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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 28, 2019 7:38 am
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Halloween isn’t the only source of scariness this season. As the nights become longer and the end of the calendar year approaches, bringing more holidays and memories along with it, the inevitable facing of one’s mortality – and occasionally morality — can become another reason to shudder with fright. Such was the theme at Friday night’s annual Light Upon Blight Halloween performance at Best Video in Hamden.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 25, 2019 8:02 am
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Hamden Assessor John Gelati (second from left), Energy Efficiency Coordinator and District 6 Candidate Kathleen Schomaker, and Mayor Curt Leng.
Hamden Mayor Curt Leng stood in a “T‑5” zone Thursday evening while piping-hot trays of pasta and mussels streamed past him to the buffet table and cars streamed past outside on Dixwell Avenue.
It’s the busy roads like Dixwell, he observed, where zoning regulations need to change.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 24, 2019 2:42 pm
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Stronger zoning ordinances. A 24-hour community-concerns hotline. Lessons on how to pack your backpack.
Quinnipiac University raised those current and future ideas before the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday evening in a talk that many hope will lay the groundwork for town-gown collaboration.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 23, 2019 2:42 pm
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A house in West Woods with significantly fewer trees than before.
Hamden residents should soon find surveys in their mailboxes asking a host of questions about their properties. Those mailers, to be sent out in the new few months, will help determine their next property assessment.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 21, 2019 4:44 pm
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Acting Hamden Chief John Cappiello, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng, and Legislative Council President Mick McGarry on Monday.
(Updated at 10:15 p.m.)—Hamden Mayor Curt Leng promised to follow the “legal process,” complete an investigation, and submit a disciplinary recommendation to the police commission now that the state has formally charged Hamden Officer Devin Eaton for his role in the shooting and injuring of an unarmed couple in Newhallville in April.
The president of the town’s Legislative Council, meanwhile, cautioned his colleagues as to the limitations that the police union contract places on how much, and how quickly, that prospective discipline might take effect.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 21, 2019 8:00 am
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It’s a cupcake, infused with beer and citrus, soon to be available at Moon Rocks Gourmet Cookies. How it came to be is the story of a collaboration between two women-run businesses — more specifically, two mother-daughter teams, who have broken barriers and found success in New Haven’s vibrant food scene by being creative, working hard, and supporting one another.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 18, 2019 4:47 pm
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Employees in the Hamden Town’s Clerk’s Office were able to prepare absentee ballots on their newly reopened computers Friday afternoon after a computer virus shut them down for a week.
Thanks goodness, a visiting Secretary of the State Denise Merrill told them, this didn’t happen on Election Day.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 18, 2019 12:09 pm
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Haverford Street.
Drivers used to careening at over 75 miles per hour down Haverford Street in Hamden will soon think twice about doing so, or else give their cars’ shocks some serious exercise.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 18, 2019 12:06 pm
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Officer Andrew Lipford.
Hamden police Officer Andrew Lipford, who was the subject of a department investigation this spring after he threatened to shoot a Latino man at a traffic stop, has appealed a disciplinary sentence imposed by Acting Chief John Cappiello.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 17, 2019 4:38 pm
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Maria Coppola using a typewriter in the Hamden Town Clerk’s office.
It’s a good thing that workers in the Hamden Town Clerk’s office still keep typewriters on their desks: Otherwise, it would have made it a lot more difficult to get married in the last week in Hamden.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 16, 2019 4:39 pm
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Weekly Friday prayers at the masjid.
At a Jummah prayer service, leaders of Dixwell Avenue’s Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center made an announcement that heralds a new chapter for the Muslim community: the center will honor a Nation of Islam leader at its annual banquet in November.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 16, 2019 3:25 pm
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Quinnipiac Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Salvatore Filardi and Attorney Bernard Pellegrino.
Quinnipiac was preparing to get the go ahead to hold events on the property of its new president’s house, until the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission put a stop to those plans, for now.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Oct 14, 2019 7:56 am
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Jody Clouse (second from the right) with her daughters Mya (left) and Sylvia and town arts chief Alisha Martindale (right) at first-ever town Pride event.
Jody Clouse got “a little teary” as she helped raise a rainbow Pride flag for the first time in her hometown’s Center Park.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Oct 8, 2019 12:39 pm
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Jim Pascarella and Cory O’Brien.
After two years of fighting over the use of bonded funds to pay for budgeted operating expenses, the Hamden Legislative Council voted to send a signal, if only a symbolic one: It wants more oversight of how bonded funds are used.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 4, 2019 7:32 am
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The Split Coils.
“We’re The Split Coils,” said the band’s vocalist and guitarist Jay Russell after the band’s first song at Best Video on Thursday night.
“We have an album on Spotify, and it’s the only thing that matters,” he added with a laugh, eliciting more laughs from everyone in the room, including the band Bronson Rock, who were also on the bill.
Each played a set showing that what really matters in rock ‘n’ roll is imprinting the memory of a moment in the listener’s mind.
Jeanette Murdock on the tree picket line. Top: UI-trimmed branches.
When Diane Hoffman and fellow Hamden Alliance for Trees (HAT) members stood at the corner of Dixwell and Whitney Avenues, there were not enough trees to stop a downpour from making the ink run on their paper signs. The next day, there were no trees to block the blazing sun.
State Senator George Logan and District 7 Candidate Tom Figlar (facing camera) talking to Lynn and Lee Campo.
Hamden’s Republicans vowed to “take back Hamden” — not necessarily to GOP control, but to fiscal stability, as promoted by a full slate of municipal candidates.
