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Denise Murillo: "Passionate" about getting tenants sun power.
Solar panels galore planned for Mix Avenue.
Hamden zoners took a second look at allowing new solar panels on an apartment complex’s parking area — after balking over concerns that the green power would get in the way of green grass.
by | Sep 14, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
Renderings of the proposed middle school addition.
A 2018 proposal to move sixth graders out of elementary classrooms and into an expanded middle school is one step closer to fruition following site plan approval from Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
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by | Sep 12, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (2)
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Top teams plunge for advantage at underwater rugby national championships.
Masked, fin-footed competitors traversed a chlorinated underworld in search of a salt water ball — and a chance to fly abroad to compete for a world cup.
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by | Sep 8, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Scott Papoosha, whom the town contracts to grind down Hamden's organic waste, with one of the site's massive wood chip piles.
Should Hamden quit requiring proof of residency for the right to drop junk at the town’s transfer station — and instead start charging all dumpers a fee?
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by | Sep 2, 2022 2:07 pm | Comments (15)
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Under new SRO policy, Hamden High Student Resource Officer Jeremy Brewer will no longer wear above-pictured tactical vest.
As school-based cops joined Hamden students in returning to the hallways this week, local leaders caught up on a late assignment: Writing rules for what the officers should or should not be doing in academic environments.
by | Sep 2, 2022 2:01 pm | Comments (1)
Hamden police are asking the public’s help in solving a rash of storm drain grate thefts.
by | Sep 1, 2022 1:32 pm | Comments (1)
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The door opens -- this time -- in library's antique elevator (above).
Hamdenites should soon be freed from fears of getting trapped between floors at the public library — and from having their government’s computer systems frozen by far-off hackers — thanks to a newly approved town-wide plan for capital spending.
by | Aug 31, 2022 1:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Highsmith prepares to greet Ridge Hill students for new year.
Hamden’s new superintendent and assistant superintendents popped into schools town-wide on the first day of class with a promise to keep showing up in person — and to help the district pivot to a “new normal” boasting both community and curricula coherence following years of pandemic-impacted education.
by | Aug 30, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Samod Rankins, Karl Jacobson, Regina Rush-Kittle, Apostle Thelma Brown, Pastor Steele, and Daniel Hunt.
Local leaders primarily involved in public safety efforts were recognized as lifetime achievers in community service by a faith-based university — and the nation’s president.
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by | Aug 26, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (2)
A sample school wall poster.
When Hamden students step out of summer break and back into the classroom next week, they’ll be starting the school year in-person and unmasked for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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by | Aug 26, 2022 9:17 am | Comments (5)
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At Wednesday's Legislative Council meeting.
Hamden residents will have the chance to vote for four-year mayoral terms — but not for a new town chief operating officer position — thanks to a final, approved charter-revision question that will be on November’s ballot.
by | Aug 25, 2022 4:15 pm | Comments (19)
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U.S. Sen. Blumenthal: 'Internet for all' not possible through shoddy installs.
Communication workers and labor-friendly politicians called out Frontier Communications for prioritizing underqualified subcontractors over full-time, well-trained employees as the telecommunications giant expands its fiber optic Internet services across the state.
by | Aug 25, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (1)
"Village" students pick up back-to-school supplies on Wednesday.
As Felix Feliciano picked up a pair of Jordan Six Rings Motorsports sneakers Wednesday night, the 14-year-old knew that, as he walks into his first class of freshman year of high school next week, he’ll be doing so step in step with the support system he’s found this summer.
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by | Aug 23, 2022 5:37 pm | Comments (8)
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Charter Revision Chair Gallagher: Let the people decide in November.
Does Hamden need a chief operating officer to serve as the mayor’s second in command in overseeing Town Hall?
That question could come before voters in November — if a skeptical Legislative Council signs off on such a ballot measure later this week.
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by | Aug 19, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (14)
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Daniel Dunn at WNHH FM.
Daniel Dunn thought he might meet roadblocks seeking records about police complaints.
“I didn’t think,” he said, “they would go so far as to put them through the shredder.”
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by | Aug 18, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (3)
Hamden Police have arrested a woman for allegedly robbing Connex Credit Union on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden.
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by | Aug 18, 2022 12:59 pm | Comments (0)
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Michael Pace with Republican Town Committee Chair Andrew Tammaro.
Republican Michael Pace raised over $7,000 from more than 200 individual donors in less than two months to qualify for a $33,175 public-financing boost that could assist his quest to unseat incumbent Democratic State Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the state legislature’s leading progressives.
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Kendall Cobb Wednesday with his wheels.
Light rain and a brief detour through Hamden Wednesday morning didn’t stop scooter-toting Kendall Cobb from making his way to Orange to get his computer fixed — while keeping his gas bill down.
by | Aug 17, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (8)
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Newly outfitted Hamden van.
Hamden’s only prisoner transport van now has seatbelts — and the police expect soon to adopt a policy requiring that all individuals driven by officers are actually strapped into their seats.
by | Aug 16, 2022 4:49 pm | Comments (2)
Friends of “Wild Bill” Wright threw him a party the night before he was turning himself in to serve a 60-year prison sentence for killing someone. Before everyone went home, bullets would fly — and an attendee would end up in the hospital.
by | Aug 16, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (1)
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Siobhan Carter-David: Had enough of the vitriol.
A lifelong Hamdenite and past mayoral candidate is joining the town Legislative Council, upping the number of Republicans on the 15-person body back up to three — while a Democratic Board of Education member has left what she described as a combative and tense atmosphere after less than year on the board.
by | Aug 9, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
Chief search panel members Daniel Bland, Tai Richardson, Jorge Cabrera.
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett has tapped a pastor-social worker, an attorney, and a labor organizer-state legislator, among others, to help her find a new police chief.
by | Aug 7, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (3)
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Karen DuBois-Walton (at right), with supporter Sharon Jones: "I'm the progressive candidate."
A politically active crowd in Hamden ended their work week cradling pizza, beer and “Karen DuBois-Walton for State Treasurer” signs — backing a neighbor pursuing a challenge similar to one they waged a year earlier.
by | Aug 5, 2022 3:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Capital quest: Running Brook Farms founder Scott Papoosha shows off the transfer station's sweet peat vs. black gold (above), confronts pile of tub-ground wood (below).
As old logs and leaves sizzled in the 90-degree heat at the peak of Hamden’s transfer station, a fiery red milling machine moved between piles of debris, shooting sharp chips of wood high into the sky while churning the organic waste into something of value — the beginnings of top-quality compost Hamdenites refer to as “black gold.”
It took some legislative churn this week to make sure Hamden can pay the bill to produce that black gold, part of a fiscal-clean-up lawmaking grind aimed at stopping the town from bleeding red.
by | Aug 4, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Arts and crafts hosted by Hamden Youth Services at National Night Out.
Hamden residents spent a night out together, in the name of building a safer community.
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