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Chatham Square | September 11, 2009

Spigot and Spirit at Chatham Square

by Allan Appel | September 11, 2009 10:35 AM | Permalink

It used to be that David Zakur and his fellow greenspace gardeners shlepped five-gallon paint cans heavy with H2O from a neighboring house to water the trees and plantings at the revived Chatham Square Park. No longer. The ceremonial spigot was turned on Friday morning.

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Chatham Square | July 3, 2009

Fair Haven Greened

by Allan Appel | July 3, 2009 9:09 AM | Permalink

Fair Haven is growing greener one tree and one block at a time.

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Chatham Square | March 30, 2009

Even Babies Are Cleaning Up Chatham Square

by Allan Appel | March 30, 2009 10:44 AM | Permalink

Although only nine and a half months old, Cole Zakur has already participated in two clean-ups in Chatham Square. He has also developed a precocious attachment to pruning shears.

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Chatham Square | February 19, 2009

Mystery Donors Endow A Neighborhood

by Allan Appel | February 19, 2009 11:32 AM | Permalink

As Chatham Squarers like Daniel Butler and daughter Evie gathered for sweet potato pie and a new potluck dinner tradition, they launched an effort to become the city's first "endowed neighborhood."

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Chatham Square | September 22, 2008

Chatham Square Festival Delivers

by Melinda Tuhus | September 22, 2008 9:41 AM | Permalink

Horse-drawn wagon rides, gunny sack races and a boys-against-girls tug of war made the Chatham Square festival seem like a throwback to the "good old days." Information about home foreclosures and the survey about neighborhood problems like drugs and prostitution brought it right up to the present.

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Chatham Square | September 4, 2008

Bicycle Roadeo

by Melissa Bailey | September 4, 2008 7:49 AM | Permalink

For kids, Sat. 3:30 to 6:30 at Chatham Square Park. Email here to volunteer.

Chatham Square | August 10, 2008

Road Witched, Traffic Calmed, Cop Cookied

by Allan Appel | August 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Permalink

"Road witching" came to New Haven for the first time as traffic-calming champion Erin Sturgis-Pascale led a dozen of her fellow Fair Haveners in "chalking in" medians and curb bump-outs -- which, if actually built, would slow traffic and help reclaim the streets for non-vehicular uses.

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Chatham Square | May 30, 2008

Fair Haven On Parade

by Paul Bass | May 30, 2008 4:55 PM | Permalink

With gauchos in place, a celebration of Fair Haven's rebirth began in an appropriate spot: Chatham Square.

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Chatham Square | April 29, 2008

Chatham Square Rising

by Allan Appel | April 29, 2008 4:23 PM | Permalink

"Our goal is community stabilization without gentrification," said two new leaders of the reviving Chatham Square neighborhood.

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Chatham Square | December 7, 2007

Chatham Square's Upbeat

by Paul Bass | December 7, 2007 12:25 PM | Permalink

Click here for results of a Community Foundation survey of improved attitudes in a stretch of Fair Haven undergoing a grassroots renaissance. Past stories here, here, here, and here.

Chatham Square | October 3, 2007

Kids Sighted. . . Walking!

by Allan Appel | October 3, 2007 2:56 PM | Permalink

Proving that modern kids still know how to put one foot in front of the other, 556 Clinton Avenue School Cougars proudly hoofed it from Chatham Square Park to their school Wednesday in celebration of International Walk to School Day. A parade of notables walked alongside them -- and discussed how to make every day Walk to School Day.

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Chatham Square | September 17, 2007

Chatham Square Fest Goes Off -- With a Hitch

by Linda Cuckovich | September 17, 2007 7:47 AM | Permalink

Chatham Square residents and friends came together to hear music, play games, and promote community -- or maybe it was just to ride through the streets of Fair Haven in a horse-drawn carriage.

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Chatham Square | July 13, 2007

Crash Pins Girl Under Car

by Allan Appel | July 13, 2007 12:26 AM | Permalink

Fair Haveners are, unfortunately, accustomed to garden variety vehicular speeding along some of its wide streets. However, when the driver of a Honda raced through a stop sign Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Maltby and Chatham, just at the corner of pretty Chatham Square Park, the consequences were not only horrific, but criminal: A side-impact collision that ejected an 11-year old back-seat passenger from the struck car and pinned her under another vehicle. She's now fighting for her life.

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Chatham Square | May 3, 2007

The "Intensity of Neighborhood" Goes On Display

by Allan Appel | May 3, 2007 1:23 PM | Permalink

When Erna Caron told Ying-Ying Ma about living in Chatham Square, a lasting story was born -- about a meat freezer, about a family named Finnegan, about a river and oysters, about a multiracial urban "village," about community most of all.

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Chatham Square | April 19, 2007

In Chatham Square, Community-Building In Action

by Allan Appel | April 19, 2007 12:54 PM | Permalink

The meeting was officially over. Paula Walker, Miguel Cartagena, and Lee Cruz were still hanging around. They discussed who would take care of lights, who would bring in portable toilets, and who would lead a spruce up of Chatham Square Park for the area's first concert in years, which is now in the planning.

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Chatham Square | February 26, 2007

Shhh...Chatham Square Throws A Traffic Calming Party

by Allan Appel | February 26, 2007 9:05 AM | Permalink

These boys alone will not likely calm the traffic in Fair Haven merely by shush-shushing. That is one reason the Chatham Square Neighborhood Association had no problem throwing a noisy second annual winter family festival and promoting its traffic calming campaign at the same enjoyable time.

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Chatham Square | October 30, 2006

Chatham Square Has Its First Fall Festival

by Lesha Daley | October 30, 2006 7:48 AM | Permalink

Luis Cotto helped children paint pumpkins as apart of the festivities at Chatham Square's first annual Fall Festival.

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