by | Apr 26, 2021 8:39 am | Comments (0)
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Burnet.
Guitar in hand, Alex Burnet beamed at the crowd of about 70 people assembled — in a distanced yet communal way — in the parking lot of Best Video, on Whitney Avenue in Hamden. “Hope you’re enjoying this beautiful Saturday,” Burnet said. “If you’re vaxxed, let me be the first to say congratulations. It’s a real privilege to be able to share music with people in this time.”
by | Apr 20, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (15)
Hamden Legislative Council members Valerie Horsely and Justin Farmer; Mayor Curt Leng.
A controversy and debate have erupted in Hamden following an incident at the town’s Legislative Council, in which a white member insisted that a Black member refer to her as “Doctor.” Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and a group of local legislative leadersissued a public statement on the matter, which appears below. A group of civil-rights activists in town then wrote a response statement, which appears immediately following it below.
Continue reading ‘“Doctor”‘s Order Sparks Hamden Debate On Race’
by | Apr 9, 2021 10:52 am | Comments (14)
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The clap of hockey sticks and bodies colliding resounded through the Louis Astorino Ice Rink in Hamden Thursday as the facility played host to the Yale Lunchtime Hockey teams.
Meanwhile, a different clamor has arisen: about the rink’s finances.
by | Apr 7, 2021 5:21 pm | Comments (15)
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Secretary of the state Denise Merrill.
Connecticut’s secretary of the state, Denise Merrill, popped into Hamden Wednesday to make a pitch to leave behind Connecticut’s “18th century voting system” and allow more voters to vote before Election Day and expand access to absentee ballots.
Continue reading ‘Merrill Stumps For Early Voting, No-Excuses Mail-In Ballots’
by | Apr 5, 2021 1:49 pm | Comments (2)
Police are asking the public’s help in identifying and locating a robber who broke into a gas station convenience store and assaulted the 63-year-old clerk inside.
by | Apr 2, 2021 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
Davenport’s Dunn, Santana at virtual court hearing.
John Sullo left prison and returned to his home — or what he thought was his home.
by | Mar 16, 2021 5:22 pm | Comments (18)
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Homeless people lining up early for a warming center spot.
Jason Rodriguez and Irma Vazquez (pictured) thought they were following rules by showing up later.
Jason Rodriguez and Irma Vazquez gambled on the best way to land a coveted spot in a refuge from the overnight sub-freezing chill. They lost their gamble, and left with no warm place to spend the night.
by | Mar 16, 2021 1:20 pm | Comments (24)
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Jennifer Pope: Once and future mayoral “friend.”
Jennifer Pope is co-founder of the Hamden Progressive Action Network and a Democratic State Central Committee member. We asked Mayor Curt Leng to respond to the following opinion article before we published it. He said he would re-friend Pope on Facebook; she responded to his response. Those two responses appear at the bottom of this article.
by | Mar 12, 2021 6:05 pm | Comments (11)
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Charter panel’s Jay Kaye: Tell us what you think.
Dramatic changes may be in store for how Hamden governs itself.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Weighs 4-Year Terms, Fiscal Oversight Board’
by | Mar 10, 2021 11:11 am | Comments (0)
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Tuesday night’s fire on Hill Street.
A 59-year-old Hamden man named Frank Mangiero died in a fire Tuesday night.
by | Mar 4, 2021 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Rev. Keith King at Thursday’s pop-up.
Keith King, pastor of the Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church on Newhall Street, thanked the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) on Thursday for providing 54 Covid-19 vaccine doses at a pop-up clinic.
The sign-up list at the one-day clinic for the Pfizer vaccine was made up equally of parishioners of the predominately African American church and local residents.
Continue reading ‘Church Pop-Up Clinic Brings Vaccines To Newhall Street’
by | Mar 4, 2021 1:00 pm | Comments (1)
The Fiscal Stability Committee considering the original draft of principles (pictured).
Members of the Hamden Legislative Council’s Fiscal Stability Committee are looking to craft guidelines for future raises for the town’s contractual employees and supervisors in hopes of balancing the fiscal year 2022 budget.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Fiscal-Stability Crew Wary Of Raises’
by | Mar 3, 2021 12:17 pm | Comments (22)
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Decision-makers weighing the next move: Scott Jackson, Mick McGarry, Brad Macdowall, Valerie Horsley.
A new financial audit puts Hamden in the red — and potentially a target for a state bail-out, an option town leaders say they’re not at this point planning to seek.
Continue reading ‘MARB Threshold Crossed; Hamden Not Ready To Rush In’
by | Mar 1, 2021 11:03 am | Comments (8)
Hamden state representatives address Quinnipiac students.
Hamden State Sen. Jorge Cabrera and State Rep. Josh Elliott presented critiques from the left of Gov. Ned Lamont’s marijuana and minimum wage policies as they spoke to a group of student Democrats at Quinnipiac University.
Continue reading ‘Elliott, Cabrera Slam Guv, Push For Equity In Cannabis Legalization’
by | Feb 26, 2021 12:23 pm | Comments (7)
A 65-year-old man died after a car struck him on Dixwell Avenue.
by | Feb 26, 2021 11:01 am | Comments (2)
Dr. Don C. Sawyer, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University, mentioned on Thursday evening that he’d co-edited a book called Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, out now as of this week. The book’s themes — of how hip hop can be used in the education system as a force to empower and uplift students — could have been the subject of a lecture.
But “rather than me talking about the book,” Sawyer said, he wanted to “bring together people who are doing the work.”
by | Feb 23, 2021 6:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Fleeing vehicle from incident to right.
The Hamden Police Department announced that a reward for information leading to an arrest in the murder of 21-year-old Dennis Allen-Paige has been doubled to $50,000.
Continue reading ‘Reward Doubled For Info On Dennis Allen-Paige Homicide’
by | Feb 23, 2021 11:43 am | Comments (0)
A 40-year-old Hamden driver sped through a stop sign and into a snowbank, then a utility pole — and lost his life.
by | Feb 19, 2021 2:09 pm | Comments (3)
Hamden police Friday released video of a 63-year-old woman being dragged by a speeding car after a purse-snatching in a Stop & Shop parking lot.
Continue reading ‘Video Shows Woman, 63, Dragged By Car After Purse-Snatching’
by | Feb 11, 2021 2:02 pm | Comments (7)
A 37-year-old New Haven man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a young child.
Continue reading ‘Sex Offender Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault Of Young Child’
by | Feb 8, 2021 7:09 pm | Comments (10)
An infant was “found unharmed” Monday in downtown New Haven after a carjacker took him for a ride.
by | Feb 8, 2021 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Nicole Ellis, owner of Around The Clock Restaurant and Bar on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, said new customers looking for Jamaican food often have two questions.
First: “Do you sell oxtail?”
And second: “Is it soft?”
by | Feb 8, 2021 10:42 am | Comments (2)
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The Hamden community honored seven people who have been helping care for those affected by COVID-19 with an intimate in-person ceremony, lively online audience and takeout banquet-style meals from a local caterer.
by | Feb 2, 2021 4:24 pm | Comments (3)
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From presentation at Monday evening’s council meeting.
The Hamden pension fund has improved more in the last six months than in the three years before that.
by | Feb 1, 2021 12:56 pm | Comments (2)
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DTC leadership: Sana Shah, Elaine Dove, Sean Grace, Karimah Mickens, Abdul Osmanu.
Thomas Breen Pre-Pandemic File Photo
New Haven DTC Chair Mauro: “When they get behind the big desk, they forget us.”
Road map for the future? Intra-party attack? Statement of principles?
Hamden’s Democratic Town Committee (DTC) has released its first-ever party platform — and raised the question of why local parties go through the trouble.