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Energized Fair Haven Ramps Up Annual Neighborhood Celebration

by | May 2, 2023 11:13 am | Comments (2)

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Erick Gonzalez, Frank Redente, Kiara Cintron, and Ivette Oliveras at WNHH FM.

First an annual neighborhood May parade came back. Then the parade grew, and grew.

Now Fair Haven is going all out not just with hundreds of marchers, but a day and evening-long celebration of the neighborhood’s culture and cuisine and commerce.

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Senator Tackles Loneliness "Epidemic"

by | May 1, 2023 12:01 pm | Comments (14)

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Sen. Murphy: "The way that we're feeling on both the right and the left is strikingly similar."

Can we talk? About how lonely and disconnected so many of us feel?

Chris Murphy hopes so. Otherwise, he worries, we won’t be able to come together as a nation to tackle challenges ranging from mass shootings to opioid addiction to teen suicide and social-media bullying to political polarization.

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DuBois-Walton: Tent City Reflects Broader Housing Crisis

by | Mar 17, 2023 9:20 am | Comments (10)

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City crew Thursday bulldozing the Boulevard Tent City.

Three people were escorted out of tents at a homeless encampment in New Haven Thursday.

Meanwhile, 30,000 households are on a waiting list to obtain a public-housing apartment.

Those numbers are related, in the view of Karen DuBois-Walton, who runs the Housing Authority of New Haven, which maintains that list.

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