by | Jul 19, 2023 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Lead Detective Conklin: 80+% clearance record.
Several people said they saw someone stab a 49-year-old man to death during a fight at a Fair Haven intersection. Two separate cameras caught the stabbing on video.
Within three days police arrested the alleged killer.
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by | Jul 19, 2023 1:36 pm | Comments (6)
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Preschoolers at Fair Haven library for Tuesday's bilingual session.
Sitting around a colorful rug, 30 pre-schoolers were asked to recount what they’ve been doing over the summer.
“In the summer I love to swim,” said some of the children.
“Me gusta comer helado durante el verano,” said others.
by | Jul 18, 2023 1:37 pm | Comments (9)
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Summer Choate teaches students about syllables.
Inside a summer classroom, Ayanna Perez wrote the letters D‑O-T on a white board for King and Legacy to slowly sound out, rather than try to guess or memorize the word.
by | Jul 14, 2023 1:50 pm | Comments (3)
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A three-alarm fire at 92 Chapel St. on Thursday.
A three-alarm fire at a Fair Haven commercial garage and appliance repair shop with an illegal gas line left four firefighters injured and 26 people from adjacent houses displaced.
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by | Jul 13, 2023 9:28 am | Comments (11)
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Attendees at Wednesday's Grand Avenue Special Services District board meeting.
The Grand Avenue Special Services District voted to partner with a sister business improvement organization downtown to try to raise funds to cover the costs of everything from cleaning graffiti off of buildings to power-washing sidewalks to improving the area’s trash collection, all with the goal of making Fair Haven a safer and cleaner place to shop.
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by | Jul 13, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (0)
Zepeda and Omonte.
Shaki Presents, a.k.a. Rick Omonte, brought an evening of cumbias to Bregamos on Wednesday night, centering on California DJ Turbo Sonidero, who combines the old Latin American dance with elements of hip hop to create his own style. All the elements came together to create a mesmerizing mix of rhythms and voices, just right to propel dancers’ feet across the floor.
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by | Jul 12, 2023 1:59 pm | Comments (3)
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LULAC Head Start ED Mikyle Byrd-Vaughn: "Our services are impacting children's full development."
As a dozen preschoolers laughed and bounced around a fenced-in outdoor playground on Haven Street, city and state officials gathered in a Fair Haven childcare center’s parking lot to celebrate a $2 million early-childhood-education boost from the state.
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by | Jul 10, 2023 10:48 am | Comments (3)
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Tijoux at Sunday's ULA event.
Songs and art of hope and strength came to Bregamos Community Theater as international hip hop artist Ana Tijoux headlined an afternoon and evening of food, history, and artistic vision — for an event put together by Unidad Latina en Acción to celebrate 21 years of operation as an immigrant rights activist group.
by | Jul 5, 2023 8:44 am | Comments (1)
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Kristin Washington meets with job-pitchers from state Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Kristin Washington showed up to the Fair Haven public library fueled by a dream to work in public health — and ready to find out if state government employment could be the right career path for her now that’s she graduated from college and hunting for a job.
Continue reading ‘Employees To-Be Meet Employers In-Need In Fair Haven’
by | Jun 23, 2023 2:24 pm | Comments (42)
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Fair Rent Commission Director Wildaliz Bermúdez (right): "Tenants report there is evidence of advanced mold behind bathroom walls" at 234 Fillmore.
Fair Rent commissioners dropped a Fillmore Street tenant’s rent down to $1 per month in a bid to pressure her landlord to speed up repairs to a dangerously unhealthy property with water-damaged ceilings and walls and allegedly beset with mold.
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by | Jun 20, 2023 10:57 am | Comments (3)
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Lisseit Luna with a fresh batch of coconut ice cream.
As Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda played in the background, Ely Rey Azteca employee Lisseit Luna prepared a batch of coconut ice cream to sell at a recently opened Mexican- and Dominican-owned paletería in Fair Haven.
by | Jun 15, 2023 3:40 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven Academy grads (clockwise from top left): Taylor Council, Isaiah Becton, Thailyn Geter, Kyrell Carter, and Paris Feliciano.
New Haven Academy’s Class of 2023 took one last moment before graduating to recall four years worth of memories together — including singing High School Musical songs in the middle of classes, overcoming the fallout of remote learning, and putting on the school’s first ever theatrical production.
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by | Jun 8, 2023 12:46 pm | Comments (6)
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City Chief Structural Engineer Zach Shapiro: Bridge under repair, should be open soon.
A damaged “end wedge” has shut down the Grand Avenue Bridge to car travel for nearly a week — with repairs in the works, and city officials hoping the recently renovated Quinnipiac River crossing should open back up to vehicles later on Thursday.
Update: The bridge is now back open to car traffic, as pictured below at around 6 p.m. Thursday.
by | Jun 5, 2023 9:03 am | Comments (6)
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Valerie Richardson lives on a houseboat in the marina and makes art, often of the river and its bridges
A place of peace and sanity, almost a stay-cation; a sense of history so deep you can feel the life of people here 10,000 years ago; a place where the local beer is a beautiful amber and you can also practice tai chi, as the gods intended, in nature, down by the banks of a river.
Continue reading ‘Hundreds Hit The Marina For 15th Annual Quinnipiac Riverfest’
by | Jun 2, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (5)
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Nector Santos at the head of the Clinton Ave bike-club-graduation pack.
If you genuinely want to grow bicycle culture in New Haven, start with the kids. And, specifically, all the kids, by making cycling a regular part of the physical education curriculum in the public schools. And just to be sure, carry it over into after-school cycling clubs as well.
by | May 30, 2023 11:22 am | Comments (40)
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Ward 8 alder challenger Andrea Zola and incumbent Ellen Cupo.
A bridal business owner with local political history roots has filed to run against Wooster Square’s two-term, union-affiliated incumbent alder in a Democratic race that sheds light on a neighborhood in flux.
Continue reading ‘Alder Challenge Charts Changing Wooster Sq’
by | May 26, 2023 4:24 pm | Comments (15)
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Frank Redente Jr. files for alder run on Friday with City Clerk staffer Michelle Lee Rodriguez; Ward 15 incumbent Ernie Santiago.
A Fair Haven street outreach worker has made official his bid to unseat a six-term incumbent neighborhood alder — putting quality of life, youth violence prevention, and local legislator accessibility on the table for debate in this year’s intra-Democratic Party contest.
Continue reading ‘Alder Challenger Files For Fair Haven Run’
by | May 15, 2023 11:51 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health's Suzanne Lagarde with renderings of the planned new Grand Ave. clinic.
A light-saturated waiting area. A lush outdoor patio. A rooftop terrace alive with plants and trees.
The images, exhibited on an easel at the Atwater Senior Center, were only representative of what the new Fair Haven Community Health Care clinic could be — but they took Denise Dean’s breath away.
Dean, FHCHC’s person-centered care coordinator, has been at the clinic for over 20 years. To judge from the palpable sense of excitement among the dozen or so residents at a recent community gathering, she wasn’t alone in her feeling of welcome anticipation.
Continue reading ‘Community Care To Come With Clinic Expansion’
by | May 9, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (2)
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Luz.
Luz, by Milena Alvarez, gets its effect first and foremost from the atmosphere the artist captures. It’s a picture that looks hot, a blazing afternoon. The people are keeping cool. The artist is part of the painting, as all three subjects are aware of her, which complicates things. Was the artist just taking their picture? Or was the artist interrupting something? The ambiguity is heightened by the subjects’ blurred faces. They seem relaxed enough, but we’ll never know what they’re thinking.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Art Show Finds A Place To Land’
by | May 8, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (2)
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The Mary Wade Home parade & Fair Haven Day kickoff.
The Semilla Collective perform as part of Saturday's celebration.
Fair Haven overflowed with neighborly good cheer, tradition, and art as hundreds of city celebrants turned out for a costume-filled parade and a long joyous afternoon of Tlaxcalan and other Latino music and dance, free tacos and falafels, and plenty of family-oriented activities on Grand Avenue.
by | May 5, 2023 6:53 pm | Comments (31)
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Smith signs up with City Clerk staffer Michelle Lee Rodriguez.
As East Rocker Caroline Tanbee Smith filed papers to make official her first aldermanic run, Fair Havener Claudia Hererra readied to hand over the local legislative baton — to a candidate she says will build bridges between those neighborhoods and across the broader city if she’s elected to be Ward 9’s next representative.
by | May 5, 2023 9:14 am | Comments (9)
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Medina, now getting ready to leave Peels & Wheels' longtime composting home at Phoenix Press in Fair Haven.
A Facebook farewell.
“Now I feel I’m more like a waste hauler than a visionary composter,” said New Haven’s pioneering organic-scraps-repurposer and eco-idealist Domingo Medina.
That’s because Medina now has to find a new place to make mulch thanks to the pending sale of the Fair Haven farm site that he and his pedal-powered composting colleagues have long called home.
by | May 4, 2023 12:23 pm | Comments (11)
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Marta Quinones loading up rescued food from Haven's Harvest.
Sister Luisa Villegas stopped at a Peck Street food rescue operation to fill her Toyota up with bags of avocados and several gallons of milk to help make sure that Fair Haven immigrants don’t go hungry — and that excess food doesn’t end up in a landfill.
Continue reading ‘"Harvest" Crew Keeps Rescued Food Flowing’
by | May 4, 2023 8:52 am | Comments (5)
Rendering of redeveloped Strong School.
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Pennrose Senior Developer Karmen Cheung before the Board of Alders.
A national affordable housing developer’s bid to convert the long-vacant former Strong School on Grand Avenue into at least 50 new apartments took another big step forward, as alders endorsed rezoning and selling the city-owned property for $500,000.
by | May 3, 2023 9:19 am | Comments (17)
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Save The Sound's Roger Reynolds joins enviro allies in lamenting the still-polluted state of English Station (pictured above).
Local environmental advocates gathered in front of a graffiti-laden gate cutting off the contaminated former English Station power plant from the public — and lauded a recent move by the state’s attorney general pushing United Illuminating to finish cleaning up the site or pay a $2 million annual penalty.
Continue reading ‘English Station Mess Put Back In Spotlight’