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.
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May 15, 2023 11:51 am
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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.
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Brian Slattery |
May 9, 2023 8:40 am
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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.
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.
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May 5, 2023 6:53 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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May 4, 2023 8:52 am
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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.
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May 3, 2023 9:19 am
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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.
Erick Gonzalez, Frank Redente, Kiara Cintron, and Ivette Oliveras at WNHH FM.
First an annual neighborhood May parade came back. Then the parade grew, and grew.
Now Fair Haven is going all out not just with hundreds of marchers, but a day and evening-long celebration of the neighborhood’s culture and cuisine and commerce.
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Maya McFadden |
May 1, 2023 11:04 am
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Nakeshia Alford & her kids at teachers union-hosted education justice town hall.
Higher quality school lunches. More reliable school bus transportation. Enough hand soap and paper towels in all school bathrooms. And better work opportunities for public-school students under the age of 16.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students put forward those goals among many others as they joined parents, teachers, and education allies in defining what a fully funded city school district could look like.
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Apr 27, 2023 1:00 pm
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Longest serving tutor Stacy Spell and first tutee Josh Barber.
In 2003 Josh Barber was a ninth grader living in a homeless shelter. He had eight younger siblings, a dad in prison, and a mom gravely ill with cancer; he was having serious trouble reading.
His mom met Chris Alexander, the founder of New Haven Reads (NHR), which was then still only a book bank, and she helped secure him a tutor — and provided endless books on fish, which the budding ichthyologist loved.
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Apr 24, 2023 11:55 am
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A rendering of the future Grand Avenue Development.
The current Strong School building at 69 Grand Ave.
A plan to redevelop Fair Haven’s long-vacant former Strong School is two steps closer to fruition after the City Plan Commission favorably recommended requests by the city to rezone and sell the land to a national affordable housing developer.
Salsa's owner joins city officials to cut the ribbon ...
... on outdoor dining on Grand Ave.
Fair Haven diners can now enjoy chicken flautas on the sidewalk-adjacent patio of Grand Avenue’s Salsa’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant a month earlier than usual, thanks to the city’s expansion of outdoor dining season — which will extend year-round for qualifying businesses.
Gardeners Savage and Youngblood: 117 veggie varieties ready.
Gather New Haven’s chief farmer and Newhallville native Jonathon Savage is going to be planting pink and blue oyster mushrooms for the first time this year — because people love them, because they’re very good for you, and because he likes to learn to grow new crops.
Along with them there will be the usual three varieties of kale and kohlrabi; multiple scallion, tomato, and pepper varieties, to say nothing of the crimson red okra alongside the traditional green, plus basil in five varieties — count ‘em — Genovese, cinnamon, lemon, Thai, and sweet.
CRB members Iva Johnson and Jewu Richardson (right) with Emma Jones: This board "is going in the wrong direction."
Three members of the city’s struggling police-accountability board joined the effort’s founding force to call for help investigating civilian complaints, a new location to review materials that is not at police headquarters, better community outreach, and more diverse representation among the group’s leadership and staff.
The present view of River St., looking east from James.
An art frame manufacturer plans to add jobs and build a new warehouse next to its bustling current Fair Haven site, while a block away a River Street movie studio plan appears to have stalled amid a corporate shakeup.
Anastasia Saez digging in with Denyia Miller and Mary Ann Moran.
Anastasia Saez had indeed planted a potato before, but it was only a virtual one in the kids’ video game Minecraft.
On a sunny Tuesday morning not only did Mary Ann Moran help her plant the real thing, she learned how to deploy a nifty bulber to make a hole for it in the soil; she added bone meal for plant growth; she deftly handled a soil-aerating worm – absolutely without exclaiming “yuck” – and even helped spread straw across the new potato beds to keep the sun from creating a chemical that might damage the growing plants.
(Updated) The Elicker administration has submitted a plan to sell Fair Haven’s long-vacant former Strong School property to a developer for $500,000 — with a 20-year tax break — to create 50 affordable apartments.
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Mar 30, 2023 9:16 am
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Fair Haven School's Lesly Lopez introducing vocab in dual-language lesson.
Hannah Tanguay was on a mission to teach her Fair Haven School first-graders two different definitions of the class’s newest vocabulary word: “store.”
She had a trick up her sleeve to keep her students engaged — and the school district administrators at the side of the room took note as they observed a classroom model for how to focus young learners’ attentions and ward off distractions.
Ocean property manager Wilden Bunting: CT Pests "say they’ve done their best and she shouldn’t have any issues, but she is still complaining about them."
Fair Rent commissioners returned a Fair Haven tenant’s rent to its pre-rodent-infestation value — but nixed a proposed $80 hike — after finding that her megalandlord has tried in good faith to get rid of persistent mice.
That decision hinged on competing visions of how far a landlord needs to go to ensure that a housing unit is safely habitable, especially for tenants who struggle with chronic illnesses.
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Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
Mar 24, 2023 3:23 pm
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Police cars on Lewis Street after Thursday evening's shooting.
When seven gunshots popped from a car outside a Lewis Street rental home, the children next door wailed and trembled, and their parents scrambled to explain away the sounds as fireworks.
