(Updated) Hamden Mayor Curt Leng, who was trounced in a September primary and hasn’t been campaigning for reelection since, has filed paperwork to be a candidate in the Nov. 2 election … as a write-in candidate.
But he insists he’s not running. He’s not reentering the race. He’s making sure he’s ready in case a “Pluto” option presents itself.
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Oct 19, 2021 1:10 pm
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The abandoned middle school at 560 Newhall St.
Hamden’s Legislative Council voted on Monday to extend a contract with a nonprofit affordable housing developer until Jan. 18 — in order to take more time to decide whether to go through with builder’s proposal for a long blighted property at 560 Newhall St.
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Oct 18, 2021 2:11 pm
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Mayor Curt Leng: Is there an election coming up?
More than one month after losing to Lauren Garrett in the Democratic primary, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng has remained silent on whom he will endorse to replace him in the town’s top office — and why.
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Oct 15, 2021 1:13 pm
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Mom Janina Tauro at Friday’s protest outside Rascals.
A toddler was barred from a gym preschool program for wearing a Black Lives Matter T‑shirt — leading roughly 50 adults and kids to return two days later in protest. All wearing shirts with the same message.
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Oct 14, 2021 3:18 pm
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Lauren Garrett and Ron Gambardella: Down to two for Hamden mayoral race.
Democratic mayoral candidate Lauren Garrett outraised Republican opponent Ron Gambardella by two to one over the past three months, based on individual monetary contributions, while Gambardella narrowed the gap with a party contribution.
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Oct 13, 2021 11:28 am
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Lauren Garrett and Ron Gambardella debate with Steven Ciardiello’s oversight from a room in the Whitney Center while an audience listens remotely.
Hamden an example of systemic racism? That “divisive language” from the left is creating rifts among the town’ residents.
That thinking denies historic reality as well as current segregation and violence against Black and Brown people.
Hamden’s two mayoral candidates offered those opposite positions in a one-hour online debate Wednesday that focused heavily on race, representation, and policing.
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Oct 13, 2021 8:15 am
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Assistant Town Planner Matthew Davis reviews the ELUR on Tuesday night.
Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday evening voted in favor of adopting a series of land-use restrictions for the town’s abandoned middle school.
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Oct 12, 2021 9:21 am
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Chris Atchley and Ted Stevens take selfie for DTC Facebook group that candidates used to encourage each other to keep canvassing.
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Pat Destito travels door to door in his daughter’s neighborhood, looking to listen to residents’ concerns and make them feel heard.
Pat Destito knocked on just the door he was looking for: one opened by an unaffiliated voter who told him, “I don’t go shopping by myself anymore. When I go to ShopRite, I go with my husband.”
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Oct 11, 2021 1:10 pm
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Pastor Jeremiah Jermaine Paul at his new pulpit.
After winning the second season of NBC’s The Voice and touring for a decade with Alicia Keys, Jeremiah Jermaine Paul realized his true life — singing about “building your church from the ground up” from his own pulpit at Sunday worship services.
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Oct 6, 2021 4:18 pm
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Cecilie Boaheng: Everyone’s terrified.
One day after police arrested a student for carrying a loaded handgun in his backpack on school grounds, Hamden High students said they felt unsafe — and unsupported.
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Oct 6, 2021 8:31 am
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro with campaign manager Sarah Locke and DTC Campaign Manager Brian Murphy.
“This opportunity comes by once. If we don’t take advantage of it, it will pass,” U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro told a crowd of Hamden Democrats Tuesday evening.
DeLauro was rallying the faithful gathered on the back porch of Democratic mayoral candidate Lauren Garrett’s home Tuesday afternoon, officially endorsing Garrett and the Democratic Town Committee’s full slate of endorsed candidates for the Nov. 2 general election.
DeLauro’s endorsement effectively kicked off the DTC’s formal campaign to win elected offices spanning from mayor and town clerk to seats on the Legislative Council and Board of Education.
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Oct 5, 2021 8:47 am
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Newberry residents Cleveland Bromell, Earnestine Bromell, and Keither Butler, all of whom have lived next to the Newhall property for decades, raise their hands to critique Mutual Housing’s site proposal.
Scrap the existing plan. The neighborhood doesn’t want NeighborWorks New Horizons, or affordable housing.
Fifty residents of southern Hamden delivered that message Monday night at a public meeting about the future of a blighted property located at 560 Newhall St., home to Hamden’s long deserted and decaying middle school.
Charter Revision Commissioner and DTC Legislative Council Candidate Sarah Ghallagher and Democratic Mayoral Candidate Lauren Garrett convince a voter to sign for the charter while campaigning in August.
A petition to put a proposed town charter to a referendum in Nov. 2’s general election fell short by more than two thirds of the procedurally required signatures, according to Hamden’s town clerk.
Whether you’re looking for a snack to grab on the go or a slow-cooked meal to sit down and savor, two neighboring Hamden eateries have a common solution: empanadas.
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Sep 29, 2021 7:53 am
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The New Haven Chorale at rehearsal Monday — in person!
As the sun set Monday evening, dozens of people began to congregate in the parking lot of the Unitarian Society on Hartford Turnpike in Hamden. They brought lawn chairs, sheet music, folders, and clip-on lights. On the stairs at the entrance to the building, New Haven Chorale Music Director Edward Bolkovac stood behind a small podium, a score in front of him, a microphone in his hand. Accompanist Blake Hansen sat behind a keyboard near him. In front of him, a camera was ready to Zoom everything. The New Haven Chorale was ready for outdoor rehearsal.
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Sep 24, 2021 8:45 am
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The council welcomes Zaehringer into her new role on Monday.
Hamden’s Legislative Council introduced a new member this week, two months after previous Council President and District One representative Mick McGarry resigned from the role.
