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Laura Glesby |
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Mildred Melendez: Running to be Ward 13's "liaison."
When Mildred Melendez was a teenager, she would bike around Fair Haven Heights — just across the river from where she lived in Fair Haven — and would think to herself: I want to live here one day.
Now, having lived in the Heights for the past 13 years, Melendez is working to realize her next dream: representing the neighborhood on the Board of Alders.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 25, 2025 9:54 am
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The former West Rock STREAM Academy.
The Board of Education has approved the school district’s plan to hand over to city government two vacant former school buildings in West Hills and Fair Haven Heights.
311 Valley St.: En route from NHPS to city ownership?
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Alder Smith: The former West Hills school should become a place for public meetings and other neighborhood activities.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has officially begun the process of handing over to city government two vacant former school buildings in West Hills and Fair Haven Heights.
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Jordan Allyn |
May 15, 2025 10:46 am
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Cutting the ribbon on state's first DBT residential program.
Accompanied by two therapy dogs outside of a house in the Heights, clinicians and government workers celebrated the opening of Connecticut’s first Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) residential program — a five-bed facility where residents who struggle with complex trauma receive specialized treatments including music, art, and pet therapy.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 15, 2024 2:47 pm
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Bohannon, on the job 27 years and counting: "I make myself available to make the ship run smooth."
Kindergarteners greeted Benjamin Jepson Building Manager Mark Bohannon with hugs and fist bumps as the school’s top custodian prepared to escort them from the gym to their classrooms — as part of a daily morning ritual that goes well beyond taking out the trash.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 7, 2024 9:34 am
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A 56-year-old man with a machete — and an apparent history of mental health problems — was shot and killed during an altercation with a fellow resident at the Bella Vista apartment complex on Friday afternoon.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 17, 2024 12:57 pm
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Lino Liuzzi with brother Nicola, co-founders of Liuzzi Cheese.
The aging room at Liuzzi cheese — what Lino built.
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx.
A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
So he took a train to New Haven station — and took his first steps towards building a Connecticut cheese empire.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 16, 2024 11:38 am
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Friends Center's Executive Director Allyx Schiavone (center) with teachers Eric Gill and Justin Cross.
For financial reasons, Justin Cross lives with his mom and Ubers, an expense he can ill afford, all the way across town from the Hill to his early childhood education job in Fair Haven Heights.
Eric Gill commutes from Waterbury, where he shares a single room with a brother and a cousin in an uncle’s house, traveling 50 stressed round-trip miles, often arriving very late or very early, depending on traffic.
Both idealistic young men are about to receive a huge financial relief package: They will be moving into a pioneering “teachers village,” free rental housing in a verdant compound a five-minute walk from the Friends Center for Children’s school (no more commute!) on East Grand Avenue.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 19, 2024 12:13 pm
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Fixing the leak at Winters Run.
The members of a Fair Haven Heights condo association have voted to pay their entire $138,000-plus overdue water bill — and will now try to collect from the complex’s former property manager, whom they accuse of failing to promptly address the leak that left them in such a financial mess.
A former Fair Haven Heights fabric-coating chemical factory could become a mix of private studios occupied by artists, small business owners, and small-scale manufacturers — as well as a site for self-storage.
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Allan Appel |
May 17, 2024 10:33 am
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Friends of Quarry Park friends Jane Coppock and Tracy Blanford.
A letter, which should have been alarming, arrived at the Parks Department.
It described a growing, layered mound of more than 5,000 square feet of dumped junk like mattresses, refrigerators, old play equipment and construction debris encroaching from private backyards into the public park land of Quarry Park Preserve in Fair Haven Heights.
That letter was dated February 28, 2002!
After more than 20 years, Tracey Blanford, who heads the Friends of Quarry Park Preserve and was the author of that letter, showed up to a parks commission meeting on Wednesday night.
She was polite and civil, and also simmering with two decades of frustrated advocacy over how to get the city to help keep the park clean.
Arthur Taylor at Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen's drop-in center in 2022.
Arthur Taylor brought the music — and an unflagging sense of urgency — to advocacy for the rights of unhoused people like himself.
He died at age 71 in a car crash this week while walking along an I‑91 travel lane, a few weeks after moving into the city’s new non-congregate shelter in a former hotel on Foxon Boulevard.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm
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Looking east from where wall would begin.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
Ziggy's Pizza: Lease extended, staying put, as part of plan.
The housing authority has officially purchased two Fair Haven Heights properties by the Quinnipiac River as part of its latest effort to redevelop long-underused city plots into new places to live.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2024 11:24 am
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Goode leads group into woods.
Aaron Goode of the New Haven Bioregional Group smiled at the roughly 30 people assembled in the parking lot of New Haven Friends Meeting on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven Heights, ready to hike.
“Welcome to New Haven’s own Jurassic Park,” he said, explaining that the sign-in sheet people had signed also doubled as a “liability release” in case of dinosaur attack. He then corrected himself; if he were being more accurate, it would have to be called Upper Triassic Park, for the age of the rocks — and the fossils — that were found behind him in Quarry Park, a city park and site of a previous Bioregional hike last year.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 6, 2024 5:51 pm
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Tenant Alisha Moore with her union on Tuesday: "We want real fixes."
Lenox Street residents said they couldn’t get through to their landlord to report rodents, water damage and trash pile-up — so they formed a union and pasted their collective complaints to Ocean Management’s front door.
Social media postings by arrested alleged Exit 8 members, entered into evidence. The 8 ball is a reference to the gang.
New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am
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New Haven nursing home patients may fret less about flu season next year — if a Bronx-based assisted living company gets the green light to build 150 beds, pave half as many parking spaces and bring ultraviolet disinfection tech to the Hill neighborhood.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 20, 2023 11:58 am
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Commissioners William Kilpatrick, Alberta Witherspoon, and Elmer Rivera at Tuesday's meeting.
The housing authority took one big step towards building 40 new mixed-income apartments and ground-floor retail space by the Quinnipiac River, as its board voted to spend $1.42 million to purchase an East Grand Avenue lot and nearby pizzeria.
Ziggy's at 36 E. Grand: Lives to bake and slice another day.
The housing authority plans to purchase a vacant lot on the Quinnipiac River and a nearby pizzeria to build a mixed-income, mixed-use development with between 40 and 50 apartments.
