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Mentors Honored, Torch Passed At Freddy Gala

2 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Lisa Reisman

A week before this year’s Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade, Rodney “Rock” Williams and his Green Elm Construction crew engaged in their annual spring cleaning of Dixwell Avenue to get the corridor neat and spiffy. It’s among a host of beautification efforts around the neighborhood that he leads, and that he’s been quietly doing free for years.
Gay Marriage Trailblazer Helps Raise Pride Flag

3 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

Peg Oliveira stood alongside the mayor and a crowd of New Haveners celebrating the start of Pride Month and watched a rainbow-colored flag rise above the Green. She thought back to 2008, when she and Jen Vickery became the first New Haven same-sex couple to get legally married, by the Amistad statue at City Hall. And she thought back to 2015, when same-sex couples across the nation won that same right to get married, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that is a decade old this month.
New Threads Put Fabric Over Fish Scale

3 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Lisa Reisman

Change the narrative and turn it into something positive. Change the hustle and turn it into something good for the ‘hood. Those words, from co-founder Gaylord Salters Jr., sum up the mission of Double G.I. (short for Go Get It), a new clothing company, which recently unveiled its Fabric Over Fish Scale streetwear collection at New Haven Apparel on Dixwell Avenue.
City, APT Strike Long Wharf Deal

4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

The Elicker administration has reached a tentative agreement with the APT Foundation that, if approved by the Board of Alders, would see the city sell a 1.5‑acre plot on Long Wharf to allow for the development of a new 36,000 square-foot medical office building, outpatient treatment facility, and pharmacy.
"Sanctuary" List Disappears

4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

New Haven no longer appears on a public list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” targeted for federal-financial punishment by the Trump administration. That’s because that list no longer appears to exist online — as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took it down from its webpage several days after the list was first published.
Civil Rights Leader, Sickle Cell Fighter Dies

4 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

Jim Rawlings, a civil rights champion and health equity advocate who spent decades fighting for everything from good jobs for Black New Haveners to investment in research and treatment for those struggling with sickle cell disease, has died at the age of 81. Rawlings passed away on May 25, according to his official obituary, which was posted to the Curvin K. Council Funeral Home’s website on Sunday and which is printed in full below.
Students Walk Out For School Funding

1 week ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

“I’m sure they have all nice bathrooms,” said Makayla Spell, gesturing at Yale’s School of Music. “We don’t have soap in our bathrooms.”Spell was marching through Yale’s campus amongst about 200 fellow New Haven high schoolers on Friday afternoon, as part of a student-led walkout to protest for more education funding. Students convened from numerous high schools at noon on the New Haven Green, marched along the sidewalks of Yale’s campus, and then circled back to the Green.
Alders Honor Four Teens

1 week ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

Three decorated national boxing champions and a Pulitzer-winning writer visited the Board of Alders chamber in City Hall this week as honored guests. All of them were teenagers. The teens — Amir Foster, Amare Foster, Troy Moore, and Rania Das — gathered inside the Board of Alders chamber Tuesday night to receive aldermanic citations from Newhallville/Dixwell/Prospect Hill Alder Troy Streater and Beaver Hills Alder Gary Hogan.
Ocean Bills, Fence Rise On Fitch

1 week ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

A chain-link fence with a blue screen now stretches across one side of nearly a full block of Fitch Street — partially shielding from view a row of Ocean Management-controlled dilapidated houses that are the subject of more than $150,000 in new anti-blight liens.
State Lawyer Running For Morris Cove Alder

1 week ago | newhavenindependent.org | Laura Glesby

A legal advocate for the state is running to serve as a political advocate for Morris Cove, now that an alder seat has ostensibly opened up. Assistant Attorney General Leland Moore has filed to run as a Democrat for that as-of-yet uncontested seat, representing the Cove’s Ward 18 on the Board of Alders. The incumbent alder, Sal DeCola, has not yet filed for re-election. He declined to comment when asked directly whether he is seeking another term.