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...…

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Good Morning!

Spread the word and RSVP now to the next Mayoral Candidates Town Hall, Thursday July 20th at 6:00PM, hosted by Democratic Town Committee Co-Chairs of the East Shore, Fair Haven, and Fair Haven Heights. Bilingual flyer attached, Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/243908245060432.



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Shafiq…

Mary Wade Outstanding Leadership Award 2023 Nomination Form

The Outstanding Leadership Award was created in 2010 for an individual who has served as a leader, inspiration, resource, and role model for the entire Fair Haven Community and is presented following the Annual Fair Haven Community Parade.  Click Here to complete your…

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Published December 9, 2022 at 8:01 AM EST

Neil Berro…

Greetings from the Admissions Office at Friends Center for Children.  We currently have 3 open Preschool slots available at our East Grand Avenue site for children ages 2 years 8 months to 5 years 6 months who live in New Haven.  These openings are at 227 East Grand Avenue.

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Dear community member,

Join us at two Fair Haven neighborhood events next week. Save the Sound will be engaging with the Fair Haven and Greater New Haven community through a presentation on the environmental reality of the lower Mill River watershed on Thursday, September 29.

The following Saturday, October 1, will give community members the opportunity to better that reality by planting native plants at the new park…