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Qulen Wright at Ninth Square Market II Caribbean Style, one of the restaurants pivoting to take-out.
A local professor has begun a Google Doc to help inform people how to support restaurants that are pivoting to take-out and delivery amid a statewide order to close dine-in service.
Continue reading ‘Where To Find Take-Out Food, Support Local Businesses’
by | Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm | Comments (3)
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Homeless patrons gather outside Sunrise for meals to go.
Within 24 hours, a crucial meal-provider for the homeless found a way to keep free breakfasts flowing while helping stem the spread of COVID-19 — even if that means sacrificing some of a sense of community in the short run.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Meal Lifeline Shifts To Take-Out’
by | Jan 17, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Honoree Batson with proud daughter Whitney.
In her work as a pre-school teacher in Hamden, Allison Batson discovered many of the families of her kids were food insecure.
That, along with her faith, led her to found “Dinner for a Dollar,” a communal supper that now feeds about 60 people, including the homeless, isolated seniors looking for social contact, and just plain neighbors, every Friday night 52 weeks a year at the Grace and St. Peter’s Church on Dixwell Avenue in northern Hamden.
Batson has never missed a Dinner for a Dollar night in eight years. In her spare time (!) she volunteers at warming centers in Hamden and helps on the homeless front through service on the board of Columbus House.
Continue reading ‘“Game Changer” Honored For Feeding The Hungry’
by | Feb 26, 2019 5:06 pm | Comments (1)
The fire department has sent out a signal 4 — for citizens needing help — not for a fire, but for the community to support neighbors hurt by the recent federal government shutdown.
Continue reading ‘FD Sends Out A Signal 4— To Help Furloughed Workers’ Families’
by | Jan 2, 2019 8:30 am | Comments (0)
Rendering of the new Q.
You could become a cornerstone of the revived Dixwell Community “Q” House.
by | Jun 22, 2018 8:22 am | Comments (2)
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Tyekqua Nesbitt .
As police search for the man they believe shot Tyekqua Nesbitt to death in front of her children, they’re also raising money for her family.
by | Feb 1, 2018 3:55 pm | Comments (1)
Mayor Harp addresses students at Wednesday night’s gathering.
A dozen Hillhouse High School seniors are hoping to learn firsthand about life in Costa Rica, with some help from the community.
by | Oct 3, 2017 12:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Kristen Calderon, Jennifer Heath and Chris Brown of Yale University.
The United Way of Greater New Haven sent in this write-up about the launch Tuesday to coincide with the launch of an annual campaign to help children and families in need, at a time when “funding cuts and general instability around the state budget process have sent shockwaves through the nonprofit community in Greater New Haven.” Click here to donate to the campaign.
Continue reading ‘Campaign Launched To Help Vulnerable Children & Families’
by | Oct 2, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (7)
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Angelique Quiñones, whose grandmother “lives between New Haven and Farjado, Puerto Rico.”
Angelique Quiñones hadn’t planned to spend her Saturday fundraising for Puerto Rico. But when her mom Elizabeth Reyes spotted a social media post asking for volunteers, she and her sister Alexandra signed on, donning new Puerto Rico themed jerseys and heading at full speed toward Grand Avenue.
by | Sep 28, 2017 12:19 pm | Comments (12)
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A week after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, New Haveners are rallying to help the residents of Puerto Rico even as many of the city’s Puerto Ricans wait nervously for news from their family back on the island.
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State Rep. Candelaria, above, lost an aunt, and is helping organize Saturday’s relief event in Fair Haven.
by | Sep 19, 2017 8:45 am | Comments (0)
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An hour a week is making a lifetime of difference for some New Haven school children and adults who read to them. You can become of those adults.
by | Aug 31, 2017 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
You can drop off donations for victims of Hurricane Harvey at the following places and times:
Thursday 3 p.m. — 8 p.m. Amity Stop and Shop parking lot
Friday 8 a.m. — 12p.m. Southern CT Hebrew Academy, lower lot, Derby Avenue
Friday 1 p.m. — 6 p.m. Wooster Square Park, Chapel Street
by | Jun 2, 2017 7:20 am | Comments (1)
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Sharon Rosenblatt unloads the 400 bras.
A New Haven organizer is flipping the concept of recycling — with bras.
by | May 9, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (4)
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Fiona Bradford in the New Haven Reads basement.
A sewage leak has destroyed over 300 books at a New Haven literacy nonprofit, putting in jeopardy its ritual end-of-year book giveaway.
by | May 4, 2017 5:21 pm | Comments (1)
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WNHH radiothon co-host Ratasha Smith of the Community Foundaiton.
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Tim Cabral of Ordinary brought midnight gin to the WNHH 36-hour radiothon.
New Haven nonprofits brought in close to $1.3 million in the annual community-wide “Great Give” organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
by | Apr 16, 2017 8:47 am | Comments (1)
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LEAPers JC Leana and Leandrea Mitchell at 2016 prom.
The following was submitted by LEAP:
Continue reading ‘How To Help Students In Need LEAP Into Prom Season’
by | Mar 17, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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LEAPers JC Leana and Leandrea Mitchell at 2016 prom.
The following was submitted by LEAP Director Henry Fernandez.
by | Dec 19, 2016 8:36 am | Comments (0)
The following was submitted by Metashar Dillon, chairman of the Kingdom International Economic Development Corporation (KIEDC).
by | Oct 1, 2016 8:43 pm | Comments (1)
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When Jews across New Haven head to Rosh Hashanah services Sunday night and Monday, they can add feeding hungry families to their list of reasons that year 5777 might be a sweet new one.
Continue reading ‘Food Drives Kick Off At Jewish New Year Services’
by | Apr 7, 2016 7:34 am | Comments (0)
Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio explore how eminent domain can be a fundamental civil rights issue, why New Haveners past and present eat oysters with such verve, and more.
by | Nov 24, 2015 3:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Hardy and Johnson.
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Calistro.
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Velleca, Lewis.
Today’s broadcasts covered advice on how to help New Haven’s homeless population, what it means to be a state prosecutor in the year 2015, the city’s police-community relations, and more.
by | Nov 17, 2015 3:50 pm | Comments (0)
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Clendenen at WNHH Tuesday.
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Today’s programs aired on WNHH radio covered those in need of legal assistance, a local musician’s career, and what New Haveners can do to support those who may be cold or hungry come winter.
by | Nov 17, 2015 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
The annual turkey drive conducted in the memory of the late Dixwell activist Mae Ola Riddick is kicking into high gear.
by | Feb 16, 2010 8:42 am | Comments (2)
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When the last storm dumped snow on East Rock, Kevin Howe “The Plow” jumped in his Yamaha Kodiak quad and cleared his neighbors’ sidewalks.
As the snow piles up today — and whenever else it does the remainder of this season — neighbors can use a new web tool to get help digging out.
by | Mar 19, 2008 8:52 am | Comments (4)
This message comes from Steve Greenberg: