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Jan 22, 2025 4:34 pm
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Pearson's family, including his mom Anita Davies (right), gathered Wednesday to mourn their loved one, who would have turned 31 in less than a month.
Standing on the asphalt at the corner of Grand Avenue and East Pearl Street, Shaquille Pearson made a fatal decision.
Pearson’s friend “Willie G” was arguing with the occupants of a silver Honda CRV, including an 18-year-old who went by “Bizz” — as documented in a recently released arrest warrant for the teenage suspect in Pearson’s 2023 homicide.
Bizz, sporting a cast from a recent bullet wound, was upset because Willie G had allegedly sold him a fake gun a few days before. Pearson, according to police, went over to join the argument and protect his friend, boosting Bizz’s anger.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 22, 2025 12:36 pm
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Frank Redente, Jr. (right), with Lombard's Ruben Mallma, on the 2023 campaign trial: "Still a lot to do."
Frankie Redente just turned 50, he just bought a house two blocks from his grandma’s old apartment, and he just filed to run for a second two-year term as Fair Haven alder — with a promised focus on keeping neighborhood parks clean.
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Jan 17, 2025 7:19 pm
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Chief Jacobson: "We want you to call the police no matter what your immigration status is."
New Haven will protect immigrants, regardless of legal status, during a second Trump administration.
More than two dozen city officials, alders and immigrant rights advocates gathered in Fair Haven Friday afternoon to send that message — as they highlighted the city’s newly updated resource guide for new residents, which includes sections on the legal rights available to undocumented New Haveners.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 16, 2025 1:16 pm
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Thursday's presser at DISTRICT.
Bracing for Trump II tariffs and protectionism, the Lamont administration has launched a $25 million effort to try to build out “strategic supply chains” closer to home — in an effort to get ahead of potentially higher prices for imported goods.
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Jan 13, 2025 10:09 am
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Local investor Roberts: Wanted to buy, but didn't have enough $ for auction deposit.
A Fair Haven foreclosure auction brought out no new bidders — leaving the property to fall into the hands of the federal government, and the current tenant bracing to find a new place to live.
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Jan 7, 2025 9:29 am
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Gisleidy Rodríguez and her nieces, Nathalie and baby Aaliyah, pose for a photo with a volunteer trio of Three Kings.
According to 12-year-old Gisleidy Rodríguez, the meaning of Three Kings Day was “presents.”
But as she skipped around the room with her younger nieces and told the story of the milk she left under her bed for the Three Kings to drink, she gave a different kind of gift to the adults in the room — adults determined to pass on dearly-held traditions to the next generation.
... can now be thrown out in city compost bins, including on Crown St.
It’s a great time to be a banana peel in New Haven — as the city has installed three new public composting bins as part of a pilot program to help divert food scraps from the landfill.
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 23, 2024 4:10 pm
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The Fresh Starts team, including Marcus Harvin, Diamond Harvin, Talia Cardoba, Bradley Woodworth, Axel Woodworth, Adam Rawlings, and Big Don McDaniel.
On a bone-chilling night, Talia Cardoba spooned spicy chicken onto a heaping plate and handed it to an elf who scurried out of the kitchen.
“Careful, it’s hot,” she said, as the conversation of 16 mothers and their children floated in from the dining room of Life Haven, a 40-bed Ferry Street facility that provides temporary shelter to homeless pregnant women and women with young children.
The occasion was the second iteration of “Dinner & A Movie” hosted by Best Video and Newhallville’s Fresh Starts, a nonprofit founded on the belief that the first step toward helping someone realize their aspirations is nutritional sustenance.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 20, 2024 10:01 am
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A true New Haven circuit board melds music and apizza.
Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.
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Dec 13, 2024 1:57 pm
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Erick Gonzalez, with Angel and Armondo Villa: Bright lights, clean city.
Christmas wreathes and solar-powered holiday lights are coming to Grand Avenue, as a neighborhood crew worked early Friday morning to brighten up the busy business corridor — as part of a neighborhood-wide cleanup effort.
Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand Avenue to the Quinnipiac River.
And how about building up underused lots into lots more housing on East Street and on Wolcott?
Those were a few of the neighborhood-changing ideas that emerged Monday night at 162 James St., CitySeed’s new building, where city economic development officials convened a second public meeting for citizen input to envision a now-and-future identity for the Mill River District.
Francine Advincula, with Eneida Arroyo: Music's great, camaraderie's better.
A menu of pollo asado, arroz con gandules, and tres leches for dessert was the centerpiece of a joyous afternoon of gratitude, service, and community love in Fair Haven.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 15, 2024 9:52 am
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Where once was warehouse, now stands rubble.
A fenced-off pile of bricks, wood, metal, and other debris now stands beneath the open sky at the site of a partially demolished, fire-ravaged Fair Haven warehouse.
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Naseema Gilson |
Nov 12, 2024 11:13 am
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Babz Rawls Ivy and Chrissy Tracey talk mushroom foraging.
Drummers greet visitors to new CitySeed HQ.
This citizen contribution was submitted by Naseema Gilson, CitySeed’s director of development.
The smells of Nepalese momos and jerk chicken wafted down the stairs, as guests poured into a former Fair Haven factory for “A Night of Food, Community, and Conversation.” The drumbeats and skirt swirls of Movimiento Cultural Afro Continental’s drummers and dancers greeted visitors at the top of the stairs, along with a message: Welcome to CitySeed’s new home.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 7, 2024 9:35 am
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Kendall Driffin and Susan Kulp in The Niceties.
Janine, a professor, has some feedback for her student, Zoe. “I’m glad you brought this in early. I can see you’ve done an impressive amount of work on it,” Janine says.
“Yeah, well. I tend to get a little intense about fulfilling requirements,” Zoe says. The tone in the room is still friendly, but something is changing.
“I wish you hadn’t plowed ahead like this — written the full draft without getting comments on the thesis,” Janine says. “I was just excited to lay out the ideas,” Zoe says.
“I’m afraid you’re in for quite a substantial rewrite,” Janine says. “Your argument is … fundamentally unsound.” She turns to the first page. “‘A successful American Revolution was only possible because of the existence of slavery,’” she reads out loud.
Now the mood has changed completely, though Janine doesn’t fully realize it. “Yes,” Zoe said. Janine challenges her, as only a professor at an elite college can: “Yes?” she says, the verbal equivalent. But Zoe, suddenly, is having no more of it. “Yes,” she says.
Mari Rojas (right), with daughter Camila: "I just want her to learn her culture."
Skeleton floats get ready for the parade.
Sadie Rose doesn’t usually celebrate Día de los Muertos — but when Jack, her boyfriend of two years, died suddenly in June, she knew she had to find some way to honor him.
So, with a candle and a framed picture in hand, Rose came out to Bregamos Community Theater with dozens of others to help mark the Day of the Dead.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 30, 2024 11:14 am
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The early Wednesday fire at 36 River.
More than 100 firefighters from New Haven and surrounding towns rushed out to River Street early Wednesday morning to put down a four-alarm fire — with no reported injuries, so far — as exploding vehicle gas tanks contributed to a high-intensity blaze.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 23, 2024 10:36 am
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Leslie Blatteau and Elizabeth Baldetti work the phones for "pro-worker, pro-working-family candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, former AFT member Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey."
Seven New Haven teachers gathered after school to make phone calls — not to students’ parents, but to registered voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, to encourage them to each make voting plans, and to boost Democratic candidates for president, vice president, and senate.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 21, 2024 9:39 am
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Hey, Erector Square! Who you calling "meat face?"
Erector Square was full of people and art, as the second year of the fully artist-run New Haven Open Studios packed the building complex — so much so that, in addition to the many artists who had flung open their studio doors to visitors, many more had set up displays in entryways, intersections, and hallways, giving the sense that everywhere one went, there was art on the walls, and conversation happening.
