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Sep 28, 2019 9:27 pm
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Rhonda Caldwell and Laurie Sweet.
With the blessing of the state’s Working Families Party (WFP), a state representative, and local politicians and residents, two candidates officially launched a joint Legislative Council campaign Friday with a three-point platform: get Hamden’s finances under control, ensure greater police accountability, and improve racial equity in the town at large and in its schools.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 25, 2019 5:13 pm
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Mayoral Candidate Jay Kaye.
With election season stirring up the mud in Hamden and forcing politicians to present their views of Hamden’s future, a new idea has begun to float into public discourse: a town manager.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 20, 2019 1:03 pm
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Moshair Gameel, Amina Maniriho, and Jane Kinity.
Amina Maniriho stood laughing and dancing while the trees at the edges of the park reverberated with the Swahili lyrics of “Dunia Haina Hurumu” — the world has no mercy. Her seven children jumped and wove about the new friends she has made since she arrived seven months ago. Above her, a strong South wind whipped the American flag mounted on a tall white pole.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 19, 2019 12:28 pm
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Planning and Zoning Commission Chair Brack Poitier and Town Planner Dan Kops.
Confronting the increasing global threat of environmental disaster and a crushing local tax burden, Hamden has made plans to become more sustainable, both environmentally and economically, in the next ten years.
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Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm
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Ray & Mike’s owner Raymond George with attorney Lisa Perkins after the sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill decided Tuesday to send a well-known deli owner to prison in order to “send a message” — that tax evasion is a serious crime with serious consequences.
Hamden doesn’t “begrudge” New Haven for seeking to shore up its finances, but doing so by charging suburbs tuition for educating their students would “devastate” Hamden.
Curt Leng gets Town Clerk Vera Morrison’s congratulations over the phone as son Cooper looks on.
When Hamden Mayor Curt Leng walked into his campaign headquarters on Whitney Avenue in northern Hamden Tuesday night, the town’s Democratic establishment stood around the walls cheering, some greeting him with back slaps and hugs. He had just led Hamden’s established Democrats to a resounding victory in two important races against critics.
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Sep 10, 2019 8:01 pm
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In a race that pitted experience versus a call for change, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng handily beat back a primary challenge by Lauren Garrett Tuesday night, capturing 61 percent of the vote.
In their second debate in three days, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and Challenger Lauren Garrett faced off in front of Hamden’s business leaders, this time illuminating their differences on policing, tax exemptions, and economic development.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 6, 2019 12:30 pm
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Lauren Garrett speaks with Jane Bouvier.
Hamden mayoral candidate Lauren Garrett was in a hurry: She had 32 doors to knock before 3 p.m., and more to go in the evening. But when a voter answered, Garrett took her time, to listen and make her pitch.
A race for a Hamden Legislative Council seat hinges in part on how to define some basic concepts of democracy in the age of both Trump and a newly ascendant wing in the local Democratic Party.
The sky outside was dark and ominous, the clouds eventually bursting with rain. But inside Best Video in Hamden it felt like a clear and sunny summer day as the bimonthly bluegrass jam filled the performance space with the sweet sounds of multiple acoustic musicians there to share songs and more than a few laughs.
Garrett (above), Leng (below) at Wednesday’s debate.
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Over the course of 90 minutes that were largely free of personal attacks, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and challenger Lauren Garrett did find one theme on which to clash during a campaign debate: how the current administration has handled the town’s budget and pension finances.
Karen Kaplan, Ned Lamont, Jack Gaffney, and the hole Gaffney just smashed.
Gov. Ned Lamont held a yellow sledgehammer Wednesday morning at Hamden High, but he did not swing it. Rather, as governors do, he delegated that job to one of the 35 Hamden High students who aim to graduate high school with an associate’s degree in the new Hamden Engineering Careers Academy (HECA).
Most voters have to wait until next week to vote in Democratic Party mayoral and alder primaries. But it’s not too early to test your knowledge about the campaigns.
Before taking off his red tie to go knock on doors in southern Hamden, union leader and former State Senate candidate Jorge Cabrera Tuesday made what Mayor Curt Leng called a “surprise” announcement: he endorsed Leng in the Democratic Sept. 10 mayoral primary against Councilwoman Lauren Garrett.
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Christopher Peak |
Sep 3, 2019 7:37 am
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Lincoln-Bassett students return for the first day of school last week..
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First graders at Church Street School in Hamden.
At Church Street School, a K‑6 elementary school in southern Hamden, roughly 16 of 20 students in every classroom are black and Hispanic — a figure that’s so out of whack with the rest of the town that the state has demanded an immediate remedy to racially desegregate its students.
Two miles down Dixwell Avenue, at Lincoln-Bassett, a K‑6 elementary school in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood, roughly 19 of 20 students in every classroom are black and Hispanic — a figure that’s so out of whack with the rest of the region that the state won’t do anything about it.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:04 pm
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School board candidates Chris Daur, Roxana Walker-Canton and Gary Walsh at Wednesday’s forum.
From the hairstyles of African-American girls to the city’s tax rate to guns in schools, candidates for local office in Hamden repeatedly touched on the underlying issues roiling the town – and the nation – ahead of the Sept. 10 Democratic town primary and the Nov. 5 general election at an education forum Wednesday night.
Chief Cappiello: Video’s proof. Garrett: Cops smeared family for mayor.
Newly released body camera footage, a 911 recording, and police reports have heightened a debate over a controversial stolen-car incident involving a Hamden mayoral candidate.The debate: Did her family recklessly endanger people’s lives by taking police matters into their own hands? Or are the police mischaracterizing what happened to smear a political opponent?
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Aug 20, 2019 12:03 pm
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The corn rustles in a field. There’s a crunchy chord from a guitar, an upward-curling croon, and Mark Mulcahy and another man step out of the field. They’re handcuffed together. Mulcahy’s missing his shoes. Together they head into town.
