by | Apr 22, 2020 10:39 am | Comments (0)
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The Hamden Transfer Station.
Hamden’s transfer station will reopen on Wednesday after being closed for over a month, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng announced Tuesday evening.
by | Apr 21, 2020 8:41 pm | Comments (6)
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A recent council meeting.
The Hamden Legislative Council did not even open its meeting Monday evening before a “Zoom bomber” had exploded the online meeting’s “chat” function with racist and homophobic slurs.
by | Apr 20, 2020 10:23 am | Comments (7)
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Use of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail has more than doubled in Hamden and risen more than 50 percent in New Haven in the Covid-19 pandemic, with regulars strolling or biking more and newcomers like Richard Maduka (pictured) discovering the path for the first time.
by | Apr 20, 2020 10:21 am | Comments (0)
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Eric Vikmanis delivers.
Pete Mould, co-owner of The Cellar on Treadwell in Hamden, was seeing the crowds at his bar and concert venue grow steadily — until the Covid-19 outbreak.
Since the government-mandated closings and alterations of businesses in Connecticut, Mould and his partners Shari and Eric Vikmanis have found a way to keep their patrons coming back for more, albeit at a distance, with The Cellar Presents: Dinner and a Show. This Friday night event pairs curbside pickup of the best of the club’s bar food and drink with live streamed shows on Facebook by bands that have performed or were to have performed at the venue.
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by | Apr 19, 2020 9:27 pm | Comments (4)
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With services suspended due to Covid-19, Mount Calvary Deliverance Tabernacle congregants drove en masse by the home of Pastor Robert Smith IV to let him know they miss him and the church.
by | Apr 17, 2020 12:33 pm | Comments (11)
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Curt Leng.
After Hamden Mayor Curt Leng released his proposed 2020 – 2021 operating budget last week, Hamden’s state legislators questioned one of the key assumptions that would stave off a large tax hike.
by | Apr 17, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (1)
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Thursday’s Zoom “rally.”
One year ago, well over 150 people stormed the Hamden Police Department and spilled out onto Dixwell Avenue after Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton shot at an unarmed couple in New Haven in the early hours of the morning of April 16, 2019.
by | Apr 16, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (5)
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Volunteers at a large food distribution in Hamden last week already got the mask memo.
Following New Haven’s lead, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng announced Thursday that he is requiring that residents wear masks in public starting Friday morning at 5 a.m.
by | Apr 15, 2020 1:30 pm | Comments (3)
Hamden Hall seventh grader John Raymond Wallis shows off one of the plastic ear-saver adapters he produced with his in-home 3D printer.
A Hamden private school is 3D printing “ear-saver adapters” to ease discomfort among hospital workers, who wear face masks during long shifts as they fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hamden Hall Country Day School’s adapters take the pressure of the mask off workers’ ears and help prevent irritation and chafing.
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by | Apr 14, 2020 4:22 pm | Comments (0)
Aakshi Agarwal.
With Covid-19 making most in-person visits impossible, many doctors and other service providers have transformed their practices into video operations. It’s an obvious and easy solution… if your patients have internet devices with cameras.
Continue reading ‘Hamden High Grad Connects Seniors To Docs Amid Pandemic’
by | Apr 14, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (5)
A pair of men stole a 74-year-old Shop Rite employee’s car while he was sitting in it early Tuesday.
by | Apr 14, 2020 9:28 am | Comments (0)
Musician and filmmaker Brendan Toller stared out from a pink-lit living room, explaining how, with Best Video closed, he would have to dig into his own film archive for movies to watch under lockdown. “One of my favorite films that I have, that I know I’m going to be watching in this quarantine bunker, is Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, by Fassbinder.” Toller went on to explain that Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in the ups and downs of his career, had a breakthrough with his story about an interracial couple in Germany. The film was itself a remake of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. And, most important, Toller said, “this is one of those films that changed my life. What I’m always looking for in art, I say to people, ‘well, it did or didn’t change my life.’ This film … changed my life.”
Continue reading ‘Best Video Members Defend Their Favorites’
by | Apr 13, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (1)
Struggling to stay in business during a pandemic, Jessica Hazan may have found a way to strengthen her business for the long run.
Continue reading ‘Soup-er Girl Adapts To Pandemic Challenge’
by | Apr 9, 2020 10:36 pm | Comments (1)
Over the course of the last week, laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases in Hamden have risen from 65 to 183, and three residents have died due to infection from the virus.
by | Apr 9, 2020 9:20 am | Comments (1)
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Volunteers and National Guardsmen at Wednesday’s food bank operation.
After weeks of planning and assembling, a small army of volunteers — including some who are literally in the army — needed only 60 minutes to place a tractor trailer’s worth of food in the trunks of 357 cars at Hamden Middle School.
by | Apr 7, 2020 3:11 pm | Comments (5)
As communities across the nation reel from the financial blow that Covid-19 has dealt them, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng presented a budget Monday evening that would contain a 2 percent property-tax increase while delaying future financial obligations.
Continue reading ‘Leng Proposes 2% Tax Hike, Debt Restructure, Anticipates Covid-19 Aid’
by | Apr 6, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
Imam Saladin Hasan.
The Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions are like the Red Sea: Allah will hold the waves back. In return, all Allah wants is gratitude.
This was the message at this week’s Ju’muah service at the Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center on Dixwell Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Gratitude Broadcast From Dixwell Ave. Mosque’
by | Apr 3, 2020 3:20 pm | Comments (10)
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ShopRite’s Javier Diaz: “We have to work. People have to survive.”
As he stood outside of Stop & Shop bringing shopping carts from the parking lot to the store’s entrance, William stopped to ponder whether he could now be considered a first responder.
by | Apr 1, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (13)
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A shuttle driver for Propark Mobility, who up until two weeks ago earned $14 an hour driving hospital employees between Yale New Haven Hospital’s campuses, is now in bed at one of those campuses struggling to breathe with a bad case of pneumonia caused by Covid-19, while her employer has stopped paying her.
Nearby, in the intensive care unit, her husband is on life support. Up until last week, he cleaned buses for CTtransit at its garage in Hamden. Then, at the end of the week, he was the first CTtransit worker to test positive for the virus.
by | Mar 31, 2020 7:27 pm | Comments (0)
As confirmed cases in the town rose to almost 50, Hamden experienced its first fatality on Tuesday from Covid-19.
by | Mar 31, 2020 9:48 am | Comments (1)
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Pine Rock Park on Monday.
A little over a week after Hamden announced its first confirmed Covid-19 patient, the town had 29 confirmed cases Monday afternoon, with one resident of a nursing home testing positive.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Hits 29 Cases, One In A Nursing Home; Mayor Wants Shelter-In-Place’
by | Mar 26, 2020 10:22 am | Comments (10)
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Students and buses at Hamden’s Church Street School.
While teachers can count on their contracts to keep them paid during the Covid-19 shutdown, bus drivers in Hamden have been left without a paycheck, and with few clues about whether they will remain unpaid.
Thanks to different contract language, New Haven’s drivers are OK for now.
by | Mar 25, 2020 10:50 am | Comments (6)
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Moon Rocks owner Marni Esposito (at right): Doubts shop will survive.
With chairs stacked on tables after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered all dine-in restaurant service closed on March 16, most Hamden restaurateurs have managed to stay afloat for now with deliveries and takeout. But they’re scraping the bottom of the pan, they said, and some may soon be baking their last batches and flipping their last pies.
by | Mar 23, 2020 10:03 pm | Comments (0)
An employee at The Edge Fitness Clubs has tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the company wrote in an email to its members on Monday.
by | Mar 23, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel campus, just after classes were canceled for the remainder of the semester.
As businesses and organizations across the country cut back on staffing because of the economic havoc wrought by the Covid-19 virus, Quinnipiac University notified faculty and staff Monday afternoon that their salaries will take a hit from the virus.