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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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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.
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Mar 21, 2023 5:04 pm
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State Rep. Juan Candelaria, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Legarde and Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller accept the symbolic check Tuesday.
A Fair Haven-anchoring community health center has landed $3 million in federal funds to help cover the costs of constructing a new neighborhood clinic — as that same center gears up to tear down nearby apartments and relocate tenants in service of a broader campus expansion estimated to cost up to $40 million.
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Mar 17, 2023 9:03 am
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Nelson on the set of Barbecue after rehearsal.
A family has gathered in a park. They’re worried about one of their siblings, who has yet to arrive. But it’s clear each of them has their own problems, too. Their conversation is fraught with personal history, some of it harrowing, most of it hilarious.
There’s a scene break. Now the family is back — same pavilion in a park, same cooler, same grill, same clothes. Except that now, all the family members are Black. They pick up right where the White family left off. As if they’re the same family, but different too. Something weird is going on.
Wilfred Fuentes, Jayuan Carter, Tom Goldenberg aboard the 206.
Wilfred Fuentes is not looking forward to paying $1.75 again every time he needs to commute from his home in the Annex to his job in Hamden.
Fuentes found a sympathetic ear in a Democratic mayoral challenger who rode the bus and talked to riders roughly two weeks before fares are set to resume for the currently free-to-ride state-run public transit system.
A fired former cop who was arrested for kicking and punching a handcuffed man will see his criminal charges dropped if he successfully completes six months of probation.
Monday's in-person watch party for online school board meeting.
Several dozen city teachers, parents, and public-school advocates were able to hear each other clap and cheer — live, in person, in the same room, together — during an in-person watch party for a Board of Education that has been meeting online only for the past three years.
Health Director Bond and Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz on Friday.
“Let’s be the 21st state to pass this legislation!”
With those words of encouragement, city Health Director Maritza Bond joined Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz in Fair Haven to call on Connecticut to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills.
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Mar 8, 2023 9:56 am
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Fair Haven/East Rock Alder Claudia Herrera (center) with NHPS Asst. Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans (right) on multilingual classroom visit.
Three alders got a firsthand look at the classroom needs and experiences of students who enter school speaking a language other than English, as they joined district leaders on a three-stop tour to talk with multilingual learners and their teachers.
Gita Global arts collective members Erik Santana and Doris-Jean Teel brainstorm ideas for future Atwater community center.
A zumba and dance studio for the elderly, with safety rails and hand bars and mirrors and a soft floor design. A renovated kitchen and an altogether new computer/video room to support much wanted intergenerational programs. More art and photo displays tapping into the neighborhood’s rich oystering history. A reconfigured and more welcoming entryway; picnic tables and better lighting and security so gardening and greenhouse activities can occur in the underutilized outdoor spaces.
Those were only a few of scores of hopeful ideas put forward during a community brainstorming session at the Atwater Senior Center in Fair Haven.
