Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez: Keep me in, coach!
A new dugout at Clinton Avenue park, fairer playing fields across the city, and municipal teamwork.
That was the pitch Fair Haven Alder and softball enthusiast Ernie Santiago practiced on fans Tuesday night during a fundraiser for the incumbent’s run to remain the neighborhood’s local legislative representative.
