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Hamden Newhall Neighborhood Association President Tina Jennings-Herriott.
A Newhall meeting saw neighbors and Hamden town officials engaged in debate over what community members really need, in the latest installment in a group of residents’ fight to allocate one-time federal funds to addressing their crumbling home foundations.
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Hamden, Woodbridge Starbucks workers have filed for union elections. New Haven (pictured above) not on the list.
Workers at Starbucks cafes in Hamden and Woodbridge filed petitions for union elections on Wednesday, alongside 13 other locations across the country that are hoping to join the more than 400 stores that have already won their unions as part of Starbucks Workers United.
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by | Sep 22, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (10)
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Abdul Osmanu at WNHH FM.
Someone forgot to tell Abdul Razak Osmanu to turn bitter and cynical.
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by | Jun 23, 2023 10:39 am | Comments (8)
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Butler Street in Southern Hamden.
Since I was a small child, I have thought about the lack of access to open space in the Newhall community. Southern Hamden is, for the most part, overdeveloped with the exception of a few spots of green spaces. There are just a few places where someone could sit under a tree and get respite from the sun.
But what if there was a 102.5‑acre oasis sitting in our backyard? What if the long-dormant “Powder Farm” became a public space with walking paths?
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by | Jun 20, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (10)
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Hamden mayoral candidates Walter Morton IV, Lauren Garrett at WNHH FM.
As Hamden’s search for a police chief enters its second year, two mayoral candidates agree the acting one is doing a good job.
They won’t say if that means he should get the permanent slot.
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by | Apr 5, 2023 1:50 pm | Comments (8)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: "Hamden and New Haven are places where we celebrate our diversity."
Several dozen public officials, local faith leaders, and community members gathered on the Green for the first day of Passover — not to celebrate the holiday’s onset, but to condemn hate speech following the distribution of anti-semitic leaflets around Hamden and New Haven this past week.
by | Mar 29, 2023 11:42 am | Comments (4)
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At the Batter's Box, with coach Bob Turcio (below): A "baseball lifer" backing a "good feel for the game," not deeper dives into stats.
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“If it feels wrong, it’s right. If it feels comfortable, it’s wrong,” Bob Turcio says from behind the pitching machine.
Turcio stands on the outside of the 65-by-14-foot mesh batting cage. A net with a hole for the machine separates him from the batter.
Turcio’s student, an older teenager, tugs the back of his flowing hair, adjusts his black Yankees cap, re-Velcroes his white batting gloves, chews his gum, and steps back into the batter’s box. He stares down the machine as if he could scare it into throwing a pitch down the heart of the plate.
by | Mar 16, 2023 4:55 pm | Comments (2)
Cop Commissioner Daniel Dunn (pictured) receives his reports ... for the most part.
Hamden cops won’t have to testify under oath about why they illegally destroyed public documents, now that their attorney admitted they did it.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Admits Fault In Cop Doc-Shredding Case’
by | Mar 13, 2023 9:20 am | Comments (3)
Somebody shot and killed 39-year-old New Havener Anthony Pearson in a Hamden industrial park Saturday night following a “family dispute.”
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by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)
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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.
A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.
by | Jan 5, 2023 5:01 pm | Comments (65)
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Seramonte tenant Paul Boudreau: “We started the union in hopes that it would wake somebody up.”
A large Hamden landlord has moved to overturn three rent-hike-stifling decisions — and has asked a state court to declare the town’s Fair Rent ordinance “unlawful” as part of a broader pushback against growing tenants union organizing.
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by | Dec 7, 2022 3:58 pm | Comments (7)
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The Landino brothers, Harry and Frank, with Frank’s wife, Betty.
And so it came to pass that the old lock on the front door became cranky and resistant to any attempts to turn the key.
by | Oct 26, 2022 9:31 am | Comments (1)
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Church volunteer Lois Fucci at the pumpkin patch.
Hamden Plains United Methodist Church has carved out a pumpkin patch on Dixwell Avenue — continuing a seasonal tradition of full-circle fundraising.
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by | Oct 17, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)
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Colello on Friday: "I started from the bottom and went through it all."
A veteran Hamden public works employee is slated to become the town department’s next director — with plans to bring sustainability, including town-made potting soil, to the top of his agenda as well as to community members’ gardens.
by | Oct 6, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (2)
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Friends Makayla Golett and Faye Ford (pictured) disagree on whether or not metal detectors are warranted.
More than half a year after Hamden schools’ leadership first purchased metal detectors as an “emergency” safety intervention, the Board of Education (BOE) is drafting protocols to govern how the security devices are used.
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by | Oct 2, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (1)
A 76-year-old Hamden man named Harry Brunson died from injuries suffered in a car crash.
by | Sep 30, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (3)
The weary faces of participants of Thursday's Zoom.
Hamden’s Fair Rent Commission convened Thursday night to continue hearing its first slate of cases in four years — and wound up further postponing a determination on what constitutes fair rent to figure out how to hold a fair meeting.
by | Sep 29, 2022 11:30 am | Comments (1)
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Seramonte tenant leader Greta Blau.
Members of Hamden’s Seramonte Tenants Union gathered outside of Town Hall the night before a highly anticipated Fair Rent Commission that will likely determine their housing fates — and pushed for long-term governmental protections for all renters.
by | Sep 28, 2022 3:43 pm | Comments (3)
QU VP Zemba: "A strong Quinnipiac is a strong Hamden."
Quinnipiac University made its first official pitch of a “master” redevelopment plan to Hamden zoners — and, in turn, filed the town’s first-ever ask for a multi-property rezoning makeover.
by | Sep 23, 2022 6:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Town Engineer Stephen White with pup Diamond on Davis St. ...
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... which is one of four Hamden Streets slated for sidewalk repairs and additions.
New sidewalks are en route to Southern Hamden as part of a revived effort to protect pedestrians — leading some neighbors to question whether safer places to stroll are needed where not many people currently walk.
by | Sep 22, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
Hamden police have caught up with a 26-year-old driver who originally got away from them after striking a pedestrian who was holding a baby.
by | Sep 21, 2022 12:58 pm | Comments (2)
Plan for community campus, including sports fields and arts center.
The possibility of a federally funded community center for Southern Hamden is starting to take shape, as town officials sketch out budgets and begin the process of reaping resident input.
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by | Sep 21, 2022 12:46 pm | Comments (1)
Jerrold Rubak: Make program permanent!
With his 65th birthday just a few months away, Jerrold Rubak was ready to sign up for Medicare — but wasn’t prepared to navigate the online application process.
Now, Rubak and more than 200 others from Hamden, New Haven and North Haven are accessing health insurance, exploring the internet, using software programs like Excel, and crossing the digital divide with the help of new library-based “digital navigation” teachers offering free, individualized support to tech-wary people.
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by | Sep 16, 2022 7:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Celebrating SCSU's new College of Health & Human Services building.
Hundreds of alumni, students and community members gathered on Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) campus to tour a brand new building devoted to healthcare and human services studies — and designed to strengthen a suffering sector of the state’s workforce.
by | Sep 16, 2022 10:39 am | Comments (26)
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Tenants and organizers at the launch of the Seramonte Tenants Union.
Hamden’s Fair Rent Commission arose from the dead — and heard from tenants facing rent increases of up to 75 percent at a pothole-laden apartment complex.
Continue reading ‘Seramonte Tenants Heard; Decision Delayed’