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Nov 10, 2021 4:31 pm
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Dorian Bauknecht: 46 years, and counting.
Dorian Bauknecht showed at Marshalls as usual, like she has nearly each weekend for the past 46 years. Unlike either five or forty years ago, she made sure her car doors were locked and her wallet was securely hidden, in fear of robberies that almost never occur in the shopping plaza but that have become hotly discussed throughout town.
The newly rebuilt Q House, ready to reopen Saturday after 18 years.
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Jeanette Morrison and Henry Fernandez, leading a tour inside.
Seniors in the morning. Kids in the afternoon. Other adults at night.
That’s one way of looking at the planned rhythm of the newly rebuilt Dixwell Community “Q” House, which opens Saturday with a festive ribbon-cutting celebration of a decade of community working.
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Oct 22, 2021 8:36 am
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Team Q: LEAP’s Henry Fernandez, Alder Jeanette Morrison.
The long-awaited opening of the new Dixwell Community “Q” House is a week away. Here’s the lowdown on how a community advisory board and LEAP will take the reins.
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Oct 6, 2021 4:18 pm
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Cecilie Boaheng: Everyone’s terrified.
One day after police arrested a student for carrying a loaded handgun in his backpack on school grounds, Hamden High students said they felt unsafe — and unsupported.
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Courtney Luciana |
Oct 4, 2021 8:25 am
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Ward 30 Harvest Festival vendors.
A hundred West Hills residents gathered Saturday to participate in a Ward 30 Harvest Festival on at West Rock Stream Academy.
The event was launched by West Hills officials and the board of “333 Valley Street: an Intergenerational Organization, Inc.” to raise money towards reviving an after-school program held in the building widely known in the area as “The Shack,” a community service center up the street that that was last open decades ago.
Chaz Carmon: This was our youth’s home away from home.
Hurricane Ida wiped out seven years worth of belongings at the home of the Ice the Beef anti-violence youth group. Now the group is scrambling to get back in and “save lives” again.
And just like that, there is now a new city department — charged with finding a data-driven, coordinated response to a vast array of social issues, from homelessness to mental health disorders to drug addiction to prison reentry.
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Aug 30, 2021 6:43 am
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Emani Arnold: “Confident side” ready for school.
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Imani Moore, 5, searches for her hair style of choice at Sunday’s event at The Village.
“Everyday I look in the mirror and tell myself, ‘You can do this,” 14-year-old Emani Arnold said from a folding chair where she patiently waited two hours for a back-to-school hairdo of bright red braids.
Those burgundy plaits will frame Arnold’s face Monday morning when she performs the mirror routine in preparation for her first day of 11th grade.
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Aug 10, 2021 9:57 am
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“Hope Grows” tree dedication event to end domestic violence Monday.
Drizzly raindrops trickled down the leaves and were soaked up by the roots of an American chestnut tree that now stands in Fair Haven’s Quinnipiac River Park for victims of domestic violence.
Rethinking government: Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal discusses plans at press conference last week.
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The city’s pitch for a new Department of Community Resilience.
Alders unanimously advanced the Elicker Administration’s proposed creation of a new bulked up and reorganized social problem-solving city department — after debating using short-term federal cash to address long-term societal problems.
Youth homelessness is on the rise — and a 55-year-old New Haven agency serving homeless and at-risk youth is becoming an affiliate of a leading, 108-year-old family mental health and support agency to take on the challenge together.
Babz Rawls Ivy with Prosperity Foundation Executive Director Orsella Hughes at Monday’s porch launch.
Babz Rawls Ivy kicked off Black Philanthropy Month with the launch of a fund to aid Black women exiting prison and reentering society, hoping to ease a path she herself has successfully navigated.
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Jul 30, 2021 11:14 am
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Donna Thompson at Wednesday’s event.
Donna Thompson — along with several dozen fellow New Haveners currently working part-time, short-term jobs — showed up at Career High School with a goal in mind: To find a new career.
The young people set the rhythm for the Cha-Cha-Slide, and the cops joined in — with the hope of making one “right foot stomp” fit into a broader effort to connect police with developmentally disabled youth.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jul 9, 2021 10:38 am
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Tyrese Dennie, a CSK employee who started out as a volunteer, at the new weekly farmers market.
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Khadijah Middlebrooks and son Lex wait for bus with free groceries.
“We having a barbecue, throw some meat on the grill!” Khadijah Middlebrooks proclaimed to her son Lex, while picking up packs of frozen turkey, beef, and pork at one of two new weekly events aimed at tackling increasing food insecurity in Hamden.
As Sangeetha watched her two sons eat “Grab and Go” breakfasts in their current “home” — a Hamden hotel — she was looking ahead for a new place to live, not looking back.
Homeless New Haveners now have a dedicated spot downtown where they’re invited to come hang out, have an iced drink, socialize, and escape from the summer heat, no questions asked.
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.
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May 28, 2021 8:44 am
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Foster parent Shannon Hinton, left, at the opening.
Foster families celebrated a new institutional home Thursday, as the Children’s Community Programs of Connecticut celebrated the opening of a new renovated central facility in the heart of Westville Village.
