by | May 9, 2018 9:31 pm | Comments (6)
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LCI’s Rafael Ramos tells tenant Rodney Herring about code violations at 35-37 Shelton.
The city temporarily condemned a Newhallville rooming house late Wednesday afternoon because of its damaged roof and non-functional fire protection system, forcing nearly a dozen adults and one small child to relocate to an area hotel for the night.
by | May 4, 2018 5:27 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haven’s Albertus Magnus College, which has recently stepped up its commitment to closer town-gown relations, inaugurated its 14th president on Friday afternoon with calls for study, prayer, service, and community.
by | May 4, 2018 1:41 pm | Comments (1)
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Benjamin Mejia at the Newhallville apartment he rents.
Benjamin Mejia left his carpentry job each day in a cloud of vapors, wood shavings and dust. His steel-toed boots tracked the worksite into his apartment. Soon, one of his boys tested positive for lead poisoning.
by | May 3, 2018 6:57 pm | Comments (5)
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The SWAT team and the New Haven police descended on Newhallville for what turned out to be a wrong call.
Chief Anthony Campbell (right) and Asst. Chief Racheal Cain.
A day after a deadly standoff with a barricaded man in North Haven, New Haven police blocked off a portion of Newhallville for what appeared to be a standoff with a barricaded man — but turned out not to be.
by | Apr 30, 2018 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Jessica Trochsler, with students at Brennan-Rogers.
Nearly 600 teachers, parents and students showed up at school sporting blue T‑shirts Friday in support for the hundreds of Elm City kids with autism.
The vibrant display grew out of a years-long efforts by a handful of special education teachers to draw attention to the students in their classes.
Continue reading ‘Teachers Seek Inclusion For Special Ed Kids’
by | Apr 30, 2018 12:20 pm | Comments (7)
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Dolores Colon: “On program.”
The city’s anti-blight agency voted to sell two vacant Munson Street lots to a faith-based nonprofit housing developer to bolster the affordable rental market in a stretch of Dixwell-Newhallville that is on the cusp of overflowing with market-rate apartments.
by | Apr 23, 2018 4:19 pm | Comments (21)
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Updated rendering of the 201 Munson St. project.
The latest plans for a new apartment complex at the border of the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods show slightly more apartments than had been previously pitched to neighbors and a less prominent “moat” of parking around the rest of the site.
Continue reading ‘Munson Project Inches Closer To 400 Units’
by | Apr 12, 2018 7:47 am | Comments (5)
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Guy Smith (right) in Newhallville Wednesday with Pastor Aaron Moody.
The Connecticut upcoming Democratic Party convention is already rigged, Guy Smith declared. Against him.
Continue reading ‘Smith: I’m Skipping “Rigged” Dem Convention’
by | Mar 27, 2018 1:02 pm | Comments (3)
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The range as of Jan. 22.
The new indoor police firing range is in the home stretch of completion.
by | Mar 26, 2018 12:12 pm | Comments (0)
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Fire Chief John Alston, Jr.
A year and a half after coming to town, Fire Chief John Alston Jr. is already stepping into one of the black community’s honored roles: serving as grand marshal of the annual Freddy Fixer Parade.
Continue reading ‘Fire Chief, Tom Joyner To Lead This Year’s Freddy’
by | Mar 15, 2018 8:30 am | Comments (6)
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Carr, Morrison, Woods and Matos.
For Mayor Toni Harp, the moment the door opened came right after the birth of her first child, while she was sharing a recovery room at Yale New Haven Hospital with the sister of a woman named Kathy Robinson, who convinced Harp to work on her campaign for Ward 20 alder.
by | Mar 8, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (23)
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Rendering of future Strong — er, Obama? — School.
When the Strong 21st Century Communications Magnet School opens its new home on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University, it might have a new name — that of the 44th president on the United States.
by | Mar 5, 2018 1:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Wessel Award winners Doreen Abubakar (left) and Ana María Rivera-Forastieri and Brett Davidson (center and right). .
A lifelong Newhallville community activist and a nonprofit dedicated to keeping local immigrants out of jail are the latest recipients of an annual award given to New Haveners who work towards extending help to local families in need.
Continue reading ‘Immigrant Bail Fund, Newhallville Activist Honored’
by | Feb 28, 2018 9:15 am | Comments (0)
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Demethra Telford at the vigil
Fourteen-year-old Tyrick Keyes was shot on a sidewalk along Newhall Street last summer when he was walking with his girlfriend. The gunman then stood over him and pulled the trigger again. Keyes died a few days later.
by | Feb 16, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (19)
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Brothers Ricky and Brandon at their rib joint.
Prototype of new sauce.
The move to legalize marijuana in Connecticut has a New Haven entrepreneur eyeing his next move: Marketing a homegrown marijuana-infused barbecue sauce. And becoming “the Heinz ketchup of the cannabis industry.”
by | Feb 14, 2018 3:46 pm | Comments (1)
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Mom’s Night, at Lincoln Bassett Community School.
Rarely-recognized moms who keep families going received the thanks they deserve in Newhallville, with a party, prizes, and information about how to connect more with the school and their community.
by | Feb 6, 2018 5:49 pm | Comments (3)
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Lee Cruz and Karen DuBois-Walton at the Orchid Cafe Monday evening
Elizabeth Nearing fought with her sister, until her parent’s health problems made them learn to make peace. Lee Cruz learned to fight for his education after his parents moved to Puerto Rico
by | Feb 2, 2018 8:37 am | Comments (4)
Standing in front of a movie screen on Thursday night at ConnCAT in Science Park, filmmaker Frank Mitchell recognized a lot of familiar faces in the small but attentive crowd who had come to see Unsung Heroes, his movie about New Haven’s jazz scene.
“There are folks in the audience who can tell the entire story themselves,” he said.
And soon enough, Allen “Rubbs” Williams, former bartender at the Monterey Club on Dixwell Avenue, would watch a slightly younger version of himself on the screen talk about the history and legacy of New Haven jazz — and offer some insight about how that history might shape the city’s future.
by | Jan 25, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (1)
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Highsmith, Clemons, Copeland, and Key Bank Connecticut President f Jeff Hubbard.
A woman in the phlebotomy training class had been doing well, and then not. Then she dropped out completely.
Staff figured out the problem: She had become homeless. They put her in touch with an agency that could help. She got a place to live, she returned to the phlebotomy program, she graduated, and she is now gainfully employed.
by | Jan 22, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (7)
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Beulah is looking to replicate on Munson Street and Dixwell Avenue the success it had with houses like this one, on Orchard Street.
Another builder is looking to bring new apartments to the Newhallville-Dixwell border — and this time they’d all be affordable.
by | Jan 16, 2018 1:02 pm | Comments (9)
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Goode points out an infrared sensor that tracks trail usage.
Aaron Goode doesn’t see just 385 new apartments when he looks at vacant Munson Street land on which a developer plans to build. He also sees 598 parking spaces — as well as an already congested intersection and a pedestrian/bike trail that might be fenced off to people.
by | Jan 9, 2018 1:59 pm | Comments (12)
Levey-Burden (above) and Winfield (below) tell stories at ConnCAT.
Entrepreneur Kia Levey-Burden was adamant that she would never be a mom, especially a single one. State Sen. Gary Winfield always wanted to be a dad but never thought it would happen after a first marriage failed.
by | Jan 4, 2018 9:19 pm | Comments (1)
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Captain Wayne Ricks, Jr. puts on his boots and prepares to board Engine 6 at the Dixwell Fire Station.
The call came in to the Dixwell Fire Station at 3:43 p.m.: a box alarm at 55 Lock St.
by | Jan 3, 2018 1:35 pm | Comments (2)
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An early rendition of the 201 Munson St. plan
Alders voted unanimously to rezone a 13-acre parcel in Newhallville, clearing the way for a proposed 385-apartment complex.
Continue reading ‘Alders OKs Zone Change For Munson St. Project’
by | Dec 22, 2017 9:18 am | Comments (8)
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Essence Bennett gets a brand new bike from the CT Cowboys Fan Club.
Essence Bennett arrived at preschool on Thursday expecting a regular day of reading, singing and naptime.
Continue reading ‘Cowboys Fans Bring Bikes, Toys & Football Love To Preschool’