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Charlie Ludwig, Irv Rohinsky: Back then, the Sun came out at 11 p.m.
Mayoral proclamation honors a lifelong friendship.
Charles Ludwig and Irving Rohinsky celebrated a high school reunion for two on a park bench — as the lifelong friends and Commercial High School Class of 1945 graduates kept alive a tradition that has been going strong for 77 years.
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Jun 17, 2022 2:57 pm
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Tom Ariola: "Why kid ourselves and start moving money around? Because we know: We are going to spend this."
Hamden’s Board of Education has passed a $101 million budget to make financial ends meet next school year — while warning of a multimillion-dollar fiscal cliff in their future after being flat-funded by the town council.
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Jun 16, 2022 4:41 pm
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Councilperson Abdul Osmanu: Precedent sought for better communication moving forward.
Hamden is one step away from securing $16 million through a school sale — but some council and community members are asking for better communication from town officials before taking the cash.
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Jun 16, 2022 10:19 am
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Members of the Class of 2022 cross the Hillhouse stage.
Although their past four years were nothing like High School Musical, Hillhouse’s Class of 2022 pushed through to the finish line — and celebrated the fact that they could celebrate together in person.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 15, 2022 2:57 pm
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Those are some of the characteristics Hamdenites said they hope will describe the individual selected to serve as the district’s next superintendent of schools.
Jonathan Torres walks up to receive a citizenship award at Tuesday's graduation.
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Guihovany Perez, Alexis Smith, Jonathan Torres, Destiny Vasquez, and Mauriztio Wallen wait to enter the auditorium for commencement.
Jonathan Torres wasn’t destined to graduate high school: He got in trouble at Hillhouse. Then he got arrested.
He found his way 14 months ago to Riverside Academy, an alternative high school in the New Haven district. And he not only made it to graduation Tuesday: He was the class speaker.
Hamden’s graduating eighth graders celebrated their community’s resilience after a complicated school year — and looked forward to their next life chapter of novel joys and challenges.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2022 4:45 pm
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The coming fiscal year’s New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) general fund budget will cover the “bare bones” of district costs and make up a funding gap without laying off employees.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2022 11:15 am
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After ten years of serving Hill Central Music Academy in various instructor and administrative roles, Nicole Brown will next helm the the school as its newly approved principal.
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Olivia Gross |
Jun 13, 2022 4:50 pm
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Superintendent Goeler at the finance committee meeting.
Some Hamden students may get to sleep in a little later next year as the district considers changing its busing schedule in an effort to cut transportation costs.
Gov. Lamont with LULAC families at Monday's announcement.
Meghan Gonzalez, her husband, and three kids had been homeless for 5 years before earlier this year they got “the miracle call”: they would finally have a roof over their heads.
Gonzalez’s family is one of 20 in Connecticut that have benefited from a first-in-the-nation “Head Start on Housing” program tying the federal Head Start pre-school program with the state’s Department of Housing to offer rent vouchers to vulnerable families with young kids.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 10, 2022 4:47 pm
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Dave Cruz Bustamante: We deserve the vote.
Rising Wilbur Cross junior Dave Cruz-Bustamante is gathering troops of students and an activist outlook to bring to the table with him as the newly elected Board of Education’s (BOE) student representative.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 10, 2022 10:51 am
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Viviana Conner and Teddi Barra at the field house.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) turned a toasty situation into a mild one Friday morning as Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet students and staff reported to the Floyd Little Athletic Center for the day as a result of a failed air conditioning system.
A school system-run symposium over how to address a reading crisis began with the superintendent criticizing a nationwide move back toward phonics-centered teaching — then removal of the press before teachers could weigh in.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 7, 2022 6:26 pm
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Wintergreen School.
The sale of a Hamden school is one step closer to finalization, offering a potentially high-stakes opportunity to right past fiscal wrongs, according to town leadership.
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Erika Fontana |
Jun 7, 2022 1:22 pm
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David Walker, Jquan Athis, Gary Moore Jr., and Olivia O'Connor with their medals.
Hillhouse High track team’s throwing squad was on its way to Dairy Queen celebrate a victory — when they discovered their strength was needed outside the throwing circle.
Izzi Geller: Familiar with challenges of gaining certification.
(Opinion) Teacher departures are up across the country and the summer will bring even more resignations. With many New Haven teachers leaving the profession altogether or leaving our district after being recruited by higher-paying ones, the call for “stepped-up retention efforts” is important. Still, that focus should be coupled with efforts to recruit future educators who are already living in New Haven. We need creative solutions to address the barriers that stand in the way of New Haveners entering the teaching profession.
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Jun 7, 2022 8:52 am
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Stephen Julien and cast.
The band room at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School was full of students getting into their costumes, changing into sailors and spirits, monsters and magicians. They donned robes and fixed their crowns of flowers, then congregated onstage.
“How does everyone feel in their costumes?” asked co-director Justin Pesce.
“Good,” said one student. “Hot,” said another. If they were all still wearing masks due to Covid concerns, it was a detail; what mattered was that, after two years, Mauro Sheridan was mounting its 2022 production of The Tempest, in collaboration with Elm Shakespare Company, in person.
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Olivia Gross |
Jun 2, 2022 5:05 pm
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Commissioner Russell-Tucker and State Rep. Toni Walker with Gov. Lamont at SCSU Thursday.
Gov. Ned Lamont came to Southern Connecticut State University Thursday to announce that his administration has set aside $2 million in grants to help aspiring teachers a fighting chance at financially making it through school.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 2, 2022 3:03 pm
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Executive Director John Taylor at a press conference last November about the incident, with the school’s attorney and public relations consultant in tow.
Police have arrested a former middle-school teacher at Booker T. Washington Academy who was fired back in November for allegedly having sex with and sexting pre-teen students.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 2, 2022 9:40 am
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Jacky and Amanda Forcucci with their kids, Johnny and Sawyer, at Wednesday's event.
Hamden raised a rainbow flag at Town Hall for the first time to launch Pride Month — and lifted the spirits of LGBTQIA+ community members looking to live in a more aware and affirming town.
