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Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm
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The empty pit at 31 Sheffield Ave. Landlord Edward Zislis (below): New 3-family home in the works.
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A new three-family house on Sheffield Avenue is one step closer to rising from the ashes of its burned-down predecessor — and, two neighborhoods away, three new townhouses won the thumbs up to pop up atop a Humphrey Street backyard.
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Mar 22, 2021 9:10 am
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Firefighters gather for meal firehouse style.
After a year in a pandemic, New Haven firefighters enjoyed a group meal — a welcome reminder of the large shift meals they enjoyed in their firehouses pre-pandemic.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 19, 2021 1:54 pm
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Fenced-in, cleaned-up former nuclear site at 71 Shelton.
One year and four months later, General Electric finished cleaning up the site of a former nuclear manufacturing facility in Newhallville and handed the 2.7‑acre lot — formerly contaminated, now open for “unrestricted use” — back to its landlord.
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Mar 19, 2021 9:47 am
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A textured guitar and languid drum beat pulse out of the speakers together, but they sound like the radio 35 years ago, warm and a little tinny. The sound of being in the car, or someone’s kitchen, before cell phones and Bluetooth speakers. Then the sound opens up, and we’re in the present, looking back.
“Hello was the first thing you ever said to me,” Manny James sings, his voice between a whisper and a croon. “That’s when I had a revelation: what a great equation we could be.”
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Mar 8, 2021 10:32 am
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Rock to Rock’s Kick-off on Saturday.
At a canoe cleanup last year, Peter Davis and Menunkatuck Audubon Society President Dennis Riordan pulled a dumped bicycle from the water. This spring, Davis and Riordan hope to help keep New Haven’s waterways, ponds, and sound clean by supporting the annual Rock to Rock bike ride.
Brandi Marshall rushed out of her Winchester Avenue home when she saw the mayor, the soon-to-be new acting police chief, and nearly a dozen top city cops knocking doors on her block.
Her message: Thanks for coming to Newhallville. Please come back soon, and often.
Newhallville residents expressed their support for a citywide proposal to require that all nearby residents receive mandatory notice of pending public regulatory decisions that could affect them.
New City Plan Chair Leslie Radcliffe: Notify tenants, not just LLCs.
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When Verizon sought to modify its Newhallville cell tower, it gave a heads up to out-of-town landlords who own nearby properties. It didn’t notify tenants who actually live there.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 17, 2021 6:11 pm
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Neighbor Nine Johnson: In support of “anything to help us prosper.”
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558 Winchester Ave.: Now approved for city ownership.
City plans to convert vacant Newhallville properties into affordable owner-occupied homes took another stride forward, as alders signed off on the public purchase of a long-blighted three-family house at the corner of Winchester Avenue and Starr Street.
Local landlord Galina Zalman: “We only use food banks.”
After taxes, utilities, repairs, and tens of thousands of dollars lost through unpaid rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, landlord Galina Zalman said she made a total of $2,552 in 2020 — sending her to a food pantry as she struggles to keep three local rental properties afloat.
King-Robinson first grader Jade Lee: Good to be back.
Veresa Hardy picked her daughter up from King/Robinson School Tuesday afternoon for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic set in 10 months ago. Hardy was relieved that Alayah could learn in person again.
Not all Alayah’s expected classmates showed up to join her.
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Emily Hays |
Jan 18, 2021 10:33 am
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King/Robinson security officer Tamara Boyd opens box of water bottles.
When King/Robinson elementary schoolers return to their classrooms on Tuesday — and find the fountains dry — each student will have a water bottle with their name on it.
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Jan 4, 2021 11:33 am
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Shower power: Russell & co. at the drive-through shower.
The Covid-19 pandemic forced Angela Russell to cancel a family celebration she’d been planning. So she came up with an alternative — a communal drive-through baby shower.
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Dec 22, 2020 10:56 am
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The current raised intersection at Hazel Street and the Farmington Canal. More to come in 2021, pending grant approval.
Strollers, joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists may soon have seven fewer reasons to worry about cars slamming into them on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 9, 2020 12:26 pm
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Clockwise from top left: Local pastors Steven Cousin, Boise Kimber, Hector Otero, and John Cotten.
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Fair Haven’s Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, future learning hub site.
Four churches in Fair Haven, Dixwell, and Newhallville won permission to run daycare centers-turned-learning hubs — to offer relief to working parents who can’t leave their kids home alone during the day, and reliable internet and in-person educational support to students.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 2, 2020 10:15 am
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A flourish of guitar like a blooming flower. “Stuck in the middle of where I want to be and where I was / Everything’s crashing down / But I had it under control,” Stout sings. “I’m going under / Deep underwater / I’m trying to find my way out.” Her voice conveys all the vulnerability of the lyrics, but puts a solid foundation underneath it. The words speak of the struggle. The voice itself carries strength, as if rising above whatever adversity she faces isn’t a question; it’s a near-certainty.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 23, 2020 5:14 pm
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Fletcher with LCI approval letter at his new house.
Nearly a decade after losing his first house to foreclosure during the Great Recession, Eli Fletcher won a second chance at homeownership in a city-hosted raffle in Newhallville.
The final remains of the old Winchester Arms factory — a now-rotting building that reeks of oil on a hot summer’s day — is slated to be replaced with a new mixed-use apartment complex.
Dixwell residents pressed a redevelopment team on whether they and their neighbors will be welcomed there.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 23, 2020 10:48 am
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Three of the new LCI houses on Thompson Street.
Plans advanced to sell nine new city-built houses in Newhallville, amid questions at public meetings about whether the sales prices are truly “affordable” for the surrounding neighborhood.
Inside and (below) outside the lab office building at 115 Munson.
A Branford-based biotech company plans to move to New Haven, after signing a lease for a 9,800 square-foot lab and office space in in the former Winchester Arms factory in Science Park.
