by | Mar 7, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | Feb 27, 2023 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Feb 22, 2023 9:22 am | Comments (8)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Alders Walk, Knock For Fair Haven's Future’
by | Feb 20, 2023 1:53 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Feb 17, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (1)
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.
by | Feb 10, 2023 9:27 am | Comments (1)
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.
Continue reading ‘Mary Wade Feels The Love At Early Valentine's Day Fest’
by | Feb 9, 2023 2:18 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Feb 6, 2023 1:04 pm | Comments (36)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Statewide Rent-Cappers Canvass Fair Haven’
by | Feb 6, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (5)
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Photographer Ian Christmann with mural-size work in Mary Wade.
On Saturday afternoon, residents, families, and neighborhood dignitaries streamed in and out of Chatman Place at Mary Wade on Clinton Avenue in Fair Haven. They were there to check out an art show — and along the way, learned how art can create concrete connections to place and wellbeing.
Continue reading ‘Artists Help Connect To Memory At Mary Wade Home’
by | Feb 3, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (22)
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Frank Redente, Jr. pointed to an armful of tattoos remembering the names of young New Haveners who have lost their lives to street violence.
Born and raised in Fair Haven, Redente now hopes to be part of the solution to the complex and chronic issue of youth violence as he takes on the job of being the first street outreach worker ever dedicated solely to his home neighborhood.
by | Jan 25, 2023 7:08 pm | Comments (13)
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At the scene of Wednesday's car crash on Peck St.
The following opinion piece was submitted by Petisia Adger, a Peck Street resident, retired former New Haven assistant police chief, and founder of Urban Grants 4 Us, Inc.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Another Crash Shakes Peck Street’
by | Jan 25, 2023 9:32 am | Comments (7)
A visual rendering of the planned new Grand Avenue clinic.
A Fair Haven neighborhood-anchoring healthcare center won permission to build 26 new clinical exam rooms — along with a food pharmacy, community space for job and digital literacy training, and a splash pad — all as part of a now-approved expanded Grand Avenue campus.
by | Jan 19, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (5)
Somebody shot and killed a 40-year-old man named Alexander Pedraza in Fair Haven Wednesday night, marking the city’s fourth homicide this month.
by | Jan 16, 2023 10:37 am | Comments (2)
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Student council prez Julieta Diaz leads Martinez school meeting.
John S. Martinez School eighth grader Julieta Diaz and her fellow student council classmates had a decision to make: Should they donate the proceeds of a middle school recycling drive to a local homeless shelter, or should they throw their financial support to the city’s animal shelter instead?
by | Jan 11, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (7)
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Tucked-in Smith & Wesson.
Tyler Camp had to make an instant decision: Wait for the team. Or run ahead and try to get the gun on his own.
by | Jan 10, 2023 9:01 am | Comments (2)
A Sunday walk in the Fair Haven Heights woods.
Talk about a geological, paleontological, and historical marvel.
That’s Quarry Park Preserve, which was the site on Sunday of an hour-long walking tour that began at the Friends Meeting House at 225 East Grand Ave. in Fair Haven Heights. It was led by the New Haven Bioregional Group’s Aaron Goode and Friends of Quarry Park Founder Tracy Blanford.
by | Jan 6, 2023 9:45 am | Comments (10)
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District Manager Lt. Fumiatti, Asst. Chief Zannelli, and Chief Jacobson on Thursday.
If retaliation is to come — and the police have concern that it might — for the Jan. 1 murder of Dontae Myers in Fair Haven, it will likely arrive in the form of a vehicle bearing young men with guns.
That’s why the police brass turned out in force Thursday night to inform Fair Haveners that motor vehicle units have been deployed to the neighborhood to try to stop suspicious vehicles that may be carrying drugs or guns.
And they will stay, along with other resources, until the danger or crime spike is reduced.
Continue reading ‘Homicides Prompt Larger Police Presence In Fair Haven’
by | Jan 3, 2023 9:50 am | Comments (7)
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LaJamia Banks, right, says a prayer while her sister, Laquvia Jones, mourns the death of her son, Dontae Myers.
Mourners at Monday's Fair Haven vigil for Dontae Myers.
Over 100 New Haveners gripping red and black balloons packed Poplar Street to mourn the New Year’s Day murder of a soft-spoken 23-year-old — and to decry a deadly pattern of gun violence that also saw the victim’s younger brother killed in tragically similar circumstances just three years earlier.
by | Dec 7, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (1)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A Fair Haven community healthcare center has won a key city approval needed to expand its parking lot — and, eventually, its Grand Avenue headquarters.
by | Dec 6, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (3)
Dexter Singleton.
As Collective Consciousness Theatre in Erector Square prepares to roll out its plans for 2023, artistic director Dexter Singleton thought back to 2021, when he first walked back into the theater after the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, which interrupted the company’s run of Dominique Morrisseau’s play Skeleton Crew. “We came back into CCT and we still had the Skeleton Crew set in there,” Singleton said. “Jenny” — Nelson, who directs many CCT productions — “said it was like walking into a time warp.”
Continue reading ‘Collective Consciousness Comes Full Circle’
by | Dec 5, 2022 1:58 pm | Comments (3)
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Mary Wade's Boardman Residence to receive $10M capital boost.
A Fair Haven-anchoring nursing home has embarked on an estimated $10 million capital campaign to refurbish its venerable, historic 19th-century Boardman Residence with central air conditioning, fewer shared bathrooms, and a host of other repairs.
Continue reading ‘Mary Wade Home's Oldest (Building) To Become Young Again’
by | Nov 28, 2022 10:28 am | Comments (0)
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Krissel and Ryan Mendez with Jamie Zhuzhingo at Friday's coat drive.
Eight-year-old Ryan Mendez is now no longer afraid of the wind and the rain — thanks to a crisp new blue-and-white jacket he scored at a Fair Haven coat drive led by a locally based, internationally operating Catholic fraternal order.
by and | Nov 21, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde and attorney Meaghan Miles at Thursday's Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) is on its way to getting new city approvals to bring more cars to its grounds — as the nonprofit advances towards executing a broader vision of expanding its community healthcare campus on Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Clinic's Parking, Expansion Plan Advances’
by | Nov 18, 2022 2:11 pm | Comments (3)
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New Haveners pick up turkeys from John Martinez parking lot.
Hundreds of New Haveners are now a bit more prepared for next week’s holiday meal after picking up a free bird at the city Youth and Recreation Department’s annual turkey drive.
Continue reading ‘Youth & Rec Hands Out 1,250 Turkeys At Pre-Thanksgiving Giveaway’
by | Nov 15, 2022 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Outside Tuesday's funeral on Ferry St.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
Fair Haven families and New Haven public safety professionals filled Ferry Street Tuesday afternoon to mourn the loss of city firefighter Thomas Mieles, whose sudden off-duty passing has only sharpened the pain felt by a community still processing a series of recent deaths.