by | Dec 1, 2020 5:39 pm | Comments (11)
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Hamden has been heated: Kerry Ellington and Police Commission Chair Mike Iezzi at a commission meeting that turned into a protest.
I was supposed to spend a few months watching elected officials fight every other Monday night. Spring would come, and I would run off to the circus, quite literally.
by | Nov 30, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (0)
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Local theater managers gather with U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal outside Long Wharf Theatre in September to issue joint pandemic-relief appeal.
Long Wharf Theatre is receiving $551,400 in emergency support from the state to help survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘State Sending $1.34M In Emergency Pandemic Relief To City Arts Nonprofits’
by | Nov 27, 2020 9:38 am | Comments (1)
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When Dick Pilchen walked into a basement in 1976 to check out Don Fertman’s upstart band, Fertman didn’t know he was about to get a a hit jingle, and a 30-year career as an executive at one of the world’s largest franchise companies.
by | Nov 27, 2020 9:17 am | Comments (6)
Albert Einstein is reputed to have defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Why Hamden’s Charter Revision Matters’
by | Nov 25, 2020 1:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Paradise lot on Nov. 4.
Illegal dumpers with years of violations failed again to win government permission to clean a mess they made for their neighbors.
by | Nov 25, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (0)
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A Show of Strength (Banner).
Cynthia Y. Cooper’s A Show of Strength might conjure a host of associations — ocean waves, birds’ wings, the ceiling of a church. It’s all of these things, and at its core, none of them. It’s just a pattern of line and color, repeating ideas. We fill the pattern with meaning, as humans do. Sometimes that tendency to find patterns, and meaning in patterns, leads us astray. But, when handled with grace, it also leads constellations in the sky and holidays around solstices and equinoxes. It can be the foundation of building a community.
by | Nov 20, 2020 4:29 pm | Comments (4)
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A year and a half after Hamden cop Devin Eaton opened fire on Paul Witherspoon outside his parked car, Witherspoon has reached a legal settlement with the town.
by | Nov 20, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (19)
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Sign of the time: No longer, thanks to building sale.
Hundreds of hungry people have lost two sources of free meals — one permanently, one temporarily — as cold weather sets in, the holidays approach, and the Covid-19 pandemic resurges.
by | Nov 15, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (3)
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Goeler: Painful, needed decision.
Hamden schools — which have had success with hybrid learning — will nevertheless move to entirely-remote classes starting Nov. 23 until Jan. 19 because of the statewide spike in Covid-19 cases.
by | Nov 13, 2020 11:41 am | Comments (1)
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Council member Harry Gagliardi.
People knew something was brewing whenever a mischievous grin crept across Harry Gagliardi’s face.
by | Nov 11, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (1)
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Ridge Hill teachers: School feels safe, but we’re ready for remote.
Hamden schools have figured out how to operate safely in a pandemic — but it looks like fast-rising Covid-19 cases will force them to move to all-remote learning anyway starting Nov. 23.
by | Nov 9, 2020 7:20 pm | Comments (11)
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Sgt. William in Weeds Cafe on Dixwell Avenue.
When Sgt. William Onofrio stopped into Odie’s Place, owner Elias Defaranos had three and a half more hours in which to serve his pizzas, and he was well aware of it.
by | Nov 8, 2020 5:59 pm | Comments (6)
Over the course of two days, 115 Quinnipiac students learned they had Covid-19 — causing the university to go into “high-risk” lockdown mode.
A smaller outbreak has led to a partial lockdown of three Yale residential colleges.
by | Nov 5, 2020 10:50 am | Comments (10)
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Cabrera: 2nd time the charm.
The region’s hardest-fought local race came to an end Thursday morning, as a Republican incumbent conceded to a challenger whose victory gives the Democrats a veto-proof State Senate majority.
Continue reading ‘Logan Concedes To Cabrera In Rematch; Democrats Claim Local, Statewide Prize’
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:51 pm | Comments (1)
Quinnipiac University is facing an outbreak of Covid-19 — and moved all classes temporarily online as a result.
by | Nov 4, 2020 5:36 pm | Comments (3)
What began as a call about a fight led to a shutdown of a bar and grill over Covid-19 violations.
by | Nov 4, 2020 1:32 am | Comments (1)
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George Logan, Jorge Cabrera.
Jorge Cabrera appeared to lead his race at the end of Tuesday night if, as expected, thousands of uncounted absentee ballots from Hamden fall heavily in his favor.
Continue reading ‘Cabrera-Logan Race Will Come Down To Absentee Ballots; Elliott, D’Agostino Ahead’
by | Nov 2, 2020 5:54 pm | Comments (8)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, with Hamden’s delegation, plus one hopeful, one New Haven senator, and Lieut. Gov. Bysiewicz.
In the last hours before polls open across the state, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz stood in a whipping wind next to a ballot drop box in Hamden to make what has crystallized as Connecticut Democrats’ main pitch just before Tuesday’s election: Vote Democrat if you like your healthcare.
by | Oct 30, 2020 7:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Following a spike of Covid-19 cases in the state, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng announced Friday evening that Hamden will roll back to the state’s “Phase II” partial economic shutdown guidelines in an attempt to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Rolls Back To Phase II; 2 Schools Closed’
by | Oct 29, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (2)
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Figuratively, State Sen. George Logan was in a few different places Thursday morning before work. He was on a street corner waving to voters in the rain, he was in a meeting of the Griffin Hospital Board of Directors, and he was giving an interview … all at the same time.
Continue reading ‘T Minus 5 Days For George Logan: Zoom, Wave, Interview, Hold Umbrella’
by | Oct 28, 2020 3:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Paul Lee with Sen. Chris Murphy and Jorge Cabrera.
Chris Murphy came to his door Tuesday afternoon, Paul Lee did not ask about Supreme Court nominations or federal aid packages. Instead, he asked the U.S. senator what almost every Hamden voter asks when a politician comes to the door: When will our taxes decrease?
Continue reading ‘Talking Taxes, U.S. Senator Stumps For Aspiring State Senator’
by | Oct 28, 2020 10:29 am | Comments (0)
A sweet, eerie film about teenagers adapting to adulthood also marked Best Video’s first adventure in streaming, as on Monday evening Hank Hoffman, Best Video’s executive director, announced that it was hosting the virtual theatrical release of Ham on Rye, which opened virtually in 22 different venues around the country on Oct. 23.
by | Oct 26, 2020 3:34 pm | Comments (0)
Hamden animal-control cops obtained a warrant for a Blue Hills Avenue home — and found a lot of animal life inside.
Some of it was no longer alive.
Continue reading ‘Cops Rescue 26 Cats, 6 Dogs, 2 Squirrels, & An Owl’
by | Oct 25, 2020 11:16 am | Comments (11)
At Saturday’s youth center opening: sisters Melissa Atterberry-Jones, Melinda Atterberry-Chapman, Melony Atterberry-Brooks.
Melissa Atterberry-Jones understands that to raise a child, it takes a village. Hamden now understands that to make a village, it takes … Melissa Atterberry-Jones.
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:27 am | Comments (3)
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Residents at a pre-Covid council meeting.
After its council revisited and passed a transfer it had previously failed Monday, Hamden is now set to close out the last fiscal year as finance officials would like, and set to stop the longstanding practice in town of including savings in operating budgets.