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Bridge party! On Grand Avenue Saturday.
Repainted, rehabbed, and reopening (on Tuesday).
Engineer Giovanni Zinn shows underside of bridge's "exodermic" deck.
Dozens of Fair Haven and Heights residents braved the single-digit cold for a neighborhood-spanning celebration above the Quinnipiac River, as the historic Grand Avenue Bridge — fresh off of a $28 million, on-time-and-under-budget rehab — prepares to reopen for the first time in nearly two years.
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Nov 15, 2021 4:52 pm
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Operation Hug: Staff sergeant Andre Cunningham greets 4-year-old Moriah after four-month deployment.
Serenity before her father’s surprise arrival.
Andre Cunningham came home from a four-month deployment in the Middle East a week early — and deployed to Benjamin Jepson School for a surprise mission.
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Nov 12, 2021 9:16 am
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RegalCare nursing home at 181 Clifton St.
A Bronx-based nursing home company has purchased the 150-bed RegalCare facility in Fair Haven Heights for just under $8 million, in the city’s latest property transactions.
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Nov 2, 2021 2:24 pm
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Jingle-jangle morning: Greens Patricia Kane and Allan Brison shake for change outside Jepson polling station.
Leslie Crescenzi came to the polls Tuesday undecided on whom to vote for as her alder. She desired change but wasn’t familiar with the candidates. Then a loud ringing made up her mind.
Builder Joe Levy and Q Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes at City Hall vote.
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Rendering of 27 apartments planned for Hemingway.
The Board of Alders overwhelmingly approved selling a 1.29-acre Hemingway Street plot for $40,000 to a New York City-based developer that plans to build 27 new apartments on the vacant site, which includes wetlands.
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Oct 18, 2021 9:51 am
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Outside Bella Vista’s Building E on Friday afternoon.
Gayle Hall, Tomas Robles, and Griselle Crespo awaiting help.
Three days after the lights went out at a Bella Vista high rise, dozens of displaced tenants remain in area hotel rooms and at family members’ homes as the apartment complex’s managers try to figure out what caused the power outage — and how to fix it.
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Oct 15, 2021 10:08 am
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Ward 13 alder candidates Rosa Santana (vaxed, pro-mandate), Patricia Kane (vaxed, anti-mandate), Deborah Reyes (unvaxxed, anti-mandate).
Fair Haven Heights voters have more choices than anyone else in town in this year’s general election: Three different candidates are seeking their support for alder in the Nov. 2 election, and they offer three mixes of positions on issues ranging from health care to policing.
Aerial view of the proposed expanded oyster farm on the Quinnipiac.
How it all works.
Plans to revive the Quinnipiac River’s bivalve-harvesting heritage took a big step forward, with three unanimous city approvals for an expanded oyster farm on the Fair Haven Heights waterfront.
Students at Ross/Woodward School spent Friday across town at Hillhouse High School’s Floyd Little Fieldhouse after bats were discovered inside their building.
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Jul 14, 2021 12:53 pm
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Wednesday’s virtual court hearing. Clockwise from top left: Defense attn’y Christopher Duby, Judge Harmon, state prosecutor Stacey Miranda, Rashod Newton.
Rashod Newton pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his girlfriend Alessia Mesquita.
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Alessia Mesquita with her son Joseph.
A shooting-related warrant sat unserved by West Haven police for over a year — leaving the target free to allegedly shoot and kill his girlfriend Alessia Mesquita in the middle of the street in Fair Haven Heights.
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Kurtis Kearney (right) at the 2019 Democratic Town Convention, with current Ward 11 Alder Heywood (left).
Shootings, trash, and potholes on Quinnipiac Avenue.
Kurtis Kearney pointed to those three social maladies — and a desire to do his part to try to address them — as his primary motivations for running for the Democratic nomination for Ward 11 alder.
Cynthia Howard: My apartment looks like a New York loft.
Seven-plus years of work in childcare offered Cynthia Howard no cushion when divorce and surgery costs pushed her into homelessness.
She now has her own apartment again — thanks to her workplace’s efforts to break cycles of poverty in the childcare industry by providing free housing to employees.
Soil contaminated? Have to shlep five gallon buckets of water by hand to your thirsty veggies because no spigot is nearby? Is a zoning conundrum blocking you from planting a garden in the first place?
Frank D’Amore documents construction piles on Pardee Street.
City inspectors conducting New Haven’s latest “clean and safe neighborhood sweep” Thursday came across the Annex’s potential next illegal junkyards — and took steps to prevent them.
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Mar 26, 2021 10:33 am
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Candles and flowers decorate corner of Lenox and Clifton at Thursday vigil; Mesquita’s death has raised awareness of a rise in domestic violence and spurred calls for action.
Sandy Mesquita: I’m Alaia’s grandmother, mother, father now.
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Firefighters Hector Torres and David Tortora decontaminating cars.
Jim Fitzmaurice: I know that the property is contaminated, but my grandfather ran for this place for so many years while they knew it was contaminated and nobody said anything.”
Russell Street family now has a legal, and a physical, mess to clean up if it wants to hold onto its property.
