by | Jan 31, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (4)
82 Crestway: Soon to be "paradise"?
A business owner who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines has reached a court settlement with the town of Hamden — and has an opportunity to restore an industrial property covered in illegally dumped waste back into the home of Paradise Landscaping.
by | Jan 31, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
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As a blizzard’s worth of snow melts into Lake Whitney, a 160-year-old dam is keeping Hamden and New Haven safe from flooding — and a host of politicians and Regional Water Authority employees are working to keep the historic dam safe from collapsing.
Continue reading ‘RWA Invited To Apply For $20M For 2nd Lake Whitney Dam’
by | Jan 28, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Cannabis crew boning up Wednesday night.
Brandi Marshall: “I’ve got the product. I need the capital.”
Days before Connecticut starts accepting applications for cannabis licenses, 50-plus home-growers, sellers, and consumers of the plant gathered to share business strategies, discuss the history of the war on drugs, smoke joints, order beer, and eat boxes upon boxes of pizza from East Rock’s One 6 Three.
They’re boning up on the rules and preparing to go legit in an emerging industry they’ve already entered. They also vow to keep their grassroots community growing as corporate vultures swoop into the marketplace.
by | Jan 27, 2022 11:32 am | Comments (2)
Two masked men came up behind a man when he returned home from walking his dog, struck him in the head, then ran off with his wallet.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Roundup: Dog-Walker, 76, Struck, Robbed; Fire Displaces 10’
by | Jan 26, 2022 10:21 am | Comments (2)
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Departing schools chief Goeler: Conversation shifted when "citizens" became "taxpayers."
Jody Goeler has a message for his successor as they pick up the unfinished work of desegregating Hamden’s schools: Have a strong set of beliefs — and learn how to listen to others.
by | Jan 25, 2022 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
Author Megan Shaughnessy with her new children book.
Megan Shaughnessy remembers the day her son came home from kindergarten “embarrassed” to show his artwork with his family.
As she watched his confidence in his artwork dissipate, she thought back to her childhood. when her art teacher “selected students” to be in an advanced class. Shaughnessy was not chosen.
But she didn’t give up.
Continue reading ‘Her Book Aims To Nurture "Lost" Imagination’
by | Jan 24, 2022 3:31 pm | Comments (9)
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Trevor Cadhey: When is mental health day not "skipping school?"
Hamden High Freshman Trevor Cadhey knows he’s allowed to take up to two “mental health days” off from school this year, but he isn’t sure under what circumstances he should use them.
School staffers and Board of Education members are grappling with the same question facing Cadhey and his peers — what is a mental health day? — while determining how to translate new state legislation concerning kids’ psychological health into district policy.
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by | Jan 24, 2022 2:32 pm | Comments (7)
Jody Goeler with BOE members Mariam Khan and Melissa Kaplan.
Hamden Superintendent of Schools Jody Goeler announced his plans to retire on Monday in an email to students’ families. Read his message below.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Superintendent of Schools Announces Retirement’
by | Jan 24, 2022 8:48 am | Comments (0)
José Oyola, a.k.a JOATA, smiled from the stage of Space Ballroom in Hamden as he looked out over the crowd. “It’s been a long journey,” he said, though there was a sense of things coming full circle, a chapter closing. He revealed how the song he had just performed, he had played nine years ago in the building just across the parking lot of the industrial park, when the Cellar on Treadwell was The Space. He turned to the audience again. “You can come closer,” he said. “I know it’s weird times.”
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:29 pm | Comments (2)
Hamden High memes.
As Hamden’s school administration continues to roll out implementation of metal detectors at Hamden High, the town’s Legislative Council questioned whether the emergency purchase of four devices intended to screen for weapons was rushed.
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by and | Jan 21, 2022 10:01 am | Comments (6)
Warmth is in the cards at DESK drop-in center during freeze.
Gloria came to New Haven’s drop-in center Thursday not just to stay warm during the day — but to remain overnight rather than sleep outdoors as usual, as preparations kicked into gear to keep unsheltered residents safe during an expected week-long deep freeze.
Continue reading ‘Deep Freeze Sends DESK, Keefe Into Action’
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:30 pm | Comments (7)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Panayotakis and Chief of Staff Sean Grace at new round table.
Out went the plush purple couch in the mayor’s office. In came a round table with four chairs and a Purell centerpiece.
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (9)
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Newly approved Commissioner Rhonda Caldwell at a 2019 rally calling for the firing of Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton.
Five Hamden residents with diverse policing perspectives have officially taken over Hamden’s Police Commission — after a final debate over whether citizens who question police policies should be involved in decision-making on public safety.
Continue reading ‘Cop Critics Join Cop Commission In Hamden’
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (0)
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Erik Johnson: "Put residents and businesses in Hamden first.”
Hamden’s Legislative Council gave final approval to a new ordinance tying business incentives to local hiring .
by | Jan 17, 2022 4:04 pm | Comments (5)
320 Hogan Rd., now owned by Quinnipiac.
Quinnipiac University acquired another single-family home for future student housing, while Mandy Management expanded their holdings in town, in some of the most recent of Hamden property transactions.
by | Jan 17, 2022 10:38 am | Comments (7)
Cars lined on Butler Street for food pickup.
A crew showed up at a Shelton Avenue church not to chant prayers or hear a sermon — but to help a community stay fed and protected during a particularly tough stretch of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jan 17, 2022 10:37 am | Comments (1)
Police have identified the 22-year-old man dead inside a car in the road on Fairview Avenue: His name was Herman Bellamy.
by | Jan 14, 2022 4:24 pm | Comments (7)
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Rhonda Caldwell at rally calling for the firing of Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton.
Hamden’s Registrar of Voters has retracted a two-year-old letter claiming local organizer and now Police Commission nominee Rhonda Caldwell committed voter “fraud” in the 2020 Democratic caucuses.
Continue reading ‘2 Years Later, Registrar Retracts Bogus "Voter Fraud" Claim’
by | Jan 14, 2022 11:40 am | Comments (1)
Hamden police are seeking the public’s help in finding a driver who crashed into a woman, then fled the scene.
Continue reading ‘Hit-&-Run Driver Sends Pedestrian, 64, To Hospital’
by | Jan 13, 2022 2:12 pm | Comments (5)
Former Hamden cop Devin Eaton.
Former Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton entered a written plea of no contest Thursday to one count of first-degree assault two years after he opened fire on Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Cop Pleads No Contest In Shooting Case’
by | Jan 13, 2022 9:31 am | Comments (9)
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Erik Johnson: Show us you're doing your best.
Developers looking to build in Hamden with financial breaks from local government may now have to show proof of a plan to help the town back in return — by hiring and contracting locally and equitably.
by | Jan 12, 2022 2:40 pm | Comments (7)
Samod Rankins and Gary Tinney: New Haven firefighters sounding the diversity alarm in Hamden FD.
Two “Firebirds” who pressed the fight for racial justice in New Haven’s fire department have set their sights across municipal lines — in hopes of using their lived experience to help Hamden’s department reflect the increasingly diverse town it serves.
by | Jan 12, 2022 8:48 am | Comments (4)
Hamden police arrested a 14-year-old Meriden resident for allegedly firing shots at a vehicle.
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by | Jan 11, 2022 1:09 pm | Comments (1)
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The abandoned middle school at 560 Newhall St.
Hamden’s Legislative Council voted unanimously on Monday to extend a contract with a nonprofit affordable housing developer until April 30 — in order to take more time to decide whether to go through with builder’s proposal for a long blighted property at 560 Newhall St.
Continue reading ‘Decision On Ex-Middle School Affordable Housing Plan Postponed ... Again’
by | Jan 11, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (0)
Attorney Steve Mednick addresses Hamden's Legislative Council Monday night.
Just four months after Hamden’s old Legislative Council vetoed a year’s worth of edits to a ten-year-old town charter, a new administration has unanimously appointed seven volunteers to resurrect the revision process.