One story that has stuck with Stephan Torquati about his time as a cop didn’t spark headlines. It didn’t earn him a commendation. No one landed in the hospital. He didn’t make the arrest.
The story sticks with him because it shows how police do their job right. It shows why, as he retires after more than 20 years on New Haven’s force, he leaves with no regrets — and with pride in the profession.
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Jul 6, 2022 11:35 am
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Leslie Radcliffe: "We need more people like you" on the police force.
“Did the lieutenant convince you?” Leslie Radcliffe called out to Tiemarcie Ramos, who’d walked past the Hill North police substation in search of his mother’s stolen garbage can.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am
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Clockwise from top left: Oscaima "Patty" Berrios, Kate Liphart, Joel LeChance, and Maria Solomon at Monday's drive.
New blood at the city’s teachers union arranged to draw blood from educators — along with ideas for how to pump new life into the organization and its headquarters.
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Courtney Luciana |
Jun 21, 2022 1:42 pm
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Courtney Luciano Photo at work.
Maissie Musick was whipping iced lattes, cold brews, and drip coffee — and, in between serving walk-in customers, claiming to be a summer girl through and through.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 20, 2022 3:18 pm
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Hamden’s next mayor may run for a four-year term rather than two if a town charter change aiming to improve governmental accountability and productivity is approved.
Lengthening the time Hamden’s top leader spends in office is one of the amendments that a reinstated Charter Revision Commission (CRC) is looking to make in the town’s “constitution.”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 17, 2022 2:57 pm
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Tom Ariola: "Why kid ourselves and start moving money around? Because we know: We are going to spend this."
Hamden’s Board of Education has passed a $101 million budget to make financial ends meet next school year — while warning of a multimillion-dollar fiscal cliff in their future after being flat-funded by the town council.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 17, 2022 9:59 am
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Domestic workers Thursday calling for rights and recognition.
Over 20 domestic workers and their families gathered in a church sanctuary to call for sick days, maternity leave, and healthcare — and to celebrate their day-to-day work, without which “the world stands still.”
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2022 11:15 am
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After ten years of serving Hill Central Music Academy in various instructor and administrative roles, Nicole Brown will next helm the the school as its newly approved principal.
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Jun 10, 2022 10:34 am
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Arvinas summer interns at Thursday's event.
Samantha Tice is getting a chance this summer she’d been waiting for — to break into New Haven’s booming bioscience industry.
“I’ve always had a natural interest in science and I wanted to do something impactful,” Samantha Tice, a Masters student at the University of New Haven said. Now, an internship doing oncology research and testing drug interactions at Arvinas is providing her with the perfect opportunity to break into the bioscience industry.
Izzi Geller: Familiar with challenges of gaining certification.
(Opinion) Teacher departures are up across the country and the summer will bring even more resignations. With many New Haven teachers leaving the profession altogether or leaving our district after being recruited by higher-paying ones, the call for “stepped-up retention efforts” is important. Still, that focus should be coupled with efforts to recruit future educators who are already living in New Haven. We need creative solutions to address the barriers that stand in the way of New Haveners entering the teaching profession.
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Olivia Gross |
Jun 2, 2022 5:05 pm
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Commissioner Russell-Tucker and State Rep. Toni Walker with Gov. Lamont at SCSU Thursday.
Gov. Ned Lamont came to Southern Connecticut State University Thursday to announce that his administration has set aside $2 million in grants to help aspiring teachers a fighting chance at financially making it through school.
Erick Russell at party convention accepting the Democratic endorsement for state treasurer.
A leading local labor advocacy group has thrown its political weight behind Erick Russell’s campaign for state treasurer — in advance of August’s contested Democratic Party primary, which will see two New Haveners on the ballot.
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Maya McFadden |
May 26, 2022 11:36 am
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Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven "shouldn't be indebted to a system that doesn't work."
Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way kids learn to read — how she believes New Haven is ready to follow the state in making the shift.
Full-time and part-time New Haven Public School (NHPS) employees who have been bearing the brunt of staff shortages, upticks in violence, and learning gaps will be thanked for their commitments to the district with $1,000 and $500 retention bonuses.
Asst. Chief Jacobson (right) supporting neighbors at a Fair Haven protest.
Jacobson, with daughter Kelli, at Monday's presser.
After a nationwide search, Mayor Justin Elicker has reached within the police department for a new chief, selecting Karl Jacobson to be the city’s next top cop.
The Board of Education is scheduled to vote Monday night on a slate of new appointments and transfers, including the selection of John Tarka as the new principal of Wilbur Cross High School.
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May 19, 2022 3:34 pm
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Timmy Turner.
Timothy Turner was walking across the Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue in the pouring rain sporting a Chicago Bulls Bucket hat, a sweatshirt, and jeans. He didn’t have an umbrella, but he still wore a bright smile across his face.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 17, 2022 2:30 pm
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Superintendent Goeler with Asst. Superintendent Chris Melillo and schools CFO Tom Ariola.
Four months after Hamden schools’ superintendent announced his retirement, one of the town’s assistant superintendents is also planning a move out of the district — to become the new leader of Newtown’s schools.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 11, 2022 5:46 pm
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Town Clerk Karimah Mickens swears in Wydra.
Elijah Gomez.
Timothy Wydra began a two-step ascension to the top of police department — and invoked the murder of 15-year-old Elijah Gomez in promising to tackle gun violence.
Hi/Bye: Outgoing 911 Director Stratton, at March press conference announcing his appointment.
A month and a half after taking over the city’s 911 call center, Kevin Stratton is leaving City Hall — with the future leadership of the turmoil-wracked department now up for grabs.
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Thomas Breen and Paul Bass |
May 10, 2022 4:45 pm
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Changing of the guard: CAO Rush-Kittle (left); retiring Chief Dominguez.
New Haven’s embattled acting police chief is clearing out of 1 Union Ave., and the mayor is breaking from precedent in choosing whom to put in her place.
