Chef Larry Lucky stood in the kitchen installed in the back of Lucky’s Star Bus Cafe, deftly cooking up a piece of blackened salmon, which he explained was a customer favorite.
The year-old, family-run business recently relocated from Fair Haven to Newhallville — bringing to the neighborhood Lucky’s decades of restaurant experience and his seasoned culinary chops.
Hamden town officials and state legislators are calling on the state to provide $780,000 in additional pandemic-related school transportation funding to help cover the cost of new buses, bus monitors, and bus cleaning, as Hamden students prepare to return to school in person this month.
Hamden environmental groups and Newhall neighborhood leaders are renewing a push for the state to force Olin Corporation to clean up, remediate and open a 102.5‑acre forest and wetlands site so that residents can finally enjoy the closed-off land.
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Aug 24, 2020 2:46 pm
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Streetlight acquisition advocates were preparing a forum to drum of support before a last pitch to get Hamden to buy its streetlights, and the town’s council was set to take up the issue for a third time. Then one key aspect of the plan fell through, sinking three years of work and advocacy among the other casualties of Hamden’s fiscal woes.
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Aug 24, 2020 8:35 am
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David Taylor Coffey.
New Haven-based singer-songwriter David Taylor Coffey was at the Cellar on Treadwell again on Saturday — not virtually, as he was in April, but on the venue’s new expanded patio, as part of the Cellar’s latest Dinner and a Show.
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Aug 19, 2020 1:54 pm
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Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
Over the next few weeks, thousands of Quinnipiac University students will return to northern Hamden for a very different college experience defined by the restrictions of the pandemic.
Even with those restrictions, whether or not the university makes it through the year without an outbreak may be up to how cautious students are willing to be.
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Aug 13, 2020 9:29 pm
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I remember you: Cabrera, Logan.
Republican State Sen. George Logan will run again against labor leader Jorge Cabrera, a Democrat he beat by only 77 votes two years ago, now that Cabrera has won a Democratic primary for his seat.
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Aug 11, 2020 11:05 am
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Mareshah White.
The Hamden High School class of 2020 didn’t get a prom or a last few months of high school spent celebrating with friends. But thanks to the work of one graduate, ’20 grads will walk away with a scholarship to help them through their next life step.
As part of a new community policing initiative, Officers Craig Appleby and Chris Sheppard were walking back along the Farmington Canal Trail to the Highwood substation for lunch when they noticed something new. There was a door on a cement building beside the trail that was so overgrown it looked like a Mayan ruin engulfed by rainforest.
Jaclyn Tolkin prepares to join last week’s teacher protest caravan in New Haven.
Activist groups representing New Haven educators, students, and parents issued a joint appeal Wddnesday to start the school year off with remote-only learning, and to fund it to make it work, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A house with bad luck, and a tree with worse luck, on Treadwell Street.
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, about 34 percent of Hamden was without power as Tropical Storm Isaias tore through a town that has been cursed in the past by severe weather.
Several years after streaming services saw the mass extinction of video rentals, the original Tommy K’s Video at 1636 Dixwell Ave. in Hamden will be revived by a trio of package store pros promising to bring fresh spirit to the abandoned house.
The property’s owners Tuesday night brought their proposed site plans, which feature a new two-story building with a first floor package store and upstairs apartment units, to the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission. After hours of debate, the commission voted to approve the plans.
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Jul 29, 2020 10:04 am
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Jorge Cabrera invoked his 25 years as a labor leader, saying he would fight for working families if elected. Justin Farmer vowed to bring a new generation to politics that will fix problems created by previous ones.
Those were the core messages from the two candidates competing in a Democratic primary for state senator as they faced off in a campaign debate.
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Jul 27, 2020 1:33 pm
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Hamden PD’s new drone, the DJI Matrice 300 RTK.
The Hamden Police Department added to its arsenal of Covid-19 related resources with authorization to spend grant money on PPE, cleaning supplies, a storage shed, utility bins, personnel scheduling software … and a drone.
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Jul 22, 2020 3:49 pm
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An example of a socially distant classroom at Hamden’s Church Street School.
If all goes according to the district’s plans, Hamden schools will be open five days a week in the fall, with students rotating between in-person classes and distance learning.
That hybrid reopening plan was approved Tuesday evening.
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Jul 20, 2020 11:54 am
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Selma Ward.
Before Selma N. Ward interviewed to become the new CEO of the Children’s Center of Hamden, she wrote a vision statement.
“My vision has always been to help kids build a foundation for their future success,” it read. “I don’t want to see anyone defined by their past experiences: everyone deserves guidance, support, and education.”
Tim Fields, Tanner’s brother, at Sunday night’s streetside vigil.
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Jericho Scott and Kaymar Tanner.
Five years and three months after Jericho Scott was shot and killed in a white car in Fair Haven, his best friend, Kaymar Tanner, died the same way — by a bullet shot into a white car on the 18th of the month.
