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What programs and services would you like to see our neighborhood schools offer to ALL children, youth, and families -- during and beyond the school day? We need your input to shape initial investments of the Community Schools Partnership at www.NHVCommunitySchools.org!

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¿Qué programas y servicios le gustaría que ofrecieran las escuelas de nuestro barrio a TODOS los niños, jóvenes y familias, durante y más allá de la jornada…

You are invited to the first public workshop for Vision 2034, New Haven’s Comprehensive Plan, on Thursday, April 25th from 5:30-7:30 at High School in the Community (175 Water Street)! 

Please help us get the word out to your friends, family, and neighbors! This workshop will include plan updates and visioning and will help inform the development of our topical working groups.

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Mill River Urban Waters Initiative - Community Leader /

Iniciativa de Aguas Urbanas del Río Mill - Líderes Comunitarios

Sigue en español.

Background

The project team for the Mill River Urban Waters Initiative requests applications from Fair Haven residents to serve as a Community Leader. In this role, the Community Leader will assist with general and specific outreach and engagement efforts…

This Wednesday 6-7pm. Pizza and translation offered. Please join us...

Maria Teniza | January 3rd, 2024

In Mi Lupita’s warm Grand Avenue kitchen, 54-year-old Yolanda Guzman Elias and her sister Batriz Guzman Elias were making culinary magic, cutting fresh strawberries and slicing thin meat before a morning rush. The smell of dough hung low and thick in the air, wafting from the…

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD | Nov 21, 2023

Fair Haven school kids filed into the Atwater Senior Center to keep their senior counterparts company in advance of Thanksgiving — and to dance cumbia with New Haveners like 73-year-old Yvonne Sheppard, who said the celebration was less a loneliness intervention than it was a special occasion among a vibrant city full of friends...…

Are you a Puerto Rican living in New Haven? Are you interested in being part of building an archive of local Puerto Ricans?

If so, then please consider participating in the New Haven Puerto Rican Oral History Project!

My name is Amanda Rivera, I’m a third-generation Boricua from New Jersey, and I’m a graduate student researcher…

Bright, splashy greens, blues, pinks and purples declare the sweet treats to be found at Cositas Deliciosas: the ice cream, the shakes, the snow cones, the fresh fruit. But for me, it’s the savory regional Mexican dishes that speak loudest...…

GUILFORD — While the plain wooden structure looks like any other old outbuilding at the Dudley Farm Museum, it holds a small treasure trove of Native American artifacts, some dating back 12,000 years...

https://www.ctinsider.com/shoreline/article/guilford-quinnipiac-dawnland-museum-dudley-farm-18404146.php

The state has awarded $6 million towards overhauling Grand Avenue to make the bustling Fair Haven commercial corridor safer, cleaner, better-lit, and more pedestrian-friendly.

Those improvements can’t come soon enough for neighborhood stalwarts like Maria Ocotecatl of Grand Fish Market, and Javier Sanchez of Evolution Hair Studio, and Angeles Romero of Rodeo Groceries, and Ines Vidals of Dayvett’s Gifts, who have built up their small businesses because of their diverse and supportive…

One Neighborhood, 90 Trees and an 82-Year-Old Crusader

Ed Rodriguez is on a mission to convince his neighbors that they need trees to help combat summer heat — and to make the world a better place. It’s not always so easy... 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/trees-heat-wave-new-haven-ct.html

Artist Perez — born Carlos Perez, but these days the artist goes simply by his last name — is in the process of painting a 227-foot-long "FAIR HAVEN" mural beneath the Interstate 91 Exit 7 overpass at Ferry Street and Middletown Avenue, one of the main entrances to Fair Haven...…