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Sep 25, 2020 9:20 am
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The bear’s mouth was agape, wide enough to snap up two people. Its head, neck, and shoulders were made of scrap. But its eye was tenderly rendered, imbuing the bear with surprising emotion. It didn’t seem like it was hunting; maybe it was even crying. The emotion was all the more powerful for the bear’s location, in a building amid the former Cedar Hill Rail Yard straddling the New Haven and North Haven lines, and just off the Tidal Marsh Trail, which began in North Haven.
The bear was the work of New Haven-based artist M.J. DeAngelo. Finding it took three tries, in a journey that felt like a trip into both the past and the future.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 22, 2020 6:10 pm
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A public works crew clears brush after Isaias.
A month, and a month and a half, after storms ripped through Hamden, crews are still picking up the brush from downed trees all over town. On Monday, the town got the bill for that cleanup.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 21, 2020 12:11 pm
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An illegally stored truck at the Paradise lot.
Hamden officials are set to decide this week whether a politically connected landscaper gets a second chance in town after repeatedly violating zoning laws and evading taxes — or whether time’s up and it must cough up $270,000 (and counting) in fines.
Covid killed Demelle Turner’s and Marquel Caesar’s chances of throwing touchdown passes this fall. Instead they found themselves throwing soil into garden beds — with a team devoted to preventing violence.
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Kevin Maloney |
Sep 17, 2020 4:10 pm
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Norm Needleman’s secret to holding positions in local and state government at the same time is being a workaholic.
Needleman spoke of his roles as a state senator and the first selectman of the Town of Essex on the “Municipal Voice,” a co-production between the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHHFM.
Connecticut’s attorney general is suing Exxon Mobil over climate change — and New Haven’s mayor says the city has a multi-million-dollar stake in the outcome.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 2, 2020 8:38 am
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On a sunny day, the trees above the frames on the wall on Wooster Street dapple the art those frames contain. For the latest installment of Studio Duda’s outside art gallery — begun in May as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic — this interaction with nature is particularly apt.
Hamden environmental groups and Newhall neighborhood leaders are renewing a push for the state to force Olin Corporation to clean up, remediate and open a 102.5‑acre forest and wetlands site so that residents can finally enjoy the closed-off land.
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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Aug 25, 2020 3:46 pm
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Rafael Ramos (left), Meghan Maidelis (right) lay out rules for landlord.
Two basement bedrooms of a two-story Diamond Street house had metal bars and plywood boards on their windows. Not good — that meant the people living inside had no alternative escape route should a fire break out.
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Donna Schaper |
Aug 25, 2020 2:38 pm
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Rev. Donna Schaper.
Transplanting from New York City in March to West Haven has been interesting.
My daughter, her wife and her 1‑year-old baby showed up a month after we arrived in March. They left Brooklyn; we left Manhattan. Our two cars sit in our small driveway, still sporting their New York plates, the ones that keep us from being able to get into Lighthouse Point and other “public” areas.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Aug 24, 2020 2:46 pm
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Streetlight acquisition advocates were preparing a forum to drum of support before a last pitch to get Hamden to buy its streetlights, and the town’s council was set to take up the issue for a third time. Then one key aspect of the plan fell through, sinking three years of work and advocacy among the other casualties of Hamden’s fiscal woes.
Two dozen “youth ambassadors” in neon green “Elm City Communities believes” T‑shirts are becoming familiar faces in West Hills as they clean up streets and serve their neighbors.
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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Aug 6, 2020 7:30 pm
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Justin Elicker.
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked more power out of more New Haven homes than Hurricane Sandy, forcing the city Thursday to do triage — or tree-age — to get streets cleared.
