by | Jun 23, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (2)
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Wednesday’s retirement board meeting.
Between the early 1990s and now, Hamden paid its pensioners about $12 million more than it was supposed to, a new report from the town’s pension actuaries shows.
With that report in hand, the town now has a few options on the table for recouping those overpayments and saving millions of dollars.
by | Jun 21, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Early attendees of the event.
On Juneteenth, a day that is typically celebratory, Lee Lee and Mark McKnight hosted a vigil on the lawn of the Whitneyville Cultural Commons.
“I mean, we’re not black, so it’s really not our place to celebrate,” said Lee Lee McKnight. “We wanted to honor the lives of people who are no longer with us.”
by | Jun 19, 2020 9:38 pm | Comments (6)
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Hamden Mayor Curt Leng at a recent “unity march.”
Hamden Mayor Curt Leng has vetoed the town council’s budget for the second year in a row.
by | Jun 18, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
Example of Fortier’s zone-threatening work.
Wes Fortier has to drive 40 minutes from home to do his job — giving people tattoos.
It’s not for lack of business in Hamden that he drives so far; it’s because Hamden’s zoning regulations make it tough to do his job there.
by | Jun 17, 2020 8:41 pm | Comments (3)
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A trail on the 40-acre Brooksvale extension.
Hikers in Hamden looking for a respite in the woods of Hamden’s Brooksvale Park will soon have about 40 more acres through which to walk on their socially distanced outings.
by | Jun 16, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (2)
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Carlah Esdaile-Bragg on the far left, Sharon Jones beside her, and Adam Sendroff on the right.
Pablo deVos-Deak, who graduated from Hamden High School this month, has attended six Black Lives Matter protests in the past week.
He was also one of the firsts to get in line at a new Hamden pop-up Covid-19 testing site that launched Monday.
by | Jun 14, 2020 10:01 am | Comments (7)
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New Haven and Hamden Saturday saw the fastest-moving protest of the spring.
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by | Jun 14, 2020 9:55 am | Comments (0)
Cornell Scott-Hill Health and Hamden are partnering to provide pop up testing at the Keefe Community Center at 11 Pine St. through the end of June.
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by | Jun 12, 2020 3:20 pm | Comments (2)
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View of the property.
They used the password 389321.
They typed it in right. But it turned out to be the wrong password.
As a result, Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission must undertake a do-over on a proposed zoning amendment to allow mulitfamily housing to be built on 55 Connolly Parkway. And how to do that is getting complicated.
Continue reading ‘Password Glitch Reopens Multifamily Housing Dispute’
by | Jun 11, 2020 10:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Fifty protesters silently marched single file Thursday evening along the Grand Avenue sidewalk to protest police brutality.
Instead of chants of “no justice, no peace,” the most prominent sounds were the honking cars that rushed by, and the “clip, clip” sound of staples sticking posters with police officers’ faces into telephone poles.
by | Jun 11, 2020 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
As Connecticut begins to open up, state data show a chilling difference between how Covid-19 affected Hamden and New Haven: fewer cases, but more deaths in the former.
by | Jun 10, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Faculty at end-of-year celebration.
“It’s in my blood; I have to be a teacher,” said paraprofessional Shannon Prevost as she waved to students and families driving by West Woods Elementary Wednesday to celebrate the end of the year.
by | Jun 8, 2020 5:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Second-grade teacher Tori Luageni.
“I’m a proud parent of Church Street School!” Family Engagement Coordinator Hector Velazquez declared Monday at a drive-through graduation ceremony he organized.
Continue reading ‘Church Street School Celebrates 47 Graduates’
by | Jun 8, 2020 10:40 am | Comments (11)
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On any other Sunday, the whir of cars would drown out the birds and the crickets on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. On this Sunday, the only cars on that stretch of highway were those driven by protesters, carrying water and other supplies to keep people marching in the hot sun.
by | Jun 5, 2020 5:25 pm | Comments (18)
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Holding their noses and excoriating the product of a month of work, Hamden Legislative Council members voted Thursday evening to approve a budget that would raise the town’s property taxes by 6.4 percent.
by | Jun 4, 2020 4:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Principal Lorenzo on the right
Helen Street Elementary School faculty and staff gathered by the school’s front steps on June fourth for a socially distanced drive-by graduation ceremony to celebrate its sixth-grade class.
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by | Jun 2, 2020 10:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Davaul Amin, Chief John Cappiello, Imam Saladin Hasan.
Members of a Hamden mosque marched alongside police officers, shutting down a lane of Dixwell Avenue, to speak out against police brutality.
by | Jun 2, 2020 12:46 pm | Comments (16)
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Saturday’s meeting, at about hour 5.
Does $7M tax increase loom in Hamden?
by | May 31, 2020 11:35 pm | Comments (4)
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A small group of protesters assembled on the New Haven Green on Sunday.
As Sunday’s protest rally against police brutality continued at the New Haven Police Department headquarters Sunday afternoon, a group of college students and an “outlaw” found their own ways to address racism in a far smaller gathering on the New Haven Green.
Continue reading ‘Smaller Protests On Green Feature Dialogue, Failed Flag Burning’
by | May 29, 2020 9:26 am | Comments (5)
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After her husband came home from transporting a patient to the hospital, Kim Talmadge didn’t realize that that call — unlike so many others that she and her husband respond to — would end up knocking her out for two months.
by | May 28, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (8)
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View of 55 Connolly Parkway.
A 660-foot portion of Connolly Parkway in Hamden has cleared the first hurdle to be approved for a future multifamily housing development.
Continue reading ‘Multifamily Housing Bid Passes Zoning Hurdle’
by | May 27, 2020 5:28 pm | Comments (6)
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After passing a budget that many members lauded for making real monetary steps on equity-related initiatives, the Hamden Board of Education is now facing cuts that may require it to put those treasured initiatives, still in their infancy, on the chopping block.
Continue reading ‘Hamden BOE Eyes Layoffs, Cuts To Equity Programming’
by | May 27, 2020 12:24 pm | Comments (3)
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Kathy Hoyt
At a virtual convention Tuesday evening, Hamden Republicans endorsed two political newcomers to run against two of the town’s three Democratic state representatives.
Continue reading ‘Republicans Endorse Hoyt, Figlar For Hamden State House Seats’
by | May 26, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (14)
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The tornado of 2018 mostly spared the wooded mountainside next to Dawn Talmadge’s house at the end of Hunting Ridge Road in Hamden, and when she looks north she still sees a thick canopy of oaks and maples.
If a solar developer gets its way, the 15 acres of forest by her house will not be as lucky.
Continue reading ‘Solar Farm Would Clear 15 Acres Of Forest’
by | May 25, 2020 12:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Online at newly reopened supermarket center.
Bottle and can redemption centers at retail outlets reopened after two months this weekend, with new distancing rules that left some collectors indignant and others relieved.