by | Aug 20, 2021 8:15 am | Comments (0)
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Mightymoonchew.
Thursday night’s music bill on the Best Video deck in Hamden began under an ominous umbrella of dark clouds and ended in a burst of sunshine and blue, all to the soundtrack of two New Haven-based bands.
by | Aug 18, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (22)
All politics is … national? Leng, political soul mate Biden (above); Garrett, political soul mate Warren (below).
The latest intramural contest between “Biden” and “progressive” Democrats has come to our shores, at least in the view of candidates competing in a hotly contested local primary.
by | Aug 18, 2021 2:11 pm | Comments (6)
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Brad Macdowall: Someone messed up.
Hamden’s Democratic mayoral primary ballot will have three, not four, candidates listed, now that Registrar of Voters Rose Mentone announced that hopeful Brad Macdowall did not qualify through a petitioning process.
Continue reading ‘Macdowall Fails To Make Ballot; 3-Way Mayoral Primary Looms’
by | Aug 18, 2021 8:16 am | Comments (6)
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People in Hamden will encounter freshly paved roads, alongside functioning library elevators and new fire engines, thanks to the town’s first capital improvement plan in four years.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Approves Capital Plan For Fire Engine, Paved Streets, Working Elevator’
by | Aug 16, 2021 10:53 am | Comments (0)
A stolen-car arrest led to two other sets of charges, including recovery of a loaded weapon.
Continue reading ‘Weekend Roundup: 3 Assaults, 1 Gun Arrest’
by | Aug 13, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (12)
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Hamden mayoral candidates Lauren Garrett, Curt Leng at WNHH FM.
Should Hamden mandate Covid-19 vaccinations for town employees?
Was the 2020 property reassessment racist?
Would revisiting politically-connected town contracts save needed money?
Frontrunners diverged on those questions on the first official day of an historic mayoral primary campaign.
Continue reading ‘Garrett Blasts Leng On Contracts, Reval; Backs Gov’t Vax Mandate’
by | Aug 12, 2021 4:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Independent Party council candidate Jay Kaye as “Lurch,” second to the left, with co.
Cindy Simell-Devoe has spent the past two decades raising a “family” of over 1,000 extended members, 42 of whom have finally returned to their home on Hamden High’s stage this week after more than a year of displacement and dramatic disappointments.
Continue reading ‘Whitney Players Find Home in Addams Family Revival’
by | Aug 12, 2021 12:38 pm | Comments (23)
Kathleen Schomaker: It wasn’t “readable.”
A once-a-decade effort to update Hamden’s charter — aimed at increasing financial transparency and accountability; and moving to four-year mayoral terms — died suddenly, without public explanation, due to a vote taken Wednesday night.
by | Aug 12, 2021 9:02 am | Comments (0)
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Rich Moran and his band had already swung through way through the classics “Let’s Fall in Love” and “Getting to Know You” when he addressed the audience directly. “Thank you for being here. We are so happy to be here, finally.”
Continue reading ‘Great American Songbook Takes Edge Off Heat’
by | Aug 11, 2021 7:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Primee for 4-way primary: Lauren Garrett, Brad Macdowall, Peter Cyr, and Curt Leng.
After two full weeks spent searching for signatures, three Democratic mayoral candidates filed the minimum of 946 voter signatures on petitiions Wednesday, bringing the town one step closer to a slowly solidifying a four-way Sept. 14 primary.
Continue reading ‘Candidates File Petitions For 4-Way Hamden Mayoral Primary’
by | Aug 11, 2021 11:12 am | Comments (15)
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St. Mary Street, in neighborhood where remediation took place.
Hamden is expanding a decades-old plan to “clean-up” the Newhall neighborhood — a reminder that the town’s long road towards environmental justice remains in need of new paving.
Continue reading ‘Deeper Dive OK’d Into Polluted Newhall Soil’
by | Aug 10, 2021 7:30 pm | Comments (25)
Kevin Mills, who was shot to death Tuesday.
Police rushed to get a handle on a new spate of targeted gun violence as a 33-year-old father of four daughters was killed in the second homicide and sixth shooting in four days in New Haven and southern Hamden.
by | Aug 9, 2021 8:54 pm | Comments (10)
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Frenemies for one night: Marc Steinberg, Jim Pascarella, Jacob Pudlin, Avi Schwimmer, Brad Macdowall, David Lindsay, Kathleen Schomaker, Melinda Saller at Side Street Grille Sunday.
Political opponents did something unusual in Hamden — instead of arguing and fighting, for one night they held a joint party to help all of them qualify for spots on the Sept. 14 Democratic primary ballot.
Continue reading ‘Frenemies For A Night: Opponents Unite For Petition Party’
by | Aug 9, 2021 3:11 pm | Comments (19)
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(From left) Abdussabur, Macdowall: Yes to 4-year mayoralty; Bonadies: Voters deserve more chances to weigh in
Mayors might have four years instead of two before facing voters again, if a Hamden charter change goes through this year and New Haven follows suit.
by | Aug 8, 2021 10:05 pm | Comments (5)
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Twenty-seven-year-old Tyishoun Matheney died after someone shot him repeatedly during a late-night argument in Hamden.
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Symone White masked up outside Walmart: Taking no chances.
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Elicker: “Common-sense” step.
Amid a Covid-19 resurgence, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker ordered people to wear masks in public indoor spaces in the city, while Hamden Mayor Curt Leng “strongly recommended” that his town do the same.
by | Aug 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (6)
A confrontation in a Wendy’s drive-through lane ended with a 57-year-old man unconscious and a 39-year-old man under arrest.
Continue reading ‘Wendy’s Customer Arrested On Assault Charge After Alleged Racial Slur’
by | Aug 5, 2021 11:54 am | Comments (3)
Thanks to a federal judge’s ruling, the 911 caller is on the hook in a lawsuit — but Hamden, New Haven, and Yale are largely off the hook — for what happened to Paul Witherspoon and Stephanie Washington.
by | Aug 4, 2021 10:10 am | Comments (4)
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Jay Kaye: From Republican to Independent.
• 3rd-party mayor, council ticket.
• Centrist platform.
• 2019 GOP mayor candidate found George Floyd response “disappointing.”
Continue reading ‘Indy Slate Files In Hamden; Kaye Bolts GOP’
by | Aug 3, 2021 3:38 pm | Comments (9)
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Monkey Joe’s: Destined to be divided into cubicles.
Atterberry-Jones leads a trivia game while summer campers eat lunch.
A plan to expand a youth center and bring a roller rink to Hamden fell apart at the 11th hour when the building owner skated away from the deal.
by | Aug 2, 2021 10:09 am | Comments (10)
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Sharie Evans: “That’s it?”
This skateboarder’s decisive lure: “Coolattas, iced coffee, donut.”
Jason Kozikowski: Gave into vaccine for golf and beer.
Outreach workers stopped by her diner and convinced waitress Yoseline Diaz to overcome her fears and pop three blocks over to a clinic to finally get that Covid-19 vaccine.
A $25 Dunkin Donuts gift card convinced a 23-year-old skateboarder to stop making “excuses.”
Sharie Evans drove by signs for the clinic and decided … it’s time.
And Jason Kozikowski and Bill Forrest decided hitting the links and the pubs in Ireland outweighed continuing to “wait and see” how the shots affected others.
Those reasons helped propel a spike in recipients at one local vaccine clinic— offering hope that minds can still be changed among the vaccine— hesitant as the region wrestles with a resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Vax Clinic’s Busier Day Offers Ray Of Hope’
by | Jul 29, 2021 3:20 pm | Comments (7)
Brad Macdowall with Joanne Germe: Everyone deserves to be on the ballot.
Peter Cyr with Kellie Loftus, talking gun violence.
“Everyone deserves to be on the ballot,” Meadowbrook resident Joanne Germe stated matter-of-factly from her doorstep.
Then she added her signature to mayoral candidate Brad Macdowall’s petition to participate in September’s Democratic primary, which is shaping up to be a four-way race.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Mayoral Hopefuls Start Petitioning’
by | Jul 27, 2021 11:20 pm | Comments (14)
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Lauren Garrett: “No single person can do this work by themselves.”
Mayoral hopeful Lauren Garrett won the Hamden Democratic Party’s endorsement in a landslide vote of support at the town convention Tuesday night.
by | Jul 27, 2021 10:37 am | Comments (9)
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Leng taking the oath of office in 2019.
Hamden Mayor Curt Leng is running for another two-year term in the town’s highest office — and he’s doing so as a Democrat, even though he’ll be skipping the town’s Democratic convention.
by | Jul 23, 2021 5:55 pm | Comments (70)
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Council candidate Justin Piper: Republicans see beyond race.
Justin Piper is hoping that a year that began with the excitement of attending the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington ends with making his own history back home in Hamden — as the town’s only Black Republican Council member.