by | Jul 8, 2021 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
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558 Winchester: Who will get to buy this blighted property?
A contract, a lien, and dueling lawsuits have thrown a wrench into the city’s plans to buy a derelict property in Newhallville and convert it into an affordable owner-occupied home.
Continue reading ‘Court Battle Delays Affordable Redev Plan’
by | Jul 8, 2021 10:26 am | Comments (10)
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Nina Silva (pictured at right, with Pat Solomon) presses paraprofessional living-wage concern at mayoral forum.
New Haven’s “upstairs-downstairs” divide was on display at a Democratic ward committee meeting Wednesday night in both a vote taken and an exchange about low-wage workers.
by | Jun 30, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (7)
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Doreen Abubakar show LCI’s Evan Trachten her garden plan during Tuesday walk-through.
The next phase of the reinvention of a Newhallville crossroads came into view Tuesday during a tour of a vacant lot where Doreen Abubakar has seeded big plans.
by | Jun 29, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (23)
The Board of Education (BOE) Monday night voted to approve funding for five summer youth programs while leaving a sixth program on hold only days before a scheduled July 1 start.
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Approves All But One Summer Program’
by | Jun 23, 2021 8:17 pm | Comments (2)
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Craig Crews at center cuts the ribbon Wednesday surrounded by Chamber of Commerce prez Garrett Sheehan and Mayor Justin Elicker.
By cutting a ribbon to signal the opening of a newly renovated laboratory and office space in Science Park, Dr. Craig Crews added his company to the ongoing quest to turn New Haven into a thriving biotechnology center.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Start-Up Halda Therapeutics Opens SciPark HQ’
by | Jun 20, 2021 1:24 pm | Comments (4)
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Sondi Jackson, Marlene Graham at Elm City Freddy Fixer clean-up.
Some members of Saturday’s clean-up crew.
Without the usual fanfare of drums, drill teams, banners, and horses, a 30-strong Elm City Freddy Fixer contingent marched down Dixwell — armed with trash bags, shovels, and rakes to beautify the Avenue during a year in which the pandemic quashed the usual parade celebration.
“We can’t have a parade this year, but we can still have impact!” exclaimed one participant.
by | Jun 15, 2021 1:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Community garden founder Addie Kimbrough.
Addie Kimbrough had a vision: A community garden in the vacant plot of land opposite her house where neighborhood kids and seniors could plant cabbage, collard greens, kale, and turnips.
With the help of volunteers, she made that vision sprout.
Continue reading ‘Carrots, Squash, Kale Move Into Vacant Lot’
by | Jun 11, 2021 10:00 am | Comments (4)
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William McMillian’s May funeral, one of two for firefighters in 8 days.
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Gary Tinney: Battling a dangerous mental-health stigma.
Firefighters and their families gathered in First Calvary Baptist Church to attempt to quell a “fire within” that has been smoldering in the ranks.
by | Jun 10, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (5)
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Doug MacDonald, Leonard Jahad, Rebecca Goddard, and Chaz Carmon supporting DuBois-Walton at Wednesday’s event.
Two retired top cops and two grassroots violence intervention leaders spoke in Newhallville Wednesday night in support of mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton and her proposed plans for addressing the city’s increased violence
Continue reading ‘Street Outreachers, Ex-Top Cops Back DuBois-Walton Anti-Violence Platform’
by | May 31, 2021 12:03 pm | Comments (15)
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Pile of money, pile of dirt: Above, 201 Munson design. Below, 201 Munson reality.
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So long, and thanks for the $9M: Original co-developer Doug Gray (right), now gone from the deal, with Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison after winning 2018 zoning change.
The original duo behind an ambitious Newhallville development pocketed $15 million as they ditched the unbuilt project — leaving behind cracked asphalt, overgrown weeds, mounds of dirt, and a lingering question: Will these apartments ever get built?
by | May 31, 2021 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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Taylor used plaster and paint for portrait of her granddaughter
Arizona Taylor.
Dozens of lively faces of women Friday evening empowered the room at Poetic Haven for a pop-up women empowerment exhibit.
Continue reading ‘Faces of Women Light Up “Poetic Haven” For A Night’
by | May 17, 2021 9:33 am | Comments (4)
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Candidate Karen DuBois-Walton and Alder Delphine Clyburn visit Laytisha Collins-Smith, daughter London and puppy Cashmere.
Laytisha Collins-Smith informed Karen DuBois-Walton that she won’t be voting for her for mayor — not because she has different values, but because she’s leaving New Haven before the election, out of frustration.
by | May 14, 2021 10:18 am | Comments (2)
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Teacher Michelle Romanelli, Cherifa Ourodjeri, 9, Kayden Bush, 9, Chawnaye Battle, 9.
After a year of sitting at their computers, King/Robinson fourth graders were ready to move. Their teacher, Michelle Romanelli, realized she could harness that energy to help them learn math.
This led to one of Romanelli’s takeaways from hybrid school — cutting up worksheets makes them way more fun.
by | May 9, 2021 1:33 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Justin Elicker makes vaccine case to Terrance Williams.
Soon after the mayor knocked on his door, Terrance Williams ran down the street — to get a Covid-19 shot.
Continue reading ‘Crews Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy Door To Door’
by | May 5, 2021 1:00 pm | Comments (9)
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Miguel Pittman Jr. (center) with dad Miguel Sr., son Miguel III, and girlfriend Tahirah Armstrong.
Their new home at 539 Winchester.
Sixty years after his grandfather moved from North Carolina to Newhallville for a job at Winchester Arms, second-generation restauranteur Miguel Pittman Jr. is putting down roots in the neighborhood once again — this time with the help of a city-built affordable home.
by | Apr 30, 2021 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Jonathon Savage: Back in green Newhallville.
Jonathon Savage returned home to Newhallville with his green thumb ready.
by | Apr 29, 2021 10:37 am | Comments (27)
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Plans for redeveloped Winchester Avenue.
New York builder Alex Twining Wednesday with Newhallville’s Addie Kimbrough.
Graffiti on the side of the Mansfield-Munson former factory building.
Hundreds of new apartments. Tens of thousands of square feet of office and lab space. Ground-floor retail up and down Winchester Avenue.
Science Park’s redevelopers unveiled those plans to Dixwell and Newhallville neighbors as they prepare to embark on the next stage of turning the former Winchester Arms factory complex into a research, residential, and shopping hub.
Continue reading ‘Builder Unveils “Winchester Center” Plans’
by | Apr 27, 2021 4:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Newhallville lines up for mini clinic Monday.
The Newhallville Community Management Team (CMT) is on a mission to make Newhallville the “healthiest neighborhood in New Haven.”
Continue reading ‘Neighbors, Church Team Up To Promote Health In Newhallville’
by | Apr 20, 2021 9:16 am | Comments (6)
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Retired Lt. Raymond Hassett, Acting Chief Renee Dominguez, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday press conference.
The police department is preparing for protests gatherings this week after a verdict is announced in Minneapolis’s George Floyd case, as well as working on longer-term in-house training to avoid dangerous cases of officers’ use of force here at home.
by | Apr 18, 2021 9:59 pm | Comments (11)
Pastor Kelcy Steele and Elicker pound pavement of Newhallville.
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Elicker takes notes as Alonzo Pugh relays concerns.
“Are they ever gonna do something about that house?” Alonzo Pugh asked the mayor and Dixwell pastor who had come to his doorstep. “It’s been like that for 27 years.”
by | Apr 16, 2021 2:56 pm | Comments (0)
Judge Claudia Baio in virtual court this week.
Without the help of an attorney, a tenant successfully convinced a judge that she was eligible for protection under a nationwide eviction moratorium.
by | Apr 7, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (1)
On the doors: Bond gives Rebecca Ford handouts for friends.
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Director Bond takes down Tori’s registration information during Farmington Canal Trail walk-and-talk.
“She’s ready to get vaccinated!” pediatrician Tamiko Jackson-McArthur called out to city Health Director Maritza Bond.
by | Mar 31, 2021 10:53 pm | Comments (16)
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Winfred Rembert at work in his Newhall Street home.
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“Cotton Field Rows,” 2009.
Winfred Rembert, a nationally renowned artist who depicted vivid scenes of Southern cotton fields and chain gangs and juke joints, died Wednesday inside the Newhall Street home where he carved his leather masterpieces.
by | Mar 26, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (18)
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New apartments on the rise at 87 Union St. …
… 104 Howe St …
& 9 Tower Ln.
Surface parking lots and piles of dirt have given way to rising cranes, skeletal assemblies of wood and steel, and even the occasional “Now Leasing” sign — as the city’s years-long building boom transitions into its next stage of development with over 1,700 new apartments coming online.
by | Mar 25, 2021 9:29 am | Comments (2)
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Public health nurse Janice Gemmell administers doses Wednesday at First Calvary.
Mayor Justin Elicker and Rev. Boise Kimber at the church-turned-clinic.
One hundred and fifty Newhallville residents got vaccinated Wednesday thanks to another partnership between the city Health Department and a local church.