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Best Video Makes Parking Lot Sing

by Brian Slattery | Apr 26, 2021 8:39 am | Comments (0)

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Burnet.

Guitar in hand, Alex Burnet beamed at the crowd of about 70 people assembled — in a distanced yet communal way — in the parking lot of Best Video, on Whitney Avenue in Hamden. ​“Hope you’re enjoying this beautiful Saturday,” Burnet said. ​“If you’re vaxxed, let me be the first to say congratulations. It’s a real privilege to be able to share music with people in this time.”

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“Doctor”‘s Order Sparks Hamden Debate On Race

by Staff | Apr 20, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (15)

Hamden Legislative Council members Valerie Horsely and Justin Farmer; Mayor Curt Leng.


A controversy and debate have erupted in Hamden following an incident at the town’s Legislative Council, in which a white member insisted that a Black member refer to her as ​“Doctor.” Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and a group of local legislative leadersissued a public statement on the matter, which appears below. A group of civil-rights activists in town then wrote a response statement, which appears immediately following it below.

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Merrill Stumps For Early Voting, No-Excuses Mail-In Ballots

by Maya McFadden | Apr 7, 2021 5:21 pm | Comments (15)

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Secretary of the state Denise Merrill.

Connecticut’s secretary of the state, Denise Merrill, popped into Hamden Wednesday to make a pitch to leave behind Connecticut’s ​“18th century voting system” and allow more voters to vote before Election Day and expand access to absentee ballots.

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Homeless Lotto Leaves Some Out In Cold

by Courtney Luciana | Mar 16, 2021 5:22 pm | Comments (18)

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Homeless people lining up early for a warming center spot.

Jason Rodriguez and Irma Vazquez (pictured) thought they were following rules by showing up later.

Jason Rodriguez and Irma Vazquez gambled on the best way to land a coveted spot in a refuge from the overnight sub-freezing chill. They lost their gamble, and left with no warm place to spend the night.

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The Mayor Un-friended Me

by Jennifer Pope | Mar 16, 2021 1:20 pm | Comments (24)

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Jennifer Pope: Once and future mayoral “friend.”

Jennifer Pope is co-founder of the Hamden Progressive Action Network and a Democratic State Central Committee member. We asked Mayor Curt Leng to respond to the following opinion article before we published it. He said he would re-friend Pope on Facebook; she responded to his response. Those two responses appear at the bottom of this article.

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Church Pop-Up Clinic Brings Vaccines To Newhall Street

by Courtney Luciana | Mar 4, 2021 4:15 pm | Comments (1)

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Rev. Keith King at Thursday’s pop-up.

Keith King, pastor of the Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church on Newhall Street, thanked the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) on Thursday for providing 54 Covid-19 vaccine doses at a pop-up clinic.

The sign-up list at the one-day clinic for the Pfizer vaccine was made up equally of parishioners of the predominately African American church and local residents.

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Hip Hop Gets In Education

by Brian Slattery | Feb 26, 2021 11:01 am | Comments (2)

Dr. Don C. Sawyer, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University, mentioned on Thursday evening that he’d co-edited a book called Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, out now as of this week. The book’s themes — of how hip hop can be used in the education system as a force to empower and uplift students — could have been the subject of a lecture.

But ​“rather than me talking about the book,” Sawyer said, he wanted to ​“bring together people who are doing the work.”

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