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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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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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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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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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.
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Yezenia Lebron outside newly renamed Key Food at Ferry and Grand: Supermarket is "associated with this Latino community."
Yezenia Lebron succeeded in finding pork loin, bacalao, and Fiesta Campesina flower cookies at her go-to Grand Avenue grocery store — even as she struggled to get used to the supermarket’s new name above the door.
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Exchange St. resident Jackson, with court-appointed attorney Troiano: $298,000 "a little steep" for foreclosed house.
The country’s largest bank boxed out a group of potential local buyers at a Fair Haven foreclosure auction by submitting the only bid — at a price $18,000 above appraisal — for a boarded-up, squatter-occupied three-family house on Exchange Street.
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Fair Haven Alders Sarah Miller and Claudia Herrera (right) talking with Alexis Cruz on a recent neighborhood walk.
Caroline Smith at the triangular island at Monroe and Alton.
Litter on Monroe Street — and a perilously crash-prone intersection at Blatchley and Peck — led two Fair Haven alders and a handful of neighbors to knock on doors and talk with residents about how to improve the area’s quality of life.
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Manuel Camacho, Eliza Vargas, and Catherine Wicks in Ice The Beef and Elm Shakespeare's new anti-violence production of Hamlet.
Student leaders and Shakespeare theater-makers came together to create a new performance of Hamlet that was part social justice theater, part violence prevention program — and all heart.
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It’s America in the 1940s, and World War II is still raging. Carmen Jones has started a fight in the parachute factory she works in, and it falls to Corporal Joe to escort her to jail, miles from the military base where both of them work. Joe is engaged to be married, and just wants to get his duty over with. Jones has other plans. She’s flirting with him — hard — as soon as they’re on the road away from the base. Then Joe makes a poor navigation choice and drives the Jeep into a stream, forcing them to walk from there. Little does he know that he doesn’t stand a chance against Jones’s seductive skills. Little does Jones know that it will prove her own undoing, too.
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Barbara Harris (middle) with husband Bill Wood (right) and Mary Wade staffer Maria Olmo Thursday.
Cupid alighted early this year at Chatham Place at the Mary Wade Home in Fair Haven — especially for Bill Wood and Barbara Harris. Who says new love doesn’t flourish in the later decades of life?
The couple got married at the Mary Wade Home last year. On Thursday morning, they marked their first anniversary at a special Valentine’s Day party for the neighborhood-anchoring senior facility’s residents, friends, and staff.
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Learning chess at S.P.O.R.T. Academy's Fair Haven School afterschool program.
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"One, two, three... Chess!"
“If your pawn game is good, you can do so much.”
So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young students at Fair Haven School this week to reflect on the life skills they’ve learned on the chess board — and also to shoot some hoops, eat pizza, and celebrate a path towards sharper problem solving for even the humblest of chess players.
Bianca Flecha with "Cap the Rent" organizer James O'Donnell.
Bianca Flecha opened the door of her Poplar Street apartment building to find an Australia-raised tenant organizer with a pitch that resonated.
She said her rent has gone up a couple hundred dollars every year that she’s lived in her Fair Haven home.
James O’Donnell, a New Haven-based organizer with the Connecticut Tenants Union, told her that she’s not alone in experiencing such hikes — and that a new bill before the state legislature would help put a cap on those ever-rising housing costs for renters.
